New-York tribune., 1906-10-01
DEATH LIST GROWS.
TWO CITIES LOSE 80.
Mobile and Pensacola Property
Losses VIII Reach $50, 100000.

Losses VIII Reach $20,OO0,OOO.
Mobile via Meridian Miss. Sept. 3O.-The
number Of casualties in the great storm Of last
Wednesday is slowly increasing as messages are
received from places which have been hereto
fore inaccessible The total last night of the
known dead was seventy-ive. This number
was brought up TO a certainty of seventy-nine
and a possibility of 102. by the reports that
reached Mobile during the night and early to-
day.
Four bodies not before counted have been
found at Coden. and it is estimated that twenty
three lives have been lost from the oyster fleet
around Cedar Point This last estimate is not
known to be accurate. and is probably some
what exaggerated, it includes among the
dead every man aboard a fishing boat who has
not been heard Of since the storm. II is known
that some of these boats have been driven
ashore, and it is possible that their crews are
safe.
Mobile is rapidly emerging from the confusion
caused by the storm Large gangs of men were
kept working all Sunday clearing the streets Of
debris; three of the streetcar lines have begun
to run; the wrecked docks are rapidly being
paired and business will be normal so
the railroads are able to run trains.
The Louisville & Nashville is still disabled and
is the only road which is not able to maintain
schedule. 1t will certainly be the best part OF
a fortnight before it will be running trains be-
tween Mobile and New Orleans. The Southern
and the Mobile & Ohio running trains as be-
fore the storm.
The situation along the coast to the west OF
this city is now fairly we'll known. At Scran-
ton. Miss, church, the Odd Fellows Hall
and several buildings were blown down. At
Pascagoula Beach not house is standing, the
river front at that point is completely torn up.
has
Shipping at this point was badly damaged. The
revenue cutter Winona, for which much fear
was expressed. is now known TO be safe. The
crew of the cutter rescued the keeper Of the
Pascagoula lighthouse and his family during
the storm. The keeper of the Horn Island light
house Just outside of Scranton lost his life.
The captain of a tug which came near the
house at the beginning of the storm urged him
10 leave but he refused to abandon his post,
and in a short time was drowned The entire
island on which the lighthouse was situated
is said to have been washed away by the
waves.
Several vessels the names of which are un-
known are ashore off Horn Island and the
small islands marking the passage between
Dauphin Island and the mainland have been
destroyed. The beacon lights on this part of
the coast are not greatly damaged. The schooner
Alice Graham of Mobile, is known to have been
Ios. with her crew of six men. This boat has
been pursued by an evil fate and besides hav-
ing various mshaps from time to time was
wrecked in the great storm of 1898. when sew
erai people were lost from her
1t is now believed that the loss to the lumber
interests alone by the storm will aggregate
S1OOOOOO0 Tens of thousands of trees Of
the finest quality have been blown down. The
number of logs that have been carried out TO
sea or driven into inaccessible swamps is enor-
nous The great majority of trees that had
been weakened by being tapped for turpentine
were levelled TO the ground.
Louisville Sept. 3O.-The first news by tele-
graph cut of the stricken city of Mobile
ceived at Louisville at 3 o'clock this morning by
THE Courier-JournaI." whose correspondent
sent a dispatch from an improvised office In the
swamps just on the edge of that city The in
formation is given in the dispatch that the loss
of life in Mobile and its vicinity from the great
storm of Thursday will probably reach 10. The
greatest number Of lives lost, according to the
dispatch is at a place known San Souci
Beach. a summer resort near Mobile. where
thirty-nine bodies are reported to have been re-
covered.
The property loss in Mobile and along Mobile
Bay viii probably approximate $S.O0OOO0
The people living on Dauphin Island are suf-
fering from lack OF food. and they have only the
clothes they are wearing. Nearly all the houses
of the fishermen were swept away The paper
says further:
''As the dead como ashore on the South Beach
below here they are being buried. The Louis
Vile & Nashville Railway will not be able to re-
sumo train service for several days and the
other roads here are handicapped by washouts
and the loss OF telegraph wires. which prevent
the handling OF trains with any degree OF
promptness. Gulfport is damaged only to a
small extent anC there is no loss of life there as
far as has been heard here. Many interior
points yet remain 70 be heard from
AT the general managers office of the Louis
VILE & Nashville road in Louisville to-day it
said that they have telegraphic comnunica-
tion within short distance Of Mobile but that
the tracks are still unfit for use 1t could not be
sta led definitely when the service would be re-
sumed.
The Western Union at noon on Sunday was
working on the wire from Atlanta into Mobile by
way Of Montgomery, and this circuit is bong
utilized to order men and equipment from every
direction 10 Mobile 10 repair the vast damage
done"
Four steamers not before reported were driven
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