New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-29

from Mississippi points. however. were 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 wide in it's northward
course yesterday.
Great damage to the cotton crop was reported
IN dispatches to the Cotton Exchange Baton
Rouge reported about 20 per cent damage;
GalIman, Miss. reported rains, which fattened
the plant down in the mud, and Natchez, Miss.
reported that there and Immediately across the
river in Louisiana the damage was probably 20
per cent. No damage to sugarcane has yet
been reported.
The excursion steamer Cameiia, on Lake
Pontchartrain. about whose safety fears were
expressed, landed safely to-day her forty passen-
gers
This morning Lake Pontohartrain had Gained
and the high water fallen to very near its nor
NAL level.
The reports from interior Mississippi towns
indicate that the hurricane did great damage IN
its northward progress. Vicksburg and Nc
Comb City reported buildings injured, and
Jackson and Brookhaven reported damage Of 10
per cent to the cotton crop. DR.. W. n. Galliard.
a passenger on the first New Orleans & North
eastern train which came into the city late
last night said the train compelled to run
slowly through the storm yesterday, with trees
continually falling, some of them threatening to
block the tracks in their crash. Unroofed or de-
mollshed Negro cabins were continually passed
frequently, he said, the flashing of the wind and
the crack OF trees made a which drowned
out the trains rumble.
HAVOC IN DELTA.
The first news of the havoc wrought by the
hurricane on the Lower Mississippi River delta
was given to-day by C. Ansel a pilot. who
came up from the mouth Of the river on the tug
Charles Clark. Ansel said he saw the lower
H-Y,I
ermen, but that most Of these families had
escaped from the high water by taking to their
lugger rugged boats. He saw the wreckage Of
TWO or three luggers floating down the river,
but was unable to learn what became OF their
occupants. AT the Mississippi River Quarantine
Station two Households, used for the quartering
OF crews Of fruit steamers. were sunk. The
crews were taken off in safety. Mr.. Ansel said
AS came UP the river from Port Eads yes
terday afternoon we found the quarantine sta
ton unframed, but the two boats used 10 quar-
ter crews which taken off fruit ships at
quarantine had been broken TO pieces by the
storm and had sunk. Their occupants were
rescued without much difficulty
At several places saw wooden cisterns, which
stand above the ground and are used by fisher
men, lying on the river banks. There were also
quantities Of household furniture especially
that there was much, II any loss of life among
the fishermen. They put their families aboard
their luggers and took shelter in the bayous
when the storm drove the water inland. We
saw the wreckage of two or three luggers float
ing the river. Unless their occupants were
rescued by other luggers they were probably
drowned
I saw few persons along the shore when we
passed these places about 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. There probably three to four
feet OF water over this part OF the land when
the tide at its height.
The two United States mail boats are safe
During the hurricane at Pilot Town we spent
uneasy night. but I certain that no lives
were lost there. All the inhabitants of the
jetties came aboard the two pilot boats. Wharves
and gangways were broken washed at Pilot
Town.
Southwest Pass must have had a cleaning out
judging from the direction OF the wind and tide
and the fact that I'D to the time I left no one
had come up from there.
Southwest Pass is the new entrance TO the
mouth Of the Mississippi River now under
process Of construction.
Louisville Nashville officials here reported
this afternoon that an embankment upon which
their rails were laid at West Pascagoula, Miss,
less than fifty miles from Mobile. was washed
away by the storm. Up to that place the dam
age was not serious.
New Orleans. which apparently on the
western edge Of the hurricane suffered dam
age to property OF about $4,000, which in
Guided the loss of several coal barges all but
two Of them empty, which foundered in the Mis-
sissippi River. The remainder OF the damage
done along the shore Of Lake Pontchartrain
and along the railroad.
The telephone service in the city was badly
crippled by the blowing down Of poles.
BANK CLOSED, PRESIDENT MISSING.