The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-10-05

were seriously Injured and cut by tn.
flying slate and tin. The railroads
have started wreckers -out to clear
up and repair the tracks.
Hotels Damaged.
The Office of the Western Union Tel
egraph floor was six feet under wat
er, its batteries were flooded with
water, and it is not known how sooT
they will be in shape to resume. The
Postal Telegraph building. while not
quite so low lying, also suffered severe
ly. The new Cawthon Hotel, just com
pleted, and the Bienville Hotel are
damaged to the extent of $4,000 each
the Windsor Hotel, $1,000; st. An
drews, $4,000; the Southern, $4,000
The Southern Supply Company estf
mated their loss at 100000.
Among the wholesale houses that
have sustained the greatest damage
are: Pollock & Bernheimer, wholesale
dry goods; the English Manufacture
ing Wagon Company. wagons and bug.
giles; s. jacobson, dry goods; Dorgan
& Young Hardware Company; Gun
ningham Hardware Company; Mobile
Drug Company, wholesale drugs; e.
o. Zadek Jewelry Company; Draper
& Burns, clothing; American Supply
Company, mill supplies; Christian
Supply Company; Cleveland Bros,
Wholesale grain; T. G.. Bush & Co..
wholesale grocers; James Mcdonnell
Company. wholesale grocers. land the
Marshal-Lyons Grocery Co.; Muscat &
Lott, produce dealers; the Mobile
Brewery, the Bienville Brewery, the
Dixie Grain Company. Besides these
many other wholesale houses in the
city, the Merchants Bank, the First
National Bank and Lienkauff Banking
Company establishments were inunda-
ted.
People Undismayed.
At this time it is impossible to es-
innate or to describe the loss. There
is no way to arrive at an estimate, ow-
ing to the disordered state all bust
ness at present suffers. All is confu-
sion. The city was astir early this
however, the water had re-
coded, and everybody armed with
buckets and brooms. worked like Tro-
jams.
Hundreds of bales of cotton fioated
through the Main streets and were car
ried out to sea.
At Fort Morgan located thirty-five
miles down the bay, the wind had a
much higher velocity than at Mobile
Towns along the Mobile Bay and
Shore road suffered immensely, owing
% their exposed condition. No word
rom any coast towns along the Louis
Vile & Nashville Road has reached
he city. There is no doubt that many
ives have been lost and severe dam
lge experienced both to residences and
business property. Along the gulf
coast there have been erected many
and modern residences,
ome costing $4,000 to $4,000.
The lowest barometer reading was
1854 at $50 a. M. Thursday morning. |
The barometer rose steadily from that |
Jour and at p. m. read 2S.41.
DeIuge Of Rain.
The rainfall was:
Sept. 25-12 hours. Ola inches.
Sept. 26-7 p. m. to Sept. p p. M,
.S3 inches.
Sept. 81 to p. M, 1.5O inches.
Total. SAT inches.
The average velocity of the wind,
s officially announced by the Wealth
r Bureau. was So miles an hour.
The Louisville & Nashville and Mo-
lie, Jackson & Kansas City railroads
hops were inundated. their machinery
nd interior sustaining heavy loss.
Fire luckily did not break out in
ne city. Had such been the case no
oubt Mobile would have had another
dditional terror to fight, which may
ave resulted in total destruction Of
he greater part of the city, owing to
he high winds.