New-York tribune., 1909-09-22
STORM KILLED TWELVE
PROPERTY LOSS WILL
REACH MILLIONS.
Great Hurricane Srept Path 400
Miles Vide at a Velocity of from
lSirty to4Ninetg.MiLeS an Hour.
IBy Telegraph to Tn. Tribune.

IRy Telegraph The Trbunel
Galveston Sept. 21.-Wireless messag ges to-
night give in disconnected sentences some Of
the story of the hurricane. It is the widest
hurricane IN the history Of the Gulf, the disturb
ance covering q path about four hundred miles
in width.
The water was backed up in the Mississippi
River more than six feet at a point five miles
inland. and at New Orleans the river rose four
feet. but the levees held Many structures in
New Orleans were unroofed and many buildings
badly damaged. while four were reported col
lapsing.
Seven deaths were reported from outlying dis
tricts and five more in New Orleans from live
wires and falling buildings. The Gulf Coast in
Louisiana and Alabama for seven hundred miles
was devastated a distance Of four TO sixty miles
inland. The destruction OF property and crops
is variously estimated up to $1.J0O000
The wind at Naw Orleans attained velocity
Of seventy eight miles hour in half minute
blows.
The Mallory liner Brazos from New York
reached Galveston tonight. She was delayed
ten hours by the hurricane. Captain w. F.
Evans commodore of the Mallory fleet. and
thrty-five years at sea, said he never encoun-
cred such a storm. For nearly sixty hours the
Brazos battled with the hurricane. which blew
seventy miles more hour and drove the
sea in waves thirty feet high the ship. The
New Orleans, Sept. 21 (via Hattiesburg, MissD.
The tropical hurricane which yesterday swept
the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Mississippi
caused the death of at least FIVE persons and
property loss of perhaps more than a million
dollars and left New Orleans practically shut
out from wire communication with the outside
world for twenty-four hours Railroad sched-
uIes are still disarranged.
Reports of property damage along the Gulf
of criD Cd 1-iro
vice. No loss of life outside of New Orleans
has vet been reported here. but Overfowng
waters falling trees and timbers and possi-
bility of parties being caught in small craft
make it almost certain that the death list will
be added 10.
Details of the reported inundation of sections
of Placquemine and ST Bernard parishes are
still lacking. Fifteen young men who were
among the passengers on the Louisville & Nash
VILE train which has been tied UP at Chef
Menteur. La. since yesterday morning left that
place to-day for New Orleans. walking along
the track Of the railroad
For seven miles they fought their way against
heavy odds and were forced 10 wade and swim
across several washouts. They finally
picked up by a relief train that was unable to
get any farther out than point about one
mile this side of Mechaud Station.
The party upon their arrival here reported
/
| ing many women and children. are still tied UP
at Chef Menteur without anything to eat and
unless relief IS sent to them Immediately the
| situation will become serious. relief train
and small steamboat have been dispatched 10
! the scene
Jackson Miss. Sept 2t.-Two persons were
killed by falling wallis last night a the result
Of the storm which swept portions of Missis-
sippi Yesterday. The east dome of the Capitol
building crushed in and number Of upper
| rooms were flooded. Hundreds of buildings were
unroofed.
It is believed that other lives have been lost
and property damaged to the extent of several
| million dollars. Wires down in all direc-
| tiOns, and Jackson has been almost entirely cut
off from the outside world since midnight. Train
| service is crippled and no passenger trains have
| reached this city over the Illinois Central from
the South since Monday afternoon.
It was a sIeepless night for the entire popuTa-
| tion of Jackson. and when morning came they
! found the streets strewn with debris electric
| light and telephone wires in hopeless jumble
and evidence Of property loss that will amount
TO many thousands of dollars.
| Meagre reports coming in from South Mis-
sissippi and all carry similar story of the dam
age inflicted I'm Jackson, save that the destruc-
! tiOn was much more extensive as the coast
| approached. 1t is believed that the timber de-
struction will equal that OF four years ago. when
| more than S5,O00,000 worth of timber was felled
Along the coast the water frontage was swept
clear of piers and wharves from Pascagoula to
| Bay St Louis and the damage to the cities and
towns in that section will amount 10 more than
! $J000O0 1t is feared that many vessels broke
| from their moorings and were carried out 10
| sea.
Both of the power plants in jackson were put
| out of commission before midnight last night
and the city was plunged in total darkness
! Power service was partially restored this morn
| ing.