The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-01
GULF QTY'S DEATH LIST
PASSES ONE HUNDRED MARK
New orleans responded to the cry of

distress.
e. D. Burrows. assistant secretary
Of the progressive union Of that city
reached Mobile last night from the
reported that $4,000 had been raised
for the sufferers. When he heard OF
the restitution of the people on the
Gulf he sent a message to New Orleans
ordering a carload of clothing and pro-
visions. Secretary Burrows left early
this morning on tugfor the coast and
the outlying islands.
The greatest property damage suffer-
ed by Mobile was that along the bay
front Here the destruction is astound-
ing. Piled high against the wharves
and shore are steamboats,. tugs, scows,
schooners. driftwood and the Jetsam OF
the bay al lcost up by the violence or
the hurricane.
At the Mobile and Ohio banana wharf
at the foot Of government street. the
pierhas been pushed tn and crumpled
TALLY blown Off and the machinery used
in unloading bananas damaged.
From the M. and o. wharf north
ward. every wharf Is more or less dam
aged. Platforms are torn loose and
1oated bodily to the Shore Boards
broken from their places, leaving
great ragged holes, lighter driftwood
stumps and logs everywhere dropped
by the receding flood.
Steamer Mary Kindling Wood.
The most appalling scene. however
Is near the wreck of the steamer Mary
which was blown ashore and grounded
after colliding with the steamer Nettie
Quill. The latter is comparatively un-
injured but the N-ry is huge mass
of kindling wood with keel high on
land and upper decks lying in the wa
ter with everything above decks broken
smashed and shattered, its destruction
is complete.
A block above 1t is the shuler. also
high and dry with its upper portion
also demolished.
Between the two boats Is every man
ner of craft and wreckage from the
size of ones hand to the largest
steamers Farther up the river the
docks used by the M. and o. and the
Southern Railway are also badly dam
aged, while the Eslava Street slip Is
piled high. mass of kindling wood.
steamer hulks and wreckage. The tug
Overton is sunken and other tugs arc
closed in by boats which have blown
against them.
Two miles above the city the yacht
Mineola is beached. having been moved
position across its tracks. At another
point boat whose name has been torn
from the bow. was blown clear across
the tracks and Is lying stranded in
the marsh.
Can't Estimate Destruction.
The destruction to the shipping has
been so enormous that it can't be es-
timated.
1t Is a startling fact. and an evidence
of the force of the hurricane. that prac-
tically all the damage on the bay front
was brought about in thirty minutes.
Down town today the merchants of
the flooded districts are busily engaged
in the efforts to dry their stock. From
every open door comes the stale odor
of wet and ruined stock.
Under the direction Of Mayor Pat ].
Lyons. Colonel A. s. Lyons and DIR.
Rhett Goode President of the Board of
Health. every precaution Is being ia
ken to prevent any danger of conta-
gion.
A statement from DIR. Goode today
said he anticipated small danger of an
epidemic OF disease from the storm
The sewerage In the residence district
was not damaged by the flood and
down town section Is rapidly being
cleared of debris and dreaded matter.
Late reports of the disaster wrought
by the storm Of Wednesday and Thurs
day on the gulf coast indicate that the
loss of life in this section has been
without precedent and far beyond what
until now. had been estimated
New Stories of Terror.
Scarcely an hour that some one
reaches Mobile and each brings with
him a story of terror and misery almost
unbelievable. 1t is true that some of
the tales received cannot be given full
credence, but there is enough of real
truth to make plain that an alarming
situation exists there, one which needs
immediate attention.
Men and women and children home
less. without clothing and almost with
Bayou la Batre, Heron Bay. Point
Clear. Dauphin Island. and other points
in such numbers that one is appalled,.
So rapidly are these stories coming
in that one hardly has time to sched-
ule the last before the next report comes
IN One things is certain The loss OF
. life at Coden and Bayou la Batre and
vicinity has been enormous. In the
neighborhood of fifty people have been
ascertained to have been killed there
and the village has been practically
destroyed.
Nearly all the houses have been de-
molishcd and those few which withstood
tn fury Of the storm have been rem
dared practically uninhabitable.
Homes Completely Demolished.
| have been told that not a single
home fronting on the gulf Tor dls-
lance of forty miles west OF Cod"n Is
left standing Accurate estimates as
to the number OF dead al an co"''
towns are impo, Sible, as telegraphlc
COMMUNICATIONS south of here has been
comnIetely cut OF and the passengers
,vbo have come b,rc by train bring
no decisive figures with the tales O.
death and destruction come also many