The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-16
STORM CUTS OFF MOBILE
SOUTHERN CITY IN PATH OF I'll G
 WEST INDIA HURRICANE.
Wires Are Down and Particulars of Disturbance Are Meager Has Rnined Steadily for Eighteen Hours ih Aeh nessee-yVilI Arrive Here To day.

l IOt AAo.Ns --- l nessee-yviIi Arrive Here To-day. Atlanta, Ga., Aug 15.-The tropical ! storm which has been raging along the gulf coast for two days has tonight completely isolated the city of Mobile, | Ala, from the outside world. It is known that considerable damage has been done along the water front in Mo- bile, but whether there has been loss or | life or not is mere conjecture. Notnlng | has been heard from the coast of Mo- bile up to the time the last wire to MO- bile failed.
 At half past o'clock this afternoon the Western Union office in Mobile was abandoned, the water at that time De- ing three feet deep in the operating 1 room.
 Two hours later communication was had for few minutes with Mobile. 1 The Associated Press operator there had made his way to the operating room in boat. He took up his posi- ton on top of the switchboard, several feet above the flooded office and detach- l ing the Associated Press wire from US place in the board sent this message: | Am on top of the switchboard here with a lineman. The water IS over three feet deep in this room and 1t is still rising. The wind is blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and we look for worse things tonight The pusl- ness district is deserted
 His wire failed and nothing more could be heard from him although the
 most persistent efforts were made.
 The water at 3 p. m. was as high as in the great flood of 1893, although at that time the wind was not as high
 From Mobile to Fort Morgan Is dist ance of thirty-five miles, and on both sides of the bay summer resorts and summer houses are located. These were, it is believed, in the direct path l of the storm. The telegraph line to Fort Morgan runs around the pay through the country and covers eighty five miles before it reaches the govern ment reservation.
 1t is feared there has been some loss of life on the islands In Mississippi sound. just outside of the bar, below Fort Morgan. These islands, which are inhabited by French fishermen, rise only four or five feet above, the water under ordinary stage, and was the scene of great loss of life in 1893.
 According to advices received here the Louisville and Nashville railroad has washouts near Shefmenteur Lake l Catherine, Lake Lookout and Rigolets. Twenty miles of Louisville and Nash vile track through the Tensas swamp west of Mobile, is reported under wa | ter.
 | All trains have been abandoned for the present, Several bridges are report ed out of plumb
 The weather officials here sent out special warnings tonight forecasting heavy rains and high winds for Alaba- ma tomorrow.
 | The Western Union Telegraph com pany has gangs of men and special en- zines waiting at several points to move toward Mobile as soon as the tracks are clear of water. They may restore communication from this end within twenty-four hours but from re- ports received of damage done between | New Orleans and Mobile 1t Is believed several days will elapse before the wires are restored outside.
 Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 15.-The flood | in the Tennessee river continues here. The rain has fallen steadily for the past eighteen hours. The water is do- ing much damage throughout southern Tennessee, and probably In the coal districts At Coal Creek the water IS | ten feet deep.
 | A number of branch roads and, side l tracks for coal mines are reported
 washed away. All the trains are late l to-day on account of the flood damage. 1 New Orleans, Aug. 15.-The storm which has been sweeping the gulf coast from Pensacola, and moving westward during the past two days has prostrat- ed telegraph and telephone wires to such an extent that news from the out lying sections Is hard to get, The
 greatest fears have been entertained for the safety of the people living at
 Port Eads. which is the mouth of the 1 Mississippi river and for the ships that started for sea just before the storm l began.
 The wires to Port Eads have been
 prostrated since Tuesday night at o'clock. but the Picayune reached a man who left there at o'clock We'd nesday. He was at Buras, which Is sixty miles down the river and the far thest point with which there is wire communication at the present time. This man describes the storm which swept this section as a regular tidal wave similar to the one which resulted
 in such awful loss of life in 1893. He says all the people living on the east bank of the river have moved fifteen | miles from the mouth of the river. l The house of q man named Golden, half a mile above the quarantine sta tion. was swept away and the fifteen
 members of the family, including nine | children, were drowned The quaran- tine buildings were badly damaged, but no one was injured.
 The big towboat Chamberlain waa driven high and dry in the marsh, but her crew are safe. The government boat General Reese is believed to have been lost.
 Captain O'Brien's house was swept away. but he was on the boat which | was believed to be outside
 Pensacola, Fla, Aug. 15.-The gulf ] storm which has been raging in this vicinity for the past two days seemed to have reached it's highest point last night and the bay shore to-day pre- scented a scene of much disorder.
 The highest wind velocity is given of- ] fcially at thirty-eig miles, but it has I