The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-28
STILL CUT OFF.
Communication Between New
Orleans and Near by Country
Remains Broken as Result of the
Gulf Storm.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE
By the Hurricane in It's Passage
NorthWard.
Yicksburg and MeCOmb Report
Buildings Injured.

on the gulf coast east of here. For Sc
hours no information Of any sort had
come from towns less than an hours
ride by rail in the direction of Mobile,
and anxiety regarding the situation in
those places became intense. The gulf
! towns are a summer resort FOR New
! Orleans and many members Of many
families have been separated by the
/ storm. All day yesterday and all last
night the washout on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad, % miles from here.
marked the farthest point eastward
/ reached by rail, telegraph or telephone
i For hours after the hurricane had pass
! ed the two mile portion of railroad
! tracks which was submerged by the in
I coming tide was exposed to the equally
/ dangerous outward flow of the reeeding
high water. Local Louisville & Nash
vile officials today announced all trains
cancelled until further notice.
This morning Lake POntchartrain had
Gained end the high water had fallen to
very near its normal level
The first reports from interior Missis-
sippi towns indicated that the hurricane
did great damage in its northward prog
ress.
Vicksb1rg and McComb City reported
buildings injured and Jacksonville and
Brook Haven reported damage of 10
per cent to the cotton crop
Dr. w n. McGallacid, a passenger on
4
| train which came into the city late last
night, said the train was compelled to
| run slowly through the storm yesterday,
with trees continually falling, some OF
them threatening to block the tracks IN
J their crash. UnrO0fed or demolished
negro cabins were continually passed
Frequently he said, 1ashing of the wind
| and crack of trees made a roar which
| drowned out the trains rumble
Reports from Monticello Miss, say
I'D hi, -4or7 ccra q
pine forests near there. hundreds OF
| trees being uprooted. Trees had fallen
| across the railroad tracks to such an ex-
! tent as practically to suspend traffic
| toward east Of Monticello.
The brief dispatches received here in
| dicated that the losses in interior towns
| of Mississippi alone viii reach hundreds
! of thousands of dollars. No heavy dam
| ges were reported at any one point, but
| the storm appears to have demolished d
/ few thousand dollars worth of property
/ IN every county and town. tearing off
| roofs and blowing down scores of Old
| frame buildings VickSburg reported
| damage to shipping in ADDITION TO re
1 ports of cotton crop losses. passengers
! on incoming trains tell Of widespread
! damage to timber. Telegraph and tele-
| phone wires were so universally dam
4 aged that every town yet heard from re-
1 ported that at some time yesterday 1t
/ was cut off from communication with
! the outside world Verified loss of life
! thus far is confined to the death of one
| empioye on the New Orleans ana NORTH
/ eastern railroad who was run down by
/ A train during the storm. Reports OF
the collapse of frame hotel at McComb
| city. brought in by passengers on the
| Illinois Central have not been confirmed
The first news of the havoc wrought
| bv the hurricane on the lower Mississlp-
pi delta was given today by G. Anzel' a.
pilot who came up from the mouNi Of
4 the river on the tug boat Charles Clark
/ Anssl said he saw the lower river
/ hanks strewn with household furniture
! of fishermen. but that most Of these
families had escaped from the high va
ter by taking to the lugger boats
He saw the wreckage of two or three
| Iu1gers floating down the river, but
was unable to learn what became or
their occupants. At the mississippi
/ river quarantine station two house
boats. used for the quartering of
crews of fruit steamers. were sunk.
The crews were taken off in safety.
Ansel said: AS we came up the
river from Port EadS yesterday atter-
noon. we found the quarantine station
unbarmed. but the two boats used
to quarter crews which are taken off
fruit ships at quarantine had been
broken to pieces by the storm and
had sunk. Their occupants were res
cued without much difficulty.
cat several places I saw wooden
cisterns. which stand above the
ground and are used by fishermen,
living on the river banks. There were
also quantities of household furnt-
t11rs especially bedroom articles ]
do not however, believe that there
was much. if any. loss of life among
the fishermen. They put their fam
lilies aboard their 1uggers and took
shelter in the bayous when the storm
drove the water inland We saw the
wreckage of two or three Iuggers
floating on the river Unless their oc-
cupants were rescued by other lug
gers they were probably drowned
saw few persons along the shore when
we passed these places about three
O'Clock yesterday afternoon There
was probably three to four feet of wa
ter over this part of the land, when
the tide was at its height.
ssThe two United States mail boats
are safe. During the hurricane at Pi-
lot town. spent an uneasy night, but
I am certain that no lives were lost
there. All the inhabitants of the jet
ties came aboard the two pilot boats
Wharves and guageways were broken
or washed away at Pilot town.
Southwest pass must have had a
cleaning out, judging from the direc-
ton of the wind and tide, and the
fact that up to the time left no one
had come up from there
Southwest pass is the new entrance
to the mouth of the Mississippi river
now under process of construction
The officials of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad announce that an
attempt will be made to run q train
from here in the direction of Mobile
| about 8 O'Clock this afternoon This
announcement followed the receipt Of
cheering news from Bay St Louis
Miss, the first of the gulf coast towns
| on the line to Mobile and the first ont
4 to be heard from since the storm