The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-29

MOBILE, Ala, via Meridian, Miss
Sept. 2S.-Loss of life variously esti-
mated at from five to fifty, many per
sons injured, five thousand houses dam
aged, the business section devastated,
and a property loss of fully s3.00o,0O0,
is the effect of tho tropical hurricane
upon the city of Mobile. The storm,
which struck the city about Wednesday
midnight, ragged for hours, the wind
reaching velocity of ninety miles al
hour The water from Mobile bay WAS
blown into the city By the gale, and
for q time was seven feet deep in the
wholesale district, which includes that
section from Royal street to the Ala
bama river. The loss of life is be.
lieyed to be mainly among negroes, nj
though conditions are so chaotic that
definite information is impossible. Slip
ping suffered severely.
Among the steamers sunk were Tie
river boats J. P. Schulz, Mary E. sta
pies, Mary S. Blees. Cana, Oyerton,
Hattie B. Moore and the City of Cam
den, the United States revenue cutter
Alert and many other small craft
1t is feared that the crews of thcss
boats have been lost The city has
been placed under control of the Dlili-
tia. Nobody is permitted on the strce,s
except newspaper men and persons
wearing badges. Much apprehension is
felt for the suburban towns, as it is
feared they have been obliterated The
chances are that the loss of life in
Daupiu island is heavy, Many fisher
men live there and in other outlying
marshy districts, and from these 10
tidings have been received.
Suffering Is Severe.
The suffering in Mobile is severe.
Tho aunihilation of transportation IA
ciities has shut eff all supplies, and
unless help reaches the city soon great
distress will result.
aged, also Christ Church cathedral. and
st. Francis Street Baptist suffered
more than others. The damage to the
former is estimated Mt $4,000, and St.
Francis Street Baptist church al $l0,-
600, Mobiles shipping suffered moro
than anything else. Many of the river
boats are now beachcd or suukeu, all
complete wrecks,
The docks and those of private cor
porations are fearfully wrecked. The
revenue cutter Alert has gone down in
Mobile river She was rammed by some
other vessel and sank Immediately, Her
crew is believed to have escaped, but
nothing has been seen of them. Tho
city was put under martial law at dark
Thursday and no person allowed TO
enter the wholesale district. The city
authorities were quick to act.
All wharves from Frascati street. the
extreme south end of the city, as far
mn the river as Three-Mile creek are
total wrecks. This includes the New
Mobile and Ohio docks and the Louis
vile n Nashville docks,
Telcgraphic communication is para
lived, with poor prospects of wirc
for several days.
All Business Suspended.
Electric light companies, street rail
wavs. and, in fact. all business, have
been suspended, The Mobile a Ohio
railroad was the first road to get
train out of the city. its first string
of ears having left Mobile at a, III.
Friday. Numerous snwmills located in
the northern and marshy districts have
been either washed away by the terrific
waves or torn to splintcrs by the wind.
Their lumber and timbers arc scattered
over tho city or floating down tao
slowly-fallirg river.
The harbor steamer, James A.. Car