The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-04
STORMS KNOWN DEAD,
ia; MISSING, III
places undermining and washing away
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the roads for great distances.
The, Peerless Canning Company's
plant at Bay st. Louis was destroyed.
as were forty carloads of canned oys-
ters awaiting shipment.
The Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road suffered heavily and it is be-
lieved it will be impossible to operate
trains over the lines for several
weeks. Eight hundred feet of the two
mile trestle across the bay at Bay St.
Louis was swept away. Fifteen spans
of the steel trestle and the drawbridge
| at Rigolets were destroyed. For
miles both east and west of Rigolcts,
| the road bed, built across the marshes
and exposed to the full force of the
wind and high seas, was washed away.
| Railroad service out of New Or
leans rapidly is becoming normal, the
Louisville & Nashville, diverting by
way of Hattiesburg; the New Orleans
& Northeastern, operated by the
Queen & Crescent; the Southern Pa
cific, Texas & Pacific, Louisiana Rail
Yazoo C Mississippi Valley and the IL
linois Central are operating trains on
regular schedules. The Illinois Cen
tral, however, cannot use its own
tracks because of the flooded area
west of Lake Pontchartrain. Trains
are being diverted over the Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley by Baton Rouge to
Hammond. The New Orleans &
Northeastern started trains east yes
terday. The seven-mile bridge across
Lake Pontchartrain withstood the
hurricane and was only slightly dam
aged.
Conditions in New Orleans almost
were normal today. Trolley service
was resumed practically to all parts
of the city, electric and telephone
wires were being untangled and the
work of clearing away debris was well
advanced. Water from Lake Pontch-
artraln and several canals, which had
Hooded a large portion of the western
section of the city, were subsided,
wreckage along the water front was
being removed and repairs to docks
and warehouses were under way. |
Small vessels which were swamped |
and battered to pieces against the
wharves were being removed. Tenn |
porary light circuits were set up in !
many places on the waterfront and
both day and night forces of work
men are employed in clearing away |
the debris and repairing damage.
History of the Hurricane.
The hurricane first was reported
forming in the Caribbean Sea near
latitude Is degrees north and longi-
tude G7 west, off the Winward islands
about midway between Porto Rico and
the main land of South America. On
Friday September "a, after moving
slowly west by northwest, the center
of the disturbance was reported south
east of Kingston, Jamaica. The next
day it was southwest OF Jamaica
slowly toward the Yucatan
channel and apparently following the
course of the hurricane of last August
which devastated Galveston and the
Texas coast On Sunday the weather
bureau issued warnings to vessels en-
route to the southern part of the gulf.
The following day the storm appar-
emily had gathered speed and was
geering slightly toward the northeast.
Storm warnings were ordered display
ID on the Florida gulf coast. Tuesday
he storm center was near the south
vest of The Isle of Pines but by eve
ling it had crossed the western end
If Cuba, gathering headway as 1t ad-
yanced up the gulf. Moving at ter
ific pace Tuesday night high winds,
the rapid approach of the
hurricane, struck the Louisiana coast.
storm warnings were is
ued from all points between Pensa-
ola, Fla, and Morgan City, La. Early
n the afternoon the weather bureau
had established the course
t the approaching disturbance and at
o'clock hurricane warnings were or
cred displayed along the coast and il
-rs announced that the center of the
torn w1uId strike the mainland be- =
seen Atchafaieva Bay and the mouth
{ the Mississippi river. +
The last warnings Of the many sent
1T by the weather bureau previous to :
,e arrival of tho hurricane was dis, 7
ibuted broadca:t at 500 o'clock !
Fednesday morn ng. short time be- :
re wire eacommunication finally was :
terrupted. The methodical and
idespread distribution of the wealth =