The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
MOBILE STORM SWEPT.
Wind Blows water Up Into Streets
 Of <Csty.

Wind Blows Water Up Into Streets
 Of >City.
 Mobile. Sept. 20.-Mobile has been in the throes of the tropicaI storm all day, but only mildly till after night fall. There has been 8 heavy and continuous rainfall all day, but the wind has been moderate all during the day, with short gusts of about thir- ty miles velocity.
 Tonight at o'clock the weather bu- reau reported that the wind was blow ing twenty-four miles an hour. but 1t increased hourly in velocity and at II D. m. was blowing at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. -The river was backed up to Water street Two blocks from the rivers edge and con- tinued to rise.
 The streets are full of people watch ing the progress of the storm. There has as yet been no Interruption to street car traffic or electric lighting; some telephones have gone out of bus mess The popu1ace has been nervous all day long and the telephones in the newspaper offices have been ringing continuously.
 The Mobile and Bay Shore train ar- rived here tonight from the south beach loaded with people. It was there that so many lives were lost in the tropical storm of September 26, 1906. Long distance messages just received from Point Clear on the east ern shore state that everything is all right over there. The local office or the weather bureau was ordered at e:sO o'clock tonight to change the storm warning to hurricane warning, with indications that the winds will increase from the southeast and tides rise higher.
 Waves mountain high at o'clock tonight were washing over the Biloxi Mississippi railroad bridge. one man is reported to have been washed off the Biloxi bridge. He was seen call ing for help and shortly afterwards disappeared. '
 At II ?. m. the water was entering the Western Union Telegraph office. The wind has changed and Is blowing the water straight onto the city. In- dications now point to a storm of se- were proportions.
 The water Is now within half a block of Royal street, the highest point reached in the storm of 1906. An Associated Press representative has iust returned from the south side Of the city and reports the entire river front for several blocks submerged. The streets are crowded with occu- pants of houses adjacent to the river front, The Western Union Telegraph office is now two inches deep In wa. ter and flooding fast. The Louisville and Na8hVIiIS paSScnBeF uoPOt ID AA undated and no trains running. At l2:15 o'clock this morn ing the weather bureau re- ports the velocity of the wind from twenty-four to thirty-eight miles an hour. blowing in gusts, compared with a velocity of fifty miles an hour in 1908. The weter--ig still rising and ct this hour, 1 a. m., is running into the Western Union Telegraph ofice. corner Water and St. Francis streets, three blocks from the river.
 The new Louisville and Nashville depot at the foot of Government street is inundated and Commerce street, through which, trains enter and leave the city is Inundated for its entire length along ithe- city water front. No trains were operatsd out of Mobile over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad last night. onicials say they iwin possibly get No. back as No. q