Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-29

kilograms. not even refugees to tell OF
What occurred As thousands of persons
living here summer at the resorts on the
Mississippi coast, this lack of news caused
a panicky feeling here among friends and
relatives and led to wild rumors.
While 1t was not until late hour yes
terday that anxiety was relieved by the
opening of indirect communication with
the coast II was then known that really
little damage had been done there beyond
that usual In gulf hurricanes. such as the
destruction Of wharves. piles. trees and the
unroofng Of houses
The storm varied in its intensity at dif-
ferent points, but everywhere on the Louisi-
ana, Mississippi Alabama and west Fiorida
Goa st 1t was the most severe hurricane
since the Bay Adams and Bayou IooA
storm of 1898.
In central Mississippi it is declared to
have been the worst since 1888. and Pensa-
cola asserts that no such hurricane mas
occurred at that point since the great TOT,
nado of LOT years ago. which Destroyer
the original Spanish city at Pensacola
At New Orleans the barometer feil 10
IA the lowest in fifteen years. and the
wind reached a velocity Of f1fty-six miles
an hour. 1t was thirty-five at Port Eads.
thirty at Bay St. Louis and at the Missis-
ippi coast and eighty eight at Pensacola
In spite of its severity. however. the
losses of life and property were smaller
than ever before reported In any similar
hurricane and no towns seem to nave
sufrered greatly from 1t except Pensacola
and Mobile.
There were many washouts. and bridges
were swept away. The cotton planters
and the owners of timber lands whose
trees were felled by the wind also SUI
fered severe losses. With these excep-
lions there has been comparatively littie
damage The storm center seems TO nave
been between Scranton, Miss. and Pensa-
cola Fla and in Pensacola the greatest
damage was done.
There were fears as to the lake fisher
men, who were driven from their homes
and went off In their boats. but they
turned up this morning safe and sound.
Few Boats Lost.
The levees here were uninjured, and ship
ping, which had been warned OF the storm
by the weather bureau, did not put to sea-
Except the Proteus for New York ana
small vessels on Lake Pontchartrain. no
boats were lost
This includes all the damage known as
yet All the towns In the line OF the
storm--Vicksburg. Jackson, McComb. Pitts
burg Laurel. Brookhaven and Meridian
were hit, but the damage Is mainly to gar
den fences and trees.
Three persons were killed at McComb by
a falling roof, and one at Hattiesburg. but
these are the only lives known to be lost
In Mississippi. and there were none lost in
Louisiana.
By Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. September 29.-Hourly
the accounts of the magnitude of Thurs
days storm in Mississippi became more
serious today as the interrupted tele-
graphic communication with that state was
resumed in every direction. Town after
town in the interior wired here that build
ings had been blown down. lives endangered
and crops blown fiat In the fields.
simultaneously there arrived an enumera-
ton Of an almost unbroken line Of wreck
age of shipping on the gulf coast in the
direction of Mobile. However. all reports
of this situation ended abruptly at point
about fifty miles west of Mobile. In addi-
ton to the shipping washed ashore on the
mainland, first reports came in today Of
vessels wrecked OF stranded on the chain Of
islands out in the gulf which forms the
Mississippi sound:
Both Are Dead.
Reports OF the death OF Capt. Johnson,
keeper of Horn Island lighthouse in Missis-
sipp sound, and the death of his wife and
daughter. were brought here today by the
first train into New Orleans from the east
over the Louisville and Nashville railroad
This train brought passengers from New
York and other eastern cities who had been
held at Scranton Miss. by the hurricane.
II, II, t,.or
and boarded the train there.
Twenty-Five Known to Be Dead.
PENSACOLA, Fla. September 29.-The
vastness of the destruction wrought by the
hurricane here Thursday is now being real
lied Twenty-Five persons are known to
have been drowned.
Their names are:
Quartermaster Sergt. Overlander.
Mrs. Eva F. Prentice and baby.
Private Jordan.
Ar unknown artilleryman.
Edward Hughes.
Unknown negro man and wife.
Mrs. Lebran Gonzales
George Gonzales.
MIS-. /. MdtlntWS anu TWO SmdiI CHI
dren.
Three unknown seamen. from British
steamer at the Quarantine Hospital
Attendants Collier and Ross of the quar-
antine station.
Two unknown Greeks at Bagdad.
George Morgan, wife and daughter.
An unknown fisherman.
Only four bodies have been recovered
those OF Mrs. Prentice. George Morgan
and daughter and George Gonzales
Searching parties are tearing away de
bris strewn along the beach, and although
several bodies have been seen, the work
ers have as yet been unable to reach
them.
Looters followed in the wake Of the
hurricane. Fifteen extra policemen are
new on guard. Calls for charity have
been made to assist the poor, and every.
thing possible is being done.
Fort McRae, on the point opposite For
Perkins. has been wiped out almost com