The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-10-04
GULF COASTS Loss
Death and Destruction In Trail
of Southern States Most
Disastrous Storm.
MOBILE AND PENSACOLA HIT

wv 0tGE F1thO EHSftOO 49, -
Alabama and Florida Cities Greatest
Sufferers by Hurricane = Child Sees
Parents snd Sister Die In Flood.
Loss to Lumber interests Estimated
at sto,ooo,ooo.
New Orleans, Oct "Details Of the
great hurricane which swept over the
gulf states show il TO have been, in
point OF territory affected, property
damaged and lives lost, probably the
most disastrous the southern section
of the country has ever experienced.
Later reports will, it is feared, add
to the loss of life, for telegraphfc com
munication is only partially restored,
and hundreds of outlying towns in the
storms path have not been heard from
At Mobile the property loss is plac-
ed at 100000. Damage to shipping
cannot be estimated, but many ships
are high and dry and may never reach
water again No lives have been lost
in Mobile.
Thirty-three persons were drowned
at Pensacola, the property damage IS
100000, and scores of vessels were
wrecked.
At the Pensacola navy yard many OF
the warships berthed there were beach
ed or sunk The Santa Rosa hospital
was swept away. The patients went
with the building and wene lost.
Fort Morgan Wrecked.
Fort Morgan, In Mobile harbor, is
complete wreck, the loss there reach
ing 100000.
Thirty eight vessels are known to be
ashore in the Mississippi delta. Six
lives were lost below this port, and
damage in the lower Louisiana planta-
lions will reach $1,0O00O0. Fort st.
Philip sustained $4,000 damage.
Four bodies not before counted have
been found at Coden, Ala, and it is
estimated that twenty-three lives have
been lost from the oyster feet around
Cedar point, near Mobile. This last
estimate includes among the dead ev-
cry man aboard fishing boat which
has not been heard Of since the storm.
Family Lost In Flood.
The drowning at Coden of the Wer-
meth family with the exception of one
daughter is one of the saddest tales
Of the storm.
In the Werneth house were Mr.. and
Mrs. Werneth, their two daughters,
Mrs. Betancourt, an aged woman, and
Calvin Williams, a young man. When
it was evident that the house must be
abandoned Mr.. Werneth and Williams
placed the family In a small boat and
attempted to reach nearby grove. but
the boat filed with water and sank.
The elder Miss Werneth, who was an
accomplished swimmer, and young
williams reached a tree, which they
climbed The other persons in the
boat were drowned before their eyes.
Mrs Werneth made a desperate at
tempt to reach the tree In which her
daughter and young Williams had
found refuge and was within few
feet of them when. huge wave en-
quilted her Mr. Werneth, bearing his
younger daughter In his arms, reached
the tree and was about to climb it
when the girl slipped from his grasp
and went down. Werneth attempted
to save her, and wave overwhelmed
him. He was drowned at the foot of
the tree in which Williams and his
daughter had taken refuge. The young
woman became crazed as her father
sank. and endeavored to leap from the
tree, but was restrained by Williams
The two remained in the tree until the
storm subsidized
1t is now believed that the loss to the
lumber interests alone by the storm
will aggregate S10oOO,00O. Tens OF
thousands of trees of the finest quail
ty have been blown down. The mum
Der of logs that have been carried out
to sea or driven into inaccessible
swamps is enormous. Dealers in tur-
pentine are very gloomy over the out
look.