The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-29
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City IS Placed Under
Martial Law.
SHIPPING SUFFERS MOST
Business Section Covered by Seven
Feet Of Water.
Wholesale House. Lose Practically Ev-
erything uDrine the storm,
While Fear. are Felt for
the Lives of Mand.

Mobile, Sept, 29.--Between rs and
100 lives lost, fully two scores vessels
driven ashore or wrecked In various
parts of the gulf of Mexico, damage
amounting to $4,5O0,000 to the city Of
Mobile and to the extent of millions
or more at outside points is the record
of the storm which swept over Mobile
or Wednesday and Wednesday night.
No accurate estimate of the number
of the casualties can be made today
and II is doubtful If it will be known
Tor week or more
Grave apprehension exists regarding
the situation at Gulfport and Biloxi
where 1t is believed that many lives
have been lost. Reports from those
places are however, meagre and un-
satisfactory. 1t is declared by the local
municipal officials that no lives have
been lost in the city OF Mobile, but
that all of the deaths have occurred
in places within a radius of fifty miles
OF this place The dead as far as known
at present are as follows
At Navy Cove: Mrs. d. Ladimer and
two daughters
Alexander Johnson Henry Johnson,
At Codens
Mrs. Simon KIosky
Little grandson of Mrs Klosky.
Susan Creviliion, servant Of Mrs.
Klosky.
o. werneth
Mrs. o. Werneth.
Mrs. S. McRae; Miss McRae; Mrs
Hery Turner; Captain J. Stevans: three
Misses Alexander; Edward Hueland:
Mrs. Huelan; three Huelan children;
three unidentified bodies found on the
beach.
At Bayou Labatre:
Two brothers named Carraway.
At Alabama Port
Mrs Elijah Nelson.
At Delchamps.
Mrs. A. L. HAGEN. of New Castle. Pa,
and two children.
One unidentified; two unidentified
negro children; three negro men killed
by falling houses; Mrs. Henry War
wick.
List Of Boats Lost.
The following boats have been
wrecked or driven ashore in the vicin-
1ty of Mobile:
Tug Lebanon. barkentine Hornet, a
pile driver belonging to Holinger &
Co; a sloop and dredging boat of Ma
tiopai Dredging Company. schooner
Pendleton, of Pendleton Brothers of
New York; bark Trojan of Genoa, Italy;
barkentine Corrierre. steamer Josephine
ysloop Mineola, sloop olive. tug Over
ton. tug Hattie B. Moore. steamer Dali
shoota, schooner King of Avon, ship
Pher Finland, revenue launch Alert
sunk at sner mooringS.
The following steamers have been
damaged:
Nettie Quill, Mary.
In addition to these boats, fishing
smacks and small craft in great num-
bers have been driven ashore and
smashed. Three boats belonging to the
United Fruit Company. the Helen, Inn
perator and Colombia have not been
heard from, but 1t is believed that they
have ridden mt he ",
The storm which was first noticed
by the Weather Bureau when between
Jamaica and Cuba, made its appearance
in the neigrborhood of Mobile on Tues
day afternoon when fitful winds from
the north began to blow and the ba-
rometer commenced to fall.
The wind rose steadily all through
Wednesday and between 2 o'clock and
6 on the afternoon of that day blew
with a velocity of fOrty-eight miles
an hour. All through "Wednesday night
it rose steadily and at 7:15 on Thursday
morning II reached it's greatest speed,
blowing from the easterly quarter at
the rate of fifty-five miles, the barom-
seter falling to 2S. SO.
A few minutes after o'clock on
Thursday morning the wind decreased
and the barometer commenced to rise.
A total rainfall in the city of Mobile
during the storm was CTS inches.
WulAo Inc WIS at lJS height
the water from the bay was driven
With great force upon the city the
waves coming over the ends of the
vSharves six feet Deep Three blocks
up into the heart of the city the flood
was driven, filing every basement and
store in that section of the citv.
Water ON Commerce Street.
At Commerce street, which is the first
thoroughfare away from the docks. the
water rose in the stores to the height
of five and a half feet. The marks on
the buildings on Water street, which is
next to Commerce, show a depth of four
and half feet. The flood did not quite
reach Royal street, one square beyond
Water street. During the time the
storm was at it's worst, 1t was utterly
out of the question for the men along
the docks to do anything to save the
boats which they could see were being
slowly driven ashore. Tugs were sent
out In a number Of instances, but they
wehe not able to accomplish much I'M
til the storm abated somewhat
The damage in the city of Mobile
proper has been enormous. It was con-
ceded by some that there is not build
ing in the city which has not been dam
aged. In some instances the amounts
are a trifiing matter, such as shingles
Ripped of or a chimney blown down.
Some of the largest buildings in the city
have suffered severely. Prominent