Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-28

Despite the anxiety here tonight, how
ever, there was a general belief that few
n any lives have been lost. This hopefulness
was due to the fact that the coast in-
habitants had two days warning of the
approaching storm. All reports from these
places last night were to the effect that
the water was rising and the inhabitants
preparing for emergencies.
The fun extent of the isolation of New
Orleans today from other gulf ccuters was
apparent IN a lull in business. especially in
wholesale circles.
BY long distance telephone New Orleans
could reach only Baton Rouge and Houston.
I Tex, while the available telegraph wires
ran to Galveston, Houston and to Memphis
Railroad service north and west was un-
interrupted,
Steamer CameIia Missing.
No news has been received from the
steamer Csmelia. which, at the beginning
of the hurricane last night, had crossed
Lake Pontchartrain and was about to lard
forty passengers at Milneberg, but was
forced to run back without making its dock
and to recross the lake Nearly all the ports
/ where the Camelia might have stopped for
! shelter have been cut off from communica-
! tion with New Orleans today
/ officials of the Louisville q Nashville
! railroad this afternoon said there was HIT
tie likelihood of, any trains arriving or
leaving New Orleans. They said the
/ northwest wind was washing the sea over
the tracks at Lake Catherine for a dis
tance of two miles and that it is mpOs-
sible to do any work of reconstruction
~ atiI the wind abates. Louisville & Nash
~ officials say they were absolutely
~ IT advices as to the situation on their
n It of Lake Catherine
sgh the wireless station here man
ageI 10 speak with steamers 300 miles cut
in the gulf of Mexico today, and as far
east as Key West, no answer returned
TO calls for the wireless station at PEN
sacola. The steamers far out in the gulf
reported calm sea.
Passengers arriving here over the Illinois
Central tonight said that while the train
was stopping at McComb. Miss, a hotel
had collapsed in a windstorm there, killine
two persons. They said that heavy wind
was encountered at McComb. They had nc
further details.
Hurricane strikes Pensacola.
/ PENSACOLA, Fla, Sept. 27.-The worst
sea storm and hurricane that the gull
coast has experienced since the village o
Pensacola on San Rosa island was swep
away 10 years ago. began last night ant
is still raging late this afternoon. 1t is re
ported that many lives between the cit!
and the navy yard have been lost but al
many rumors of this character have beeI
current all day the report does not Obtain
credence It is known. however. that man!
OF the houses in that section are unde
from five to ten feet of water and man!
persons have been taken from second-stor!
windows and carried safely to boats.
/ 1.,.,, ie
co., Every house in Pensacola has suffered
! damage and many roofs are blown of
Telephone and electric light wires ar
) among the mass. The water front Is strewi
with wreckage for miles on either side o
the city and vessels arc piled on tn
wilarves or where the wharves once were
, in utter ruin. Big iron steamers and man
lighter sailing ships are lying high and DIR
{ up in the city, where. the tide has neya
) before been known to reach Every whar
{ for miles around has been swept away o
is damaged beyond repair. The electri
4 power was shut of at o'clock this morn
e ing. There is no stret car traffic and com
: munication with the outside world Is prac
o ticslly cut off The streets of Pensacol
e are strewn with timbers. tin roofing an
d broken glass. This dispatch. with othe
d telegraphic matter is being carried I
=
8 manager, who makes the trip by train :
! ascertain the exact extent of the damag
4 done elsewhere. It is feared great havo
!, and loss of life will be shown when report
a from the entire section along the coast ca
be gathered.
ATLANTA. Ca, Sept. S7--The Wester
Union Telegraph company tonight repoI
: that the wind is still very high at Per
: : sacola, blowing from the gulf The ind
:, cations are for several hours continuanc
OF the storm.
a storm Moving NOrthward.
: WARRINGTON, Sept. 27.-Belated T,
\ ports to the weather bureau tonight froi
:, Pensacola Fla, announce that the gu
hurricane passed inland west OF there, til
= winds reaching eighty-eight miles an hor
: at Pensacola. The storm is probably Ger
tered tonight in south central Mississippi
!, 1t Is believed to be decreasing In energ
and the weather bureau predicts that
will move slowly northward during II
next twenty-four hours An Increase
!" the energy of the storm, however, is e.
. pected by the bureau when the dlsturbant
= reaches the lower lake region. Its prol
y able course during the next twenty-fot
hours will be northward through Tenne
see and Kentucky into the Ohio valley
N Prof Albert j. Henry. the foreca
'e official in charge of the weather. burea
tonight explained that as the storm pr
= crosses inland IL may be expected to sho
D gradual diminuton of strength. TT
Id cutting of of communication with nun
t' Der of points Handicapped the weather o
D. sicials In determining the precise center
the storm. The belated Pensacola advic
mentioned were sent during the day. Ii
T. regular night report being missing and
~ night reports were received for Mssi
m sippi. Louisiana or southwestern Alabam
N The station reports missing tonight a
~ Pensacola Mobile, Vicksburg, New o
~ leans. Shreveport and Meridian