The Saint Paul globe., 1901-08-17
DESTRUCTION WROUGHT ON GULF
COAST BY FURY OF THE
HURRICANE
WIND SIXTY MILES AN HOUR
UnrOOfed Houses, Blew Down CHM
neys and Drove Ships Ashore
at Many Points on
the Coast.
NEARLY SIX INCHES OF RAIN

storm, which, began with wind and rain
Wednesday, reached it's severest form
about o'clock Thursday, the maximum
wind velocity being sixty-two miles an
hour. Considerable damage was done in
Mobile in the way Of uprooting trees, un-
roofing houses and topping chimneys.
falling wall demolished the rear end of
Charles Mohr & Sons drug store, ISL
Dauphin street, badly damaging his stock.
The flood water was backed by the
southeast gale over the cotton wharf,
and Front, Commerce, Water and a part
of Royal street for several blocks north
of st. Anthony were covered. The water
was eighteen inches deep in the Cotton
Exchange, and both the Western Union
and Postal offices were flooded. The
power houses of the electric railway were
flooded, and electric car service was shut
down after 3 o'clock. 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. The
grain men were caught to some extent
Owners II cement lost / POO barrels. The
tracks of the Louisville & Nashville
Southern and Mobile 81 Ohio pass through
Commerce street and were under water
traffic of course being stopped entirely
Mobile & Ohio is operating trains from
Whistler, ten miles out, and the Louis
vile Nashville received one train our
ing the afternoon at Magazine Point
from the North.
No afternoon and night trains came
over the road from the South and none is
expected tonight The bay boats made
their morning trips from the Eastern
shore of the bay to Mobile but no aft
ernoon trips were made to the other
side.
They went up the river when the storm
came, and took refuge behind Twelve
Mile island.
SHIPPING DAMAGED.
The schooner George E. Bentley, Capt.
Edwards, left few days ago for Glen
fuegos, but, meeting the storm. put
back, arriving here yesterday. The
schocners Mary e. Morse and Mary e
Judge sailed Monday and have. it is fear
ed, been involved in the storm.
Inc fruit steamer Espana, from Puerto
Cortes, with Gen. Cabell on board, was
due yesterday, but waited outside and
came in today, reporting very heavy
weather. The schooner Asa T. Stowell
bound from Havana to Pascagoula was
outside on Thursday morning. and when
caught IN the storm put into this port.
Her anchors would not hold. and she
drlfted all the way up the bay and lies
upright in the flats of Little island. on
poslte the city. A small schooner. laden
with 800 barrels of resin for New Orleans.
overturned at the resin wharf The tug
boat Venture sunk at this wharf.
Ihe pleasure yacht Mayflower, with
Joseph McPhillipes. Mr.. and Mrs. William
Fattison. Miss Retta IIeutis and Miss
Marie DAVIS on board, was blown up onto
Cat island, mississippi sound Thursday.
Inc party took refuge in a small house
there and were rescued today by a
searching party
Several yachts and naphtha launches
owned here and at Portersyille, are re-
ported wrecked, and the canning factory
at Bayou La Batre, on the southern
shore, is damaged.
WASHED OUT BY WAVES.
All the whaves and bath houses at
Fort Clear, eastern shore of the bay,
were washed away. The bay shell road
the noted drive on the western shore or
the bay, was washed out for distance
OF nalf mile and the entire road is
covered with logs and driftwood
Supt. Charles Marshall, of the New
orleans division of the Louisville q
Nashville railroad reached Mobile on a
hand car at a. M, reporting the road
washed out in many places A work
train from the Montgomery division hao
by that time repaired the damage above
the city and was sent up on the New
Orleans division. The superintendent was
not able to say when traffic on the di-
vision would be resumed While the
storm was not as severe as the record
breaker of 1893, there was greater ex>
citement among the people because of
recollection of the great damage of the
early storm. The people were apprehen-
sive of a repetition of that disaster and
spent miserable night. Out of doors
every one was thoroughly drenched bv
the heavy rain that was blown almost
horizontally.
SIX INCHES OF RAIN.
The rainfall was 5.S4 inches. During
the storm the steamboat Lady Jane went
to the rescue of the truck gardeners who
live in the marshes between Mobile and
| Spanish rivers. In the 1893 flood the peo-
pie there suffered greatly and a half
dozen were drowned. The Lady Jane res
! cued all that could be reached and
| brought them to the city.
One marsh dweller named Stauter and
| his family Of nine, spent a night in an
| open boat near his home and IOwed to
| the city this morning. He does not think
anything is left of his place The Other
marsh people returned today.
| News tonight is that the pleasure yacht
! Ariel, bound for Fish river, with Robert
/ and Winthrop Hallett, of Mobile and
others on board, pounded to pieces upon
! the wharf at Battles, on the eastern
| shore. Nothing has been heard of the
| crew.
! From the Fowle river on the western
| shore, it is reported the schooner Mar
| guerite was taken up bodily and left high
/ and dry on the beach. James Mcmahon
| and four other men were on board. Nc
! Mahon says q house on Dauphin island
was washed away and afterwards found
! in the woods Nothing is known as to
| the fate of the occupants. All wires
have been in a hopeless wreck for the
! better part of twenty-four hours For
| fifteen hours there were no means OF
communication with the outside world
| Even now but few wires are working and
! they are doing but little. There is nc
wire between Mobile and New Orleans
and no prospect of any for several days
| The telegraph lines on that division are
| exposed to the full sweep of the WIND
from the gulf and poles are prostrated
| for miles.
Nothing has been heard from Fort
Morgan. Two companies of the coast ar.
tillery are stationed there. The bar
racks undoubtedly received the full force
of the blow. No communication can be
! had with any Of the islands In NIississ N
| pi sound, just outside the bar. fort1
miles below here. All news conce1nire
the fate of the islanders must come b1
! boat, and this Is anxiously awaited
The fruit steamer Herald. from Puerto
| Cortes, arrived late tonight
She reports speaking a two-maste6
| steamer near this place. totally dismast.
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