Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-02
MANY ARE KILLED IN THE vlcIN
iTY OF MOBILE, PENSACOLA
AND NEW ORLEANS
BOATS LOST AND SUNK
Communication With Many Places Re-
mains Broken-Reports of Damage
Are Still Incomplete-NearIy Every
Building in Mobile suffers-Govern.
r,nent Has Heavy Loss at Forts.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
Mobile, Via Meridian, Sept. 29.-Busi-
ness was partially resumed at Mobile
Today. The city authorities are clear
Ing the streets Of debris as rapidly as
possible. The Postal and Western
Union Telegraph companies are still
out of business, their Wires being down
IN every direction. At ,Coden, Ala, on
" one house is left in the little town.
Mobile, Sept. 29-While there is no
loss of life in Mobile as consequence
Of the great storm, reports from a
lew outlying towns show four dead at
Navy Cove, twenty at Codan. two at
Bayou, La Batrue, and twelve at Car
raway. The damage in the city Of
Mobile has been enormous. Nearly
every building in the city has been
damaged to some extent. The loss 20
shipping interests is very heavy. The
revenue cutter Alert being among The
ships sunk. Every government build
Ing at Fort Morgan, at the entrance of
Mobile bay is seriously damaged.
The heaviest loss will fall on the
merchants along the water front, who,
although warned of the coming storm
by the weather bureau made no effor:
to remove goods. The damage to the
docks along the river front will
amount to 100000. Reports Of dam
age to boats down the bay and in the
open gulf are numerous. The storm is
known to have ragged with great sever.
ity all along the north coast oe he
gulf. but as yet reports from the
places which it is feared have suffer.
ed heavily have been few and far be.
tween. All wires out of Mobile In
every direction are down. All railroads
are badly denoralized.
100000 in damage from the wind and
watera Brock Haven reports an en-
glne and caboose. the latter carrying a
theatrical troupe, ran into a washout
on the Mississippi Central railroad
near town and five trainmen were in.
5ured. Many Mississippi reports ex.
press apprehension about the rural ne.
gro population, saying their little ca.
bins have been blown down by scores
and damage to the cotton crop will be
a most serious result of the storm in
Mississippi on the Mississippi gull
coast.
Boats Lost
In addition to twenty-five small
schooners reported wrecked last night
the Cat Islands have five wrecked
barks on their shores. Reports from q
hundred miles of gulf coast say sever
al men were drowned during the hur
ricane while attempting to save thei,
boats. Despite the large loss in ship
ping on the coast, the towns and health
resorts dotting the waters edge suf
tered almost no damage up to a fifty
miles radius out of Mobile.
First Train In.
The first train into New Orleans
from the east over the Louisville 3
Nashville railroad arrived this morn
Ing with passengers from New Yorl
and other cities, who had been hell
back at Scranton. Miss, by the hurri
cane. They said the Horn Island ligh
house in Mississippi sound was sweep
into the sea by wind and waves. Keep
er Johnson, wife and daughter, were
drowned. The schooner Daisy was
wrecked on Horn Island with a loss .
one of her crew.
Serious in Mississippi.
New Orleans, Sept 29.-Hourly &C
counts of the magnitude of Thursday
storm in Mississippi become more seri
GUS as the interrupted telegraphit
communication with that state was re
sumed in every direction today Tow
after town in the interior wired her.
that buildings had been blown down
lives were endangered and crops were
blown fiat in the fields There is al
almost unbroken line of wreckage Q
the shipping on the gulf coast in tn,
direction of Mobile. All reports of thi
situation ended abruptly at a poin
fifty miles west of Mobile.
A little news which arrived from
the Mississippi river delta added t,
the property damage reported there
but no loss of life is reported 1t will
be several days before the details ar
learned about the shipping and tn
oyster country in the low delta lakes
Damage to the amount Of $4,000 a
Fort st. Philip, located about sixt
miles below here on the Mississippi
river, is reported today. A portion O
the levee was broken and allowed TIL
magazines to drop to the floor. TIL
new quarters under the process G
erection are reported swept away.
Pensacola, Fla, Sept. 29.-The vas
ness of the destruction wrought by tn
hurrican here Thursday is now bein
realized. twenty-five persons ar
known to have been drowned.
Only four bodies have been recover
ed. Looters followed in the wake c
the hurricane and calls for Chart
have been made to assist the poor an
the two thousand homeless.
Pensacola. Fla. via Thomaton, Ala
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