The Jersey City news., 1906-09-29

fastenings and windows smashed as
though of tissue paper. Many persons
were seriously Injured and cut by fly
ing slate, tin and glass. The railroads
have started wreckers to clean up and
to repair tracks, but their task is diff
cult.
The Southern Supply company esti-
mated its loss at 100000.
Many Warehouses Flooded.
Over twenty-five wholesale houses
have sustained great damage by flood.
The Merchants bank, the First Ma
tional bank and the Lienkauff bank
were inundated
There is no way at present to arrive
at correct estimate of the losses ow-
ing to the disorder. All is confusion
Hundreds of bales of cotton fioated
through the main streets and We're car
ried out to sea. Cotton not lost in this
way was damaged by muddy water.
Towns along the Mobile and Bay
Shore road suffered immensely owing
to their exposed situations. No word
from the coast towns along the Louis
vile and Nashville road has reached
Mobile. There is little doubt that many
lives were lost and severe damage in
ficted on residences and business prop
erty.
Along the gulf coast there were many
fashionable residences, some costing
$4,000.
Fruit trees and fall vegetable crops
all over southern Alabama and Missis-
sippi are ruined; so also is the cotton.
sugar cane and other crops.
About twenty-five wrecked schoon-
ers on the gulf coast between here and
West Pascagoula, Miss, were observ-
ed by Louisville and Nashville rail-
road engineer on an inspection tour.
At Mcneil, Miss, j. M. Roberts was
killed by falling tree, and at Nc
Comb three persons were severely in
jured by the falling coping of hotel.
Captain ]. D. Sears, u. S. N, com
manding the Eighth lighthouse district.
has returned from trip down the
Mississippi river, which he made dur
ing the storm. He said that at all
places as far as the eye could reach
the land was under the tide water.
A Pensacola report, via Flomaton,
Ala, says the worst hurricane to visit
that city in its history ragged there furi-
ously all night, and with gale still
blowing the city presents wrecked
appearance
PensacoIa's Loss $5,o00,oo0.
The damage is estimateaeat $500O,-
600, and the loss of life will be heavy
among mariners, but SO far only one
body has been recovered, man nam
ed George Morgan, a fisherman. 9th
er bodies are reported along the shore,
but have not been recovered.
Thirty fishing vessels in port have
been destroyed or damaged, and the
three big fish houses. with their wharfs.
are gone. A1uscogee wharf and the
Commandancia and Tarragona wharfs
of the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road are badly damaged. Great iron
ships of two and three thousand tons
have been driven not only ashore, but
have gone through houses a block from
the water front.
Every house along the water front
for distance of ten miles has been de-
stroyed, and the wonder is that the loss
of life is not greater.
Lake Pontchartrain resorts suffered
heavily. Milneburg felt the force of
the storm, and there was 100000 loss
and much suffering during the early
hours The water was running several
feet deep through the streets. Several
families took refuge in railroad cars.
Every House Unroofed.
Every business house from the wharf
on Palafox street to the Union depot
has been unroofed, many plate glass
windows broken, stocks badly dam
aged and wires and poles all mixed up
together. There are no electric lights,
cars or telegraph or telephones.
Bayou La Batre, Coden Delchamps,
Theodore and Parkers, all in Alabama,
along the Mobile and Bay Shore rail-
road, suffered great damage. These
towns, besides being surrounded by
extensive truck farms, are popular
summer resorts.
Fears are expressed for the United
States guuboats De La Luzon and Ma
chias and the converted yachts Vixen
and Gloucester, off Pensacola.