Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-09-30
VDECKAGE IN wake
|OF FIERCE HURRICANE
rs It Swept Along the Gulf
Coast.
FLORIDA CITY ROUGHLY USED

Not In More Than a Century Has
q Pensacola Been Visited by Such a
storm-Feared Definite News viii
show Loss Of Life.
New Orleans. Sept. 20. New Or.
leans early Friday was still cut on
& absolutely from points on the gull
coast east OF here. For 50 hours no
AnformatIon OF any sort had come from
4 towns less than an hours ride By rail
q IN the direction OF Mobile and anx'
Il iety regarding the situation In those
a places became intense. The gulf
towns are a summer resort for New
Il Orleans and the members OF many
families have been separated by the
storm. All day Thursday and all OF
Thursday night the washout on the
Iouisville and Nashville railroad %
miles from here marked the farthest
point east reached by rail- telegraph
or telephone.
For hours after the hurricane had
passed the Emile portion OF the rail-
road tracks which WAS submerged by
the incoming tide was exposed To the
equally dangerous outward flow Of
che receding high water. Local Lou.
isville and Nashville officials Friday
announced all trains cancelled until
further notice Friday morning Lake
Ponchartrain had Gained aud the high
water fallen to very near It's normal
level.
The flrst reports from interior Mis-
sisslppi towns indicated that the hur-
rlcane did great damage In Its north
ward progress Vicksburg and Mc.
b. Comb City reported buildings injured
aud Jackson brokehaycn reported
damage Of 10 per cent to the cotton
crop
DR.. W. y. McGaliaird a passenger
on the first New Orleans and North.
eastern train which came into the
8. city late Thursday night, said the
train was compelled To run slow
through the Storm. with trees cOntin-
ually falling some OF them threatening
20 block the tracks In their crash.
Unroofed or demolished negro cabins
were continually passed Frequen IL.
me said. flashing OF the wind and crack
ing trees made roar which drow ued
out the trains rumble
Pensacola, Fla. Sept 29.-The
worst sea storm and hurricane that
the gulf coast has experienced since
The village u Pensacola. on San Rosa
island. was swept away. i10 years
ago, began Wednesday night and In
stlll raging Every house In the city
has suffered damage Roofs are
blown on. telegraph. telephone and
electric light wires are a tangled
mass. the water front IL strewn with
wreckage for miles on either side Of
the city, and vessels are piled ON the
vharve~. or where the Wharves were.
IN utter ruin.
Rig iron steamers. and many larger
sailing ships, are now lying hlGh 40
in the city where the tide has never
knewn la have reached before. and
every wharf for miles around has been
swept away or Is damaged beyond
repair
Il 4 reported that May lives be
tween the city and the raw yard have
been Loaf. pa no definite details can
b. secured II Is kne~a. h0~ever.
that many OF the houses In that SOC
tin are pOu under from 10 ~ fe~t
OF water. and mAny women have Aeeo
taken from the scooad sGory uindoWa
and carried 20 safesy m boats
There 10 % STREET car trane ard
eoumanieAiios vhh the go SIDE Sofid
a. eafirsiy cat oG.
TIE scenes In parts a the city al
Bno~k begxar desrTiptIoa and ~
arrests arr ssre~A ui,h tinssrs. ia
EpuanE and hroksn giass
Tas Weaers-C aioa aaA mss bard
q; wcrk sfyizg - clear he Sires
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