The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-27
in STORMS GRIP
The South Is Hit By Hurricane
From the Gulf.
Four Feet of Water in the
Streets Of New Orleans.
ALL WIRES ARE DOWN
Many Miles Of Railroad Tracks
Washed Out.
Wind Is Blowing Water in From
the Gulf.
LII WIRES ARE DOWN

New York, Sept 27.-Reports OF Sc
we're storms in Louisiana. Mississippi
and Georgia were received here today.
One telegram reads that there Is four
feet Of water in the streets Of New Or
leans Heavy rainfalIs are reported at
Vicksburg, Miss, and Macon, Ca. TeIe-
graph service to New Orleans is badly
crippled.
Communication Cut on.
Louisville, KY, Sept 27.-The gulf
storm which began to show its force
last night. has destroyed all wire COM
munication to Mobile and New Or
leans. The storm appears general be-
tween Montgomery. Ala, and the gulf
I OF Mexico and westward to the Ms
l siSsippt river
There has been no communication with
| New Orleans since midnight, the last
word from there being to the effect that
one suburb had been damaged somewhat
/ by the wind by a sudden rise of four
feet in Lake Ponchartrain.
Water is reported four feet deep in
the streets Of Moss Point. Miss. the
wind blowing the water from the gulf.
AT 2:40 o'clock this morning COM
munication was restored for a moment
with Mobile which reported a gale blow
ing with rain falling in torrents and
the barometer falling rapidly.
Blowing 4s Miles an Hour
! ~ aSnlnEIOn. sept. Zf.-Ile weather
bureau today reported that the tropical
I disturbance has reached the Mississip
pi and southeastern Louisiana coasts
where it IS central this morning as a
storm of great severity. Reports from
/ Mobile and Pensacola are missing by
reason of the general prostration OF tel
egraph wires in the storm swept terri
tory. High winds and rain prevail over
Alabama, Mississippi and southern Lou
isiana, maximum velocity of 4S miles
| an hour from the north, being reported
this morning from New Orleans
The tropical disturbance will proba bly,
move northward during the next s
hours and cause general rains east OF
| the Mississippi and south Of the Ohio
! attended by high winds in the lower
| Mississippi valley the east gulf states
and probably Tennessee.
Storm warnings are displayed on ths
AtlanticFEoast from Norfolk to Jackson
| vile and on the gulf coast from New
/ Orleans to the northern portion OF the
| western Florida coast
Trees Across the Tracks.
Louisville. O., Sept. 27.-Communi-
| cation was had with New Orleans for
| a few minutes at 10.45 a. m The
telegraph operator there reported that
/ the wind was blowing about 48 miles
an hour but that the center Of the
storm was east of New Orleans and
| that the city Of New Orleans had not
suffered any serious damage nor had
| there been any loss of life as far as
| reported.
It is considered probable in New Or
leans that the storm hit the Mississippi
coast and Mobile hard, but there was
| nothing to confirm this. The wire
failed at this juncture.
General Manager Evans Of the
Louisville & Nashville road has re-
ceived reports from division superin-
tendents on his road indicating a very
serious storm south Of Greenviile. Ala
The high wind has blown trees across
| the tracks. destroying telegraph wires
and interfering seriously with the
operation of trains.
A passenger train due in Mcntgom-
cry at o'clock this morning did not
| arrive until nearly II o'clock, the de-
lay being caused by numerous stops to
remove trees from the tracks
Storm stin Raging
New Orleans. Sept. 27.-For more than
12 hours a tropical hurricane has been
blowing at g speed varying from 80 TO
so miles an hour. The telegraph and
telephone wires are all down between
here and Gulf Of Mexico points. where
the storm Is reported to have struck the
heaviest. Washouts are reported on
several railroads in that direction.
The damage reported thus far is con-
fined mostly to the havoc or the TIDE
driven by the wind upon the gulf coast
to an unusual height. At the mouth OF
the Mississippi river, pilots are compell-
ed to abandon their tows. Seventy-hve
Austrian fishermen and their families
spent the night in boats on Doubts ca
over the lower Mississippi delata ana
threatening the cabins.
The rice fields are considerably dam
aged in this section No vessels have
attempted to enter the Mississippi since
Tuesday night, but are riding the storm
in the open gulf.
A washout is reported on the Louis
vile & Nashville at Lake Catherine and
no trains are running The New Or
leans & Northeastern railroad reports
it's tracks under water at several places.
The damage in New Orleans Is small
so far. Lake Ponchartrain Is five feet
above the normal. The wind has swept
away a few fishing shacks- The West
End city. a pleasure resort, has been
damaged. Three barges were sunk in
the Mississippi river at Southport above
here.
yacht club at West end on Lake
/ Ponchartrain was maroonsd at the club
/ house with his wife and three children
by the waves which washed away piers
in the club. IRELAND refused o1ers OF
/ aid from the shore, saying he believed
the club house safe and he would fire
a cannon if he desired assistance For
| lions of the big pleasure wharf at West
/ end have been broken by the waves and
part of the nearby saloon washed into
The rise Of the lake last night was
/ sufficiently slow to give the inhabitants
near shore a chance to escape without
danger. That part Of New Orleans be-
tween Lake Calves and Huron street Is
/ under a few inches Of water from the
lake backing up. No anxiety is felt yet
regarding the situation in the city, Dut
| protracted delay Of news from the
/ neighborhoOI towns on the gulf coast
has caused apprehension. Bay St.
Louis. Biloxi and Mississippi City, all
| in Mississippi, are exposed to Aississip-
| pf sound Up to noon the local weather
bureau had no Indications Of an abate-
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