New-York tribune., 1909-09-21
TORN SWEEPS SOUTH
HURRICANE KILLS FOUR
IN NEW ORLEANS.
Great Wind Backs Up Water Along
the G"lf Coast and Damage WI
Probably BE Enormous.


coast has been reduced at a late hour tonight
| in its intensity 1t left in it's wake four dead
| at New Orleans and perhaps others along the
Gulf coast though no definite advices of NOR
| tality in other sections has been thus far re-
| ceived here
The property loss in New Orleans will
| ceed 100000 Many houses were unroofed and
| frail buildings partly destroyed With wires
| crippled. IL is impossible TO ascertain the loss of
| life or property along the Gulf coast. At late
| hour to night the tracks of the Louisville &
| Nashville Railroad. which have been inundated
| some twenty miles east of New Orleans have
| not been fully repaired and 1t is impossible TO
say when traffic Will be resumed. 1t is pre-
sumed, however. that the trains of this road will
into New orleans by tomorrow.
The dead at New Orleans:
Victor Pujo street railway inspector, killed by
live wire.
James Garrettson. foreman street railway COM
pany. killed by live wire.
Charles Schultz killed by falling smokestack
at the Louisiana Brewery.
John Arends. killed by live telephone wire.
The ferry steamer Assumption sank at the head
OF Napoleon avenue. but no lives were lost. Con-
siderable property damage done along the
river front. The storm apparently moved in
land 10 Southwestern Louisiana. The velocity
fof the wind at New Orleans the greatest in
the history Of the local weather bureau.
New Orleans cut of from telegraphic
communication with the outside world from 30
O'Clock this afternoon until midnight.
The Weather Bureau announced at ; o'clock
this afternoon that the piling up of Gulf waters
at the mouth of the Mississippi had already
caused a rise Of three feet st New Orleans. "A
rise unprecedented at that point from such a
cause
Louisville * Nashville Railroad trains were
held up at Chef Menteur thirty miles east Of
New Orleans. by washouts. Shortly before noon
the wind reported 10 be abnormally high at
Chef Menteur and the water rising rapidly
Grave fears We're entertained FOR -the safety OF
the railroad bridge there.
The wind apparently attained it's greatest
velocity between Lake Catherine and waveiand
Miss
The principal damage IN New Orleans was the
partial destruction OF the big horticultural hall
AT Audubon Park
Pensacola. Fla. Sept. 20-At midnight the
velocity ot the wind s;ill increasing. with
the tides rising rrpidiy. People In the west
portions Of the city are leaving their homes AMI
seelting refuge az the police station and gov
ernment buildings So Tar as can be learned
no serious damage has been done to shipping
The tide is backing up rapidly along the west
bay shore. but II 30 tonight there was no
telephone or telegraph communication with any
point south OF the city. The navy yard is com
pleteIy cut on. The tracks Of the street railway
company covered with water In places as Is
the trestle at Bayou Chico. west OF the city.
large barge OF the United States navy
driven ashore near the navy yard
Memphis, Sept 2O-The local Offices of the
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad report that
all OF their wires south of Vicksburg. Miss.
lost shortly before O'Clock tonight Before
that hour points south Of Vicksburg reported a
severe storm prevailing
The telegraph companies lost all communica-
tion with Natchez. Miss, at p. m. \ dispatch
from there at that hour stated that high wind
prevailing and the electric light wires had
been broken by falling trees.
The Illinois Central Railroad between Nc
comb city. Miss. and New Orleans is under
water. A large portion OF railway track has
been swept away,
4 dispatch from Biloxi. Miss. says:
The Gulf storm struck the city at 3 o'clock
this morning. the wind increasing until it
reached a velocity of sixty miles hour at ;
o'clock this afternoon and is still increasing. II
is estimated that from $4,000 To $10O0O prop
erty damage has been suffered.
Seven hundred and fifty feet u the Gulf Coast
Traction Company is washing away. and an
other hundred feet is gone near the Soldiers
Home, and TO the eastward OF GultpoTt one nun
dred and hfty feet washed away. All the
bath houses and PIERS along the beach from
Gulfport To the home of United States Senator
Money, distance of four miles. have been
swept out Three hundred feet of the electric
line at Long Beach Miss. has been washed
out The driveway known as the Beach Road
along the coast In front of Biloxi is completely
gone. entailing loss of from $1,000 to S2O,UO
No train has reached here from the North and
nearly all telegraph wires down. One
:chooner has been wrecked and twenty fishing
boats out In the storm.
lIiy Telegraph 10 The Trbunel
Mobile Sept. 20--Waves were mountain
high at o'clock to- night. and were washing
over the Biloxi. Miss. railroad bridge one
man. name unknown. was reported washed off