Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-09-29
MANY PER|SHED
IN AWFUL STORM
On Gulf Coast----
Property Damage
Was Heavy.
LIGHTHOUSE SWEPT INTO SEA
With Keeper and His Family
----Sick Men Float on
Hospital Roof.

| st. Louis, Mo. Sept. 29.-The first
train over the railroad from Mobile
arrived here this morning, having left
Mobile yesterday morning. George X
Warner, of st. Louis treasurer for
the Southwestern Railway Company.
and his family were passengers from
Mobile.
This storm was not so bad as in
1893, according to my opinion and
vent through both, said Mr.. Warner.
THE storm Thursday was freak,
the wind coming from the southeast
and sweeping everything, doing great
damage to wharves, harbor and stores
on the water front. The damage,
think, will probably reach $25,O00,0O0.
Sixty per cent or more of the wharves
and docking facilities were damaged
Roofs were torn from many houses
and windows blown out know of
only three deaths and they were
negroes. The storm blew at the rate
VI my -llNC Ioul anu was
not as great in force or effect as that
of 1893. There was no tidal wave but
the wind simply forced the water
| from the Gulf into the city The
damage could be seen all along the
line from Mobile north to points in
Mississippi, corn and cotton being ma
terially damaged"
Pullman Conductor Gives Vivid
Description.
G. S. Clayton, pullman car conduc-
tor of the train made the following
statement: "The damage to Mobile
cannot be told as yet When the train
pulled out of Mobile yesterday morn
ing, the water was sweeping into the
city from the Gulf and the winds are
still blowing hard. For four blocks
north of the water front the water is
from four to six feet deep in the build
ings and the damage to their contents
will be great. am sure the loss of
life will have been found exaggerated.
understand one white man was
ulOWuCu VII lllC IloL llOOi VI Lie DOulIl~
ern hotel, while trying to escape from
the building. The pier of the Mobile
& Ohio Railroad was blown to pieces.
Bienville park is mass of fallen
trees For hundreds of miles north O.
Mobile the storm did much damage"
Business Resuming Amid the
Wreckage.
Business was partially resumed in
Mobile today. The city authorities are
cleaning the streets of debris as rapid.
ly as possible. The street cars are ex.
pected to resume service Sunday
night. The Postal and the Western
Union Telegraph Companies are still
out of business, all wires being down
in every direction At Coden, Ala
Dama, only one house is left in the
little town.
Twenty-Five Lives Lost at Pensacola.
Pensacola, Fla, Sept. 29.-The vast
ness of the destruction wrought by
the hurricane Thursday morning is
only now being realized. twenty-five
persons are known to have been
drowned. They are Quartermaster
Sergeant Overlander, Mrs. Eva F.
Prentice and her baby; Private Jor
dan; an unknown artillery man; Ed
ward Hughes; an unknown negro and
his wife; Mrs. L. Gonzales, George
Gonzales, Mrs T. F. Matthews and
twn small nhildran opd thraa uplnou,p
seamen from British steamer at the
quarantine hospital. The attendants
of collier and man named Ross
of the quarantine hospital; two un-
known Greeks; George Morgan, and
an unknown fisherman, also perished
Only four bodies have been recovered
and searching parties are not yet try
ing to reach others.
Looters Robbed After Storm Had
Passed.
| Looters followed in the wake of the
hurricane and fifteen extra policemen
are on guard. Many calls for charity
have been made to assist the poor and
everything possible to relieve the
1000 homeless is being done.
Seamen Washed Away on Hospital
Roof.
| There were eight seamen In the
Santa Rosa station when the hospital
building was carried away, and all
eight men were clinging to the roof
Five washed up on this side after
night of terror and the other three
were drowned with two nurses. The
United States quarantine station has
been destroyed.
Pensacola Navy Yard Scene Of Much
Damage.
The following telegram was re-
celyed at the Navy Department In
Washington today from the command
ant of the Pensacola Navy Yard, de-
failing the damage suffered by the
government in the recent storm. "The
Machan is at her moorings In the
basin. The Waban was sunk at her
warf. coal barge is now high on the
beach. The Glouchester is on the
| beach outside and the wooden dry
dock is destroyed. The steel dry
dock is apparently unchanged. Trees
were uprooted, all of the electric
wires were wrecked, the power plant
was damaged and Is not working and
| one house Is min a hitahln M Hvoc