The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-30

Every Town of Mississippi sound SUI
fered Heavily

Every Town of Mississippi sound suf-
fered Heavily.
| New Orleans Sept. 2s.--Hourly the
accounts of the magnitude of Thurs
days storm in Mississippi became
more serious today as the interrupted
ltelegraphic communication with that
State was resumed in every direction.
Town after town in the interior wired
here that buildings had Deen blown
down, lives endangered and crops
blown fiat in the fields
| Simultaneously there arrived an
enumeration of an almost unbroken
| line of wreckage of shipping on the
gulf coast in the direction of Mobile.
However, all reports of this situation
ended abruptly at a point about Atty
miles west of Mobile, In addition to
the shipping washed ashore on the
mainland lrst reports came In today
| of vessels wrecked or stranded on the
chain of islands out In the gulf which
form the Mississippi Sound
The little news which arrived here
! from the Mississippi river delata adj
ded to the property damage reported
there, but although the lower end of
the delta had been submerged as far
| as the eye could reach and although
steamers coming up the river reported
that they passed floating household
goods, no loss of life was reported. It
may be several days before the de-
| tails are learned about the fishing and
oyster country In the low delta lands,
which are isolated even from quaran-
tine and pilot towns, the only places
on the lower river having telegraphic
Communication with this city.
Despite the large loss of shipping
on the coast the towns and health re-
sorts near the waters edge suffered
almost NO damage up to the fifty milo
radius out of Mobile. Reports which
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
received from within this radius said
that several miles of track have prob
ably been washed away between
/ Scranton. Miss, and Mobile.
| Between West Pascagoula and
Scranton where the railroad bed was
built over a marsh about two miles
away 1.-THE loss incurred by the rail-
road has not been estimated.
In the Mississippi River delta the
damage to Fort st Philip was reported
by two pilots who made a trip UP the
river Immediately after the storm,
They said that backwater from the
gulf covered the land in the vicinity
| of the fort for distance of five miles
along the river At a point seventy
three miles down the river they said
| the hurricane tide opened a hole in the
Mississippi River levee and it was not
| until late Thursday afternoon that the
gulf water stopped flooding through
this break.
The pilots also brought complaints
from orange growers that about so per
cent. of the oranges were blown from
the trees.
The captain of the steamer Ell Cid
from New York. said when his ship
passed up the river yesterday after
noon he saw the inhabitants of cabins
which had been unroofed and in some
cases Hooded, pursuing usual household
duties. He saw no evidence of loss of
life
The Ell Cid reported that on Septem-
Der "a, when twelve miles south of
Diamond Shoals, a three-masted schoon-
er was sighted lying on her starboard
side and that twenty-four miles south
of the shoal a dismasted water-logged
schooner of about 700 tons displace-
ment was sighted. Launches have been
sent by newspapers and business men
from here to Mobile and Pensacola and
in event of other communications fail
ing these launches will be used as dis
patch boats.
Reports from Hattiesburg, Miss, were
that the town suffered about $500, 900
damage from wind and water During
lHG tdtlGI part OF the OiOW there was
such a quantity of wreckage in the
streets that few persons attempted to
walk about. The fire department was
called out in the vicinity of Gordon
Creek to rescue women and children
imprisoned in their homes by an over
flow of the creek. Five buildings were
blown down, one of them being a large
warehouse The First National Bank
was unroofed
+, Brookhaven reported that an engine
and a caboose the latter carrying a
theatrical troupe ran, into a washout
on the Mississippi Central railroad near
the town. Five trainmen were injured
three prehaps fatally.
Many reports from Mississippi are
apprehensive about the rural negro
population, saying that their little
cabins have been blown down by
scores. All reports thus far received
agree that damage to the cotton crop
will be the most serious result of tho
storm in Mississippi The loss is esti-
mated at twenty to twenty-five per
cent
On the Mississippi gulf coast, in ad-
dition to the twenty-five small schoon-
ers reported wrecked last night, Snip
and Cat Islands in Mississippi Sound
have five wrecked parks on their
shores The barks Nurcnourg and Her
cules are reported as total wrecks. The
Norwegian bark, name made out as
Sigrav was partly dismantled. An
American bark, name given as Forine.
was ashore and pounding to pieces.
During the storm at Bay ST Louis.
a small schooner is reported to have
cut her way through several light piers
and then to have knocked a bath house
off the piling on which it stood
Reports from the 100 miles of gulf
coast through which the l.. & N, open
ed communication last night say there
is an apparently well founded rumor
that several men were crowned during
the hurricane while attempting to save
their boats.