The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-30
STORM MARKED BY
 MANY TRAGEDIES SoIicitude is Felt for Residents
 of Gulf Port WERNETHFAMILY DROWNED One Daughter Is Saved By Hanging In Tree and Sees Father Mother and Sisters DroWn-Total
 Deaths, 75.
VERNE EXTERNALLY DROWNED

Mobile. Ala, (Via Meridian Miss) Sep- tember 29.-Although 1t will be many months before the scars of the great storm of Wednesday are eradicated, Mo- | bile is rapidly assuming normal condi- tions, and it will only be q matter of getting railroads and telegraph wires i'll working order to restore business as 1t was before the storm.
 Apprehension is still felt in some quar- ters for the safety of Gulf Port town on the Louisville and Nashville, just west of Biloxi. Miss. But the fear that there has been great loss of life there is dying out. Men who are familiar with local conditions at Gulf Port. say that it Is not likely that many of the buildings have been swept away by the storm, and pre- dict that the damage will be mainly con- fined to that done by the wind. It is not believed that the water rose sufficiently high in the town to cause much loss of life If any. It Is known that there were no fatalities at Scranton or at Pass Christian, and the physical conditions surrounding these places are much the same as around Gulf Port, which must at least have fared as well as the other two towns
 Manager Hughes of the Western Union office was in Gulf Port Wednesday and declared the damage was not heavy when he left.
 Total Deaths 75. As far as Is now known the total num- Der of deaths is 75. It is possible that this list will be increased when all sec tions have been heard from, but the casu- alties yet to be reported will be isolated cases. and no large addition to the list Is expected. It is known that some fish ermen and boatmen who lived in the swamps or were out on the water when the storm broke, were lost. but it is not believed that the total of all deaths will amount to more than 125, if indeed 1t reaches that figure.
 Of the known dead at this time, thirty one were lost at and near Golden, twenty one near Heron Bay, fifteen on and around Dauphine Island, two at Grand Bay, two at Alabama Port and four at Delchamps All that is known is that a man named Hall who lived near Heron Bay walked into Golden yesterday and declared that twenty-one had been killed in the district in which he lived. He declared that he had counted the bodies. and that the list was fully as large as he stated.
 Fifteen Lost at Dauphine Island.
 The names of the dead at Golden and at Dauphine Island are as have been published, there being a number of un- known dead at both places. Of those who were lost near Dauphine Island, four swept from the island and drowned, and eleven were lost by the swamping of small boats in which they were attempting to reach the island. The dead at Alabama Port are: Gaines Reed and George Jones, and James Culver and his wife, and those lost at Grand Bay.
 The solicitude regarding the res- idents of Dauphine Island was relieved today when word was brought to Mo bile that there had been but four deaths, which. with the eleven lost with the British steamer King of Avon, brings the total casualties there up to fifteen. Every building on the island has been swept entirely away. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9.)