The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-01
HURRICANE SUBSIDIES
 LEAVING DESOLATION
 AND DEATH IN WAKE
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the St. Vincents orphan asylum also were badly damaged.
 Fire shortly after midnight destroyed part of the plant of the Stern's Orleans Acid company at Elysian Fields and Flor ida avenues. with a loss estimated at $s0,0O0 The fire is believed to have been caused by lightning.
 On the river front many small vessels werc swamped and the municipal ware corrugated iron sheathing, which was bolted to the steel framework and formed the walls of the structure.
 A large number of passengers aboard the San Antonio express of the Southern Pacific railroad spent the night on the railroad ferry, which grounded in the Mississippi river, two miles above the city. Four tugs stood by all night and although 1t was said the passengers were in no danger the heavy sea made it im- possible for the tugs to attempt to take them off.
 All railroads reaching the city early yesterday cancelled their trains. Tho Louisville and Nashville, which uses nu- merous trestles and bridges in traversing the edges of the Mississippi Sound, and the Queen and Crescent system, oper- ating trains over the Lake Pontchartrain u estle for seven miles, all of which were exposed to the full force of the storm. were unable to report whether these structures were damaged.
 At Mobile
 Mobile, September 30.-With Golden, Bayou La Batre, Alabama Port, Battles, Fairhope and other nearby coast resorts definitely reported today, the damage from the 6O-mile gale which prevailed in Mo- bile yesterday following the advent of the hurricane in New Orleans, is com paratively negligible.
 Two deaths have been reported in this city resultant from the storm. Albert Fritz, driver of delivery wagon. stepped on live wire early today and was instantly killed, while C. D. Smith. a steamboat employe, picked up a wire this afternoon in or der to get it out of the way of some children and was electrocuted.
 Though water was two feet deep in the railroad station at Golden, where 60 lives were lost in the great storm of 1906, and the bay front shell road there was six feet under water, there was no loss of life and property dam age was confined to the bleaching of several fishing schooners which were located today hundreds of yards in land from the coast line and to the destruction of bath houses.
 The west bank of Mobile river early today was 200 feet from the postoffice. the river having overflowed and inun- dated streets to a distance of three blocks and half from the wharves. Property damage in Mobile and vioin- ity will amount to more than s50.O00. The British steamship Minnie De Bar rinaga, bound to Galveston from Barce- Iona, put into Mobile bay yesterday to escape the hurricane at sea, 1t was re- ported today from Fort Morgan. All vessels outbound from New Orleans were said here today to have been accounted for and the Southern Pacific liner Pro. teus, reported yesterday in the storm cen ter off the mouth of the Mississippi, wal declared to be safe by the Creole of the same line.
 swept ashore at Gulfport is the British steamshipt Birchwood, of 1900 tons. from Algiers on her last passage. She Is re- ported aground in five feet of water though she draws 23 feet. The Birch woods plight was reported by Captain Mudd.