The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-10-04

| Coast has experienced since the town OF
Pensacola on San Rosa Island was
swept away one hundred and seventy
years, ago, occurred on Wednes-
day and Wednesday night. Every
house in the city has suffered much
| the city, where the tide has never been
Telegraph and telephone and electric
light wires are a tangled mass the
water front is strewn with wreckage
for miles on either side Of the city,
and vessels are piled on the wharves,
Or where the wharves were in utter
ruin.
Big iron steamers and many larger
sailing ships are now lying high up IN
the city, where the tide has never been
known to reach before, and every
wharf for miles around has been swept
away or is damaged beyond repair. 1t
is reported that many lives between
the city and navy-yard have been lost,
but no definite details can be secured.
It is known, however, that many Of
the houses in that section are under
| from five to ten feet of water and
many women have been taken from
the second-story windows and carried
to safety in boats.
The scenes in parts Of the city al
most beggar description, and the
streets are strewn with timbers, tin
rofing and broken glass.
Mobile, Ala.-Between Is and 100
lives lost, fully two score vessels
driven ashore or wrecked in various
parts of the Gulf of Mexico, damage
amounting to 50, 100000 in the city Of
Mobile and to the extent of millions
IF more at outside points is the record
IF the storm which swept over Mobile
On Wednesday and Wednesday night.
No accurate estimate of the number
IF casualties can be made and it IS
doubtful if it will be known for a
| week or more.
Grave apprehension exists regard
| ng the situation at Gulfport and BIZ
oxi, where it is believed that many
lives have been lost. Reports from
hose places, are however, meager AID
| unsatisfactory. 1t is declared by the
ocal municipal officials that no lives
nave been lost in the city of Mobile,
out that all Of the deaths have oc-
cured in places within radius of
fifty miles of this place. The dead as
Ear as known at present are as fol
ows:
| At Navy Cove, Mrs. D. L. Admir-
In dtwo daughters.
Alexander Johnson, Henry Johnson.
At Coden, Mrs. Simon Klosky, little
grandson Of Mrs. Klosky.
| Susan Crevillieff, servant Of Mrs.
! Klosky.
| O. Werneth, Mrs. O. Werneth, Mrs.
Is. McRae Miss McRae, Mrs. Henry
Turner, Capt. ]. Stevens, three Miss
IS Alexander, Edward Huelald, Mrs.
Hueland, three Hueland children,
.nree unidentified bodies found on the
beach.
| At Bayou La Batre, two brothers
named Carraway.
At Alabama port, Mrs. Elijah
Nasef.
At Del Champs, Mrs. Al Hasen Of
New Castle, Pa, and two children
| One unidentified woman.
Two unidentified negro children.
| Three negro men, killed by falling
bouses.
Mrs. Harry Warmack.
| The storm, which was first noticed
by the weather bureau when between
Jamaica and Cuba, made its appear
ance in the neighborhood of Mobile
on Tuesday afternoon, when ftful
winds from the north began to blow
and the barometer commenced to fall.
The wind rose very rapidly, and on
Wednesday, and between 2 and G
o 'clock in the afternoon Thursday
blew with velocity Of forty-eigh!
miles an hour.
All through Wednesday night il
rose steadily, and at 7:15 on Thursday
morning reached its greatest speed
blowing from the easterly quarter al
the rate Of .fifty-fve miles, the baron
eter falling to 2S.86. A few minutes
after s O clock Thursday morning the
local rainfall in the city Of Mobile
during the storm was COS inches
During the storm at its height, The
water from the bay was driven il
great force upon the city, the wave,
covering the ends Of the wharves sis
/ feet deep.
| The city is under martial law an
no one is allowed to enter the whole.
sale district. Tho entire wholesale
| district from Royal street to the rivel
is inundated to a depth of seven feet
| Wharves from the extreme south enc
| Of the city and as far up the river d.
Three Mile creek are total wreck