The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-29
DESOLATION
IN MOBILE
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: lyzed with poor prospects Of wire TO
l several days.
( Electric light companies. street rail
!, ways. and. in fact. all business. ha
been suspended The Mobile and Oil
4 Railroad was the first road to get ou
t of the city. its first train having LEI
I Mobile at o'clock this morning. M
merous saw mills located In the north
: ern marshy districts have been eithe
3 washed away by the terrific waves o
torn to splinters by the wind. Thei
lumber and timbers are to be seen scat
/ tered over the entire city and floating
] slowly down the slowly falling riysr
I Harbor steamer James A. Carney. ply
ing between Mobile and the Easter
/ Shore, lies beached just across the rive
and opposite St Francis street. 1t
: sides are damned in and Its uppe
structure blown away.
Fear for Fort Morgan.
Much fear is entertained for For
, Morgan, Ala. where the government
quarantine station Is located. and man,
soldiers CHARTERED. The chances are
that much loss of life has been caused
by the storm to those living on Dauph'
in Island and other outlying islands
including the marshy district, where
many fishermen live.
In the city many people and mucn
live stock were rescued AFTER heroic
effort Such cases are numerous. Pro-
visions are running low. Restaurants
feed many but have no supplies on
hand. Ham and eggs constitute their
food supply These too will soon be
come exhausted Wholesale houses lost
many thousands of dollars from flood
and willingly paid as much as $3.50 an
hour for common labor and earnestly
they begged men to accept such pay
so frantic were they In their efforf
to save goods. Even at this figure few
/ alr
work.
Words cannot fully describe the
storm During the hours between six
D. m, Thursday and noon Friday, trees
fell, roofs crashed by the hundreds
Through the streets, carried by the
terrific wind. was hurled thousands or
pieces OF slate. and tin roofing, corn
Ices, shingles and in fact all kind OF
debris.
| Blinds were torn from their fasten-
ings ard windows smashed as IL it's
sue. Many people were seriously injur-
ed and cut by the flying slate and tin
The railroads have started wreckers
out to clean up and repair tracks.
The office of the Western Union
telegraph Company's floor was six
feed under water. Its batteries were
| flooded with water and 1t Is not known
how soon they will be in shape to re-
sumo. The Postal Telegraph building
while not quite as low lying, also suf-
fered severely. The New Cawthon
Hotel, Just completed, and the Blen-
Vile Hotel are damaged to the ex-
tent of IS, 900 each. The Wirdsor Hotel
$4,000; st. Andrews $s,Ooe the South
ern $4,000.
The southern Supply Company esti
mated their loss at 100000
Among the Wholesale houses that
have sustained the greatest damage
/ nd whole
sale dry goods; the English Manufact-
uring Wagon Company. wagons and
buggies: S. ]. Jacobson. dry goods;
Dorgan and Young, hardware; Cum
bingham Hardware Company; Berney
Cavanaugh Hardware Company; MO-
bile Drug Company, wholesale drugs
E. o. Zadek Jewelry Company; Draper
and urns, clothing; American supply
Company, mill supplies; Christian Sup
ply Company; Cleveland Brothers,
wholesale grain; T. @. Bush apd Com
pany, wholesale groceries; James Nc
Donneil Company, wholesale grocers
and the Marshall Lyons Grocery Com
pany: Muscat ard Lott. produce deal
ers; The Mobile Brewery; the Bienviilc
| Brewery; the Dixie Grain Company:
James McPhillips Grocery Company.
Besides these many other wholesale
| houses in the city. The Merchants
Bank and the Lienkauff Banking Com
pany establishments were inundated.
At this time 1t is impossible TO esti-
mate or to describe the loss. There is
no way to arrive at an estimate owing
to the disordered state. All business
at present suffers. All is confusion.
The city was astir early this morning,
however, and water had receded and
everybody armed with buckets and
brooms were working like Trojans.
Hundreds of bales of cotton floated
through the main streets and were
carried out to SEAL Cotton not lost III
this way was damaged by being soak
ed with muddy water.
At Fort Morgan, located thirty-five
miles down the bay. the wind had
much higher velocity than at Mobile
Towns along the Mobile and Bayshore
road suffered immensely owing to
their exposed condition. No word from
coast towns along the Louisville and
Nashville road has reached the city.
There is no doubt that many lives
have been lost and severe damage ex-
perienced both to residences and bust
ness property.
Along the coast there have been
erected many fashionable and modern
residences some costing $4,000 to $780,
900.
The lowest barometer reading was
2S.S4 at $50 a. M, Thursday morning.
1898, the record was zs16. The barom-
eleF rose SlSduly liOHi bAaI hNuA oAh
lat 4 p. M. stood 2S.41, The rainfall
was:
September 12-Twelve hours. ia
inches.
September 26, p. m. to September
81, p. m, 4.S3 inches.
September 81 to p. M, 1.50 inches.
Total, SAT inches.
The average velocity of the wind as
officially announced by the weather
bureau was fifty-fiVe miles an hour.
The official record for 1893 was seven
ty-two miles an hour.
Even with this marked difference in
wind velocity this years storm did "A
greater damage to the city because the
wind of Thursday was OF longer dura-
tion and more tornado-like, twisting |
destructive than former storms OF like |
nature that have visited Mobile
The Louisville and Nashville ana |
Mobile. Jackson and Kansas City Rail- |
road shops were inundated, their ma |
chinery and interior sustaining heavy |
loss. |
Fire luckily did not break out in the |
city. Had such been the case, no |
doubt the city would have had anoth- |
err additional terror to fight, which |
may have resulted in total destruction !
of the greater part of Mobile owing to |
the high wind. All along the lines or |
the Mobile and Ohio, the Associated |
Press correspondent saw huge trees |
lying fiat upon the ground with limbs |
torn off and twisted.
The streams are all out of their |
banks and for twenty-five miles north |
of Mobile, loking to the right OF the |
railroad. one can see nothing but a |
solid sheet OF water running swiftly |