The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-01
NEWS OF ENSLEY

The Ensley white way will be re- lighted tomorrow evening according to the statement of Henry Keller, chair man of the committee appointed by the Ensley club. Final arrangements with the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company were made yesterday afternoon. The contract for turning on the lights has been signed for several weeks but owing to an old account the light company declined to turn on the lights until this matter was settled. The white way has been dark for months and the relighting tomorrow night will be welcome by the mer- chants and will add much to the at- fractions to this city.
 The officers of the Lyric club of the Ensley High school for the ensu- ing term have been elected as follows. Miss Agnes Swygert. president; Miss Helen Cole. vice president; Rush Hick- man, secretary Miss Margaret Suppler, treasurer; Miss Barbara Endress, librarian Glen Miller was named chair man of the membership committee. The Lyric club of the high school Is composed of over a hundred members
 
 benefit of the school.
 prayer service will be held by the Woman's Christian Temperance union of Fairview this afternoon at 2.sO o'clock at the Fairview Methodist church. All persons interested in tenn perance work are invited to be present
 The members of the Philathea class of the Ensley Methodist church will hold their regular monthly, social this afternoon at 8 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. I. M. Barton at I'll Seven- teenth street. All members are invited to be present.
 Rally day will be held at the Ems ley Baptist church Sunday morning at 10:45 o'clock. A joint service of the church and the Sunday school will be held at this hour. The Sunday school class will meet at the regular hour In their respective rooms and following the lessons they will go in a body into the main auditorium of the church where the sermon will he delivered by the pastor, the Rev. A. K. Wright. but fear was expressed for the safety of a number of fishermen camped along the coast. Wire and railroad communica- tion to points east of Morgan City still Is interrupted. West of the city only minor damage has been reported. Dis patches from Crowley and Lafayette re- ported no damage.
 Gulf Coast Pass Christian. Miss. September S0.-A death list of 13, the injury of scores more, and property loss exceeding S2,000000 on the Mississippi gulf coast were reported here tonight, while informa tion furnished by Devereaux O'Reilly, chief engineer of the New Orleans dock board, indicated that the death list in New Orleans would not exceed six
 from Mobile to New Orleans shows the effects of the terrific winds Two children of W. A. Barber and an aged woman were killed at Pascagoula when a home was wrecked. At Bayou Portage fisherman and his four children were drowned while J. J. Jackson. sta- tion agent at the Rigolets, with his wife and child, and also a stationmaster and his wife, lost their lives when swept into the water.
 From Engineer O'Reilly, who reached Pass Christian after a stormy passage across Lake Pontchartrain, information was received that the lost of life in New Orleans would total but six with an in- jured list which he stated would not in- clude more than 50 persons. Property loss at New Orleans he estimated at more than S1,0o0,000, s300,0o0 of which was suf- fered on the harbor front.
 Damage to City
 The same authority gives the fol- lowing as partial list of the property damage in New Orleans:
 Dumaine street sheds at city wharf blown down and roofing blown off other city property on the water front
 Two dry docks blown from Algiers to New Orleans side of river.
 French market partly destroyed.
 Masonic temple badly damaged.
 First Presbyterian church in Lafay- ette square blown down.
 New Orleans Light and Railway com- pany's barn at Poland street blown down.
 Beauregard school, Canal street, un- roofed.
 Roof blown from Athaeneum, St Charles avenue.
 In addition, MT. O'Reilly stated, practically every house in the down. town district suffered some damage. Plate glass windows were blown out roofs blown off and signs blown down, while in the residence district, he adds, many homes suffered minor damage.
 Two persons who lost their lives in New Orleans were killed when the walls of Morres veterinary hospital fell.