Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-22
TRopIC STORM ON GULF COAST.
Considerable Damage Donc--No
Lives Have Been Reported Lost.

New Orleans, Sept. 20.-Consider-
able damage to property, Interrupt
ton of railroad traffic and the shut
ting OF of telegraphic communica-
ton were the result day Of a tropi-
cal storm, striking the gulf coasts of
Louisiana and Mississippi. No lives
were lost as far as can be ascertain
ed. The principal property to suf-
fer damage along the coast was bath
houses, fishing smacks, club houses
and other frail-conStructcd buildings
The trains of the Louisville and
Nashville were brought to Il stand
still at Chefmentour, 30 miles east
Of New Orleans, this morning by the
washing away of its tracks at that
point. Shortly before noon the wind
was reported to be abnormally high
at Chefmentcur, and the water was
rising rapidly. Grave fear is enter
tanned for the safety OF the railroad
bridge there
While nearly all points along the
Mississippi coast felt the force of the
hurricane, the wind apparently at
tanned its greatest velocity between
Lake Catherine and Waveland, Miss.
The principal damage done in New
Orleans was the partial destruction
OF the big horticultural hall at Au-
dubon Park this morning. The max
imum velocity attained by the wind
here to-day was Al miles an hour.
Telephone service has been seriously
impaired throughout the city.
Heavy Loss i'm Cuba.
Havana, Sept 20.-Telegraphi
wires and bridges between Havana
and Pinar Del Rio are still down,
and consequently it has been impos-
sible to ascertain the extent Of the
damage wrought by the storm last
week in that section. 1t has been
learned, however, that many hun
dreds Of peasants are destitute from
the destruction of their huts and
crops. The treasury is without ready
relief funds, and President Gomez
last night called a special session Of
congress for September "a, to make
relief appropriation. The total
loss in Pinar Del Rio is to-day esti-
mated at 100000.
Storm Felt at Beaufort.
Beaufort, s. c., Sept. 90 The
hurricane that swept over Cuba and
the gulf began to show itself along
| the coast here to-day. Many three,
| four and fivc-masted schooners. fear
| ing the tempest, are coming up un-
der the lea Of Cape Look out in search
| OF Il safe harbor.
WhaIvcS Swept Away.
asCagOula, Miss, Sept. 20.--This
coast has been in the throes Of a gulf
! storm all day, and dozen or more
| wharVcS have been swept away.
Damage at Bilovi.
BILOXI, Miss. Sept. 20.-Thc gulf
storm struck this city at 3 O'Clock
| this morning. 1t is estimated that
the high tide and the wind have
| wrought damage to property between
forty and fifty thousand dollars. Be
tween Beauvoir and Debuys 500
feet OF the track of the Gulf Coast
Traction Company is washed away.
People Driven from Homes.
Pensacola, Fla, Sept. 20-Sevc-
raj barges loaded with lumber lost
their cargoes, and two were sunk
| near the western beach here in to-
days storm. Small boats all along
the beach have been swamped and
pounded to pieces. Long RATS of
timber have been carried from stor-
| age boomS and are adrift in the bay.
Residents all along the bay shore
west of the city came up to the city
late this afternoon and tonight on
cars and are housed in the hotels and
with friends, leaving their homes to
the mercy of the elements. The tide
is higehr than known for many
years.
Grave Fears for New Orleans.
Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 2O.-AlI COM
munication with New Orleans and
lower Mississippi is cut out by the
gulf coast hurricane. All efforts to
reach the section are futile, and
much concern is felt for the safety
of New Orleans and ncighboring gulf
points.
The storm had. its origin below
Cuba and Porto Rico and reached
the gulf coast to-day. AT 4 O'CLOCK
it was blowing so miles an hour. and
at ) O'Clock buildings were suffering
and ii is reported inhabitants in Pla-
nuiminc parish had been driven from
their homes and were in danger of
their lives. At 9 tonight the last
wire went out, last reports saying
the storm WAS growing in intensity.
That whole section is now isolated
from the world. s.
AT New Orleans this afternoon the
waters Of the Mississippi river had
risen three feet above the usual
stage. New Orleans is it2 feet be-
low sea level and its protection Is
only lcvees and dykes.
In the Wake of the Storm.
Centering Tuesday night in Mis-
Sisippi, and sweeping north, at the
rate Of two hundred miles a day, the
hurricane which devastated the gulf
coast and left a trail of wreck and