The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-29
DESOLATION in MOBILE
FROM FURY OF WIND AND RAIN

among those which wer badly damaged
were Christ Episcopal Church. the old
est religious building in the city.
large part or the roof was torn
away. The steeple was blown down,
carrying more Of the roof with 1t and
all the windows were blown out 1t is
estimated that great damage to this
building alons will amount to $4,000.
The spire of st. Francis STREET. aBptist
Church was blown down. the remainder
of the church being unhurt. About &c.,
GEO will cover the loss to this church
Every other church building in the city
was damaged in less degree, but none
cannot be used.
Hotels Suffered Severely.
The hotels also suffered severely. the
Bienville losing part of its kitchen,
which was blown away. and the Cav
thorn losing many windows through
which the rain poured, damaging car
pets and draperies to the extent of s4,-
000
The heaviest loss will fall on the mer-
chants along the water front who al
though warned Of the coming storm by
the weather bureau, did not expect that
1t would drive the waves upon them as
it did. None of them made any effort
to remove their goods, and consequent
ly all of them sustained heavy loss tby
t0G washing III Vi the llQcs anu ny the
rain which In many cases drove through
hcsas where the wind had ripped off a
portion of the roof.
The damage 10 the docks along the
river front will amount to about $780,
COO
Reports of damage to boats down
the bay and in the open gulf are numer-
GUS The British steamer Doris Brock
Is said TO be ashore on the end of Dau-
nh TcIo 30 hiah an Ghnra
that she can be- walked around
The three masted schooner King of
Avon is dismantled and ashore near the
mouth of Dog River. The ship Pherug-
land has been driven ashore in the
lower part of the bay with all of her
masts gone The pilot boat Louise
Harper had trying experience She
attempted to weather the storm, but
was unable TO keep off the shore and
Was finally carried BY the waves far In
sanE, Were khen now rests with her nose
in a pine thicket From where she now
lies to the nearest water which will
float her, is more than four miles.
Scranton, Miss, is said to have suf-
fered severely from the storm. Many
houses are said to be leveled with the
ground and nearly all the trees in the
place are said to have been blown down.
No lives are reported as lost at Biloxi,
but bath houses and wharves have been
badly damaged and much of its fine
shell road is destroyed.
All Wires Down.
The storm is known to have ragged
with great severity all along tho north
coast of the gulf, but as yet reports
from the places where 1t Is feared have
suffered heavily, have been few and
far between. All wires leading out of
Mobile in every direction are down,
and 1t is not expected that they will
be in use before some time tomorrow
and then only to limited extent.
Trains are running on the NJ. and o.
and on the Southern, but the l.. and N.
whose tracks skirt the north shore of
the bay from a point eight miles east
OF Mobile to New Orleans are in very
bad shape, and 1t is not likely that
they will be in condition for several
days.
From a small place called Hurricane
down almost to Mobile the tracks of
the l.. and N. are washed out in places
and where the roadbed was exposed to
the fury of the storm, logs and debris
carried in by the waves are piled high,
in some places to depth of ten feet
The road had by night 1000 men at
work on its lines. But the distractions
are so great that 1t will hardly be pos
sible for any number of men to open
up the line inside of three or four
days.
Five miles of track are gone between
Mobile and the west.
No particulars have been received re-
gardlng the tragedy at Coden save that
1t was similar in character to all the
others along the coast. The waves
piling up the water so high, and driv-
ing 1t so madly that the buildings could
not withstand the shock.
Mobile has been visited by one
OF the worst storms ever had by
That city.
While the velocity OF the wind did not
exceed that of 1898, it was much more
destructive and lasted longer A con-
sentative estimate of the loss is made
at sS.000,000 and fully 1--WE thousand
houses have been affected in various
ways. Every church In the city has also
suffered. though Christ Church and the
st. Francis Street Baptist Church suf-
fered more than others. The damage to
Christ Church is estimated at $40, 900
and to the st. Francis Street church at
5000.
Mobiles shipping suffered more than
anything else. Many of her river boats
now are beached or sunken; all COM
plete wrecks. Her docks and those of
private corporations, are fearfully torn
up. The revenue cutter Alert has gone
down in Mobile River. She was rammed
by some unknown vessel and sank inn
m ediately Her crew is believed to have
all escaped. The city was put under
martial law at dark, and no person al
lowed to enter the wholesale business
district. The city authorities were
quick to act. and therefore no disturb
ances of any sort resulted.
Loss of Life Unknown.
The loss of life is only. so far as
known at o'clock this morning, one |
negro baby killed by falling walls, and I
two negro men drowned in the flood !
The depth of the water in the whole |
sale district. which includes the entire |
section of the city from Royal street |
to the river. was seven feet
Among the steamers sunken are the |
river steamers ]. p. Schulz, Mary, Mary |
F. Staples. Mary S. Blees. CANA. Over |
ton, Hattie B. Moore. City of Camden, |
the United States revenue cutter Alert, |
besides hundreds OF smaller vessels.
Wharves from Frascati. the extreme |
south end of the city. as far up the |
river as Three Mile Creek. are total |
wrecks. This also included the new |
Mobile and Ohio docks and the Louis |
Vile and Nashville Docks,
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