Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-01
SEVENTY-NINE DEAD
POSSIBLY 23 MORE
BY Associated Press.

by Associated Press.
MOBILE, Ala. Sept 30, via Meri-
dian, Miss, Sept. S0.-The number Of
casualties in the great storm OF last
Wednesday is slowly increasing as
messages arriving from places which
have heretofore been inaccessible.
The total last night Of known dead
was seventy-five. This number was
brought up to certainty of seventy
nine and a possibility of 102 by the
reports which reached Mobile during
the night and early today. Four bodies
not before counted have been found at
Coden and it Is estimated that twenty
three lives nave been lost from the
oyster fleet around Cedar Point.
This last estimate is not known to
be accurate and it is probably some
what exaggerated for the reason that
1t includes among the dead every man
aboard a fishing boat who has not
been heard of since the storm.
1t is known some of the boats have
been driven ashore and it is entirely
possible that some of the crews man
aged to reach shore. 1t does not seem
likely at present that the death roll
Will amount in this vicinity to more
than 1875.
, Confusion Disappearing.
Mobile itself is rapidly emerging from
the confusion caused by the storm.
Large gangs of men were kept working
all of Sunday in clearing the streets of
debris, three of the street car lines have
commenced to run for the first time
since Wednesday, the confusion at the
docks is rapidly being repaired and
business will be at normal action as
soon as the railroads are able to run
trains.
AS yet the Louisville & Nashville is
still disabled and the only road which
is not able to maintain schedule and
the time when that line will be open
for regular traffic is conjectural. 1t
will certainly be the best part of
fortnight before 1t will be running
trains between Mobile and New Or
leans The Southern and the Mobile
& Ohio are running trains as before the
storm.
The situation along the coast to the
west Of this city is not fairly we'll
known. At Scranton, Miss, one church,
the Odd Fellows hall and several build
ings were blown down. At Pascagotila
Beach not residence is left standing,
the river front at that point is COM
pletely torn up and the light house
there has been destroyed.
Shipping at this point has been badly
damaged. The revenue cutter Winona,
for which much fear was entertained,
is now thought to be safe.
Whole Family Rescued
The crew of the cutter rescued the
keeper of the Pascagoula light house
and his family during the storm. The
keeper of the Hornis light house, just
outside of Scranton, lost his life.
The captain of 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
a short time he was drowned.
The entire end of the island on which
the light house is situated is said toI
have been carried away by the waves.
At Biloxi the damage 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 ifnInemorial
found refuge from the storms that blew
by fleeing into the back bay at Biloxi
were granted no such immunity on
Wednesday,, and the waves ran high
and many of the boats that sought ref
uge there were sunk and all. of them
were badly damaged.
At Pass Christian no lives were lost
and the damage was slight. The wreck
ing Of few houses comprised the
lost there.
Five out of eight vessels at Ship
island at the time of the storm were
beached and two will be total wrecks
Several vessels the names of which
are unknown are ashore on Horn ISL
and and the small islands marking the
passage between Dauphin island and
the mainland have been DESTROYED. The
beacon lights on this part of the coast
are nnf c1rAafIV dana0ad
The schooner Alice Graham of Mo-
bile is known to have been lost with
her crew Of six men. This boat has
been pursued by an evil fate, and be-.
sides having various mishaps from
time to time was wrecked in the great
storm of 1898, where several people
We're lost from her.
The known dead at Dauphin island
are:
schooner Irene.
CAPTAIN ROBERT PETERS Of the
schooner Louis b.
MITCHELL PISELL, mate of the
Louis B.
-Four bodies have been picked up IN
the water near Dauphin island and
have been buried there. Two were
evidently sailors and two were BOYS.
The people on Dauphin island suffered
great hardships during the storm, and
for twenty-four hours We're in constant
danger. The soldiers of Fort Gaines
made a dangerous trip OF two miles to
the residences on the island. Offering 10
give everybody shelter within the fort
but the offer was IN all cases refused,
the people preferrlng TO remain IN their
houses.
II is now believed that the loss 10
the lun ber interests bv the storm alone
viii aaaregate Sl0,0Q0000. II is almost
..s.....atI.In for arts t.araAs4 tafl..
not been through the storm-swept dis.
trlot to comprehend the extent 10
which the country has been swept Of
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