Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

ualties so far a. known.
Damage Along Mississippi sound.
NEW ORLEANS. sept.N 2.-six persons
dorwned. eight good-sized sailing vessels
wrecked. about thirty smaller vessels sunk
or ashore and property damage Of more
than q, 100000 was the result OF the hurri-
cane in the Mississippi sound. The full
extent of the disaster there became known
todpay when Ship island. Cat and Horn
islands were heard from. They had been
completely submerged. according to the re-
ports of tugs sent out from the mainland
TO the islands 60 investigate.
All the loss OF life and the greater part
Of the wreckage occurred at thke eastern
end OF the sound. about fifty miles away
from Mobile The worst catastrophe was
at Horn island. where Light Keeper John
son. with his wife and daughter were
swept into the gulf with their lighthouse
and drowned. One negro was drowned
when the schooner Daisy of New Orleans
went ashore on Horn island. During the
storm two bodies were seen floating in
Pascagoula bay. but were not recovered.
Paseagoula lighthouse was partly demol-
ished. The assistant keeper. CASTOR
Pertevant saved his wife and two chill
dren at the height of the storm by lower
ing them into a launch with ropes. He
then climbed safely into the launch him
self The head keeper was rescued in
the open bay. where he was drifting in a
small boat without oars.
The federal quarantine station at Ship
Island was badly crippled. the isolation
ship and DR. MOncrue's residence being
the only buildings on the island to escape
damage
Three men were in the Klondike building
on Ship Island, which was demolished and
they were swept out to sea. The shift
In the wind came when they were a half
mile of shore and swept them back safely
to land. The bark Baumen with charge
OF Number and the Norwegian bark Anna,
with $4,000 worth OF lumber. were blown
upon Horn Island and left lying on the
beach. Their crews were saved by tug
boats which put out from the mainland.
On Ship Island four vessels were wrecked,
the ship Hercules and barks Nuemburs,
Magdalena and Sagda. report from
Meridian, Miss, today, says that Biloxi,
one OF the towns on the sound was reported
destroyed. New Orleans has had COMMUNE
cation by rail with Biloxi all day and
no serious damage was done there. outside
OF shipping destroyed the main property
loss TO the sound cities occurred about
Pensacola. Fifteen lumber mills located
there reported many of their buildings and
machinery RACED to the ground Large
quantities of pine timber virtually were
destroyed
Attempts by the Louisville & Nashville
road to run wires were without success
Western Union. Cumberland Telephone and
Postal Telegraph wires all went down at
this point
Hourly the accounts of the magnitude Of
Thursdays storm in Mississippi became
more serious today, as the interrupted
Geographic communication with that state
was resumed in every direction. Town after
town in the interior wired here that build
ings had been blown down, lives endangered
and crops blown fiat in the fields.
wrecks Along Coast.
NEW ORLEANS. Sep-. - Hourly the
accounts OF the magnitude of Thursdays
storm In Mississippi became more serious
today, as the interrupted telegraphic COM
munication with that state was resumed in
every direction. Town after town in the
interior wired here that buildings had been
blown down. lives endangered and crops
blown fiat in the fields. -
simultaneously there arrived an enumer-
alton of an almost unbrokn line of wreck
age of shipping on the gulf coast in the
direction of Mobile. However. all reports
OF this situation ended abruptly at a point
about fifty miles west OF Mobile In ad-
dition to the shipping washed ashore or
the mainland. first reports came in today
OF vessels wrecked or stranded on the
chain of islands out in the gulf which form
the Mississippi sound.
The little news which arrived from the
Mississippi river delta added to the prop
erty damage reported there. but, although
the lower end of the delta had been sub
although steamers coming UP the river re-
ported that they passed floating household
goods. no loss OF life was reported. 1t
may be several days before the details are !
learned about the fishing and oyster coun-
try in the low delta lands. which are
isolated even from quarantine and Pilot
town, the only places on the lower river
having telegraphic communications with
this city.
Fort -. Philip Damaged
2 Damages of $4,000 at Fort st. Philip, To-
Gated about sixty miles below here on the
Mississippi river. were reported today by
steamers. A portion of the levee, |
erected to protect the fort against Just
such tides. IL reported to have broken and
allowed the magazines to food. New quar-
ters under process of erection were also
reported swept away.
Many OF the Mississippi reports express |
apprehension about the rural negro popula- |
ton, saying their little cabins have been
blown down by scores. All reports thus
far received agree that damage to the cot
ton crop will be the most serious result Of |
the storm in Mississippi These reports |
are by no means comprehensive, but they |
are well scattered and they agree upon %
to % per cent estimate OF the loss.
on the Mississippi gulf coast. in addi-
tion to the twenty-five small schooners
reported wrecked last night Ship and Cat
islands, in Mississippi sound, have nve
wrecked barks on their shores. There Is
doubt about the names Of these wrecks,
which were imperfectly made out. The in
formation was brought to New Orleans by
launch via Lake Pontchartrain. The banks
Numbers and Hercules are reported as
total wrecks. The Norwegian bark Man
dellna Tor Mandalay) is full Of water and
a Norwegian bark, name made out as
Sgrav was partly dismantied. An Amer
lean bark. name given as Florine, was
ashore and pounding to pieces.
storm Cuts Levee.
In the Mississippi river delta the damage
to Fort 81. Philip was reported by two
pilots. who made a trip up the river i'm