The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
LOSS ON THE SOUND
SIX PERSONS KNOWN TO HAVE
BEEN DROWNED.
Keeper of Lighthouse ON Horn Island
and His Entfre Family Whtrled
Into Sea by Raging
winds.

New Orleans, Sept. 2s.---Six persons
drowned, eight good sized sailing ves-
sells wrecked. about thirty smaller ves-
sells sunk or ashore and property dam
age OF more than million dollars was
the result of the hurricane In the Mis-
sissippt Sound.
The full extent of the disaster became
known tadsy when Ship Island. Cat and
Horn islands were heard from. They
had been completely submerged ac-
cording TO the reports of tugs sent out
from the mainland to the islands to
Investigate from ten TO fifteen miles
off shore.
All the loss OF life and the greatest
wreckage occurred at the eastern end
OF the sound about fifty miles away
from Mobile. The worst catastrophe
was at Horn Island. where light keep
er johnson with his wife and daughter
lighthouse and drowned Before the
storm Crimson refused an offer to go
ashore.
One negro was drowned when the
schooner Daisy OF New Orleans went
ashore on Horn Island. He climbed a
tree to escape the rising water, but
could not hold on. ThetAother four
members of the same crew escaped. al
though three were precipitated into the
tree into which they had climbed. Dur
ing the storm two BODIES were seen
floating in Pascagoula Bay, but were
not recovered.
Pascagoula lighthouse was partly de-
molished. the assistant keeper, CASTOR
Poilevant. saved his wife and two small
children at the height of the storm
by lowering them into a launch with
ropes. He then climbed safely into the
launch himself. The head keeper was
in the opea bay where he was drifting
in a small boat without oars.
The Federal quarantine station at
Ship Island was badly crippled, the
isolation hospital and DIR. Moneures
residence being the only buildings on
the islands to escape damage.
Three men were in the Klondyke
building on Ship Island which was de-
molished and they were swept out to
sea. The shift in the wind came
when they were half a mile off shore
and swept them back to the land.
The British bark Baumen. with
$4,000 cargo and lumber. and the
Norwegian bark Anna. with $4,000
worth of lumber, were both blown up
on Horn Island and left lying on the
beach. Their crews were saved by
tug boats which put out from the
mainland.
The experience of the American
bark Fluorine. which was wrecked on
Cat Island. shows the strength of the
wind. When the bark began to drift,
a tug made fast a line, attempting to
tow the Fluorine into the harbor, but
the wind dragged them both at its
mercy until the tug cast off the lire.
On Ship Island four vessels were
wrecked. the ship Hercules and barks
Nurnburg, Magdalena and Sigra.
A report from Meridian, Miss, to-
day says that Biloxi. one OF the towns
on the sound. was reported destroyed.
New Orleans has had communication
by rail- with Biloxi all day and no Sc
rious damage was done there.
Outside OF shipping destroyed, the
main property loss to the sound cities
occurred about Pagcagoula. Fifteen
lumber mills located there report many
of their buildings and machinery rag
ed to the ground. Large quantities Of
pine timber interests virtuSly were
destroyed.
Attempts by the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad to run wires past
the washout at Pasc SZoula in an effort
to reach Mobile tonight were without
success. Western Union. Cumberland
Telephone and Postal Telegraph wires
all went down at this point