The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-17

Wednesday and increased in force dur ing the day following, is believed to have been severest ir the vicinity of Mobile. Here the wind blew at the rate of seventy miles an hour for some time Various reports of the drowning of men in the bay have reached here. but it Is impossible to confirm them, owing to the complete demolition of all means of communication.
 The pleasure yacht Ariel, bound for Fish River, with a party of Mobile peo- pie on board. is reported to have pound ed to pieces on the wharf at Battles, on the eastern short of the bay. Noth- ing has been heard of the crew.
 Nothing has been heard of Fort Nor gan tonight. Two companies of coast artillery are station there. The bar racks undoubtedly received the full force of the blow.
 Nc communication can be had with any of the islands in Mississippi Sound. just outside the bar. forty miles be- low here. Any news concerning the fate of the islanders must come by boat and this is anxiously awaited. The Fruit steamer Harald from Puerto Cor aez, arrived in late tonight. She re- ports speaking a two-masted schooner sixty five miles southeast of this port totally dismasted. The captain of the schooner declined assistance. Logging camps and mill manufacturers have suffered considerable loss by the break ing of booms. Saw logs and squared timber drift into Mobile all day, much of it coming up on Royal Street, three blocks from the water front The Dixie saw mill and the mill of Helronymus Brothers, located at Magazine Point, were badly damaged, parts of the plants heing blown away. No estimate of the damage in Mobile is possible at this time.
 Mobile, Aug. 16.-The storm began with wind and rain Wednesday and reached it's severest about 5 o'clock Thursday evening, the maximum ve- locity being 62 miles an hour, tearing off limbs of trees. unroofIng houses, toppling chimneys and doing other small damage. A falling wall demol- ished the rear end of Charles Mohr & Sons drug store, 161 Dauphin Street, damaging considerable stock The flood water was backed by the south east gale over the cotton wharf. and Front. Commerce, Water Streets and part of Royal Street for several blocks north of St. Anthony were sub oio irn nhac deep in the cotton exchange; both Wes- tern Union and Postal offices were flooded; the power houses of the cleo tric railways and the electric car ser vice shut down from 3 o'clock until this morning. All business in the wholesale district was suspended. Care had been taken to elevate lower floor goods upon temporary platforms, and the grocers suffered little loss. Grain men were caught to come extent, five or ten thousand dollars worth; also owners of cement. whose loss is 1,2OO barrels more or less damaged.
 The tracks of the Louisville and Nashville. Southern and Mobile and Ohio pass through Commerce Street, and being under water, traffic was en- tirely stopped. The Mobile and Ohio operated trains from Whistler, ten miles out. and the Louisville and Nashville received one train during the afternoon at Magazine Point from the North. No afternoon and night trains came over that road from the south.
 The bay boats made their morning trips from the Eastern shore of the bay to Mobile, but no afternoon trips back. They went up the river and took refuge behind Twelve Mile Island. The schooner George E. Bentley, Captain Edwards. left few days ago for Cien- fuegos, but meeting the storm, put back, arriving here yesterday. The schooners Mary E. Morse and Mary E Judge sailed Monday and have perhaps been involved in the storm. The fruit steamer Espana from Puerto Cortez with General Cabell on board, was due yesterday, but waited outside and came in today, reporting very heavy weath- CT. The schooner Asa Stowell, bound from Havana to Pasacagoula. was out side on Thursday morning, and when caught in the storm, cut into this port Her anchors would not hold and she drifted all the way up the bay and lies upright in the flats of Little Island, op- poste the city. A small schooner la den with 800 barrels of rosin for New Orleans overturned at the rosin wharf The tug boat Venture sunk at this wharf
 The pleasure yacht Mayfower with Joseph McPhillips, MT. and Mrs. Will liam Patterson. Miss Retta Heustis and Miss Marie Davis on board. was blowr upon Cat Island, Mississippi Sound Thursday. The party took refuge in . small house there and were rescued to- day by a searching party. Severa yachts and naptha launches owned her' and at Portersville are reported wreck ed and the canning factory at Bayol Ia Batre on the Southern shore, il damaged All the wharves and batt houses at Point Clear. Eastern shore aS the bay were washed away. Int