Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-10-05

QE3Q near mobile anu L or AtDA gan. Sc
enty. Ii is sald that not one soldier
escaped from the fort. Beloxi is also
reported destroyed.
MERIDIAN, Miss, Sept. 29.-The re-
pert that Coden, Ala, Alabamaport,
Ala, and bayou La Batre have
been wiped on the may. and that
but one house, the Julius home,
is LETT standing at Coden, is con
fr1Aed. Among the dead are some OF
tile most pro.u4ne4t peop-e oil the coast,
including the wlte ana youngest daugh-
ter ot State Senator >. Mchue OF WASH
ingtou county; Maj. ID. j. Stevens, Oayer
" vrnetn, VINE dad youngest daughter,
anu ii. u. j ufner, ieaulus iunUeIlla
Ihe entire west ShUIe, Ue4OW mODde,
is reporeed completely devastated
4Weuty-uye bodies nave UeGn recovered,
anu tHlrJY more were Reported pefIsneu
Many UodIes OF negroes are !nc4uued III
tAis report, ANA the survlYCrS Oh The race
are terror SLrtcheu and heIpigSS. iHe
whites are reported as HAVING heaYny
armed themselves.
MOBILE. Ala. Sept. 29.-With Pen
sacoia reporting twenty-five dead late to-
day Wien wlre connections were re-ea-
taDiiSned, tile total destruction by the
tie storm Il AT ragged over the southern
slate can he conservatYeiy stated as
fouuWs:
Llves Lost-125 or more.
Property l-oSS-Oyer S1o000,0 600.
teusacols Has 1900 homeless.
Mobile lost no lives. The loss i'll prop
erly p4, JJJ,uoU L0OIerS loi4oweu al
the make Oh Lne HURRICANE and nI.een
extra Policemen are Oh guard ut ZEN
tor ,..a.AIA
made 10 ass.st the poor uhd everything
possible Is beng uoae To reileVe the
IVvJ noneIesS tuaL city.
Ine ,oaAta e>psd uuarantIne station
across the bay from tnere has been
al44.u-4s uvu. AHerS nert e.snt aea.4eA
III The hospital lr0m IL Dril4Sn Sttainer.
lhe hospital Dulluing WAS Carried away,
the e,@ht n.en cIng.ns To tile rool.
Only lour bodies have ueen recovered,
those OF AIRS. i-rtnLice, George AAUrgan
and uausnter and george GOn4a4ee.
Searching parties are Lear4Ag away the
depr4S Stre"n along the Beach aud al
thoagn several BODIES have USen seen,
the recK"rS have Us yet been unable "
reach them.
t.vc wire washed up on this side aft
cr night OF terror on the bay aud the
other three We're drowned with two
nurses The United States Quarantine
Station has been destroyed.
places. Birmingham, Ala, has had 6.GJ
inches OF ram and the wind there
reached fifty miles an hour. Ihe city
is stlIl flooded.
Noble Resumes Business.
Business was partially resumed in Mo-
bile today. The authorities are clearing
the streets of the debris as rapidly as
possible. The street cars are expected
to resume service by Sunday night.
George X. Warner of ST. Louis,
treasurer OF the St Louis Southwestern
railway, said today:
The storm is not as Dad as in 1898,
according to my opinion. | went through
both storms. The storm Thursday was
q freak storm. the wind coming from
the southeast and sweeping over the
city. DONG great damage 10 the wharves.
harbor and naval stores on the water
front. Roofs were torn from houses
and windows blown out but the total
will be small. know of only three
deaths aud they were negroes.
Dead Exaggerated; Loss Isn't,
'"There was no tidal wave; the wind
simply forced the water from the gulf
into the city. The accounts of the loss
of lie and property have been eXagger-
sted.
The damage alone to the cotton crop
will be several millions of dollars aside
from the sugar cane aud corn crop. All
alc-,g the line to Cornith effects of the
storm could be seen in the destruction of
cotton and corn
Only four houses are left standing at
Aiahamaport, Ala, while Coden, anoth-
err coast resort, has been alnlost wiped
out. Trainmaster Bowen of the Bay
Shore railroad. who has reached Mobile
from q trip along that line, said that if
the missing persons did not turn up the
number of deaths along the bay shore
road alone would be fifty, he said that
fifteen dead bodies had been recovered.
Additional details of the loss at Pensa-
cola say that Fort Perk ms. one of the
modern forts. has been badly damaged.
The Fifteenth company of artillery, sta
toned there. deserted the barracks and
post with Their families and sought the
batteries. climbing to the highest point
and flashing themselves to the guns and
projecting pieces.
Fort McCrea, on the point opposite
Fort Perkins. has been wiped out al
most completely.
Awful Marine Destruction.
The United States naval station. nine
miles from the city. has been greatly
damaged. lives lest and naval veSse. s
sunk. The Gloucester is inshore 90
yards. the Wasp Stranded, the Isle de
i.uzon complete wreck, as we'll as the
tug Accomac and a number Of small
launches and tug boats.
Nineteen fore gn vessels are on the
beach. twenty-five tugs are either
wrecked or on the beach. and fishing
vessels lost WI number twenty-five or
more. The list of lunches. pleasure
craft and others will number nearly
100
No accurate estimate of the number Of
the casualties can be made as yet. and it
is doubtful if it will be known for q
week or more.
The storm. which was first noticed by
tue weather bureau when between ia
maica and Cuba. made its appearance i'll
the neighborhood Ct Mobile on Tuesday
afternoon when ftful winds began to
blow and the barometer commenced to
fall. The wind rose steadily, all through
Wednesday and between = o'clock and &
i'll the afternoon of that day blew with
n velocity of forty-eight miles All hour
All through Wednesday night II rose
steadily and n 30 on Thursday morn
ing was blowing from the easterly quar-
ter ut the rate of ffty-five miles. the
barometer falling to 2S.S6. \ few min
uteS after O'Clock on Thursday morn
ing the wind died and the barometer
commenced 10 rise The total rainfall
in Mobile during the storm was G.5S
Inches.
Waves Cover the Wharves
While the storm was At its height the