River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-10-04
STORM DEATH LEVY
MAY REGISTER lO2.
KNOWN DEAD NUMBER SEVENTY
TWO PERSONS.
DOUBT AS TO ESTIMATE
Larger Figure Includes Those Missing
From Crews of Oyster Boats,
Many of Which Have Put
into Port

Washington.-The weather bureau
announced that another tropical dis
turbance' is reported as approaching
the Yucatan channel from the east.
but that there is no information avail
able as to its intensity. This second
storm was reported to the bureau by
the Belen College of Jesuits at Ha-
vana, the same source from which the
warning OF the recent gulf hurricane
first emanated, which has a number of
weather stations. While the bureau
officials decline to hazard prediction
as to the severity of the second storm.
it is pointed out that the remnant of
last weeks storms being now crowded
southwark in the middle gulf coast,
may serve as check upon the storm.
Fear at Mobile.
Mobile, Ala.-Considerable dis
quietude was occasioned here when
the announcement was made by the
weather bureau that a second storm
was present in the Yucatan channel.
Mobile is recovering rapidly from
fairs are beginning to assume nor
NAL aspect, and business will he con-
Quoted as before, as soon as regular
traffic is opened by the railroads. The
Southern and Mobile & Ohio are run
ming trains, but the Louisville a.
Nashville is still unable to maintain
a schedule. The streets are being
cleared of wreckage and street cars
are running for the first time since
Wednesday.
Death List Increases.
The number of deaths as the result
of the storm is increasing as returns
come in from places heretofore mac
cessible. The known dead number 20,
with possibility of 102. -Four bodies
not before counted have been found at
Coden, and it is estimated that 2%
lives have been lost from the oyster
fleet around Cedar Point. This last
estimate is not known TO be accurate
and is probably somewhat eXaggerat
ed for the reason that it includes
among the dead every man aboard a
fishing boat who has not been heard
of since the storm 1t is known some
of the boats on which these men were
have been driven ashore and 1t is en-
tirely possible some of the crews man
aged to reach the shore.
Great Loss at PascagouIa.
The situation along the coast to
the west of this city is now fairly
we'll known. At Scranton, Miss, sew
eral buildings were blown down. AT
Pascagoula Beach not residence is
left standing. The revenue cutter
Winona, for which much fear was en-
tertained is now known to be safe.
The loss to the lumber interests
alone by the storm will aggregate
100000. Tens of thousands OF
trees of the finest quality have been
blown down, and the number of logs
that have been carried out to sea or
driven into inaccessible swamps is
enormous. The great majority OF
trees that had been weakened by be
ing tapped for turpentine were leveled
and dealers in turpentine are gloomy
over the outlook.
Huge Section inundated.
New Orleans-Reports received
from the Mississippi river delta show
that hundreds Of square miles OF land
were under Is inches to four feet OF
water during the recent hurricane.
The inundated tract begins so to 10
miles below New Orleans and is
mostly inhabited by fishermen and
oystermen. Messages from these vii
lagos said that up to that time sew
eral persons were still missing.
) Gale at Hongkong.
London-A dispatch to the Daily
Mail from Hongkong says:
THE observatory signals gave
warming of an approaching typhoon
Friday afternoon, and by midnight a
terrific storm was raging. The violent
gale was accompanied by phenome-
nal rainfall and was still blowing Sat
urday afternoon. The devastation Of
the typhoon of the 18th has been com
pleted. The entire water front is
again heaped with wreckage."
Large quantities of cane were up.
rooted in the marshes near the coast.
This cane collected in great masses
on the water and party Of eight fish
ermen near Buras, who were being
driven helpless in dismasted and
oarless boat, report that they ran into
a mass of cane, upon which scores OF
semi-amphibious and few small land
had taken refuge. The cane
was packed so closely as to stop the
passing of the boat, and thereby saved
the fishermen from what appeared to
be certain death.