The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
TRAGEDIES OF THE FLOOD
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for the coast had coffins in the baggage cars stacked seven feet high. and all oi them were used.
 News from along the line of the Mo- bile, Jackson and Kansas City Road Is to the effect that at least ten were kill ed or drowned and every town from Hattiesburg. south, is more or less dam aged
 From Scranton, Miss, news was brought on foot by Lee c. Bosarge, who says the Louisville and Nashville tracks for ten miles south out of Scranton have been washed away Bosarge says that the Louisville and Nashville draw bridge at that place is piled up with vessels of all kinds.
 Wfnona's Heroic Work.
 The crew of the revenue cutter WI mona did heroic work in saving the cap tain, his wife and two children from Biloxi, Miss. The rescue was made dur ing the height of the storm at that place. Horn Island is gone completely and the keeper and family drowned Several vessels were seen near 4he light and Bosarge said, that they could not, under any circumstances, have lived in the tropical stormy
 On the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road south of Mobile to Pascagoula, Miss. the destruction by the storm was almost complete At Theodore. Neshota, st. Elmo and Grand Bay the story was the same. Houses leveled to inc ground and people without sheiter. A reporter left Mobile at noon yester- day on a wreck train and went as far as the track would permit. Miles or trees were uprooted or broken down on both sides on the track where had stood houses were mere ruins At Theodore less than half a dozen houses were intact. Both the Louis- yiIle and Nashville and the Mobile ano Ray Shore depots were wrecked, ana the same was reported oh the Houee' along the line. =.
 Three, whose names could not be learned, were killed and three persons
 Two flat cars laden were on the siding at Grand Bay. Tnese Were blown onto the main line and carr1ea south. One Is now on the track at or ange Grove the other in ditch at St. Elmo. The lumber belonged 10 MT otis.
 superintendent Charles Marshall O. tba Now Orleans division of the Louls- vile and Nashville Railroad, met tho Mobile train at Pecan. He was at pay St. Louis when the storm struck Una. town Yesterday morning ne ieil Day St. Louis, and, with walking, riuans oa o a hand-car and in boat, he succeeaeu in reaching Pecan station. He said II was a veritable tidal wave rat Orange Grove and Scranton.
 A wall of water came rushing in ana swept everything before 1t. mothei of orange Grove had her infant Tn hef arms. With her husband, she LOOK hold of a door and swung on for dear life; when the water had passed thT child was dead in it's mothers arms
 Another child was wrested rom its mothers grasp and found later In the day three miles inland safe and unin- jured. .o
 One family, a mother and five chll dreu, were compelled to remain Tn Grand Bay swamp all night and until after the storm subsided.
 report has just been received in Mobile a few minutes ago that num- Der of bodies have come ashore at Fort Morgan. The face of the map has been changed by the work of the storm and the commanding officer has wired the Secretary of the Treasury asking that the troops be removed temporarily. The loss to the Government here Will reach S700,000.
 Two hundred and seventy people, IT. c,uding soldiers, were quartered on the reservation, and, had the storm lasted ten minutes longer they would have been lost. The roof was taken off the place and when the wind changed, i'm mense wreckage was being fired at the building, the waves rolling mountain high.