The Mena weekly star., 1906-10-04
.GJLF TONNSS CUTOFF
No News of Any Sort From Places East of New Orleans Since
 Great Storm.
INTERIOR MISSISSIPPI TOWNS DAMAGED

gBrief Dispatches Received Indicate That Loss Will Reach Hundreds of Thou sands of Dollars Incoming Trains Bring News of Great Damage to stand i'm. TlniDer-Ncws From the Delta. New Orleans, Sept. 29 New Or sleans early Friday was still cut off .absolutely from communication with Spoints on tie gulf caast east of here. STor 36 hours no information of any ssort had come from towns less than 6an hours rice by rail in the direction |pf Mobile, and anxiety regarding the asitaaticn in hose place became in- Htense. The eulf towns are a summer 9resort for New Orleans and many sanemEess of many families have been ifeparas sed hy tho storm.
 # All day Thursday and Thursday Ehisht the washout on the Louisville s& Nashville railroad 25 miles from Shere marked the farthest point east ward reached by rail. telegraph or Telephone For hours after the hur zficane had passed the two mile DOT Hon of railroad tracks which was Submerged by the incoming tide was Gxposed to the equally dangerous out ward flow of the receding water Focal Louisville X Nashville officials Friday announced all trains cancelled until further notice.
 'za Friday morning Lake. Pontchartrain q !, tr,t fo1 TO very near it's normal level
 KThe first reports from interior Mississippi towns indicated that tho Hurricane did great damage in It's HDrthward progress. vicksburg and McComb City reported buildings in- 34rcd and Jackson and Brookhaven f6rorted damage of ten per cent to <he cotton crop.
 Reports from Monticello. Miss &ay that considerable damage was done to pine forests near there, hum dreds of trees being uprooted. Trees md fallen across tho railroad track ID such an extent as practically to nnspend railroad traffic toward easI 0E Monticello
 The brief dispatches received here lndicated that the losses in interior 1QWns of Mississippi alone will reach h0ndreds of thousands of dollars. Nc Navy damages were reported at any me point. but the storm appears tc h4fe demolished a few thousand dol HE worth Of property in every coun- fr and town, tearing off roofs and bN1wing down scores of old frame b0iadings. Vicksburg reported dam &Ee to shipping. In addition to re- pofts of cotton crop losses. passengers cu Incoming trains tell of widespread d6tnage 10 timber. Telegraph and feIephene wires were so universally d@mased that every town yet heard ff0n reported that at some time Ihersday was cut of from communi- <zxIon with the outside world. veri- d8d loss of life thus far is confined to the death of ono employe on the NeW Orleans < Northeastern railroad Wno was run down by train dur mS the storm. Reports of the col larkf of frame hotel at McComb Gi{T brought in by passengers on the IlliHcis Central have not been con-
 3hc first news of the havoc wrought bX fhe hurricane on the lower Missis- sfNH delta was given Friday by C. Adsel pilot who came up from f1e nonth of the river, on the tug to3t Charles Clark
 Ansel said he saw the lower river hanks strewn with household furnl- tux& of fishermen. but that most of the6a families had escaped from the hiNh water by taking to their lugger riHEed boats. He saw the wreckaec Of tFo or three ,uggers floating down thcri.er but was unable to learn Wliat became of their occupants. Al the Mississippi river quarantine sta t5on two houseboats, used for the Qsloftcring of crews of fruit steamers Were sunk, The crews were taken nHztn saft,y
 he two United States mall boats or6 fafe. During the hurricane at PiI7t Town we spent an uneasy night, hu< am certain that no lives wert los< there All the inhabitants of 1atf<<s came aboard the two pilot bQ&{s Wharves and gangways were broken or washed away at Pilot
 
 cleaping out. judging from the direc- fion of the wind and tide, and the f4e< that up to the time left no one hud come mp from there"
 60uthwest Pass is the new entrance to <he mouth of the Mississippi river noW under process of construction.
 t<40isyille, Ky, Sept 29--Up to ten 9'c30ek Friday morning no word had n5ll8 from Mobile, Ala, which the snlf storm succeeded in isolating so Mf 1k wire corimunieation is con Nrned at 2o'clock Thursday morning. lh& pne wire to Pensacola, Fla. NhIeh Thursday afternoon carried he News of great damage and ru- aaQrSpf loss of life there, failed Thurs Hay night and Friday was numbered sxsthEthe countless other wires ont of NrsIce.
 tn< by one. the eiiies which had NIa4$t their usual number of wires w6rklug order Thursday, were lost. Mfh Birmingham and Memphis being
 on soon after ten o'clock Tele-