The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-22
LIVES LOST ON COAST.
L. 4 n. In Heaviest Sufferer By the
storm.

L. d n. IN Heaviest Sufferer By the
storm.
Mobile, Sept. 21.--Some loss OF life by
the storm Is reported In the vicinity OF
Chef Menteur La.
The hurricane was severe at Gull
port, Miss, waves coming over the
mammoth pier and water going into
the city doing considerable damage.
At Biloxi, Miss, the big bridge over
the bay. used by the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Is out of commits
sion and some shipping has been dam
aged.
Nothing south Of Gulfport has been
heard from and in this locality the
hurricane Is supposed TO have centered.
Communication from Mobile to New
Orleans has been cut Off but message
to the Associated Press correspondent
there was sent from here to Fort MOT
gan via wireless. thence to steamer
Admiral Farragut at southw est lass
and relayed again to the steamer Car
tago, which was In port The New Or
leans steamer reported 10. K" on the
message.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company 10 the greatest sufferer by the
hurricane, its tracks and bridges be-
ing damaged from ocean Springs. Miss,
forty-four miles south OF mere; INTO
New Orleans and there Is an indefinite
here at . o'clock.
The first communication with New
Orleans by train was obtained at
o'clock this afternoon when the trains
leaving there last night arrived here
The hurricane damage around Mobile
and vicinity will not be more tnan $o'-
600, and no lives lost.
The steamer Pieafure Bay has not
been heard from since last night. She
had a number of people on board but
It 10 believed she has been beached on
some isolated place.
News from New Orleans.
New Orleans. Sept 21 (via Hatties-
burg, Miss)-The tropical hurricane
which yesterday swept the Gulf coast
OF Louisiana and Mississippi, leaving
In Its wake at least FIVE deaths and a
property loss OF perhaps more than
million dollars, left New Orleans still
practically shut on from communities
ton with the outside world by wire ct
noon today.
Railroad schedules have not yet been
righted and 1t Is problematical when
trains will arrive on anything like reg
ular time.
Reports of property damage along
the Gulf coast are very meagre. owing
to the utter lack OF communication in
that section. No loss OF life outside Of
New Orleans has yet been reported.
Overlooking waters, falling trees and
timbers and q possibility of parties be-
ing caught unawares in small crafts.
make It almost certain that the loss of
life will be swelled. The actual prop
erty damage to New Orleans will ev-
coed $250.00o.
Details Of the reported inundation of
sections Of Plaquemine and st. Ber-
nard parishes are still lacking.
Fifteen young men, who were among
passengers on the Louisville and Nash
willie train which has been tied UP at
Chef Mentuer, La. since yesterday
morning, left that place at daybreak
this morning and started for New Or
leans along the track Of the railroad.
For several miles they fought their way
against heavy odds. forced to wade and
sWi macross several washouts. They
were finally picked up in an exhausted
condition by a relief train that was I'M
able to get any farther out than
point about one mile this side Of Me-
chaud Station.
The party upon their arrival here re-
ported that over 400 passengers IN
Guiding many women and children. are
still tied UP at Chef Menteur without
ANYTHING 10 eat and unless reller Is
shipped them Immediately 1t Is assert
ed that the situation will become seri-
Gus. A relief train and small steam
boat have been sent to the scene.