Albuquerque morning journal., 1906-09-29
Wiping Out of Transportation
Shuts Off Supplies From
Stricken City and Great Dis
treSS Is Feared.
FEARS FOR SAFETY OF
VESSELS IN NAVY YARD
Great Steel Ships Driven
Through Buildings a Block
From Water Front of Flor
ida City.

Mobile, Ala, Sept. 29.-Between
seventy-flve and one hundred lives
lost. fully two score vessels driven
ashore or wrecked in various parts of
the Gulf of Mexico. damage amount
ing to $4,000,000 in the city of Mo-
bile two millions more at outside
points is the record of the storm
which swept Mobile Wednesday and
Wednesday night. No accurate esti-
mate of the casualties can be made
as yet, and it is doubtful if exact fig
ures will be known for a week or
more.
Grave apprehension exists regard
ing Gulfport and Biloxi where it is
believed that many lives have been
lost.
Reports from those places are mea-
ger. 1t is declared by the local muni-
cipal officials that no lives have been
lost in Mobile, but that all of the
deaths have occurred within a radius
of fifty miles of here.
The dead, as far as known, are as
follows:
At Navy Cove:
MRS. d. LAMAR AND TWO
DAUGHTERS.
ALEXANDER JOHNSON.
HENRY JOHNSON.
At Coden:
MRS. SIMON KuOSKY AND IN
FAINT GRANDSON.
SUSAN CREIVLON. servant girl of
Mrs. Klosky.
O. WI0RNETH.
MR.. o. WERNETH.
MRS S. M'RAE.
MISS MRAE.
MRS. HENRY TURNER.
CAPTAIN j. STEVENS
THREE MISSES ALEXANDER.
EDWARD HUELAND.
MR.. HUELAND.
THREE HUELAND CHILDREN.
THREE UNIDENTIFIED BOD
les FOUND ON THE BENCH.
AT Bayou La Batre:
TWO BROTHERS NAMED CAR
RAWAY.
At Alabama Port:
MRS. ELIJAH NELSON.
At Del Champs;
MRS. A. l.. HAVEN, of Newcastle,
Pa, and two children.
ONE UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN
TWO UNIDENTIFIED NEG RO
CHILDREN.
THREE NEGROES, killed by fall
ing houses.
MRS. HENRY WARWICK.
Towns along the Mobile & Bay
Shore road suffered immensely owing
to their exposed condition. No word
from the coast towns along the Louis
willie & Nashville road has reached the
city. There Is no doubt that many
lives have been lost and severe dam
age both to residence and business
property.
Along the gulf coast there were
many fashionable residences some
costing $4,000.
All along the line of the Mobile &
Ohio railroad to Meridian the Asso'
ciated Press correspondent saw huge
trees lying fiat on the ground with
limbs torn off and twisted. The
streams are all out of their banks and
for twenty-five miles north of Mo-
bile. looking to the right of the rail-
road, one can see nothing but q solid
sheet of water running swiftly to-
ward Mobile.
Many farm houses are situated IN
this inundated section and there may
be loss of life there.
Bienville Square, one of Mobile:
beautiful parks, is devastated. Th'
bay shell road is washed away ir
many places. At the extremity of th'
road is a suburban called South Eads
This has been totally destroyed, only
one small house remaining.
The Bayou Latre, Couder, Ii
Champs. Theodore, Parker, all In Ala
bama, on the Mobile & Bay Shore
road. have suffered great damage
These towns are surrounded by exten'
slve truck farms and are populal
summer resorts.
Scranton. Miss, Is said to have suf'
fered severely from the storm. Many
houses we're leveed and all trees In
the place are said to have been blowr
down. No lives are reported lost.
At Biloxi Miss bath houses ant
wharves have been badly damaged
and much of its fine shell road Is de
stroyed.
/ The storm is known to have rageC
with great severity all along the nortl
coast of the gulf but as yet reports
from the places which 1t Is feareC
have suffered heavily have been few
and far between.
The storm which struck the cit!
about o'clock "Wednesday nigh
ragged for hours the wind reaching
! velocity of ninety miles an hour. TIL