The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-05
Pastor M. E. Church, South.
GREAT STORMS.
August S0th. 1772, Compared With SCI
 tember 26th, 190d.

August s0th. 1772. Compared With sep-
 tember 26th, 180d.
 Editor Advertiser.
 Pickets' History. vol. ?. page Il. has
 Mobile. August aoth, and septem- Der 3rd. in common with the whole of West. Florida, was visited, by the most awful storms. Vessels. boats and logs were driven up into the heart of the town. The violence of the winds fore ed the salt water over the, gardens. whs Ss sefav the S ss ap and again. at the distance of a half mile. like rain. All the houses were fill ed with water. several feet deep. and entirely through by schooner, which had broken from her moorings Upon the PascagouIa, the storm was equal ereSs furSus as o. The psntnsg d ms A larke crop of rice and corn was completely swept off. His dwellings were unroofed, his outhouse blown away For thirty miles up that river. the cypress trees were prostrated and the pines twisted into ropes. At Ba six weeks collecting and bringing home their cattle.
 A folon of Germans up. the Pasca- gould, fearing that another Noah's out for the Choctaw nation: but the abatement of the waters preceded their usually slow movements. The whole west coast was ravaged. A schooner. ish regiment on board, was driven to Cat Island, and. when under the west point, parted her cables. and was car stranded upon another. which bore the ] name of Treemason. There the crew remained Six weeks. and would have hsnsns Oat smasE SF hss hss ections of the currents of wind were passing strange.
 That from the Southeast drove the the bays. rivers and bayous to the west. being here enumerated by the winds. from the no stheast. "A body of water was violently forced into the delier. Grand Gazier and Briton Isles, and. not finding sufficient vents up the rivulets, nor down. the outlets of the aroysh aoy neM tRess sands The 'hss l being higher than the others, had all ts roots sarfaoe nf tSs biacS ana myrtle. which held much of the earth together, not vestige of 1t would have been left. All the shipping at the Ba- Spanish vessel there f~rted, and. the whole crew were drowned. The most extraordinary effects of this hurricane was the production of second crop of leaves upon all the mulberry trees, which had never happened before, This tree budded. foliaged, blossomed, and bore ripe fruit, within the brief space of four weeks after the terrible storm had passed away Other trees re- mained naked, until the following
 At this time. Governor Chester was at the head of the government of West Florida. He was universally es- teemed, and, under his auspices, the people prospered, and their valuable products continued to increase"
 Perhaps for all time, the gulf coast will be subject to violent storms which will endanger life and destroy prop erty.
 No one knows, but Galveston may have her great seawall swept away, and the lives of her people plotted out in few hours by the violence of the storm king.
 It is possible for many islands to be washed out of existence by future hur- ricanes The work of the late storm near Pensacola September 26th, 1906. shows what may be in store for small islands
 J. R. McLendon.