The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-10-04
DISASTROUS STORM
Sweeps the. Gulf Coast and
Wreaks Enormous Damage.
PENSACOLA is HARD HIT
Swerves lnIand and Sweeps States Of
Alabama ard Mississippi-KeW Or
Suffered Severely-Crops Are
Almost Ruined.

The tropical hurricane, which for
twenty-four hours churned the water.
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
eastery direction at a velocity but
slightly less than that recorded in
Sew Orleaus during the day. Report;
received do not indicate any loss OF
life, bEt the damage to property over
the territory touched by the storm is
something enormous All wire COM
munication was seriously diSarrangea,
and in some instances resulted in cut
ting off 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 a property
loss of s3.O00O0C in the city alone
and sends runners Of loss of life.
1t was the worst sea storm and hui-
ricane that the gulf coast has expert
enced since the village Of Pensacola,
On San Rosa Island, was swept away,
ITO years ago. Every house in the
city suffered damage. Roofs were
blown off, telegraph, telephone and
electric light wires were a tangled
mass, the water front was strewn
with wreckage for miles on either side
Of the city, ard vessels are now piled
on the wharyes,. 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 oa..
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 the 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 n some places
badly torn up by falling trees, while
the section between Georgia1a and
GraceviIle, Fla, has suffered similarly.
A special from Jackson, Miss, says:
The equinoctial storms Thursday
damaged the Mississippi cotton crop
not less than s12,000,00O 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.
4 Montgomery dispatch says: The
storm which ragged throughout south
and middle Alabama did inca!culable
injury to the cotton crop. Most OF
the cotton was still in the field, and
this was ruined by rain and wind.