New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-29
cTORM DEVASTATES MOBILE.
o.s Of Five to Fifty Lives and $3,OOO0OO in Property
MANY Vessels Sunk--Troops on Guard in City.
pFNsACOLA LOSS PUT AT $5,OOOOOo
,.nv Thought Dead-Damage Shipping Heavy Both Cities
w. Fear for Smaller Towns

ried by the terrific wind, were hurled thousands
of pieces of slate, strips of tin roofing cornices
shingles and, in fact all kinds of debris. Blinds
were torn from their fastenings and windows
smashed as though made of tissue paper MANY
persons were seriously injured and cut by nvtnp
slate. tin and glass. The railroads have started
wreckers to clean uo and to repair tracks. but
their task is difficult.
Every church in Mobile was damaged. though
| Christ Church Cathedral and st. Francis Street
| Baptist Church suffered more than others. The
| damage to Christ Church Cathedral is estimated
at $4,000. and St. Francis Street Bantist
Church at $4,000 The roof of the Mobile Med
ical College blown off The college had q
valuable museum which was damaged. ST.
Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church was
razed The Girls Asylum and Creole School, in
Cont street were greatly damaged
The florists of Mobile lost heavily, hothouses.
plants and flowers being strewn along the streets
for blocks.
Cravier & Sons, on St. Charles street and the
Industrial Schools gardens. in LAFAYETTE street.
sustained heavy damage. The Mobile County
tower
was blown out by the wind. The Union Station,
at the end Of Government street which caught
fire several days ago, is damaged considerably
Its windows are broken and cornices and shin
giles are gone The water came so rapidly that
railroad employees were unable TO remove the
baggage checked for transportation Many
trunks were seen floating down the bay.
The Cawthorn Hotel. just completed. and the
Bienville Hotel. facing Bienvile Square, are
damaged 5000 each; the Windsor Hotel $1,000;
St Andrews. $4,000; the Southern $1,000 The
Southern Supply Company estimated its loss at
100000.
Among the wholesale houses that have sus-
tained the greatest damage are: Pollock &
Bernheimer. wholesale drygoods; the English
Manufacturing Wagon Company. wagons and
buggies; s. jacobson, drygoods Dorgan & Young
hardware; Cunningham Hardware Company
Barney-Cavanaugh Hardware Company. Mobile
Drug Company. E. o. Zadek Jewe,ry Company,
Draper Burns. clothing; American Supply
pany. Cleaveland Bros. wholesale grain; T. O.
Company wholesale grocers; the Marshall Ly-
ons Grocery Company Muscat &, Lott, produce
dealers: the Mobile Brewery, the Bienville Brew
cry, the Dixie Grain Company. and the James
McPhiliips Grocery Company Besides these
many other wholesale houses in the city
tained heavy losses
The Merchants Bank the First National Bank
and the Lienkauf Bank were inundated. There
is no way at present to arrive at correct esti-
mate OF the losses owing to the disorder. All is
confusion.
The city was astir early this morning. how
ever. The water had receded somewhat AMI
everybody, armed with buckets and brooms.
worked hard for restoratio to normal cond:-
tions Fire did not break out IN the city.
POWER OF THE STORM.
The lowest barometer reading was 1884. ct
$50 o'clock Thursday morning: 1898 record
was 2916 The barometer rose steadily from
5.8O O'Clock. The rainfall for two days was
647 inches.
The average velocity of the wind officially
announced by the Weather Bureau was fifty
five miles an hour The official maximum was
not announced. The official maximum record in
1893 was seventy-two miles an hour.
Even with marked difference in wind We
Iocity. this years storm did far greater damage
TO Mobile because the wind of Thursday was Of
longer duration and more like a tornado twist
ing everything in its path.
All along the line of the Mobile & Ohio Rail-
road from Meridian TO Mobile The Associated
Press correspondent huge trees lying fiat
with limbs torn off and trunks twisted. The
streams are all out OF banks. and for twenty
five miles north of this city. looking the right
of the railroad, can see nothing except n
solid sheet Of water running swiftly toward
Mobile There were many farmhouses in THIS
inundated region, and there may have been loss
of life there.
Fruit trees and fall vegetable crops all over
Southern Alabama and Mississippi are ruined
So also are the cotton. sugar cane and other
crops. one Mississippi planter said to-day he
would willingly accept SO for his cotton crop
and feel that he had fair deal
PENSACOLA LOSS HEAVY.