The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-04
GULF STATES SWEPT
By FIERCE HURRICANE
Mobile and Pensacola Laid Waste
by Wind and Water.
IMMENSE DAMAGE ToPRoPERTY

III III
Various States Visited by tin,
StOrm-Much Loss of Life. Re
ported.
Mobile, Ala.-Loss OF life various,
fy estimated at from five to fifty per.
sons. many people injured. 1000
homes damaged, the business quarter
devastated and a property loss OF
fully $4,000, 900 is the effect of a
forty eight-hour tropical hurricane in
Mobile. The city is practically in
ruins.
There are no reliable figures to be
had as to the loss of life. Three ne
groeS are known to be dead, and
there are rumors that fifty persons
are lost, but as things are these ru-
mors cannot be verified.
It is feared. however, that when all
As known the life loss will be heavy.
Ehe city has been placed under mar
-tial law and hooters will be Summa-
r.Iy dealt with.
Every church in the city has been
damaged, though Christ Church ana
st Francis Street Baptist Church SUI
9fered more than the others.
Mobiles shipping suffered severely,
Many OF her river boats are beacned
or sunk, all complete wrecks. Her
docks and those Of private corpora
lions are destroyed. The revenue
-cutter Alert has gone down in Mobile
River. She was rammed by some un-
Known vessel and sank immediately.
The depth OF the water in the
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section from Royal street to the river,
was sever feet.
The wharves from Fraseati. the ex-
IRENE south end OF the city, as far
up the river as Three Mile Creek are
total wrecks This also includes the
9ew Mobile and Ohio docks and the
Louisville and Nashville docks.
Much fear is entertained for Fort
Morgan. Ala. where the Government
Quarantine is located and many SOL
-die=s CHARTERED. The chances are
that much loss of life has been caused
by the storm to those living on Dau-
phin Island and other outlying ISL
andS.
During the hurricane trees. fell.
roofs crashed by the hundreds and
thousands Of pieces OF slate and other
debris were hurled about. Many peo- |
pie were seriously injured and cut by
the flying slate and pieces of tin
roofs.
The fruit trees and the fall ege
table crops all over Southern Ala
hama and Mississippi are ruined. So
also are the cotton and sugar cane
crops. One Mississippi planter said
that he would willingly accept SIS !
for his cotton crop. |
The Mobile County Court Horse |
was badly wrecked. The clock in its
tower was blown away completely, |
and 10Y nothing of the clock re-
mains.
All along the line of the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad huge trees lie fiat with
limbs torn Off and twisted. The
streams are all out Of the banks and
for twenty-five miles north of Mo-
bile. looking to the right OF the rail-
road, one sees only a solid sheet of
water running swiftly toward Mobile.
There are many farmhouses in this
inundated section and many people
may have lost their lives.
Pensacola. Fla.-The worst sen
storm and hurricane that the Gulf
Coast has experienced since the viii
lage OF Pensacola on Santa Rosa ISL
oH"O O. o"CpG away ~ years aga |
q struck here. Many lives have
lost.
A large area OF the section between
the city and the Navy Yard is under
from five to ten feet of water. Many
women were taken from second story
and carried TO safety iii
BOATS The estimated property dam
age is ~S3,0O0,000. Every house iu
Pensacola suffered damage and many
roofs were blown Of. The water
front is strewn with wreckage for
miles on either side of the city, and
vessels are piled on the wharves, Or
here the whaTYeS once were. Big
steamships and many lighter
sailing ships are lying high and DRY
up in the city, where the tide has
never before been known to reach.
New Orleans.~-Great damage to
the cotton crop was reported in dis
patches to the Cotton Exchange.
Baton Rouge reported about twenty
per cent. damage. Gallman, Miss,
reported rains which fiattened the
plant down. in the mud. and Natchez,
Miss, reported that there and imme-
across the river in Louisiana
She damage was probably TWENTY-FIVE
per cent. No damage to sugar cane
has been reported. =
Damage to property ~aggregating
more than $4,000, 900 was done in
various States Of the South that
he storm visited.
: Two Missourians Indicted.
The Grand Jury returned indict-
nentS against Robert M Snvdar 0f