The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-09-28
STORM SWEEPS
THE GULF
New Orleans, Pensacola and
Louisville Suffer.
WORST IN A CENTURY
Properly Damage at Pensacola
$4,000, O0O-AlmOst Every
House Down.
WORST IN A CENTURY

WASlllNGION, sept. IA spcclNl
dispatch from Louisville, Ky, snys
that the tropical hurricane which has
been churnlng the waters Of the gulf
OF Mexico and doing much damage on
the coast aud fur inland Is whipping
through north Alabama In a north
easterly direction az velocity but
slightly less than the forty-elght miles
an hour recorded In New Orleans
The loss OF life IL small. but the
damage to property Is enormous. All
wire communication is seriously dis
arranged and In some Instances has
resulted In cutting on cities complete
~. Mobile, Ala. not having been heard
from for nearly twentyfour hours
Numerous washouts have occurred. the
interruption from this cause In one
case extending thirty miles.
Pensacola. where the maximum We
locity OF wind was probably felt re-
ports a property loss OF S3OOO.WO.
II was the worst sea storm and hur
rcane that the gulf coast has expert
enced since the village Of Pensacola.
on San Rosa island. was swept away
100 years ago. II Is reported that
many lives between the city and navy
yard have been lost
Many streets are under from five 10
ten feet Of water. and many women
have been taken from second story
windows and carried 10 safety IN
boats.
Every house In Pensacola has suffer
ed damage. and many roofs are blown
on Telephone and telegraph and cleo
trio Hight wires are among the mass
The water front Il strewn with wreck
age for miles on either side of the city
and vessels are piled on the wharfs or
where the wharfs once We're In utter
ruin.
Big iron steamers and many lighter
sailing ships are lying high and dry
up In the city. where the tide has new
er before known TO reach. Everywhere
wharfs for miles around have been
swept away or are damaged beyond
repair. The electric power was shut
on at o'clock I'm the morning. There
Is no street car traffic. and communica
ton with the outside world is prac.
tlcally cut OF The streets OF Pensa.
cola are strewn with timbcrs, tin roof
ing and broken glass.
New Orleans furnished numerous
wild rumors. but later reports from
f,l q. LOO
considerable damage 10 property there
has been no loss of life Wires be
tween New Orleans and the gulf are
down, and 1t may be several days be
fore anything can be heard from the
territory between the Crescent City
and the gulf or from the shipping
which is riding out the storm in the
open gulf. Biloxi, Miss; Mississippi
City and Moss Point, Miss, have not
been heard from for nearly twenty
four hours, Moss Point reporting the
water five feet deep In the streets.
The damage to railroads Is heavy
Reports TO the officials of the Louis
Vile and Nashville road from the su.
perintendent Of the Mobile and Mont.
gomery divisions indicated that the
losses approximate $1,0O0,0O0 The
tracks between Flomaton, Ala, and
Pensacola, Fla. are INSTRUCTED and In
some places are badly torn up by fall
ing trees. The section between Geor-
gian and Gracevllle, Fla, has suffered
similarly.
At Pensacola the Louisville and
Nashville grain elevator has been de
stroyed, and the trackage to Escambia
Bay is ruined. The railroad wharf at
Pensacola is reported total loss, and
thirty-nine carloads of coal were wash
ed into the bay. Further reports in
dicate that the roadbed between Bay
Minette, Ala, and Mobile, a distance
of thirty miles, has been washed away,
The Louisville and Nashville also
suffered several washouts near New
Orleans, and no trains are being run
over certain sections. The New Or
leans and Northeastern reports its
tracks under water at several places
in the vicinity of New Orleans. No
word has come from any other rail
roads having terminals at Mobile.
Great apprehension is felt for the
safety of towns on the gulf coast.
which are cut off from communication
with New Orleans.
Great havoc was wrought by the in
coming waters of Lake Ponchartrain
on the outlying portions of New Or
leans, the lake having risen aAout five
feet.
The storm Is heading northeastward
through Tennessee and Kentucky into
the Ohio valley.