The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-02

Towns Wiped OF the Map and Man:
Persons Drowned in the Flood.
(By the Associated Press.)

Meridian, Miss, Sept. 29.-Advicee
Just received from Mobile state that
the only outlet is via the Mobile ana
Ohio railroad through his city. Il
first fast train loaded WITH bananas
reached here this afternoon, and men
accompanying it state that the half
has not yet been told of the damage,
suffering aTgd terror of the storm.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
has every engine under water in Mo-
bile. The Southern Railway. it i
reported, is in almost as bad cOndI-
ton. Public mass meetings are being
held in Mobile today and tonight 10
organize relief committees.
Information today confirms the re-
pOr h a Coden. Ala, Port, Ala. and
Bayou Batre, have been wiped off
the map and that but one house mas
been left standing at Coden. Among
the dead are some of the most
prominent people of the coast, includ-
ing the wife and Youngest daughter
of State Senator 5. McRae. of Wash
ington county. Major d. j. stephens,
Olive Werneth, wife and youngest
daughter. n H. c.. Turner, q leading
umberman The entire west shore.
below Mobile, is reported completely
devated. Twenty-Five bodies have
been recovered and thirty more were
reported as known to have persisted
Many bodies OF negroes are included
in his report. The surviving negroes
are terror stricken and helpless.
Armed Men Guarding Property.
The whites of the vicinity as well
as many from Mobile, are said to be
heavily arming themselves and to be
patrOlling as much Of the territory
as possible, in order to protect prop
erty and to compel the uninjured and
terrified negroes to assist in the work
of salvage.
Advices from along the eastern
shore of Mobile Bay are that the en-
tire shore has been wrecked. The
WharVes at Fair Hope, Battle Point,
Clear, NARROW, and other places, We're
destroyed.
Conductor David Rice. of the Mo
bile and Bay Shore Railroad. reports
that q large number of dead bodies
had tioated ashore from the direction
of Dauphin Island, which leads TO the
belief thai the settlement on that is
land has been swept away.
One boa from Dauphin Island, con
tanning thirteen members of a family
is reported lost.
Reports Show Great Devastation.
Reports from along the line of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
show great destruction. j.. X. Dunn.
a ST. Louis travelling man, who left
GulfpOrt yesterday afternoon and
reached here this afternoon, says no
lives We're lost at hat point. but the
property damage will run into the
millions, the Gulf and Ship Island
Railroad being the principal loser. y
passenger train of that road is lost
in the woods. The great pier was
wrecked by some thirty schooners and
other vessels being dashed against it,
the boats being reduced to kindling
wood. The new opera house was de-
strOyed and hundreds of buildings IN
rooted and otherwise damaged. The
town is in darkness.
Delayed mail from Ha~ttiesburg.
Miss. brings advices his afternoon Of
great ' wrought in that section
and south Mississippi by the storm. 1t
is estimated that fifty per cent of
the yellow pine timber has been de-
Stroyed, and it is feared that many
lives have been lost in the woods. All
turpentine orchards are ruined and the
loss is estimated at several million
dollars. In Hattiesburg alone the loss
is estimated at $1,000, 900. Scranton
and other towns are reported in a
deplorable state. but no estimate is
given of the damage nor mention made
of fatalities.