The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-01
CASUALTY LIST
IS INCREASING
Now Estimated That at Least
100 Perished In the Trop-
lcal Hurricane.
REPORTS ARE COMING IN
DEBRIS BEING CLEARED AWAY
AT MOBILE.

Mobile. Ala, via Meridian, Miss, Sept.
"u'-Ihe number Of caualties in the great
storm Of last WEDNESDAY is slowly in
cieasins, as messages arrive from places
which have heretofore been inaccessible
The total last night of the known dead
was seventy-five. This number was
brought up to a certainty of seventy nine
and possibility of lO2 by the reports
which reached Mobile during the night
ana early today. Four bodies not before
counted nave been found at Coden, and it
J Is estimated that twenty-three lives have
been lost from the oyster fleet around
Cedar Point. This last estimate is not
Known 10 be accurate, and is probably
somewhat exaggerated for the reason
sIiet IL Includes among the dead every
man aboard a fishing boat who has not
pen heard OF since the storm. 1t is
khown that some of the boats on which
Inese men were have been driven ashore
the crews managed to reach the shore
IL does not seem likely at present that
the death roll will amount in this vicinity
ID more than 125.
Clearing Away Debris.
Mobile itself is rapidly emerging from
me CONFUSION caused by the storm. Large
gangs of men are kept working all of
Sunday in clearing the streets of debris
three OF the street car lines have COM
Rtthced 10 run for the first time since
.'NNhtSudy, tue CONFUSION at the docks
~ rapidly being repaired and business
VIII be at normal action as soon as the
railroads are able 10 run trains.
As yet the Louisville & Nashville is
sun disabled, and Is the only road which
IS not able to maintain schedule. And
the time when that line will be open for
fesuiar traffic is conjectural. 1t will GER
telnly be the best part of fortnight be-
fore it will be running trains between
Mobile and New Orleans. The Southern
and the Mobile q Ohio are running trains
as before the storm.
Damage at Scranton, Miss.
The situation along the coast to the
west of this city is now fairly well known.
AT Scranton, Miss, one church. the Odd
Fellows hall and several buildings were
blown down. At Pascagoula Beach not
residence is left standing, the river front
at that point is completely torn up and
the lighthouse there has been destroyed.
Slipping at this point has been badly
damaged. The revenue cutter Wnona,
for which much fear was entertained, is
row known to be safe.
The crew of the cutter rescued the
keeper of the PascagOula lighthouse and
his family during the storm The keeper
OF the Horn island lighthouse, just out
side of Scranton. LOST his life. The cap
tain of a tug which came near the house
at the commencement of the storm urged
him to leave. but he refused to abandon
his post, and in q short time was
drowned. The entire end of the island on
which the lighthouse was situated is said
Effect of Storm at Biloxi.
At Biloxi the daamge has been of a
minor character to buildings Every bath
house IN the place has gone. and the
beautiful driveway along the coast at
This point has been destroyed Boats
which have from time immemorial found
refuge from all the storms that blew by
fleeing into the back bay at Biloxi were
granted no such immunity on Wednes-
day, as the waves ran high and many
of the boats that sought refuge there
we're sunk, and al Of them were badly
damaged. At Pass Christian no lives were
lost and the damage was slight. The
wreckings of few houses comprised the
damage at Gulfport, and no lives were
lost there.
Five out of eight vessels at Ship Island
a the time of the storm were beached
and two will be total wrecks.
Several vessels, the names of which
are unknown, are ashore off Horn island.
and the small islands marking the pas
sases between Dauphin Island and the
mainland have b-Sn destroyed The beacon
greatly damaged. The schoo boon Sre ALICE Iice
Graham of Mobile is known to have been
lest. with her crew of six men. This
boat has been pursued by an evil fate
and besides having various mishaps from
time TO time was wrecked in the great
storm OF 1893. when several people were
lost from her. The known dead at
Dauphin island are Captain John Worlen
~ the schooner Irene. Captain Robert
Peters of the schooner louisa B.. and
Mitchell Pfsell. mate of the same boat
Four Bodies Picked Up
-Four bodies have been picked up in the
water near Dauphin island and have been
hurried there. Two were evidently sailors
anu TWO were boys. The people on
DaUphin island suffered great hardships
during the storm. and for twenty-four
hours were in great danger. The soldiers
OF Fort Gaines made a dangerous trip of
tWC miles to the residences on the
island. offering to give everybody shelter
within the fort, but the offer was IN all
cases refused, the people preferring to
remain in their houses.
It IL now believed that the loss TO the
lumber interest alone by the storm will
aggregate SlOW0.O00 II is almost impossi-