Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-29
TROPICAL DISTURBANCES REACH
MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHERN
LOUISIANA COASTS
HIGH WINDS PREVAIL
Maximum Velocity of Forty-eight Miles
Per Hour-Four Feet of Water in
Some of the Streets of New Orleans
Moving 'Northward Now.

VCou1uSLOu, oSpI. Ai.- AS WCoSaCA
bureau today reported that tropical
disturbances had reached the Missis-
sippi and southeastern Louisiana
coasts, where 1t Is central this morn.
ing. AS the storm is of great severity
the reports from Mobile and Pensaco.
la are missing by reason Of the gener.
al prostration Of telegraph wires. High
winds and rain prevail over Alabama,
Mississippi and southern Louisiana. A
maximum velocity of 4S miles an hour
from the northwest being reported this
morning from New Orleans. The tro.
pical disturbances will probably move
northward during the next twenty-four
hours and cause general rains east OF
the Mississippi and south Of the Ohio
attended by high winds in the lower
Mississippi valley and east Of the gulf
states, probably in Tennessee.
Four Feet Of Water.
New York. Sept. 27.-Reports of the
storms in Louisville. Mississippi and
Georgia were received here today. One
telegram reads, There is four feet OF
water in the streets Of New Orleans
Heavy rain falls are reported at Vicks
Jul 3, 1hlSS, anu N1dCOu, va. / ClS6l dpu
services to New Orleans is badly Grip
pied.
Destroys Communication.
Louisville. Sept. PA gulf storm
which began to show It's force last
night destroyed all wire communica
ton to Mobile and New Orleans. The
storm appears general between Mont
gomery and the Gulf of Mexico and
westward to the Mississippi river
There has been no communication
with New Orleans since midnight, last
word from there being to the effect
that one suburb had been damaged
somewhat by wind and by sudden
rise of four feet in Lake Ponchatrain.
Communication was had with New
Orleans for a few minutes at IL O'Clock
and the operator reported the wind
blowing 48 miles per hour. The cen
ter of the storm was east of New Or
leans. No loss of life is reported but
considerable is probable in New Or
leans. The storm hit the Mississippi
coast and Mobile hard but there il
nothing to confirm this. The wire
failed at this juncture
Look For Tidal Wave.
Chicago, Sept. 27.--The Postal Tele
graph Gable company furnishes the
following information from New Or
leans THE high wind and rain which
usually strikes this section at the time
of the equinox have blown down the
wires in numerous places AS far as
we can learn there has been no loss Of
life or property. though tidal wave
is rumored on the gulf
Washouts on Railroads.
New Orleans. Sept. 81 For more
than twelve hours tropical hurricane
has been blowing at speed varying
from IS to go miles an hour. Tele
graph and telephone wires are dowr
between here and the Gulf Of Mexico
points, where the storm is reported tt
have struck the heaviest Washouts
are reported on several railroads IL
that district. The damage reported
thus far is confined mostly to the
havoc of the tide driven by wind upo1
the gulf coast to an unusual height.
Over Middle Alabama.
Montgomery, Ala, Sept. pa wint
and rain storm has prevailed owe
middle Alabama for SO hours. No ser
ious damage was done in Montgomer,
or it's vicinity.
Atlanta, Ca, Sept. 27.-The storm
has now reached Atlanta 1t is raininl
heavily with high easterly winds.