The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-27
SOUTH SWEPT
BY A SEVERE
TROPICAL STORM

New York. Sept H.-Reports of severe
storms In Louisiana. Mississippi and
georgia were received today. one tele-
gram reads that there is four feet OF
water In the streets of New Orleans.
heaVy rainfalls are reported at Walls
burg Mississippi and at Macon. Ga.
Telegraph service to New Orleans is
badly crippled
THE STORM CENTRE.
montgomery Ala. Sept 27.-Specials 10
the Advertiser from Mobile received up 10
to;So s;So iast night. when all communications
lalisd indicated that the centre Of the
Guit coast storm was south OF Mobile.
WIN the wind shifting 10 north and blow
ing ~ miles an hour. At l0:30 D. m. the
barometer registered 29.55, a fall OF l5 de-
grees within an hour. The storm was
expected to reach Mobile before morn
ing.
COMMUNICATION DESTROYED.
Louisville. Sept. 27.-The Gulf storm
which began 10 show It's force last night
mas destroyed all wire communications
10 Mobile and New Orleans. The storm
appears general between Montgomery.
Ala, and the Gulf OF Mexico and west
ward TO the Mississippi river.
Ihere has been no communication with
New Orleans since midnight, the last
word from there being to the effect that
one suburb had been damaged somewhat
by the wind and by sudden rise of four
feet in Lake Ponchnairaln. Water Is re-
ported four feet deep i'm the streets OF
Nose Point, Miss. the high wind blowing
the water in from the Gulf.
AT 24O this morning communication
was restored for a moment with Mobile
which reported n gale blowing with rain
falling In torrents and the barometer fall
ing rapidly.
WEATHER BUREAUS REPORT.
Washington. Sept 27.-The weather
disturbance has reached the Mississippi
and southeastern Louisiana coasts.
where II IS central this morning as
storm OF great severity. Reports from
Mobile and Pensacola are missing by
reason OF the general prostration OF tele-
graph wires in the stormswept territory
High winds and rain prevail over Ala
bama, Mississippi an- southern Louisi-
ana, a maximum velocity of AS miles an
hour from the northeast being reported
this morning over New Orleans. The
tropical disturbance will probably move
northward during the next "a 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
tlantlc coast from Norfolk TO Jackson
Vile and on the Gulf coast from New
Orleans TO the northern portion OF the
western Florida coast
CONDITION AT NEW ORLEANS.
Louisville, Sept 27-Communication
was had with New Orleans for a few
minutes at 10:45 a. m. The operator re-
pC'ted that the wind was blowing about
iS miles an hour but that the centre of
the storm was east of New Orleans and
the city itself had not suffered any seri-
GUS damage nor has there been any loss
life as far as reported.
General Manager Evans Of the Louis
VILE and Nashville railroad has received
reports from division superintendents in
dicating n very serious storm south Of
GTeenville, Ala. The high wind has
blown trees across the tracks destroying
telegraph wires and interfering serious
ly with the operation Of trains.