The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-10-05
FIERCE STORM
SWEEPS COAST.
Enormous Damage Done in Flor
ida, Alabama and Mississippi.
CENTERED in PENSACOLA
New Orleans was Also Hard Hit, While
Other Places are Standardization
and Corn Crops Devastated.

The tropical hurricane, which for
twenty-four hours churned the waters
OF the gulf of Mexico and doing much
damage on the coast and far inland
passed through north Alabama and
Mississippi Thursday night in a north
easterIy direction at velocity bur
slightly less than that recorded In
New Orleans during the day. Reports
received do not indicate any loss OF
life, but the damage to property over
the territory touched by the storm is
something enormous. All wire COM
munication was seriously disarrangeu,
and in some instances resulted in cut
ting off a number of cities. Numerous
washouts have occurred, the interrupt
ton In one case extending thirty
miles.
Pensacola, where the maximum ve-
locity OF wind was probably felt early
Thursday morning, reports property
loss of $3,O00,00O in the city alone
and sends rumors OF loss of life.
It was the worst sea storm and hug
ricane that the gulf coast has expert
enced since the village Of Pensacola.
en- San Rosa Island, was swept away,
10 years ago, Every house in the
city suffered damage. Roofs We're
blown off, telegraph, telephone and
electric light wires we're a tangled
mass, the water front was strewn
with wreckage for miles on either side
of the city, and vessels are now piled
on the wharves, or where the WharVes
were, in utter ruin. Big iron steam
ers, and many larger sailing ships,
are now lying high up in the city
where the tide has never known to
have reached before, and every wharf
for miles around has been swept away
or is damaged beyond repair. 1t is re.
ported that many lives between the
city and the navy yard.
New Orleans furnished the subject
numerous wild rumors during the day.
for numerous rumors during the uaSs
indicate that while there was consid-
cradle damage to property, there was
no loss OF life in the city. Wires be-
tween New Orleans and the gulf are
Frustrated and it will be several days
before anything can be heard from the
vast territory between the Crescent
city and the gulf, and before anything
can be heard from the shipping which
was riding out the storm in the open
gulf
Damage to railroads is very heavy.
Reports to tho officials of the Louis
Vile and Nashville roads from the
superintendent of the Mobile and
~Jntgomery divisions indicate that
the losses approximate one million
dollars. The tracks between Flomaton,
Ala, and Pensacola, Fla, are obstruct-
ed in many places and "a some places
badly torn UP by falling trees, while
the section between Georgiana and
GraceyiIle, Fla, has suffered similarly.
A special from Jackson, Miss, says:
The equinoctial storms Thursday
damaged the Mississippi cotton crop
not less than $12,OOO,O00 equivalent
to 100000 bales. Some estimate the
crop damage even higher than these
figures. Fully one-third of the crop
was open in the field.
A Montgomery dispatch says: The
storm which ragged throughout south
anu middle Alabama did fncalculable
injury to the cotton crop. Most OF
the cotton was still in the field, and
this was ruined by rain and wind.