The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-09-30
MILLIONS IN PROPERTY LOSS
HURRICANE HAD FORCE TO
SWEEP AWAY TIMBER.
Complete Tis-Up Of Railroads Only
Mesger Means Of Communication
With Stricken Section.

1 WIN otrtcheh oothohs
Memphis, renn.-With lines Of com
munication still interrupted, and with
practically no information whatever from
any but the larger cities, IL 10 sov
known that the equinoctial gale has
covered all the coast country from Flor
ida to Texas, extending with its full
force as far north as the Alabama bound
AIRY, through Southern Mississippi and
Louisiana, and up the river A. far {"
hatcher and Vicksburg. Later the storm
turned northward with diminishing force,
touching at jackson, Miss, giving Mem
phis a touch Of its tail, and passing on
TO Nashville and Louisville aud expend-
ing itself in the Ohio valley.
II is now established that none Of the
great cities in the path Of the storm suf-
isred any appalling disaster, though Of
course they were all hit and damaged TO
certain extent. II l. not known that
any lives were lost at Pensacola or Mo
bile. There is some loss OF life reported
at Chef Mentcur, few miles east from
New Orleans. There were a few lives
lost at New Orleans and Jackson, Miss.
At all these places and az all places OF
less Importance there was destruction Of
property.
Fear for the Interior.
But as to the interior country the
greatest apprehension has been enter
tanned. aud from all that area there has
been absolutely no information. Telc-
griph aud telephone wires are down. The
railroads are out OF commission, with
not a single wheel turning In all that
vast extent Of country. And 80 tho
hurricane was accompanied by heavy
rainfall. Il - 20 be assumed that the
country roads are ovcgGowcd. washed
away and deprived Of bridges, while
throughout the vast stretches of piney
woods IL is TO be supposed that fallen
trees have encountered the roads so a.
to make them impossible even Il they
had not been destroyed by the deluge Of
water.
AZ soon as the telegraph lines along
the railroad rights Of way shall have
been restored II viii be possible to oh
tain news from the interior points. The
only route Of telegTaphic messages out
Of New Orleans during Tuesday even
ing WAS by an impro,ised ser,ics via
Hattiesburg.
But from New Orleans IL was possible
to get but little light on the situation
beyond the immediate vicinity Of New
Orleans, for that city has been cut OF
from its surrounding country. Il was
learned that after the first force Of the
storm had spent itself in New Orleans,
demolishing some buildings, with loss
II perhaps . million dollars. and with
the lo.. Of four lives, the storm did no
further serious damage in the city.
Damage in Mississippi.
From points in Southern Mississippi
and along the Mississippi river comes
strong confirmation Of these fears. Dam
pge was wrought at Nicksburg, Matches,
jackson and McComb city. and Il IL
ominously stated that the storm swept
over the timber country Of South Mis-
sssippi with cyclonie force, Telling the
trees that constitute the wealth Of that
section. IL was through that same eoun-
try that cyclones Of recent years have
passed, carrying death and destruction.
Information rom Jackson l. TO the ef-
feet that the storm had force enough
20 damage the new and the old capitol
buildings, than which there are no
stsncher structures in the state. At Me
Comb City the railroad buildings were
injured by the winds and freight cars
were lifted from the tracks. That being
the case. II il evident that the hurricane
was possessed Of a strength sufficient to
carry devastation over all the interior
country through which il may have
swept.
Riviera Swept by Gale.
Down on the gulf coast the damage
was widespread. That part Of Missis.
sippi has been POLITICALLY referred 20 ss
the Riviera Of America. For hundreds Of
miles IL is lined with summer homes,
fronting on the ordinarily placid waters
Of the Mississippi sound, hidden behind
ancient oak trees, whose expanding
branches are laden with festOons of
Spanish moss. There are spacious hotels
for transient visitors, and every few
miles there is q more or less pretentious
collection Of homes and business places
amounting to the dignity of village or
town. Dispatches have come out from
there telling Of the wiping out Of the
bath houses, the destruction of houses
Of frail construction, the Bleaching and
wrecking Of the smaller craft that nayi-
gate the sound and the blowing down Of
trees. II is known that this process OF
destruction extended all the way from
New Orleans past Pascagouls and Mobile
aud Pensacola down the coast of Florida.
The full intensity Of the storm was fels
between Waveland, Miss, and New Or
leans, and that il the part Of the coun-
try out Of which Il has been impossible
20 obtain information.