Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-30

o,,s Southwestern Railway Company. and
family returned from Mobile on ina uain
with Conductor Clayton. He estimates the
damage I'm Mobile at 81. 100000. mostly 10
wharves, harbor and naval stores
Sig Drowned at New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, September 29.-Six per-
sons drowned. eight good-sized sailing Ves-
sells wrecked, about thirty smaller vessels
sunk or ashore and property damage VI
more than a million dollars was the re-
suit OF the hurricane in Mississippi SOUND
The full extent of the disaster there De-
came known today when Ship. Cart anu
Horn islands were heard from lheS hau
besn completely submerged. ACCORDING "
reports of tugs sent out from the mali'ahu.
All of the loss of life and wrecks occurreu
at the eastern end of the SOUND aoo0'
fifty miles from Mobile. The WORST ca'as
trophe was at Horn Island. where Lish'
keeper Johnson and his wife ana oaue
were swept into the gulf with ,te'r 'eH
house and drowned. Before the SUI Ia
Johnson refused a chance TO go aShoio
One negro was drowned when the schoon-
ar Daisy went ashore on Horn Island ne
e,her four members of the crew escaped.
pairing the storm two bodies were seen
noating in Pascagoula bay. but were not
recovered
Saved Wife and Children.
Pascagoula lighthouse was partly de-
moIished The assistant keeper. daston
Pertevant, saved his wife ana TWO slian
children at the height Of the storm ny
lowering them into launch with ropes.
He then climbed safely into the launch MINI
selr The head keeper was rescued III t'e
open bay, where he was drifting In sHaii
boat without oars. The federal quarantine
station at Ship Island was badly crlppleo'
the isolation hospital and DR.. Moncrue
residence being the only buildings 10 escape
damage.
Three men were in the Klondike building
ON Shin Island when it was demolished. and
they were swept out to sea. shit IN the
wind when they were a half mile on sno,e
drove them back safely to land Inc bflt.
ish bark Bauman. with a $4,000 cargo OF
cord lumber. and the Norwegian bark
Anna with $4,000 cargo of lumber WeIe
blown on the Shorn Islands reef. iheif
crews were saved by tugboats.
The experience of the American Dark
Fleuroline. wrecked on Gait Island shows
the strength of the wind. When the poat
began to drift a tug attempted TO tow ne1
into the harbor, but the wind dragged
both until the tug was compe nera
wrecked. the ship Hercules ana parks
Nurnburg Magdalena and Stgra A report
from Medidicfan. Miss; says tnat p. b,io AZ
one of the towns Of the sound was de-
stroyed New Orleans has had communi-
cation by rail with Biloxi, and there was
no considerable damage there.
Large quantities OF pine timber were de,
stroyed Attempts by the Louisville and
Nashville railroad to run wires past the
washout at Pascagoula, In an eHort W
reach Mobile tonight, were without success;
Western Union Cumberland Telephone and
Postal Telegraph wires were all down al
this point.
Loss Not So Large.
Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW ORLEANS. La, September 90
Full communication was established WIFE
all the coast points today. Trains are
running there and back. Later news tends
to confirm the opinion that the loss from
the storm Is less than at first thought, be-
ing confined mainly to Mobile and Pensa
cola. The shipping and the cotton croI
principally suffered.
The loss to the Monogahela Company here
amounts to $25. 900, and at Natchez the loss
to the Pittsburg Company amounts te
$4,000.
AT Southwest Pass the contractors con
structlng the jetties lost eight barges loaded
with cement worth $4,000. None Of thu
vessels in the harbor were in any way In
5ured.
The steamship Utsin OF the United Fruit
Company fought her way into the Mssi
Bippi river through the two days of storm
but lost her deck cargo Of bananas wort
$1,000
The steamer Origin of the same feet go
In without any loss.
At Fort st. Philppi and Jackson abou
$4,000 worth of damage was done by tn
storm.
Damage on Mississippi.
Damage along the Mississippi coast is es
timated at from 100000 to $500 600, tn,
pf which Ia horne n.
Louisville and Nashville and the Gulf ant
Ship Island railroads.
Pass Christian reports that the schoon
ers Queen and Renal were sunk. Biloxi
lost about a dozen schooners. The yes
sells at Gulfport were prepared for tn
storm. and only one schooner the Oliera
was sunk. but several were wrecked on tn
various islands. namely the Norwegia
ships Hercules and Nuremberg. the bark
Mandeline and Sigrad and the America
bark Florence. The latter was wrecke
OF Cat Island. Two unknown vessels wer
wrecked off Horn Island.
At Ocean Springs a few homes were III
rooted. The storm was more severe at Pa
casoula and Scranton. The sea towns su
fered more than any on the coast At Pa
cagoula the brekwater was washed awe
and the lighthouse destroyed and a nun
Der OF other buildings blown down.
AT Scranton many houses were unroof,
and the new Episcopal Church destroye
The streets on the water front were Sc
eral feet under water from the high Tide.
In the interior the damage was mainly
the crops although Natchez reports 5000
injury TO buildings.
Hattiesburg reports that the damal
there will amount to s25OOOO In addtit
TO the damage by the wind. the crops. al
especially cotton, were injured by a rainfs
or from seven to ten inches. This be
down the cotton in many places.
O'CONNOR IN NEW YORK.