Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-09-23
VOL. XXXIII.
nlf Coast Swept by Storm

~ orleans. La.-Aftcr attaining q
~ n sixty miles per hour at New
I1D % O'Clock Monday night, the
1.lisn hurricane, which struck the
nno and Mississippi Gulf enast, left
- voke four dead At New orleans
D9r1aps others along the Gulf coast.
% definite advises Of mortality
011er sertions have thus far been ~
<13nf h>re.
- proprrty loss in New Orleans will
oo1 S1oo.00O. Many houses were nm
Ns19oa ed frail buildings In numerous
Mloancpo we're partially destroyed. A
~ u1rep are down. il j. impossible to
o11stato the loss OF life or property
olspa thetGulf coast.
~ = o'eiock MONDAY afternoon the
~ - Ncw Orleans and the neighbor-
10y were cut of from communi-
U41lu v0lA the outside world by the de-
eq = telegraph and telephone CON
~ not until it had been made
fugitive messages and halle
III that coast sountry frcm .
- Wavelsnd. Miss, on through
D0I110 parishes, fronting Lake Borgne
xQryunnding Lake Pontchartrain. and
XD1fuardly into Texas. had been
~ . great wind storm from of
lJ of Mexico. accompanied by
Wove and a backing-up of river
~ waters. that flooded great
14 Of country. causing immense
~ of property and doubtless no
~ - Of life.
- uDDrm had been lowering of the
- - The Gulf for two DAYS. Monday
Sl9Ql1 inland. travelling in a north
1U3y direction.
Dsekwater From Gulf.
~ mont was the force OF the wind
~ waters of the Mississippi,
~ - from the Gulf 100 miles be-
~ } feet at the New Orleans levee.
~ hboring lakes were agitated till
II ~ vverilowed. covering the ada
- 1Duhnds with an oceans expanse
~ mul11ng torrent. The Gulf waters
kAke Borgne were added to the
N1l ~ - the food, and when the latest
1l-1Gs came out Of New Orleans
0 vwe outlying parts of that city
o1 NTH water. while the cyclonic
1D I'D destroyed several buildings.
o1t - ANAL, and had otherwise dam
- usSkrty.
10y Stern Not the Worst.
~ osst onslaught of the gale at 900
k uonday morning was not the
- did il give even a faint sug-
l7o q the more forcefuI attack that
49, - eene later. 1t did not injure the
y1n onrvire out Of New Orleans, except
1114 ~ Louisville 4 Nashville road
- abDut 4 o'clock. when the second
0pn4 nuFHicane swept over the country.
- ~ wtEes went down Not a single
oyouno - Communication with New Or
Icnns - left. The Illinois Central at
MGuD1<xups in communication with Ne
Co. CI1f rs late as I O'Clock, hut after
ekk I~ could get no further south
Dpn. Between and o'eiock
Dsihle to get some information
wire from McComb City. but
nation was meager indeed. II
ed that the Illinois Central
P~n kentwood. La, and Ken
Gss pretty well washed out.
was impossible to say when
y = in condition for use again.
q 80 found that after O'Clock
13ion over the wires on the
mississippi Valley road was
nth of Nieksburg. Ii could
4rt 1nrned where the break in the
3 place. Natehez was cut of.
are was a telephone wire work
~ Nstchez as late as O'Clock
But il was ascertained that
- of the fazoo 4 Mississippi
nth of Vicksburg were in pass
and therefore it was given
= Illinois Central management
o1s that the northbound passen-
u(f XuIu out of New Orleans, the
Chicago train due in Memphis
~ this morning. and the Water
accommodation would be run
= = fazoo & Mississippi Valley
gay of Ration Rouge. and the
train may be expected not
gt of schedule time this morn
Texas Cities Are Safe.
uthern Texas cities. Galveston
sfon, that might be considered
danger from coast, storms Of
ity OF this one. have not been
BY the storm. From Houston
nation was conveyed that there
no communication with New
pinee noon. Ii = evhi<nt. there
Rf the wires west Of New Or
y slaughtered in the first Of the
hich perhap~ reached the Tex..