The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-10-04

Coast has experienced since tne Town o.
Pensacola on San Rosa Island was
,wept away one hundred and seventy
Years, ago, occurred on Wednes-
lay and Wednesday night. Every
aouse in the city has suffered much
;he city, where the tide has never beer
Telegraph and telephone and electric
light wires are a tangled mass the
water front is strewn with wreckage
ior miles on either side of the city,
md vessels are piled on the wharves,
,r where the wharves were in utter
.uin.
Big iron steamers and many larger
sailing ships are now lying high up In
he city, where the tide has never been
saown to reach before, and every
wharf for miles around has been swept
rway or is damaged beyond repair. 1t
S reported that many lives between
he city and navy-yard have been lost
,ut no definite details can be secured
1T is known, however, that many OF
he houses in that section are under
rom five to ten feet of water and
many women have been taken from
he seeond-story windows and carried
% safety in boats.
The scenes in parts Of the city al
most beggar description, and the
streets are strewn with timbers, tin
offing and broken glass.
Mobile, Ala.-Between Is and LOU
ives lost, fully two score vessels
lriven ashore or wrecked in various
parts of the Gulf of Mexico, damage
mounting to $4,50O,O00 in the city of
Mobile and to the extent of millions
# more at outside points is the record
# the storm which swept over Mobile
m Wednesday and Wednesday night
70 accurate estimate of the number
If casualties can be made and it Is
doubtful if it will be known for q
week or more.
Grave apprehension exists regard
ng the situation at Gulfport and Bi-
oxi, where it is believed that many
ives have been lost. Reports from
hose places, are however, meager and
unsatisfactory. 1t is declared by the
ocal municipal officials that no lives
lave been lost in the city of Mobile
,ut thai all of the deaths have oc-
,urred in places within radius OF
ifty miles of this place. The dead as
ar as known at present are as fol
ows:
At Navy Cove, Mrs. D. L. Admin
IN dtwo daughters.
Alexander johnson, Henry Johnson
At Coden, Mrs. Simon Klosky, little
grandson Of Mrs. Klosky.
Susan Crevillieff, servant Of Mrs
Xlosky.
o. Werneth, Mrs. 0. Werneth, Mrs
IS. McRae Miss McRae, Mrs. Henr,
Turner, Capt. J. Stevens, three Miss
IS Alexander, Edward Huelaad, Mrs
Hueland, three Hueland children
,hree unidentified bodies found on the
beach.
At Bayou La Batre, two brothers
named Carraway.
At Alabama port, Mrs. EllJal
Nasef.
At Del Champs, Mrs. All Hasen o.
New Castle, Pa, and two children.
One unidentified woman.
Two unidentified negro children.
Three negro men, killed by fallin;
houses.
Mrs. Harry Warmack.
The storm, which was first noticed
by the weather bureau when betweel
Jamaica and Cuba, made its appear
ance in the neighborhood Of Mobil
on Tuesday afternoon, when titfu
winds from the north began to bloy
and the barometer commenced to fall
The wind rose very rapidly, and OF
Wednesday and between 2 and
o'clock in the afternoon Thursda,
blew with a velocity Of forty-eigh
miles an hour.
All through Wednesday night
rose steadily, and at 7:15 on Thursda.
morning reached its greatest speed
blowing from The easterly quarter a
the rate Of fifty-ive miles, the baron
eter falling to 1886. A few minute
after o'elock Thursday morning tn
local rainfall in the city Of Mobil
during the storm was COS inches
During the storm at its height, tn
water from the bay was driven i
great force upon the city, the wave
covering the ends of the wharves 81,
feet deep.
The city is under martial law an
no one is allowed to enter the whole
sale district. The entire wholesal
district from Royal street to the rive
is inundated to depth Of seven feet
Wharves from the extreme south en-,
of the city and as far up the river a
Three-Mile creek are a total wreck
Tlegraphic communication is para
lyzed. There are poor prospects 70
wires for several days.
All business is suspended. Numer
GUS sawmills located in the norther
districts have been destroyed. Th
steamer james A. Carney was beach
ed her sides jammed and her uppe
structure blown away. Fear is entsl