Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-01

Pensacola, Fla, Sept. 28.-The worst
set storm and hurricane the gulf coast
has experienced since the village Of
Pensacola, on San Rose Island, was
swept away 10Y years ago, was expert
enced Wednesday night and the gale
is still raging. It is reported that
many lives between the city and navy
yard have been lost, but as many
rumOrs Of this character were current
all day thu report does not obtain
credence. Tt is known, however, that
many towns In that section are unda
five to ten feet of water and many
women have been taken from second
story windows and carried to safety
in boats
The estimated property damage is
100000 Every house in Pensacola
suffered damage and many roofs were
blown off The water front is strewn
with wreckage for miles on either side
of the city and vessels are piled on
the Wharves, or where wharves once
were, in utter. ruin. Big iron steamers
and many lighter sailing ships are
lying high and dry where the tide Has
never been known to reach, Every
wharf for miles around has been
swept away or is damaged beyond re-
pair. Communication with the out
side world is practically cut off.
This dispatch, with other tele-
graphic matter was carried to Fol-
nation, Ala, by train. 1t is feared
that great havoc and loss of life will
be shown when reports from the en-
tire section along the coast can be
gathered.
Gulf Driven on Shore.
New Orleans, Sept. 28.-A tropical
hurricane has been driving the water
of the Gulf of Mexico in shore for the
past Is hours, with winds of As to
so miles an hour. Great apprehension
is felt for the safety of towns on the
gulf coast, which were cut off from
communication with New Orleans
Wednesday night.
The first meagre details to reach
the city from outlying districts told
of havoc wrought by Lake Pontchar-
train on outlying portions of New Or
leans, the lake having risen about
five feet because of the incoming
waters. All railroads and telegraph
and telephone communication is cut
off.
Hard to Get News.
New Orleans, Sept. 2S.-ATl efforts
to penetrate even the edge of the gulf
coast east and south of here were
fruitless last night Apprehension
was increased by the fact that these
places, beginning at Lake Catherine,
the fartherst point east reached thus
far, are much more exposed to the
wind and water than the larger gulf
cities which have harbors. From
Lake Catherine eastward these towns
are Bay st. Louis, Pass Christian
Mississippi City, Biloxi, Ocean
Springs, Pascagoula, Scranton
These places face the Mississippi
sound across which the wind has a
long sweep. Some of them extend
up to the very brink of the sound.
which is in places not more than six
to ten feet above the normal sea lev
ell Many of these banks are more
over of soft earth. Correspondents
of local newspapers, who left here
and distributed themselves along the
shore of Mississippi sound in antici-
patton of the storm, have not been
heard from, despite extraordinary eff
forts of their papers to reach them.
Wireless Station Abandoned.
The wireless station at the mouth
of the river was abandoned early in
the storm, the last report being that
there was about eight feet of water
over the floor of the operators room.
BY long distance telephone New Or
leans could reach only Baton Rouge
and Houston, Texas, while available
telegraph wires ran to Galveston,