The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-09-29
MISSISSIPPI STORM.
Reports of Damage Wrought Growing
Much Worse.

Reports of Damage Wrought Growing
Much Worse.
st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 29.-Tne first
train over the Mobile and Ohio from
Mobile arrived this morning, having
left Mobile yesterday morning. Geo
K. Warner, of St. Louis, treasurer OF
the Southwestern Ry. Co., and his
family Were passengers from Mobile
"The storm was not so bad as the
one in 1893, according 20 my opinion
I went through both,' said Mr.. War.
straight wind coming from the south,
east and sweeping over the city do
ing great damage to tc harbor and
naval stores On The water front /
think the damage will reach rel
two million dollars"
c. S. Clayton, a Pullman conductor
on the train, made the following state
ment: the damage to Mobile cannot
be told yet. When the train pulled out
of Mobile yesterday morning the wa
ter was sweeping into the city from
the Gulf and the wind blowing hare
For four blocks north of the water
front, water stood from Our to six
feet deep in buildings and the danger
of collapse was great. | am sure the
loss of life has been exaggerated. |
understand that one white man was
drowned on the first floor of the Sou
them Hotel while trying to escape
from the building. Three negroes
were drowned in the outskirts while
trying to save live stock. A negro
baby was killed by falling debris. 1t
was also reported that ten or fifteen
people lost their lives by the wreck
ing of boats on the bay The pier OF
the Mobile and Ohio road was blown
to pieces. Bienville park is a mass
of fallen trees. The force Of the hur-
ricane unroofed houses over h CT
ty and uprooted trees, and all the
while rain poured down in torrents.
For a hundred miles north Of Mobile
the storm did mucn damage. The
train a %several passengers that a
been in the hurricane at Montgomery,
and they say the damage there was
very large"
Reports Grow Worse.
New Orleans, Sept. 29.-Damage of
| ten thousand dollars at Tort ST. Phil
ip, located about sixty miles below
here on the Mississippi, was report
ed today by an incoming steamer. A
portion of the levee erected to pro-
tect the fort against just such tides,
is reported broken, and allowed the
magazines to flood. New quarters I'M
der process of erection are also re-
ported swept awsS
Hourly the magnitude of Thursdays
storm in Mississippi becomes more
serious as the interrupted telegraph
ic communication is resumed. Town
| after town in the interior wired that
buildings were blown down, lives en-
ldangered and crops blown fiat in the
| fields. The little new which arrived
from the Mississippi delta added to
the property damage reported there
~ 1900 low n Cn &c ronnrf-
ed there was no loss of life down
there.
Reports from Hattiesburg were that
the town had suffered 100000 dam
age from wind and water. The fire
| department was called out in the WI
cinity of Gordon creek to rescue the
women and children imprisoned in
their homes by the overflow OF the
creek.
Many Mississippi reports express
apprehension about the rural negro
population, saying the little cabins
have been blown down by scores. On
the Mississippi Gull coast 25 small
~schooners were reported wrecked last
night.
Reports of the death of Capt. John
son. keeper of the Horn Island light
house in Mississippi Sound, and the
death of his wife and daughter We're
brought here today by the first train
into New Orleans from the east over
the L.. & N. road. The Horn Island
light house was swept into the sea
by the wind and
Pensacola, Fla, Sept. 29.-The vast
ness of the destruction wrought by
the hurricane Thursday morning is
now being realized. Twenty-fv per
sons are known to ave been drown
ed. ONLY four bodies have been re-
| covered and the searching parties are
now trying to reach others. Calls for
| charity nave been made to assist the
poor, and everything possible to re-
| lieve the two thousand homeless has
been done
Washington, D. c., Sept. 29.-The
following telegram was received at
the Navy Department to-day from the
Pensacola Navy Yard, detailing the
damage suffered by h government
in the recent storm:
" wo~ien dry C was destroyed
and the coal pen is almost gone. The
permanent wharf was destroyed, only
the piles left standing on the old coal
wharf. and the steel dry dock wharf
and ammunition wharf were damag-
I'd. There is a barge ashore, the
Undine sunk. The target range is
| broken up. and the target range de-
stroyed. The Luzon is floating in a
basin, but leaking. The steel dry
dock is APPARENTLY unchanged. There
is neavy wreckage in the yards. with
trees uprooted. The wireless masts
are gone and all electric wires are
wrecked. The power plant is damag-
ed and not working. The buildings
generally were damaged by the high
wind. One house uninhabitable. NO
lives were lost in the navy yards