Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-01
HUNDRED AND TWENTY DEAD
Later Reports Of Less Of Lif. in Vicinity
Of Mobile.
DAMAGE IS ABOUT EIGHT MILLIONS
wire Service BeinR slowly Restored,
hut IL VIII BE Days Before
Trains Are Running
Regular.

news Dy telegrapn out OF tne sttiCheh Sies |
Of Mobile was received in Louisville at
o'clock this Sunday morning, the Courier
Journal. whose correspondent sent dis
patch In a roundabout way from an i'm
provsed ONCE in the swamps just on the
edge OF the city. The information is given
in the dispatch that the loss of life In
Mobile and vicinity from the great storm
Of Thursday will probably reach l2o. al
though the death list in the city itself
will not be large. The greatest number Of
lives lost, according to the dispatch, Is at
a place known as San Souci Beach, sum-
mer resort near Mobile, where thirty y-nine
bodies are reported to have been found.
The property loss in Mobile and along
Mobile Bay will probably approximate
ss,eooooo
The people living on Dauphin island are
suffering for food and they have only the
clothes they are wearing. Nearly all the
houses of the fishermen were swept away.
The dispatch further says:
"As the dead come ashore on the south
beach below here. they are being buried.
The Louisville & Nashville railroad will
not be able to resume train service Tor
several days and the other railroads are
Handicapped by washouts and the loss OF
telegraph wires which prevent the handling
of trains with any degree Of promptness
Gulfport is damaged to a small extent and
there is no loss OF life there as far as has
been heard of here. Many interior points
yet remain to be heard from"
At the general managers office of the
Louisville & Nashville road in Louisville,
1t was stated today that they have tele-
graphic communication within a short dis
tance of Mobile. but that the tracks are
still unft for use 1t could not be stated
definitely when train service would be re-
sumed. The Western Union at noon today
was working one wire from Atlanta into
Mobile by way OF Montgomery and this
circuit is being utilized to order men and
equipment from every direction to Mobile
to repair they damage done.
Casualty List Increasing.
| MOBILE, Ala Sept 30 (via Meridian.
Miss. 1.-THE number OF casualties in the
great storm of last Wednesday is slowly
increasing as messages are received from
places which have heretofore been inacces-
sibe. The total last night of the known
dead was seventy-five. This number was
brought up to a certainty OF seventy
nine and possibly OF 102. by the reports
which reached Mobile during the night and
early today. Four bodies not before counted
have been found at Coden and II is esti-
mated that twenty-three lives have been
lost from the oyster feet around Cedar
Point. This last estimate is not known to
be accurate and is probably somewhat ex-
aggerated for the reason that 1t included
among the dead every man aboard a fishing
boat that has not been heard Of since the
storm. II is known that some of the boats
on which these men were, have been driven
ashore and 1t is entirely possible that some
of the crews managed to reach the shore.
II does not seem likely at present that the
death roll will amount in this vicinity to
more than i25.
u Order Out of Chaos.
Mobile itself is rapidly emerging from the
confusion caused by the storm. Large
gangs Of men were kept working all day
Sunday In clearing the streets of debris.
three of the street car lines have COM
menced to run for the first time since
"wednesday, the confusion at the docks is
rapidly being repaired and business will
be at normal as soon as the railroads are
able to run trains.
AS yet the Louisville & Nashville is dis
abled and is the only road which is not
able to maintain a schedule. and the time
when that road will be open for regular
trafic is conjecturai. 1t will certainly be
the best part of fortnight before 1t will
. be running trains between Mobile and New
Orleans. The Southern and the Mobile &
Ohio are running trains as before tn,
storm.
Damage Along Coast.
The situation along the coast to tn,
west of this city is now fairly well known
At Scranton, Miss, one church, the ODD
Fellows hall and several buildings wer,
blown down. At Pascagoula Beach. ro
a residence Is left standing. the rivel
from: at that point is completely tori
up and the lighthouse there has been de
stroyed. Shipping at this point has beer
badly damaged. The revenue cutte
winona, for which much fear was en-
tertained. Is now known TO be safe. Tn,
crew of the cutter rescued the keeper o.
the Pascagoula lighthouse and mis- famil!
: during the storm. The keeper of tn
a Horn island lighthouse, just outside o
d Scranton. lost his life. The captain OF
4 tug which came near the house at tn
o commencement of the storm, urged him
, to leave. but he refused to abandon hi
4 post and in a short time was drowned
Il The entire end of the island on whle
3 the lighthouse was situated is said L
J. have been carried away by the waves
, At Biloxi, the damage has been of
minor character to buildings. Every bat
n house in the place is gone and the beau
d tiful driveway along the coast at thi
J. point has been destroyed. Boats, whic
d have from time immemorisl found refug
l. from all the storms that blew by heein
,e into the back bay at Biloxi, were granite
no such immunity on Wednesday, as III
waves ran high and many OF the boat
that sought refuge there were sunk an
l. all of them were badly damaged. A
al Pass Christian no lives were lost an
m the damage was slight. The wreckin
81 of few houses comprised the damage g
d. Gulfport and no lives were lost Their
II Five out OF eight vessels az Ship islam
of at the time OF the storm were beache
and two will be total wrecks.
Many Vessels Ashore.
Several vessels, the names of which al
2 unknown, are ashore OF Horn island. an
|, the small islands marking the passas
a. between Dauphin island and the mainlar
40 have been destroyed. The beacon ligh
d on this part OF the coast are not great
b. damaged. The schooner Alice Graham
he Mobile is known 70 have been lost vii
Mt its crew Of six men. This boat has bee
he pursued by an evil fate and besides har
rs ing various mishaps from time TO tim
ad was wrecked in the great storm of ISl
en- xvhan several ueople were lost From, a.