The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
STORM WRECKS PENSACOLA.
FIFTY LIVES REPORTED LOST
IN FIERCE HURRICANE.

~ Tidal Wave-HOusea Are UnrOOfod.
Trees UprOOted and Poles LevelIed-
FLoMAToN, Ala, Sept. IA few refugees
from Pensacola, fleeing from the fierce
Gulf storm which Ia sweeping that city,
have reached here. Among them Va d. J.
Lyon, a travelling man Of Atlanta. He
said:
Il have just come from Pensacola, where
] spent a night Of terror. The terrific
hurricane lasted for hours. To add to the
horror Of the night a fire broke Nj and
sparks poured over the hotel.
AT ) O'Clock ali the guests we're awakened
and ordered to the ground floor. Tin roofs
were flying in all directions. The rain
came In sheets. Part Of the town ia under
water. Ships suffered greatly. All wires
are down and cars are not running. Windows
were smashed and trees were uprooted.
The city IL a mass Of wreckage. Not a resi-
denoe or business house in the city has es-
capped damage.
The waterfront IL strewn with wreckage
for miles on either side Of the city and
vessels are piled on the wharves or where
the wharves were, in utter ruin.
when l was getting out OF the city !
saw great ships lying in the streets OF
Pensacola. The waterfront is gone. Every
wharf has been destroyed. Just before l
left there was a report that fully fftyNives
had been lost in the navy yard district. but
it was impossible to verify the report.
Il myself saw. however, many women
and children taken from second story
windows Of houses that were surrounded
by water above the first floor.
-One can hardly describe the scenes in
the principal streets, which are full Of
wreckage."
MEMPHIS. Tenn. Sept. PA terrific
wind and rain storm has swept the Louisiana
coast and don immense damage. Many
small villages in the bayou district are be-
lieved to ave been wiped out and loss of
life is feared.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. 27.-General Man
ager Evans Of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad has received reports from division
superintendents on his road indicating a
very serious storm south OF Greenville,
Ala. The high wind has blown trees across
the tracks, destroying telegraph wires and
blocking trains.
Mobile reports a gale blowing, with rain
falling in torrents and the barometer fall
ing rapidly.
TAMPA. Fla, Sept. 27.-The storm damage
was confined to the coast in the vici nifty
Of Pensacola. 1t IL impossible to get de-
tails here, owing to the interruption of the
wire service. No damage of consequence
was hone in this vicinity.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-No information
has beer re ceived by the Government
authorities about damage at New Orleans.
Advices were received that a terrific hurri-
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Otto H. Tittman. the Superintendent
Of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, said his
bureau had received no information OF any
disaster in the vicinity Of New Orleans.
The weather report issued this morning
says:
-The tropical disturbance has reached the
Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana
coasts, where it is central this morning as a
storm OF great severity. Reports from
Mobile and Pensacola are missing by reason
OF the general p~rostration Of telegraph
wires in the storm swept territory. High
winds and rain prevail over Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and southeastern Louisiana, a maxi
mum velocity Of forty-eight miles an hour
from the northwest being reported this
morning from New Orleans. The tropical
disturbance will probably move nOrthward
during the next twenty-four hours and
cause general rains east OF the Mississippi
and south Of the Ohio, attended by high
winds in the lower Mississippi Valley, the
east Gulf States and probably Tennessee.
Storm warnings are displayed on the At
lantic coast from Norfolk TO Jacksonville
and on the Gulf coast from New Orleans
to the northern portion Of the west Florida
coast 81,
The storm now raging in the Gulf is a
serious one" said Prof. Willis Moore, Chief
Of the Weather Bureau. 1T extends along
up the eastern coast. The people in the
region affected had made preparations. as
we gave warnings from Washington several
lays ago. The hurricane struck the shore
line in precisely the spot that we predicted
it would. We heard from our observer at
8 O'Clock this morning. He reported very
high Winds
Assistant Secretary Edwards said that
no word about the storm at New Orleans
had been received at the Treasury Depart
ment.
Government officers were greatly alarmed
over reports received from various sources
that New Orleans had been damaged as
a result CT the terrific storm raging in the
Gulf. While they doubted the truth Of the
reports. they made prompt efforts to get
in touch with the city. in the hope Of having
some information on the subject in a short
time.
Prof. Moore said
Just north Of New Orleans is Lake Pont-
chartrain. The city lies below it. The
wind in that region was blowing nearly
fifty miles an hour. 1t came from the
northeast first and then veered to the north
west. II ragged all through the night.
The force of the hurricane is terrific
between Pensacola and New Orleans. New
Orleans is many miles inland from the
Gulf. While it is possible, it is highly
improbable that the storm has enough
force behind it to drive it up to the city.
If there is trouble, it comes from Lake
Pontchartrain."
The w estern Union received a message
from New Orleans direct, dated $50 o'clock,
stating that the storm was abating. Trees,
chimneys and fences we're blown down.
No lives were lost.
Watts-Startup.
MnDI ETowN. N. Y. Sept. 27.-Thomas