The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
DOZEN LIVES MAY
 HAVE BEEN LOST Distress Reported from MlSsiS-
 Sippi Delta COUNTRY IS INUNDATED Great Damage Was Done Cotton Crop by Hurricane, Which Swept
 Gulf coast-pogs Do
 Rescue Work.
COUNTRY IS INUNDATED

New Orleans September 0.-Reports that probably dozen lives were lost and that hundreds of square miles of land were under eighteen inches to four feet of water during the hurricane on the Mississippi river delta were brought here today The inundated territory begins fifty to seventy miles below New Orleans and is mostly inhabited by fishermen and oystermen Messages which left these will lages last night said that up to that time several personsNwe still missing.
 The tug R. c. Veits which was tied up during the hurricane about seventy-five miles down the river took aboard eigh- teeu refugees during the night. Eearly In the night seven women and two men were seen near the tug nealy up to their armpits in water which was running in- land from the gulf with sufficient force to cause them to dodge from tree to tree to avoid losing their footing. These refu- gees told of other families which had not dared to leave their homes and mem bers of the tugs crew were sent to the rescue. At one house they found on three mattresses piled on a bed two children placed there to keep them above the water which had already risen to the second mattress.
 Large quantities of cane were uprooted in the marshes near the coast This cane collected in great masses on the water, and party of eight fishermen near Buras, who were being driven helpless in dismantled and oarsless boat, report that they ran into a mass of cane upon which scores of small semi-amphibious and few small land animals had taken refuge. The cane was packed so closely as to stop the progress of the boat, and 1t thereby saved the fishermen from what appeared to be certain death.
 Their boat had been driven in the wind directly for the gulf, which was then about half a mile distant.
 Hospital Damaged.
 Seven lugger boats have been left lying a mile inland from the gulf.
 Reports today from the Mississippi Sound island, which were lnundated( say that the loss to the United States marine hospital quarantine station on Ship 1s- land is about $60000. The fumigating
 
 upon Petit Bois I-land, still retaining most of the original structure Of the eight sailing vessels wrecked on the is- lands it Is reported that half of them can probably be repaired and refoated.
 At Mississippi City. one of the sound ports, search is being made for the schooner Lady Louise. which was caught out in the storm with several fishermen aboard.
 Reports of damage to the cotton crop in interior Mississippi towns still place the estimates as high as those made the first day after the storm
 Gloste:, Newton and the Mississippi town dispatches say the farmers in the vicinity all over the southern portion of the state, claim the damage was not to the plant d. rectly, but consisted in blowing the cot ton out of the bolls as the plants beat against each other.
 Cotton was almost ready for picking before the storm and in some localities the picking had actually begun.
 Mississippi towns also continue to re- port serious damage to pine forests. dispatch from McLain today says that in a forty-acre tract of timber land belong ing to a northern syndicate. only half dozen trees were left standing. Reports of damage to turpentine preserves for forty miles about Scranton, Miss. were also received.