Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-10-03
'60 lives lives lost IN N STORM STORM.
SEVERAL Towns ARE COMPLETELY WIPED
Is OFF OF MAP BY THURSDAYS GALE.
COTTON CROP TOTALLY DESTROYED
In Path Of the Hurricane -Roalroads Washed
Away--Telephone Lines are Down.
No Reports from Rural Districts.

III rdtn VI tn6 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. WdS0eO
Away--Teiephone Lines are Down.
No Reports from Rural Districts.
Mobile, Alabama, October 1.-Inde-
ser:5abie scenes attended the hurricane
Thursday. Whole blocks of buildings
were swept away, 5000 homes were
wrecked and their inmates are wander
ing through the streets breadless and
while the loss of life is considerable.
The city was almost totally inundated.
Looters ransaoked residences and mar
tial law was declared Friday. The wind
reached velocity of 90 miles ali hour.
The loss of life is believed to be mainly
among negroes. Much apprehension is
felt for the suburban towns. Il is feared
they have been obliterated.
The suffering in Mobile is severe. The
annihilation of transportation facilities
has shut off all supplies and unless help
reaches Mobile from the outside world
soon great distress will result.
Every church in Mobile was damaged.
| Numerous saw mills in the northern
and marShy regions have been either
torn to splinters by the wind. Their lum-
ber and timbers are to be seen scattered
over the city and floating down the
slowly falling river.
All saloons were ordered closed imme-
diately after the storm.
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It has been "officallys' given out -
NO outside aid will be needed. W
In portions of the cotton belt visited
by the hurricane, reports say the cotton
crop has been totally destroyed.
Things are settling down and busi-
ness was partially resumed here Satur-
day. The city is clearing the streets Of
the debris. Street cars, on few lines,
were started up yesterday afternoon. Tho
Postal and Western Union telegraph
lines are gradually being put in shape.
Codep, Ala and Bayou LaBatre have
been wiped off the map, and only one
ishouse is left standing at Coden. Among
! the dead are some of the most prominent
people of the coast.
The entire west shore below Mobile is
completely devastated, tidal waves hav-
| ing been driven far into the interior,
wrecking every hut and building in its
way
Many bodies have been recovered. 1t
Is estimated that 100 have been killed or
drowned in Mobile and suburbs.
Terrible Disaster at Pensacola.
Pensacola, Fla, October 1.-The vast
ness of the destruction wrought by the
hurricane on Thursday morning is now
being realized Twenty-Five are known
to have been drowned.
Searching parties are tearing away the
debris strewn along the beach In order to
rescue the buried bodies. Looters fol-
lowed in the wake of the hurricane and
ffty extra policemen are on guard. Calls
for charity have been issued to assist the
poor and everything has been done to re-
| lieve the 1000 homeless.
Santa Rosa quarantine station, across
the bay from the oity, has been demol-
ished. There we're eight seamen in the
hospital there from British steamer.
The hospital building was carried away.
The eight men clnng to the roof. Five
were washed upon this side, after night
drowned, with two nurses.
The United States naval station has
been destroyed. Fort Pickens, one of
the most modern forts of the country,
has been badly damaged.
The Fifteenth Company of Artillery
deserted barracks and post with their
families and sought the batteries, climb
ing to the highest point and lashing
themselves to the guns and projecting
pieces.
Fort McRae, on the point opposite Fort
| Pickens, has been wiped out almost COM
pletely The United States naval sta
tion, nine miles from the city, has been
greatly damaged. lives lost and naval
vessels sunk. The Gloucester is in shoTo
200 yards. The wash stranded the Isle
DeSullen. The tug Accomac is o COM
plete wreck.
Fourteen foreign vessels are beached.
Twenty-Five tug boats are beached.
Several sunk.
The fishing loss will numb at least 25
boats, while the lighter launches, plea
sure craft and others will number fully
one hundred.
The estimated loss of property is five
million dollars. The loss of life will be
heaviest among the mariners. The wind
blew so and 90 miles an hour. Great iron
ships were rammed through horses a
block from the water front.
The tides from the bay backed into the
city for blocks, destroying homes and
making rivers out of streets. When the
gale was at it's highest, and women and
children were running frantic about the
streets In darkness, the alarm of fire was
sounded, and this added to the confu-
sion. The horses of the fire department
refused to 60 out in the weather. With
the tin roofs flying about them, trees and
wires falling over them, the firemen took
their hose wagons by hand and rushed
down the streets to the scene, and, after
hours of work, controlled the blaze.
Only Corpses and Wreokage at Pensacola.
Pensacola, October 2.--It is difficult to
give any adequate idea of the magnitude
of the storm devastation hero. The en-
tire water front is mass of tangled
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