The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-21
Property Damage Amounts to $1OO,OOO h tit and
 the Suburbs
MOBILE FEELS EFFECTS
 OF TROPICAL STORM
Pensacola and Biloxi Are Severely Af- fected by the Hurricane and Property Loss is Great
 But With no Deaths.

New Orleans, September 20-After at- taining a velocity of 60 miles an hour at New Orleans at o'clock tonight the West Indian hurricane, which struck the Louisiana and Mississippi gulf coast has been reduced at late hour tonight in it's intensity. It left in its wake four dead at New Orleans and perhaps others along the gulf coast, though no definite advices of mortality in other sections have thus far been received here. The property loss in New Orleans will exceed s1OO. ooo and many houses were unroofed and frail buildings in numerous instances were partially destroyed. With all wires down It is impossible to ascertain the loss of life or property along the gulf coast At a late hour tonight the tracks of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. which have been inundated some 20 miles east Of New Orleans, have not been fully re- paired, and it is impossible to say when a resumption of traffic will begin It is presumed, however, that the trains of this road will run into New Orleans bv tomorrow.
 The list of dead at New Orleans:
 Victor Pujol, street railway inspector, killed by live wire.
 James Garrettson, foreman street rail- way company killed by live wire.
 Charles Schultz, killed by falling smoke stack at Louisiana brewery.
 John Arends, killed by live telephone wire.
 Steam ferry Assumption sank at the head of Napoleon avenue no lives lost. Considerable property damage was done along the river front
 The storm apparently moved inland to soutnwestern Louisiana. Velocity of wind at New Orleans was the most in- tense in the history of the local weather bureau.
 Mobile In Throes of Storm.
 Mobile, September 2O-Mobile has been in the throes of the tropical storm all day, but only mildly till after nightfall. There has been a heavy and continuous rainfall all day, but the wind has been moderate all during the day, with short gusts of about 30 miles velocity. Tonight at o'clock the weather bureau reported lHdt lilc WlliQ WAS DlONlHS A IllleeS an hour but it has been increasing hourly in velocity and at this hour, Il D. in, blowing at the rate of 36 miles an hour. The river is now backed up to Water street, two blocks from the rivers edge, and the water continues to rise. The streets are full of people watching the progress of the storm. There has as yet been no interruption to street car traffic or electric lighting; some tele- nhOnpS have gone oi1t of buSipass Tho populace have been nervous all day long and the telephones in the newspaper of fees 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 mes sages just received from Point Claer on the eastern shore state that everything is all right over there. The local of- flee of the weather bureau was ordered at 9:90 o'clock tonight to change the storm warning to hurricane warning, with indications that the winds will increase from the southwest and tides rise higher. The barometer here has been gradually falling all day and at this hour is 29. 63 and is still falling.
 At 12 15 this morning the weather bu- reau reports the velocity of the wind from "A to 2S miles an hour, blowing in gusts compared with velocity of 55 mil es an hour in 1906. The water Is still rising and at this hour, a. m, Is running into the Western Union telegraph office, corner Water and St. Francis streets, three blocks from the river. The new Louisville and Nashville depot at the foot of Gov ernment street Is inundated, and Com merce street, through which trains enter and leave the city, is inundated for its entire length along the city water front. No trains were operated out of Mobile over the Louisville and Nashville rail- road last night. Officials say they will possibly get No. 5 back as No. 4 some time today (Tuesday), but 1t is doubtful. The Louisville and Nashville tracks for T distance of about six miles, three north and three south of the center of the city, are under water. Merchants doing busi- ness along Commerce and Front streets having ample notification of the coming of the storm have placed all their goods upon shelving above high water mark, so there will be practically no damage in the wholesale district from water. An effort was made to get into wireless communica- tion with New Orleans, but there was no operator on duty at the station. the horse going belly deep in water to get to and from the station, which Is located in the southern part of the city. In the south end of the city near the water front, the streets are full of people and household effects, regardless of the show CTS of rain. Every house is wide open and few seem to be sleeping. The trackon the Henny, which was wrecked during the storm of 1906, while in tow of a tug boat parted her cable last night and was thrown against the Dauphin street wharf Numbers of large fish have been driven up by the storm and number of them have been captured in the street. There have been no casualties heard of up to this hour Both the bay boats-the Pleas ure Bay and Carney-went across the bay this afternoon in the teeth of the gale and were reported safe last night. The weather bureau has posted bulletin that the heaviest brunt of the storm will strike here about 4 o'clock this morning. In 1906 the storm ragged heaviest between and a. m.
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