Connecticut western news., 1906-10-04
GULF COASTS LOSS
Death and Destruction In Trail of Southern States Most
 Disastrous Storm.
MOBILE AND PENSACOLA HIT
Alabama and Florida Cities Greatest Sufferers by Hurricane - Child Sees Parents and Sister Die In Flood. Loss to Lumber Interests Estimated at $1o,oo0,o0o.

Loss to Lumber Interests Estimated
 at $1o,ooo,o0o.
 New Orleans, Oct. 3.-Details of the great hurricane which swept over the gulf states show it to have been, in point of territory affected, property damaged and lives lost, probably the most disastrous the southern section of the country has ever experienced.
 Later reports will, it is feared, add to the loss of life, for telegraphic com munication is only partially restored, and hundreds of outlying towns in the storms path have not been heard from.
 At Mobile the property loss is plac- ed at $1,O00,O00. Damage to shipping cannot be estimated, but many ships are high and dry and may never reach water again. No lives have been lost in Mobile.
 Thirty-three persons Were drowned at Pensacola, the property damage is $5,00O,000, and scores of vessels were wrecked.
 At the Pensacola navy yard many of the warships berthed there were beach ed or sunk. The Santa Rosa hospital was swept away. The patients went with the building and were lost.
 Fort Morgan Wrecked.
 Fort Morgan, iu Mobile harbor, is a complete wreck, the loss there reach ing $10O,o0O.
 Thirty-eight vessels are known to be ashore in the Mississippi delta. Six lives were lost below this port. and damage in the lower Louisiana planta- tions will reach $1,0O0,O00. Fort St. Philip sustained $10,000 damage.
 Four bodies not before counted have been found at Coden, Ala, and it Is estimated that twenty-three lives have been lost from the oyster fleet around Cedar point, near Mobile. This last estimate includes among the dead ev- cry man aboard a fishing boat which has not been heard of since the storm.
 Family Lost In Flood.
 The drowning at Coden of the Wcr- meth family with the exception of one daughter is one of the saddest tales of the storm.
 In the Werneth house were MT. and Mrs. werneth, their two daughters. Mrs. Betancourt, an aged woman, and Calvin Williams, a young man. When it was evident that the house must be abandoned MT. Werneth and Williams placed the family in small boat and attempted to reach a nearby grove, but the boat filled with water and sank. The elder Miss Werneth. who was an accomplished swimmer, and young Williams reached a tree, which they climbed The other persons in the boat were drowned before their eyes,
 Mrs. Werneth made a desperate at tempt to reach the tree In which her daughter and young Williams had found refuge and was within q few feet of them when a huge wave en- gulfed her. MT. Werneth, bearing his younger daughter in his arms, reached the tree and was about to climb it when the girl slipped from his grasp and went down. Werneth attempted to. save her, and a wave overwhelmed him. He was drowned at the foot of the tree in which Williams and his daughter had taken refuge. The young woman became crazed as her father sank and endeavored to leap from the tree. but was restrained by Williams. The two remained in the tree until the storm subSided.
 It is now believed that the loss to the lumber interests alone by the storm will aggregate $10,000,O00. Tens of thousands of trees of the finest quali- ty have been blown down. The num- Der of logs that have been carried out to sea or driven into inaccessible swamps is enormous. Dealers in tur- pentine are very gloomy over the out l0A