New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-30
IGULF COAST DAMAGE.
Vessels Wrecked, LiUes Lost and
Lighthouse S1eept Out to Sea.

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small vessels were wrecked. and Ship Island. Cat
! Island and Horn Island were submerged. The
federal quarantine station on Ship Island was
badly damaged and about $1ooOO00 damage
! was done to property the mainland.
Reports of the death of Captain Johnson,
keeper Of Horn Island Lighthouse. in Mississippi
Sound. and the death of his wife and daughter.
were brought here to-day by the first train into
New Orleans from the east the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad. This train brought PAS
sengers from New York and other Eastern cities
who had been held at Scranton. Miss, by the
hurricane They were taken to Ocean Springs
in a tug and boarded the train there. They said
that Horn Island Lighthouse was swept into the
sea By the wind and waves and that the keeper
and his family went with the structure.
News was brought to Scranton by Captain Bar
ker Of the schooner Daisy that the schooner had
been wrecked on Horn Island. with the loss OF
one of her crew. Captain Barker said that after
he and the four mon constituting his crew had
swan ashore from the schooner, the rising water
drove them into the trees. Samuel Ward. a
Negro. who climbed a small and weak tree, was
apparently shaken by wind and waves from his
hold and drowned. Captain Barker and the
others were finally rescued by tug
From the hitherto isolated Gulf Coast district
the first arrived here to-day. The report
told OF lives lost in the Gulf and great damage
TO shipping. but indicated that on land few, II
any, persons were killed by the hurricane,
Property damage in this district is large.
New Orleans and the surrounding country to-
day experienced continued difficulty in getting
Geographic news. Such wires as were recOv-
cred in Mississippi repeatedly failed, and Texas
circuits over which all dispatches from the
North and East arrive continually reported de-
lays. News of the storm from other points and
the news of the Cuban situation were carried
by newspaper tugboats from New Orleans to
Gulf coast towns.
The little news which arrived from the Mis-
sissippi River delta added to the property DAM
age reported there. but. although the lower end
Of the delta had been submerged as far as
the eye could reach, and although steamers
coming UP the river reported that they passed
floating household goods, no loss of life was
reported. 1t may be several days before the
details learned about the fishing and oyster
country in the low delta lands, which are iso-
lated even from Quarantine and Pilot Town, the
only places on the lower river having telegraph
&c communication with this city.
Reports from Hattiesburg. Miss. were that the
town had suffered much damage from wind and
water. In the latter part Of the blow there
was such quantity of wreckage in the streets
that few persons attempted to walk about. The
Fire Department called out in the vicinity
Of Gordon Creek to rescue women and children
imprisoned in their homes by an overflow OF
the creek. Five buildings were blown down,
one Of them being a large warehouse. The
First National Bank was unroofed.
Brook Haven reported that an engine and ca
boose. the latter carrying a theatrical troupe
ran into washout on the Mississippi Central
Railroad, near the town The report said that
the engine and tender dropped into the hole
de NV ba
were injured, three perhaps fatally
Many of the Mississippi reports express ap-
prehension about the rural Negro population.
saying that their little cabins have been blown
down by scores. All reports thus far received
agree that damage to the cotton crop will be
the most serious result Of the storm in Missis-
sippi. These reports are by no means compre-
hengive, but they are well scattered, and they
agree upon a 20 to % per cent estimate of the
loss.
On the Mississippi Gulf coast in addition to
the twenty-five small schooners reported wrecked
last night, Ship and Cat islands, in Mississippi
Sound, have five wrecked banks on their shores
The information brought to New Orleans by
launch by way of Lake Pontchartrain. The banks
Nurnberg and Hercules are reported total wrecks
The Norwegian bark Mandelina is full of water
and Norwegian bark. name made out as ST.
grav, partly dismantled. An American
bark name given as F1orine, was ashore and
pounding to pieces.
Reports from the one hundred miles Of Gulf
coast through which the Louisville & Nashville
opened communication last night say there Is an
apparently well founded rumor that several men
were drowned in the hurricane while attempting
to their boats.
Despite the large loss Of shipping on the coast
the towns and health resorts dotting the waters
edge suffered almost no damage UP to the fifty
miles radius out of Mobile Reports which the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad received from
within this radius said that several miles of
track have probably been washed away between
Scranton, Miss and Mobile. Between West
Pascagoula and Scranton, where the railroad bed
was built over a marsh, about two miles Of
filing was swept almost completely away Rails
attached to ties were found about half a mile
away from the former roadbed. The loss IN
CURED by the railroad has not been estimated
In the Mississippi River delta country the dam
age to Fort st. Philip was reported by two
pilots who made the trip up the river Immediate
ly after the storm. They said that back water
from the Gulf covered the land in the vicinity
OF the fort for a distance of five miles along the
river At point seventy three miles down the
river they said the tide opened hole in the
Mississippi River Ievee. and it was until late
Thursday afternoon that the Gulf water stopped
flowing through this break
The captain Of the steamer FL Cid. from New
York said that when his ship passed up the river
yesterday afternoon he saw the inhabitants of
cabins which had been unroofed and in some
cases flooded, pursuing usual household duties
He saw no evidence of loss of life.
Fl CID reported that on September "a
when twelve miles south of Diamond Shoal a
three-nasted schooner was sighted lying on her
mir cid