The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-28
FEARS FOR MOBILE,
CUT OFF BY STORM
Alabama City Not Heard from
Since Tempest Burst Over
49,. South.
PENSACOLA Is AGAIN
- ISOLATED BY STORM
Hurricane Damage in Florida
City Is Estimated at
i 100000.


ability to gain communication with
Mobile causes the gravest fears for the
Alabama city. Every effort has been
made to get news from the stricken
city, dispatches having been sent to
scores Of towns that might have re-
ceived word. The only responses to
these queries have been messages de-
failing the severity Of the hurricane
that ragged two days.
fered in places less exposed than Mo-
bile and the utter lack of advices from
that city is ominous of destruction
there.
New Orleans, Sept. 2S.-New Orleans
early today was still cut off absolutely
from communication with points on the
gulf coast east OF here.
For thirty-six hours no information
of any sort had come from towns less
than an hours ride by rail in the di-
rection Of Mobile, and anxiety regard
Ing the situation in those places be-
came intense.
Summer Resorts Cut Off.
The gulf towns are a summer resort
for New Orleans and the members of
many families have been separated by
the storm. All day yesterday and last
night the washout on the Louisville
Il Nashville road, twenty-five miles
from here, marked the furthesr east
ern point reached by rail, telegraph or
telephone.
For hours after the hurricane =. had
passed the two-mile portion Of railroad
tracks which was submerged by the in
coming tide was exposed to the equally
dangerous outward flow of the receding
high water. Local Louisville g. Nash
vile officials today announced all trains
cancelled until further notice. s~4
Lake Is Calm. 49,. >
This morning Lake Ponchartain had
Gained and the high water fallen to
very near it's normal level The first
reports from interior Mississippi towns
Indicated that the hurricane did great
damage in its northward progress.
Vieksburg and McComb City reported
buildings injured, and Jackson and
Brockhaven reported damage Of 10 per
cent to the cotton crop.
Trees Fall with Roar.
on the first New Orleans & Northeast
ern train which came into the city late
last night. said the train was compelled
to run slow thru the storm yesterday,
with trees continually falling, some Of
them threatening to block the tracks
in their crash.
Unrcofed or demolished negro cabins
Were continually passed: Frequently
he said, flashing of the wind and crack
of trees made roar which drowned
out the train s rumble.
Reports from Monticello, Miss, say
that considerable damage was done to
pine forests near there, hundreds of
trees being uprooted. Trees had fallen
across the railroad tracks to such an
extent as practically to suspend rail
road traffic toward the east Of Monti-
cello.
Heavy Loss in Mississippi.
The brief dispatches received here in
dictate that the losses in interior towns
of Mississippi alone will reach hun:
dreds Of thousands Of dollars. No heavy
damages were reported at any one
point, but the storm appears to have
demolished few thousand dollars
town, tearing off roofs and blowing
down scores Of old frame buildings
Vicksburg reported damage to ship
ping.
Havoc on Delta.
The first news of the havoc wrought
by the hurricane on the lower Missis.
c. Ansel, pilot, who came up from,
the mouth of the river on the tug
Charles Clark.
Ansel said he saw the lower rive,
banks strewn with household furniture
Of fishermen, but that most Of these
families had escaped from the high
water by taking to their lugger-rigge6
three luggers floating down the river
but was unable to learn what became
of their occupants.
At the Mississippi river quarantine
station two houseboats used for quar-
tering Of crews of fruit steamers were
sunk. The crews were taken off il
safety.
Pensacola, Fla, Sept. 2s.-The wors
sea storm and hurricane that the gul:
coast has experienced since the villag.
of Pensacola on San Rosa island wa
swept away lO7 years ago, ragged herr
Wednesday night and thru Thursday.
It is reported that many lives be
tween the city and navy yard hav'
been lost, but as many rumors of thi
character have been current all day
the report does not obtain credence.
$3,ooo.ooo Damage.
It is known, however, that many O
those in that section are under iron
five to ten feet of water and man,
women have been taken from secon,
story windows and carried to safety il
boats.
The estimated property damage j
$3,OOO,O 900. Every house in Pensacol
has suffered damage and many roof
are blown off. Telephone and electri
light wires are among the mass TIL
water, front is strewn with wreckag
for miles on either side of the city an,
vessels are piled on the wharves, o
where the wharves once were, in ute
ruin. ~ b
Big Ships Beached.
Big iron steamers and many lighte
sailing ships are lying high and dry u
in the city where the tide had neve
before been known to reach. Ever
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