The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-10-05
SEVERE STORMS In SOUTHERN
STATES WAS DEVASTATING.
over a Hundred Are Known to Have
Been Kiled-3,ooo Are Homeless
Miles and Miles Of Wreekage-
Fort McRae Damaged - B%arraneas
Navy Yard Lost a Million.

many more have been lost, others in
iured. while more than 1000 persons
are homeless. For two days rescuing
parties have been working to bring
conditions to some degree Of order
but their efforts have not shown to
any extent, and there are many yet
underneath the masses of w~reckage.
For 10 miles east and west OF the
city are strewn the wrecks OF homes
and vessels of all kinds.
At Fort McRae five lives were lost.
The 20 men there had a terrible expe-
~rience. They sought the batteries and
dashed themselves to the guns. There
they chung for more than II hours.
Only n lady and her little child were
at the post. She was the wife of Ser
geant Prentice, and although the big
strong soldier fought to save the lives
of his young wife and baby, they were
almest-HterallH wrenched- from his
arms. Three artillerymen were lost
by being washed from the batteries.
The fort was almost raZed.
Fort Barrancas was badly damaged.
The navy yard suffered probably to
The extent of 81, 000, 900. Many of the
new buildings have been damaged or
destroyed completely. The floating
dock crushed against a stone one, the
latter was damaged, and the gunboats
Vixen, Isla de LuZon, and a number
of tugs and launches are a complete
wreck. Some of these vessels have
49, 49, - -Ll-a 60. -Aaaz than
200 yards.
Further down the island the United
States main quarantine station has
disappeared, except one house. Gus
toms Inspector Bailey, stationed there,
saved the lives of eight of the attach
es by swimming with a line across a
channel to the remaining house, and
the men were enabled to reach that
point. The hospital there collapsed
early in the night. With two nurses,
Collins and Bass, three others clung
to the floating roof. The five spent
the night on the raging sea and were
brought in the mex morning.
At Escambia t~restle, a mile in
length, was the cottage of the keeper
of the drawbridge. This was carried
away, and his wife and little children
drowned. He and his assistants were
washed upon the beach five miles dis
tant.
Across in the city it will be fully
three months before the vessels can
be dug out from their positions. OF
the % ships and barks of foreign flags
anchored in the harbor only one re-
mains, and it is badly damaged. Some
of the immense ocean ships of 1000
tons are resting in front yards, others
have been driven through houses;
some have their noses pointed into
stores, while some others are keeled
over on their side in the bay or piled
up in masses of w~reckage. Only four
tugboats out of a feet of ABOUT 20 re-
main.
About 80 fishing schooners of so or
rs tons were moored alongside
wharves, and tow remain intact. Some
of the schooners are a mile in shore.
For one mile west of the city were the
small cottages of fishermen, all close
to the beach. These nave been wiped
out.
At New Orleans.
Six persons drowned, eight good
sized sailing vessels wrecked, about
80 smaller vessels sunk or ashore and
property damage of more than a mil
lion dollars was the result of the hur-
ricane in the Mississippi sound.
At Birmingham, Ala.
Mobile is still cut off from the out
side world. Dispatches just reaching
here by mail, which left Mobile at $3.50
a. N. Saturday say that the city will
suffer a loss of IS, 1000, 900 in damage to
buildings, steamboats,, shipping, rail-
roads and commercial houses. The
famous shell road is gone, and prob
ably will not be rebuilt. Fifty-nine
are known to have lost their lives at
points west of the city, the loss being
heaviest at Coden.
At Meridian, Miss.
Delayed mail from Hattiesburg
brings advices of great havoc wrought
there and in the n~eighborhood and
south of the Mississippi by the storm.
1t is estimated that so per cent of the
yellow pine lumber has been de-
stroyed, and 1t is feared many lives
have been lost in the woods. All tur-
p%entine orchards are ruined, and the
loss is estimated at several million
dollars. In Hattiesburg alone the loss
is estimated at 81 200, 900.
At Mobile, Ala.
Mobile is rapidly assuming normal
conditions. As far as is now known
the total number of deaths is IS. Of
the known deaths at this time 81 oc-
CURED at and near Coden; Is near
Heron bay, Is on and around Dau-
phin island, two at Grand bay, two at
Alabama Port and four at Delchamps
Later Report.