The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-29
STORM CAUSED MILLIONS Loss.
MOBILE AND PENSACOLA LATD
WASTE nv WIND AND WATER.
IndehnIte Reports Of I1Oss Of LiTe Come
From Bot Cities Wires sim Down
and Railroads Closed by Flood New
Orleans Escsped severe Damage

From Roth Cities Wires SIN Down
% Railroads Closed by Floods Ne
Orleans Escaped severe Damage.
MoBrLF, Ala. via MeEi d ian Miss. Sept. a.
This ti-y Is practically in ruins tonight
as a result Of the Gulf storm VIII ich 1swep
1t Thursday and Thursday night. q.
Seven thousand houses nave been dam
aged or destroyed. and the loss i estimated
at from 81. 900, 600 TO Is, 200, OOA
There are no reliable figures to he had
as 10 the loss Of life. Three negroes are
known to be dead and there are rumors hat
fifty persons are lost, but as things are
these rumors cannot be verified. =
1t is feared, however, that when all is
has been placed under martial law and loot
ers will be summarily dealt with.
Every church in the city has been dam
aged, though Christ Church and st. Francis
Street Baptist Church suffered more than.
the others.
Mobiles shipping suffered severely.
Many Of her river boats are beached or
sunk, all complete wrecks. Her docks and
those Of private corporations are destroyed
The revenue cutter Alert has gone down
in Mobile River. She was rammed by some
unknown vessel aud sank Immediately.
Her crew are believed to have escaped.
The depth Of the water in the wholesale
district, which includes the section from
Royal street to tine river, was seven feet.
The wharves from Fraseati, the extreme
south end OF the city. as far up the river as
Three Mile Creek are total wrecks. This
also includes the new Mobile and Ohio
docks and tho Louisville and Nashville
docks.
Much fear is entertained for Fort Morgan.
Ala, where the Government Quarantine
is located and many soldiers quartered.
The chances are that much loss Of life has
been caused by the storm to those living
on Dnuphin Island and Other outlying
islands.
During the hours between 9 p. N. Thurs
day and noon Friday trees fell. roofs cnashed
by the hundreds and thousands Of pieces
Of slate and other debris were hurled about.
Many people were seriously injured and
cut by the flying slate and pieces Of tin
roofs.
The new Cswthorn Hotel, just completed.
and the Bionville Hotel were damaged to
the extent Of S. 900 each. The Windsor
Hotel suffered 81. 900 damage: ~. Andrews.
81, 200, and the Southern 5000. Tn South
ern Supply Company estimates its los$ at
900.
The Merchants Bank, First National
Bank and the LienkauT Banking Company
were inundated.
Provisions are running low. Restaurants
many. Int have no supplies on hand.
ham and eggs constitute the food supply.
These. too. will soon he exhausted.
Wholesale houses willingly paid a. high
az 81 30 an hour for common labor. Even
at this figure few men, white or black,
" Ould accept work.
The fruit trees and the fall vegetable
oil over southern Alabama and Mis-
sissippi are ruined. so ALSO are the cotton
and sugar cane crops. One Mississippi
said to-day that he would willingly
SIS for his cotton crop.
The Mobile county court house was
wrecked. Thee clock in It's tower
was blown away completely and now
Of the clock remains
All along the line OF the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad huge trees lie fiat with limbs
,orn of and twisted. The streams are all
nut Of the banks and for twenty-five miles
north OF Mobile, looking to the right Of
he railroad. one sees only u solid sheet
water running swiftly toward Mobile.
There are many farmhonscs in this inun-
lated section and many people may have
their lives.
PENSACOLA, Fla. Sept. 2s.-The worst
,ea storm and hurricane that the Gulf
'oast has experienced since the village of
Pensacola on Santa Rosa Rand was swept
iO7 years ago has struck here. Il il
that many lives have been lost.
IL is know n that a large area Of the section
between the city and the navy yard IL under
rom S to 10 feet Of water. Many women
we're, taken from second story windows
nd carried TO safety in boats. The est
mated property damage " 81, 900 600. Every
Iouse in Pensacola suffered damage and
many roofs were blown on. The water
ront is strewn with wreckage for miles
either side OF the city, and vessels are
lied on the wharves, or where the wharvea
nee were. Big iron steamships and many
sailing ships are lying high and
Try up in the city, where the tide has never
been known to reach.
B~IRMINofAM. Ala, Sept. 2s.-The Gulf
cast storm continues here. Last night
critic winds prevailed, and this morning
here was a tremendous fall OF rain. Every
entering the city has been dam
ged. Enormous damage has been lone to
he cotton crop in Alabama and Mississ-
ppi. where thousands Of bales we're UNI
in the fields. The damage to cot
on alone will exceed 81 900, 900.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 2s.-Damage aggre-
millions Of dollars was done and,
ccording to reports. there was sons loss
{ life in the terrific hurricans that devas-
tied the Gulf Coast n in the food that
c~companied the wind. The reports Of loss
life are indefinite. but scores are said to
ave been drowned. ,
Forty persons are missing In one steamer I
n Lake P~ontchartrain. They were all from 1
his city and were on the way 10 MilneburR. F.:
the vessel was lost and all on I
oard drowned it is impossible to learn. {
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