Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-30
STORM AND TIDE
REAPED RUIN AND
| DEATH ON COAST
Towns Wiped Out and Beach
StreWn With Dead. =
10 LIVES LOST AT MOBILE
Seven Inches of Rain at Pensacola
Adds to Horror.
NEW ORLEANS NOT DEVASTATED
Damage There Not So Great as Was
at First Feared-Falalities
at Fort Morgan.
10 LIVES LOST AT MOBILE
Seven Inches of Rain at Pensacola
Adds to Horror.
NEW ORLEANS NOT DEVASTATED

Advlces from the cities along the
coast which were in the track of
the hurricane and tidal wave de-
scribe conditions of great horror
and suffering at some points.
Whole towns are in ruins and the
list of dead is great. At Mobile and
Fort Morgan the death list is sew
enty. There are but meager re-
ports from the stricken city of PEN
sacola, seven inches of rain having
fallen today, adding to the horror
and difficulty of recovering dead
bodies. New Orleans has not suf-
tered as greatly as was at first
thought.
MERIDIAN, Miss. September 30, 3 PM
Information given out by Mobile and Ohio
officials just from Mobile estimate num-
bcr dead near Mobile and Fort Morgan
at seventy. 1t is said not one of the
soldiers escaped from Fort Morgan BIZ
loAi, Miss, is also reported destroyed
Detailed mail from Hattiesburg, Miss,
brings advices this afternoon of great
havoc wrought in that section and south
Mississippi by the storm. 1t is estimated
that 80 per cent of the yellow pine TIM
Der has been destroyed, and it is feared
that many lives have been lost in the
woods. All turpentine orchards are ruin
loss iS tod
millions of dollars. In Hattiesburg alone
tde loss is estimated at 81 5000 Gulf
pert, Scranton and other towns are re-
ported in deplorable state, but no estl-
mate is given of the damage nor mention
made of fatalities
Town Wiped Out.
Information from Mobile by train con-
firms the report that Coden, Ala. Port,
Ala, and Bayou La Batre have been wiped
off the map, and that but one house, the
Julius home, is left standing, at Coden.
Among the dead are some of the most
prominent people of the coast including
the wife and youngest daughter of state
Senator S. McRae of Washington county,
Maj. d. J. Stevens, Olive Werneth, wife
and youngest daughter and H. c. Turner,
a leading lumberman.
The entire west shore below Mobile is
reported completely devastated. Twenty
five bodies have been recovered and thirty
more We're reported as known to have per-
ished. Many bodies of negroes are In
cluded in this report. The surviving ne
groes are terror stricken and helpless.
The whites of the vicinity as well as
many from Mobile, are said to be heavily
arming themselves and to be patroling as
much Of the devastated territory as pos
sible in order to protect property and TO
compel the uninjured and terrified negroes
to assist in the work of salvage
Another Storm at Pensacola.
PENSACOLA, Fla, September 23.-Near-
ly seven inches of rain fell here today,
flooding the streets and seriously interfer-
ing with the work of recovering the dead
and clearing the streets of the debris from
storm.
A Conductors Story.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, September &C. 8.
Clayton, a Mobile and Ohio Pullman con-
ductor of 321 Whittier street, st. Louis,
among the first St. Louisians to arrive from
the scenes of devastation caused by the
hurricane and tidal wave, in describing his
experiences, said that the extent OF the
damage could not possibly be estimated at
the present time. The loss OF life, he says
is large, while the damage to the cotton
crop will amount to millions of dollars
In Mobile the water for four blocks along
the water front stood from four to six
feet deep in the business houses and was
rapidly spreading at the time he left The
loss of life in that city, as near as he could
estimate, Is about twenty persons. Houses
" ere wrecked by the wind, and the rain,
soaking through the roofs of other build
ings. caused thousands of dollars damage
to furnishings. The hurricane swept
through the entire city. Bienville Park, one
Of the beauty spots Of the city. was a
tangled mass of uprooted trees and re-
sembled the scene at Lafayette Park after
the great cyclone in ST. Lous in 1896.
The reports received in Mobile of the
damage to the surrounding country and
neighboring towns and cities state that the
devas tation In those places was even great
er than at Mobile.
At Citronella, Ala, two houses were
blown down and one or two persons were
eported killed. Montgomery, Ala, was
badly damaged, and all along the line TO
Corinth. Miss, the enects OF 'he Swim
could be seen.
Mr. CLAYTON arrived in the city at am.
oday He departed on his return trip to
Mobile at noon-
George X. Warner. treasurer Of the st.