Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-29

which Is near the Alabama state line.
No word to indicate anything like a
catastrophe has been received from this
particular section OF the coast. 1t was
reported, however that at Scranton the
storm had done considerable damage to
the railroad tracks and that nothing was
known of the situation, east of this point.
With the prospect that 300 men now at
work on the Lake Catherine washout Will
soon have tracks repaired, Louisville a
Nashville railroad officials decided to ats
tempt starting train for Mobile tonight.
The first definite news from the Mis-
sissippi delta was received today. 1t
showed that the delta land had been
flooded. that hundreds of fishermen had
been driven from their homes into lug
gers, but that despite the wrecKing OF
someNof these boats. loss of life was prob
ably small. Property damage along the
lower river, however. was widespread.
Reports from the northeast, in Mfssis-
sippi, were like those from the east and
south in stating that loss of life had been
small. Reports from Mississippi points.
the electric parade being the same as in
however, were very scarce, despite the
fact that several railroad lines and many
telegraph wires run from here into that
state, and this fact was taken to indicate
that the storm covered a wide area in
it's northward course yesterday.
Great damage to the cotton crop was re-
ported in dispatches to the cotton ex-
change Baton Rouge. La. reported about
20 per cent damage, Gallman, Miss, re-
ported rains which hattened the plant
down in the mud, and Natchez, Miss, re-
ported that there and Immediately across
the river in Louisiana the damage was
| nj A.
cane has yet been reported.
The excursion steamer Camelia on Lake
Pontchartrain, about whose safety fears
were expressed, today safely landed the
forty, passengers which the hurricane pre-
vented from coming ashore here Wednes-
day night
Great Damage I'm Mississippi.
The FIRST reports from interior Mississippi
towns indicated that the hurricane did
great damage in the northward progress
vicksburg and McComb City reported
buildings injured. and jackson and Brook
haven reported damage of 10 per cent to
the cotton crop.
DIR. W. N. McGallaird, a passenger on
the first New Orleans & Northeastern
train. which came into the city late last
night, said the train was compelled "a
run slow through the storm yesterday
with trees continuously falling, some OF
them threatening to block the tracks In
their crash. Unroofed or demolished negro
cabins were continuously passed. FIRE.
quently. he said. lashing of the wind and
| crack OF trees made a roar which drowned
out the trains rumble
Reports from Monticello. Miss. says that
considerable damage was done to pine for
ests near there. hundreds of trees being
uprooted. Trees had fallen across ths
railroad tracks to. such an extent az
practically to suspend railroad trafTic to.
ward the east of Monticello.
Damage I'm Every Town and County
The brief dispatches received here indi
cafe that the losses In interior towns Of
| Mississippi alone wiz reach hundreds o.
thousands of dollars. No heavy damages
were reported at any one point. but tn
storm appears TO have demolished a few
thousand dollars worth of property II
every county and town. tearing on roof
and blowing down scores of old franz
buildings. Vicksburg reported damage t
shipping In addition to reports OF cotton
| crop losses, passengers ON incoming train
tell OF widespread damage to timber. Tele
graph and telephone wires were so uni
versslly damaged that every town ye
heard from reported that at some tim,
yesterday II was cut on from communica
! ton with the outside world. -
Verified loss of life thus far is confines
to the death Of one employee on the New
Orleans & Northwestern railroad. who wa
run down by a train during the storm.
Reports OF the collapse OF frame hote
al McComb City brought in by passenger
on the Illinois Central have not been con
nrmed
The nrst news OF the havoc wrought b;