The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-20

wreck for the better part of "a hours.
For Is hours there were no means of
communication with the outside world.
Even now but few wires are work
ing and they are doing but little. There
is NO wire between Mobile and New
ORLEANS and no prospect of any for
several days. Telegraph lines on that
division are exposed to the full sweep
of the wind from the gulf and poles
are Frustrated for miles.
Superintendent Charles Marshall of
New Orleans division of the Louisville
& Nashville railroad reached Mobile
on a hand car at Z a. M, reporting the
road washed out in many places. A
work train from the Montgomery di-
vision had 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 division would be
resumed.
Fruit steamer Herald from Puerto
Cortes arrived late tonight. She re
ports speaking a two masted schooner
near this place, totally dismasted. The
captain of the schooner declined as
-sistance.
Logging camps and mill manufact-
urers have suffered considerable loss
by breaking of booms. Saw logs and
squared timber drifted 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 Heironhaus Bros, located at
Magazine Point, were badly damaged,
parts of the plants being blown away.
No estimate of the damage in Mobile
is possible at this time.
The schooner George F. Bentley,
Captain Edwards, left a few days ago
for Cienfuegos but meeting the storm,
put back, arriving here yesterday.
The schooners Mary E.. Morse and
Mary E. Judge sailed Monday and
have, it is feared, been involved in
the storm.
The fruit steamer Espana, from
Puerto Cortes, was due yesterday but
waited outside and came in today, re-
porting very heavy weather.
The schooner Asa T. Stowell, bound
from Havana to Pascagoula, was out
side on Thursday morning and when
caught in the storm, put 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 is
land, opposite the city.
A small schooner laden with 500
barrels Of rosin for New Orleans, yer
turned at the rosin wharf.
The tugboat Venture sunk at the
wharf.
The pleasure yacht Mayfiower, with
Joseph McPhillips, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Pattison, Miss Retta Heutis and
Miss Marie Davis on board, was blown
upon Cat island, Mississippi Sound,
Thursday. The party took refuge in a
small house there and were rescued
today by, a searching party.
Several yachts and naphtha launches
owned. her and at Pottersville are
reported wrecked, and the canning
factory at Bayou La Batre, on the
southern shore vas damaged. All the
wharves and bath houses at Port
Clear, eastern shore of the bay, were
washed away. The bay shell road, the
noted drive on the western shore of
the bay, was washed out for a dis
lance of half a mile and the entire
road is covered with logs and drift
wood.
An incident of the afternoon was the
appearance of a wild bull in the
streets which was chased by men and
boys. The animal turned and chased
them, however, goring one man, Chas.
Weaver very badly. Two horses were.
injured, one of which had to be killed.
The bull was shot to death by the
at 7 o'clock after being in pos
session of the streets for three hours.
PENSACOLA REPORTS WRECKS.
Railroad Tracks Washed Out and
Trains Delayed.
Pensacola, Fla, Aug. 1.-the
French steamer Cyrano, which arrived
here this morning reports that the