The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-30
Most Terrific Hurricane
 in History Sweeps Over
 Coast Near New Orleans
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report that the water is in the streets. l Several hundred passengers on South err Pacific train No. 8, from Houston, are marooned on ferry below Avondale, La. The train was due at New Orleans at o'clock. The ferry Is stuck on a ! mud bank and four tugs are standing by. 1 Six fishing schooners have been blown ashore at Rigolettes. One of the railway car barns here has been blown down. Sew 1 erai horsos have been unroofed or other wis ca naged. 1 No loss of life has as yet been re- ported.
 Wireless Out of Commission The Southern Pacific liner Creole, fin the Mississippi river below New Orleans, re- reported by wireless she was proceeding U New Orleans, encountering heavy weather. In his last message to the local Marconi station he expressed doubt that his wireless apparatus would longer re- main unimpaired. in the center of the gulf hurricane off the Mississippi river today, according to of f1cers of the revenue cutter Tallapoosa, who said they had been unable to estab- fish wireless communication with the ves- sel since this morning. It Is not known here whether the Proteus carried passen- gers.
 NIcH ldSt IcpoltcQ py WIciccs tHc Proteus signalled that she expected to reach the mouth of the Mississippi at a. m. tomorrow.
 Coast Isolated
 The Mississippi gulf coast from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula was isolated tonight because of the tropical hurri- cane which caused an 80-mile gale at New Orleans and swept inland to the northeast. Three children are known to have been injured at Pascagoula but further news Is lacking.
 Pensacola and Mobile escaped ma terial damage, though 50-mile winds prevailed at both ports during the aft ernoon and night.
 Reports of excessive damage and high water at Biloxi and Gulfport, Miss. were discounted tonight by off, cials of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, whose telephone cable down the coast to Bay St. Louis furnished the sole means of communication. There Is no wireless station on the coast between Mobile and New Or leans. This cable was operated suc- cessfully only at intervals and off clals announced that the dispatchers denied reports of the flooding of the streets in Biloxi to a depth of six feet, and of the destruction of the great trestle of the Louisville and Nashville at the Rigolettes. Three small children, members of the Savage family at Pas cagoula, were reported to have been injured when their home was demol- ished by the high winds.
 All train service has been suspended. but one train arriving this afternoon from Ocean Springs. A local train bearing relief supplies will be sent from Mobile tomorrow morning as far down the coast as possible,
 vt of Ia fn bo Cit al the Mississippi coast was not definitely stated in dispatches received by rail- road officials here, but information was to the effect that the storm was the worst in the history of that sec tion
 From Bay St. Louis information was received that the slate roof covering the St. Stanis1aus college there was blown away at 5:30 o'clock, and that old residents of that city and Pass Christian stated that the coast was experiencing its most severe of the many tropical storms
 Liner Waits for Storm to Subside
 The Mallory liner Sabine, with pas sengers for Tampa, Key West and New York; waited in the lower bay here to- night for the storm to subside before attempting to go to sea The freight steamer Dorothy, bound for Havana lTOIn ddlVoStOH WltH cdEBOs put iHto Mobile bay today to escape rough weather in the gulf She reported heavy seas between Mobile bar and New Orleans bar, but did not encoul- ter the hurricane at its worst.
 Vessels known to be in the gulf which may have encountered the tropf- cal blow are two steamships of the Ward line, whose names were not ob- tainab1e, and fruit vessel of the Vac- caro Brothers company of New Or leans
 No message had been received to- night by the coast guard cutter Talla- poosa from the Southern Pacific steam ship Proteus which was reported in the center of the hurricane oh New Orleans bar The wireless apparatus on the Proteus Is believed to have been disa bled.
 The sole means of communication be- tween New Orleans and the outer world tonight was the wireless appa- ratus of a steamer at dock at New Or leans. while meagre reports were re- ceived from the failing wireless appa- ratus of the Southern Pacific liner Creole, bound up the Mississippi river from Port Eads for New Orleans.
 velocity of 52 miles was reached by the gale at Mobile tonight. and the worst of the storm was believed by weather bureau officials to have passed The barometer was stationary at 29.52 at D. m.
 Southbound trains over the Louis vile and Nashville railroad to New Orleans were annulled tonight but it was announced that relief train would be operated by the railroad out of Mobile tomorrow morning, as far down the coast as track conditions will allow.
 Reports that the RiRolettes trestle of the Vaudeville and Nashville between