The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-29

4 Brewery; the Dixie Grain company;
James McPhillips Grocery company.
Besides these many other wholesale
houses IN the city sustained heavy losses:
| The Merchants bank. the First National
| bank and the Lienkaun bank were inun-
dated. There is no way at present TO
| arrive at a correct estimate OF the losses,
| owing TO the disorder All is confusion.
! CITIZENS WORK.
| The city was astir early yesterday
morning. however. The water had reced-
| ed somewhat, and everybody armed with
| buckets and brooms, worked hard for
restoration OF normal conditions. Hun
| d"eds OF bales OF cotton fioated through
| the main streets and were carried out 10
sea Cotton not lost in this way was
damaged by muddy water
| At Fort Morgan. 30 miles down the bay,
| the wind had a much higher velocity than
at Mobile. Towns along the Mobile and
Bay Shore road suffered immensely, ow-
| ing 10 their exposed situations.
| No word from the coast towns along
| the Louisville and Nashville road has
| reached Mobile There Is little doubt that
| many lives were lost and severe damage
inflicted on residences and business prop
| erty.
/ The lowest barometer reading was 2sS4
| at $3.50 o'clock Thursday morning: lS93's
record was 29.16. The barometer rose
| steadily from $50 o'clock. and at p. m.
read 294l. The rainfall for two days reg
| istered 6.47 inches.
Fruit trees and fall vegetable crops all
over southern Alabama and Mississippi
cane and other crops. one Mississippi
| planter said he would willingly accept
| SIS for his cotton crop and feel that he
had a fair deal
The roof of the Mobile Medical college
was blown off. The college had a valu-
| able museum, which was damaged. ST
| Paul's African Methodist Episcopal
| church was razed. The Girls asylum and
| Creole school in Cont street are greatly
| damaged.
The florists of Mobile lost heavily hot
| hlfVae fFa
along the streets for blocks. Cravier &
| Sons on Charles street and the Industrial
| schools gardens on Lafayette street sus-
| tained heavy damage.
Mobile county court house presents a
wrecked appearance. The clock in the
| tower was blown out by the wind. The
Union station. at the end of Government
| streets which caught fire several days
ago. was damaged considerably. Its
| windows were broken and cornices and
| shingles are gone.S
The water came up so rapidly that the
| railroad employees were unable to remove
| the baggage checked for transportation.
Many trunks were seen hoating down the
bay.
FATALITIES AT PENSACOLA.
| Pensacola, Fla. Sept. %, via Flomaton
| Ala.-The worst hurricane to visit TINS
| city in its history ragged here furlously
! all Thursday night and yesterday morn
| ing. and with gale blowing, the city
! presents a wrecked appearance aD4 the
| damage is estimated at $5,W0,OOo. The loss
|
| but far only one body has been re-
| covered a man named George Morgan,
a fisherman. Other bodies are reported
along the shore, but have not been re-
| covered.
| Commencing at o'clock Thursday
night, the wind blew at 80 miles an hour
! for three hours, then Increased TO Go
miles. From that time until o'clock yes
| terday morning IL remained between so
| and 80 miles an hour. The tides from the
| 10, t,sa 81 IL.
stroylng homes and making rivers out OF
| streets.
| When the gale was at it's highest yes
| terday and women and children were
running frantcally about the streets in
darkness, fire broke out lin the Pitt mill,
near the business district
| The horses of the fire department re-
| fused TO go out into the weather. With
the tin roofs flying about them trees and
wires falling over them, the firemen toCS
| their hose wagons by hand and rushed
down the streets TO the scene. and after
hours of work controlled the blaze.
| MANY SHIPS WRECKED
| Yesterday afternoon the water rose.
Business districts present an almost inde-
scribabe scene. OF the 80 or 60 big steam
ers and sailing vessels lying the harbor
| only five or six are now there. They have
been driven ashore, and along the water
| front Is a mass of wreckage OF steamers,
l. q
| all descriptions.
Thirty fishing vessels I'm port have been
destroyed or damaged, and the three big
fish houses. with their wharVes, are gone.
| Muscogee wharf and the Commandancia
and Tarra gona wharves of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad are badly dam
aged. Great iron ships OF 1000 and 3eO0
| tons have been driven not only ashore
hut have gone through houses q block
| from the water front
| Every house along the water front for
| distance of 10 miles has been destroyed
! and the wonder Is that the loss OF life is
| not greater.
The tracks OF the terminal railroad to
| the navy yard and barracks have all been
| destroyed, as also the trcstles and
| bridges. No communica ton can be had
| with the navy yard, but IL is believed
| that the yard has been badly damaged.
War vessels at the Pensacola navy yard
undergoing repairs were the gunboats
! Vixen. Machias Isla de Luzon and Glou-
| cester. besides several smaller craft and
| the quartermaster's steamer Poe. They
| were I'm an exposed position. and IL is
! feared that they may have been destroy
/ ed
BUSINESS SECTION RUINED
| Every business house from the wharf
| on PalafoX street TO the Union depot has
been unroofed. many plate glass windows
| broken. stocks badly damaged and wires
and poles mixed together.
There are no electric lights cars or
| telephone service. The tracks OF the
! Nashville railroad on the Pensacola and
| Atlantic division were washed out for 20
miles and two engines and cars sent out
! to the quarantine station have been de-
/ troyed.
Acting Mayor Maura ordered every sa-
| loon closed yesterday morning. and 80 ex-
/ ira police officers have been sworn I'm.