Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-29
HURRICANE SWEpT COAST
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troll ni the military. Nobody Is per.
mittcd in the streets except newspn.
per men and persons wearing badges.
Much apprehension is fclt for subnr.
ban towns. 1t is feared they have
bccn oblitcrated. Tho cilnnccs arc
that Tho loss of life on Dnuphinc Is
lend IS heavy. Many fishermen live
on Dauphne Island AMI other outlying
marshy tracts. from which no tidlngs
fBlvc boon received.
Mobile Short of Food
Tho suffering in Mobile Is severe.
The humiliation of transportation IA.
scilitics has SHUT off all supplies. anu!
unless help reaches Mobile from the
outside soon great distress Will result.
Every church in Mobile was dam.
aged. The damage to Christ church
cathedral Is estimated at $4,000. ana
ST. Francis Street Rapiisut church at
10000
The revenue cutter Alert was ram.
med by Il vessel In Mobile river and
sank. Her crew is believed To hive
escaped. All wharvcs from FrascatI
street, tho extreme south end of tho
city. ms far up tho river as Three
Mile Crock. are wrecks. This !nal,idcs
the new Mobile and Ohio docks and
the Louisville ana Nashville docks.
Communication Cut OFF.
< Telesraphlc communicates is lie.
stroycd with no prospects Of wires for
several days, Electric light companies.
street railways, ana In fact all bnsi.
ness has been destroyed.
Numerous sawmills in the northern
and marshy regions have been either
washed away by tho terrific waves, or
torn to splinters by the winds.
| The harbor steamer James A. Car.
iney. plying between Mobile and the
Eastern Shore, Hes bcachel inst
across the river and opposite ST. Fran.
els street.
No News From Fort MORGAN.
Much fear Is entertained for Fort
Morgan, where the government ouar
anime station is situated and many
soldiers live.
Provisions are almost exhausted.
Restaurants feed many but have no
supplies on hand. Ham ana eggs CON
stitute their food supplies This. too,
VIII soon become exhausted Whole.
sale houses lost many thousands of
dollars from floOd aud willingly paid
MS high as $1.50 an hour for common
labor and earnestly begged men to ne.
cept such pay. so frantic were they to
save their goods.
Houses ToppIe Over.
Between o'clock Thursday evening
and Friday night, The houses we're
felled and the roofs washed under.
Through the streets, carried by the
terrific wind. were hurled thousands
OF Pieces of slate, strips OF tin roofing.
| cornices, shingles, and i'm fact all
kinds OF debris. Blinds were torn from
| their fastenings and windows smashed
| as though Of tissue paper.
Many persons were seriously injured
and cut by flying slate, lin and glass.
The offices of the Western Union
Telegraph company was six feet I'm.
ler water. Its batteries were flooded
and it will be some time before bust.
ness can be resumed. The Postal
| Telegrap building also suffered Sc
verely.
Hotels Badly Damaged.
The Cnwthorn hcteI, just completed
and the Bienvillo hotel, fncing Bicn.
vile square. are damaged TO the ex
tent of $4,000, each; the Windsor hotel
$4,000: st. Andrews. $4,000: tho South.
| ern, $500. The Southern Supply com
pany estimated its loss Mt 100000.
| The Merchants bank, the First Nh.
4 ttnnnt I'm Il r
1 were inundated.
Hundreds of bales Of cotton flnated
through the main streets and were
carried out to sea. Cotton not lost III
this way was damaged by muddy wa
| ter.
At Fort Morgan, 35 miles down the
bay, the wind had much higher We
locity than at Mobile. Towns alone
4 the Mobile and Bay Shore road suffer
ed Immensely, owing to their exposed
| situations.
| Coast Towns Suffered Severely,
/ No word from the coast towns alone
the Louisville and Nashville has beer
received. but there is little doubt thai
many lives we're lost and severe dam
age done to property. Along the e,il
coast there were many fashionable
residences.
The rain fall for two days was ca
i inches.
The average velocity of the wind, as
CRITICALLY announced by the weather
bureau, was So miles an hour. The
official maximum record in 1873 wa.
/ " miles an hour. Even with thi.
marked difference in wind velocity
this years storm did far greater dam
age to Mobile, because the wind O
i Thursday was of longer duration .ant
more like tornado, twisting right IL
II it's path =