The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-30
1.-The Entire City Has Been
Placed Under Martial
Law.
|sHIPPING SUFFERS
Seven Feet of Water Over
Business Section.
ruE LIST OF THE DEAD TO DATE,
MANY BOATS LOST-THE
HOTELS INJuRED-CHURCHES
DAMAGED-lOSS ESTIMATED
AT THREE MILLION DOLLARS.

Mobile, Sept. 2S.-Etlayed. BE
Tween IS and 100 lives lost, many YES
sells driven ashore or wrecked in va
dOus parts of the Gulf of Mexico,
damage amounting to $4,500,000 to the
city of Mobile and to the extent of
millions or more at outside points Is
the record of the storm which swept
over Mobile Wednesday night.
Grave apprehension exists regard.
Ing the situation at Gulfport and Bi.
lCxi where il is believed that many
lives have been lost 1t is declared
BY the local municipal officials that
no lives have been lost in Mobile.
but that all Of the deaths have &C.
cured in places within a radius of
fifty miles of this place. The dead
as far as known at present are as
follows:
The Dead.
AT Navy Cove: Mrs. d. Ladimer
and two daughters.
Alexander Johnson, Henry Johnson.
At Coden:
ThiS. NlOShs.
Little grandson of Mrs. Klosky.
Susan Crevillion, servant of Mrs.
| Klosky.
o. Werneth.
Mrs. o. Werneth.
Mrs. S. McRae, Miss McRae, Mrs.
Henry Turner, Captain ]. Stevens,
three Misses Alexander. Edward Hue
land, Mrs Hueland, three Hueland
children, three unidentified bodies
found nthe beach.
AT Bayou Labatre:
Two brothers named Carraway.
AT Alabama Port:
Mrs. Slijah Nelson.
At Delchamps:
Mrs. A. l.. Hazen, of New Castle,
Pa, and two children.
One unidentified; two unidentified
hegro children; three negro men
Killed by falling houses; Mrs. Henry
Warwick
The Boats Lost.
The following boats have been
wrecked or driven ashore in the vi.
entity of Mobile:
Tug LeBaron, barkentine Hornet, a
pile driver belonging to Holinger &
Co.; sloop and dredging boat of Ma
lonal Dredging Company, schooner
Pendleton Brothers of New York:
lark Trojan of Genoa, Italy; barker.
uhe Corrierre, steamer Josephine,
sloop Olive, tug Overton, tug Hattie
Moore, steamer Dalshoota, schoon.
er King of Avon, ship Pher Umland
revenue launch Alert sunk at her
mornings.
The following steamers have been
damaged
Nettie Quill, Mary.
while the storm was at it's height
NE water from the bay was driven
win great force upon the city, the
waves coming over the ends of the
Wharves six feet deep. Three blocks
Up into the heart of the city the flood
was driven. filling every basement
ana store in that section of the city
On Commerce Street.
AZ Commerce street, which is the
nI thoroughfare away from the
uocks, the water rose in the stores
:, Z, The height of five and a half feet
Inc marks on the buildings on Water
street. which is next to Commerce
snow Si a depth Of four and a half feet
lne Hood did not quite reach Roya
Street.
Inc damage In the city proper ha.
Ueen enormous. 1t was conceded BY
%me that there Is not a building il
ae cit" which has not been dam
rrominent among those which were
SssaIy damaged were Christ Episcopa
saurch, the oldest religious building
IN the city.
Hotels Suffer soreIy.
4, me hotels also suffered severely
we bienville losing part of its kitch
ra' which was blown away, and tn,
s.a"thorn losing many window
through which the rain poured, dam
ss.ns carpets and draperies to thu
Ment of $4,000.
Inc heaviest loss will fall on tn
,,.l along the water front VIII,
s.nough warned of the coming storm
me weather bureau, did not expec
lt 1t would drive the waves upol
,r em as 1t did. None Of them mad
cos A.. effort to remove their goods, an
bSnsequently all of them sustaine'
G ivy loss by the washing in Of tn
A. S, and by rain which In many case
Sose through holes where the win
~, ripped off portion of the roof.
~ ne damage to the docks along tn
m O front will amount to about $500
,o "nlie the velocity Of the wind di
mo- exceed that of 1893, 1t was muc
destructive and lasted longer
n oonservative estimate of the los
tbo made at 100000 and fully fiv
in'uSand houses have been affecte
H. 'dIious ways. Every church i
city has also suffered. though