The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-01
STORM VICTIMS ABOUT 126
ToTALa NUMBEE OF KNOWN
 DEATHS SEVENTEENTH.
Mobile Rapidly Assuming Normal Con- ditions Although it win he Many Months Before the Sears of t'', 's Hurricane Are Obliterated--Some Al prehensiOn for the Safety os We Small Town of GuIfport.

prehensiOn for the Safety of '4s
 Small Town of GuIfport.
 Mobile, Via Meridian. Sept. 3O.-7Al- though 1t will be many months before the scars of the great storm of Wednesday are obliterated, Mobile is rapidly assuming normal conditions and it will be only matter of get ting railroads and telegraph wires ir working order to restore business to what it was before the stosn.
 Apprehension is still felt ,iu somt quarters for the safety of GulfptSt, 9 town on the Louisville & Nashville just west of Biloxi, Miss. Men who are familiar with conditions at Gulfport predict that the damage will be main ly confined to that done by the wind.
 Manager Hughes of the Western Un- ion office in Mobile was in Gulfport Wednesday, and declared that the dam age was not heavy when he left.
  Der of deaths is seventy-five.
 The casualties yet to be reported will be isolated cases. It is known that some fishermen and boatmen who ived in the swamps, or were in the water when the storm broke were lost, but il is not believed that the total of the deaths will amount to more than 125, ;f ;yrdoa9 it ,,a.o "a oc II, f A oot,ra Of t1,n known deaths at this time, thirty-one occurred at or near Coden, twenty-one near Heron Bay, fifteen on and around Dauphin Island two at Grand Bay two at Alabamaport, and four at Del champs. Of those who were lost neaY Dauphin Island four were swept from the island and drowned and all were lost by the swamping of the small boats in which they were endeayoring to reach the island The deaths at Al a!bamaport are George Jones and John Moore, and James Culver and wife were lost at Grand Bay. The anxiety re garding the residents of Dauphin Is- land was relieved to-day when word was brought to Mobile that there had
 
 twelve lost with the British steamer King of Avon make the total casual ties there sixteen. Every building on the island has been swept away. The survivors tok refuge in trees in which | they remained until the storm wore It. self out. The four lost were Greeks Those drowned by the sinking of thC | wife, sister and three children; Mate Bleston, Halifax, N. S.; Boatswair l Twoheys, Arthur Hayes, Harley Walsl and James J. Jennings of Weymouth Eng, and Phillip Gibault of the Isle O Jersey,
 The drowning of Golden of the Wer. meth family, with the exception of on, daughter, is to-day known in detail and is one of the saddest stories of tn storm.
 Tn the Werneth house were Mir. ant Mrs. Werneth, their two daughters Mrs. Betancourt, an aged woman, ant | Calvin Williams, a young man. When it was evident that the house must b, abandoned, Mir. Werneth and Williams l pldCSu lli6 4cllIllg III d StHtAl Budl ddlN attempted to reach a nearby grove, bu the boat filled with water and sanA The elder Miss Werneth who was al accomplished swimmer and young Will Hams reached a tree, which they climb ed. The other persons in the boat wer, drowned before their eyes.
 Mrs. Werneth made desperate at tempt to reach the tree in which he daughter and young Williams hat found refuge, and was within a few fee whena huge wave engulfed her. Mir Werneth, bearing his younger daughte in his arms reached the tree, and wa about to climb it when the girl slippeD rom his grasp. She went down. Wer meth attempted to save her and way overwhelmed him. He was drowned a the root of the tree in which his daugh ter had taken refuge. The young won an became crazed as her father sanl and endeavored to reach the tree, bu
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