Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-01
TWENTY -FOUR ARE
REPORTED DEAD In
LOUISIANA STORM
Seven or Eight White Persons and
Several Negroes Victims of High
Waters at Premier.
Heavy Damage Done at New Or
leans, According to Latest
News from There.
MANY ARE NOW MARooNED

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Sept. S0.-
Seven or eight white persons and
seventeen negroes we're drowned and
a score more injured at Premier, La,
in yesterdays storm. according to re-
ports to the office of the general SUI
perintendent OF the YRzoo n Missls-
sippi Valley railroad here today.
The news came from Superintendent
r +. Hill at McComb City. Miss, who
also stated tSat fftS or sixty persons
some of them injured. we're msrooned
on box cars and immediate help was
needed. Miles OF roadway had been
washed away by the wind driven waves
from Lake Pontchartraln, the message
stated.
MOBILE, Ala, Sept. SO.-With every
telephone and telegraph wire to the
westward prostrated by the West Indian
storm, Mobile today was without infor-
jmatlon as to the extent of damage at
Coden. Bayou La Batre. Gulfport. Pass
Christian and other points along the gulf.
Three families are reported misAng at
Crab Greek.
Although Mobile escaped the full force
OF the hurricane furious southeast gale
swept this city and adjacent territory
practically the entire night. attaining a
velocity OF sixty miles en- hour.
! Timely warning by the government
weather bureau prevented material dam
age 10 the water crafts. one. launch
may he lost and three coal barges were
set adrift-
Practically the entire waterfront Of the
city was flooded as a result Of the un-
usually high tide. Citizens were com
pelled to use wagons and boats In order
TO reach offices and business houses In
the inundated section. some OF the streets
being two to three feet under water
! Several families are reported missing
along the nearby coast,
Tho storm did little damage at the
resorts along the east shore OF Mobile
bay.
The coast guard cutter Tallapoosa
which remained on duty I'm the harboT
throughout the night, reports that there
have been no advlces OF distressed ship
ping.
Fort Morgan reports that the damage
there and on Daupin Island was slight
All trains on the Louisville aud Mash.
Vile railroad TO the southwark have been
annuiled and at Biloxi and southwark
the tracks are reported washed out. Three
feet OF water Is reported over the Louis
Vile and Nashville tracks three miles
north Of this city.
| storm Central in Mississippis
| WASHINGTON. d. c., Sept. 18th,
West Indian hurricane was centered ovei
the interior OF Mississippi this morning
| but II had greatly diminished in force
| The storm, however. Is not over. as Il
maintains considerable intensity and Il
causing general rain throughout th'
south Atlantic and eastern gulf stateI
and Tennessee.
During the night It caused winds ot
hurricane force on the middle gulf coas
and the weather bureau oruered a con.
tinuance OF storm warnings along the
| gulf coast from Mobile to Cedar Keys
Fla. and on the Atlantic coast from Jack
sonville to Wilmington. N. c,
Indications are that the storm is NOV
| ing In a northeasterly direction, and tha
II will cause rains during the next thir
ty-six hours everywhere east OF the Mis-.
sisippi river, except In the upper LAKE
| regions.
No official reports had reached th,
weather bureau from New Orleans sine,
o'clock yesterday afternoon but othel
advices indicated that the storm hat
almost abated there.