The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21

bile awaiting developments from the water bound coast.
 Train No. due in Mobile at 12:40 o'clock today IS held water bound at Bay St. Louis, another train being made up out of New Orleans via the New Orleans and Northeastern and into Mobile.
 Train No. was made up at Mobile and sent on north to Montgomery to keep traffic north moving but traffic to the south is paralyzed.
 All the afternoon high winds have swept the city accompanied by rain. The water Is high in the river and un- less the wind changes from the south east an overflow of the banks of the river Is expected.
 What few vessels were left at the wharves this morning all moved up the river this afternoon and all cars with freights in them were moved from the river front. Wholesalers along the river front have moved their goods into high stories of their buildings and business IS practically suspended awaiting developments from the storm.
 wireless message from steamer in the gulf received this afternoon stated that the wind was blowing sev- enty-five miles an hour while mes sages from Fort Morgan at the mouth of Mobile Bay are to the effect that the wind is blowing there at rate of fifty miles.
 Omctal information received" at the weather bureau is to the effect that Mobile will escape the brunt of the storm and that only a small portion of the storm will reach Mobile. the storm passing around this city.
 Wind in New Orleans.
 New Orleans, Sept. 20.-ConsiderabIe damage to property. interruption of railroad traffic and the shutting off of telegraph communication were the re- suits today of tropical storm strik ing the Gulf coasts of Louisiana and Mis- sissippi.
 No lives were lost so far as can be ascertained. The principal property to suffer damage along the coast was bath houses. fishing smacks, club houses and other frail constructed building.
 The trains of the Louisville and Nashville were brought to a standstill at Chef Menteur, thirty miles east of New Orleans this morning by the wash ing away of it's tracks at that point. The wind was reported to be abnor- mally high at Chef Menteur and the water rose rapidly. Grave fear is en- tertained 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 attained It's greatest velocity between Lake Catherine and Waveland. Miss.
 The principal damage done in New Orleans was the partial destruction of the big horticultural han at Audubon Park this morning.
 The maximum velocity attained by the wind here today was forty-one miles an hour. Telephone service has been seriously impaired throughout the city.
 The one warning issued by the weather bureau here this morning said:
 "Advisory-Wes half coast stations, S:20 a. m., tropical disturbance appar- ently moving northwestward into Lou isiana."
 Telegraph wires along the Missis- sippi Gulf coast are out of commission. Communication In this direction ceased entirely shortly before noon.
 At 2 o'clock this afternoon the local office of the United States weather bu- reau stated that the full intensity of the hurricane in this section has ap- parently not yet been reached. The barometer continues to fall.
 Communication by telephone or tele- graph with many points in Louisiana has now been cut off. Indications are that the storm is rapidly moving north westward.
 About four miles of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad tracks in the vicinity of Chef Menteur were under water this afternoon
 Officials of the road state that the re- sumption of traffic over the line Is in- definite.
 passenger train of the Louisville and Nashville was today sent out over the tracks of the New Orleans and Northeastern via Hattiesburg and Gulf port. Miss.
 Coast Line wrecked.
 Biloxi. Miss. Sept. 20.-The Gulf storm struck this city at o'clock this morning, with the wind blowing forty miles an hour. continuing to increase in intensity till 1t reached sixty miles an hour at o'clock this evening, and