The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-30

but adds to the horror of the situation. Tidal waves are reported as having been swept far to the interior, wrecking many of the smaller saw mill plants and doing untold damage to timber properties sf well as lumber stored for shipment The loss of life in the interior is expected to reach an alarming total, and many fishermen and occupants of smaller craft are believed to have been lost
 Magnificent Wharfage Wrecked.
 The magnificent wharfage, extending from Frasceti, where the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad had its mag nifcent terminals and general. offices along the front of the city proper, and as high as Three Mile creek, has been com pletely wrecked, and the damage there alone will reach an enormous sum. Those docks destroyed embrace the splendid new Southern and Mobile and Ohio docks above the city; the Munson line docks, and the Louisville and Nashville docks Every river steamer caught at the wharf was either sunk or badly wrecked and the revenue cutter Alert 1t Is believed is
 total loss, having been rammed by ar
 unknown vessel while preparing for run to safety. Her crew has not been account
 ed for.
 The little town of Whistler suffered immense damage. the fine trees being
 destroyed and about fifty families rem dered homeless. Dozens of them lost
 their furniture and household goods, as
 well as clothing and provisions, but
 are being cared for by the more for
 tunate ones in the place. The im-
 mense general shops of the Mobile and
 Ohio railroad, located there, were com pletely wrecked, many of the large working sheds being blown down. No fatalities have been reported but a number of people, mostly negroes, were more or less slightly injured. Com
 munication with Mobile was entirely
 cut off, an informant having made the
 trip from the city of Mobile to Whist Ter on foot, wading through water
 waist high at places, and being com pelled to swim in two instances where he either missed the foot bridges or
 they had been swept away.
 Residence District Damaged. The residence district of Mobile Is
 badly damaged, although no fatalities
 nor serious injured occurred there. Out
 the entire distance of Government street, the swell thoroughfare of the city, wreckage abounds, the magnif- cent trees, the pride of all Mobile, be- ing ruined. Extending north and south of Government street the same scenes
 of wreckage are reported. Not house in the city escaped some kind of dam ! age, but the vast majority of them
 
 window blinds or glass windows. Many porches were blown away. and the magnificent trees, many of them known to have been over century old, have
 been completely destroyed.
 Spring Hill avenue. one of the most notable thoroughfares of the city, and the Old Shell Road, branching off at Ann street, were strewn with the
 wreckage of the magnificent trees All
 the county roads are reported blocked
 with fallen trees, and it will be many days before the full details of the dis aster will be known from the rural districts. All along the Bay shore, 1t Is stated. white men have armed them- selves heavily for the purpose of pro-
 tecting the exposed salvage and to drive the negroes to work in the res cue parties. Negroes huddle together, terrified, and refuse to lend helping hand The whites are determined to
 see that the negroes are protected and fed but insist on them doing their share toward assisting in the rescue work of both people and property. Trains Arrive From Montgomery. | Montgomery, September 29.-(Special.)- l The Louisville and Nashville has It's tracks and wire to Pensacola tonight and ia
 working to Flomaton. The trouble above | Calera has been abated and service to ! the north has been resumed.
 1 In Touch With Mobile. | Atlanta September 29.-The Western | Union Telegraph company succeeded in
 establishing communication with Mobile
 late tonight and expects to have several wires working by morning.
 No Lives Lost at Gulf Port. 1 Meridian, Miss, September 29.-The , Great Northern hotel at Gulfport Is not l damaged. is the statement of J. K. Dunn. 1 a St. Louis travelling man who left there ! yesterday and reached here this evening. | He says no lives were lost at that point, {. but the property damage will run in tho | millions, the Gulf and Ship Island being