The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-10-04
GULF COAST SWEPT BY STORM
Many Lives Lost and Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Property
Swept Away. Pensacola and Mobile the Worst
Sufferers. Lines all Down.

tained for Fort Morgan, where SOL
diers are quartered.
| The chances are that much loss Oh
| life occurred on Dauphin island and
other outlying districts, where many
fishermen live.
Here MANY were rescued after he
role efforts. Food is running low.
Restaurants are feeding many, but
supplies are becoming exhausted. Be-
tween Thursday evening and noon
Friday roofs crashed, trees fell by
hundreds and many persons ware &C.
riously injured by flying debris. Ho-
tells, as well as business houses, SUI
fered much damage.
AT Fort Morgan the wind had a
greater velocity than here. Towns
along the Mobile & Bay Shore road
suffered immensely. The average We
locity of the wind has been announced
officially as fifty-five miles an hour.
The storm, however, was much more
destructive than the storm Of 1898,
when the wind attained greater We
locity. No fires occurred. Streams
are an out of their banks for twenty
miles north of Mobile. Fruit trees and
fall vegetable crops il southern Mis-
sissippi and Alabama are ruined.
The heaviest sufferers from the
tropical hurricane which swept the
Gulf coast and devastated Mobile and
Pensacola are the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad, running between New
Orleans and Mobile, and the New Or
leans & Northeastern. Traffic was sus-
pended ON the Louisville & Nashville
with the departure Of the 6:15 train
Wednesday night, and it was not re-
sumed Friday night, when a slow train
was made up from Bay st. Louis and
points this side. Superintendent Mar
shall of that road reported that a
serious waShout had occurred at
Scranton and the road as Pensacola
was also damaged by the storm. An
other washout was found twenty miles
from here, and the bridges were weak
ened by the wind and waves.
The New Orleans & Northeastern
did not fare so badly, for traffic was
suspended for only fifteen hours.
Trains were run over this line tonight,
the washouts having been repaired.
The New Orleans Railway Company
a New Jersey corporation which leas-
es West End a summer resort on
Lake Ponchartrain six miles from here
suffered losses Of $4,000. The com
pany's platforms and approaches were
shattered in many places. The ap-
proaches leading to the Southern
Yacht Club were washed out. Numer-
GUS club houses were destroyed, en-
failing small amounts, but no lives
were lost.
| The lake boat Camelia arrived with
fifty passengers, who could not land
at Milneburg because the water was
too rough. The boat recrossed the lake
and anchored in a small stream. The
women became sea sick and were pam
ic stricken until the boat neared the
north shore.
A pilot arriving here from down the
river reports having seen quantities
of wreckage floating in the river. Two
luggers were also seen bottom-up but
the occupants had disappeared.
A launch containing six fishermen
was sunk in Bayou Adam by the storm
Thursday afternoon. The men escaped
with life preservers and were rescued
after the storm had abated.
Reports from Laurel, Miss, tonight
state that ten per cent Of the timber
in that section was damaged by the
storm. The great pine trees were felled
and hundreds of logs broke away from
their RATS. Cotton, which was ready
| for picking was strewn on the ground
and number Of buildings were de-
stroyed, windows broken, chimneys
broken and general havoc wrought
over Laurel and vicinity. A track
walker was killed at Hillsdale, Miss,
and John NJ. Roberts, a timber man.
was killed at McNeill, Miss, by fall
ing tree.
Reports received here from the low
er coast indicate that the Louisiana
orange crop was almost totally de-
stroyed by the storm. Hundreds Of
trees were blown down and large qual-
titles of nearly ripe oranges were
shaken off the trees.
About twenty houses were wrecked
tat Pilottown, 100 miles below here, ~
the Mississippi river. Two sailors mar
rowly escaped from a sinking house
boat.
The Louisiana quarantine station
was not damaged, but the staff Of ply
lsicians and fumigators had narrow es
capes.
A number Of deer were chased out
of thes wamps in the lower part of the
state, into the city Of New Orleans
by the water backing up from the
Gulf. Many Of them were killed from
house galleries.
About Is wrecked or sunken schoo1.
ers on the gulf coast between here and
West Paseagoula, Miss, were observed
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