Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1916-07-15
Abbevie, vermilon Saturday. July 15 1916
EASTERN GULF COAST
SWEPT BY HURRICANE
Southwestern Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama and Western Florida
Included.

New Orleans, lahore than $4.-
100000 damage was done in Missis-
storm of last Wednesday and Thurs
day, according to estimates made this
week from reports received from the
storm area and figures given by per
sons connected with the various indus
tries affected.
This total includes estimated dam
age TO buildings and other property in
cities and country districts, growing
crops, timber, shipping, railroads and
telegraph and telephone wires.
The aggregate estimated damage, it
is believed, will be increased when
more detailed information is obtain
able and when fuller reports are re-
ceived from Pensacola and the West
Florida coast.
Compilation Of reports from various
points in Southern Mississippi indi-
Gated damage in that section to corn,
cotton and other crops was about ST.
100000. In Northern and Central Mis-
sissippi, the loss was placed at about
100000; Mississippi coast cities and
vicinity. including small craft damage,
about 100000; Mobile and vicinity,
about s25O,O00; lumber interests in
Mississippi and Alabama, about ST.
100000; telephone and telegraph COM
panies, about 100000; railroads.
about 100000.
Twelve persons are known to have
been killed and at least forty are re-
ported missing as a result Of last We'd
nesday's tropical hurricane on the east
gulf coast and a series of storms, tor
nadoes and floods that followed in the
interior of Alabama and Georgia,
In addition, unconfirmed reports say
that nearly score OF other persons
were killed in isolated villages near
Mobile. Several days will be required
to determine the correctness Of these
reports, owing to prostrated wire and
rail communication throughout tEe
storm'swept region. Property damage
probably will reach s5,000,000, crops
and timber suffering seriously.
The dead Farmer killed near Cairo,
Ga, when his home was demolished
BY tornado; white engineer and white
fireman killed Friday at Bond, Miss,
in wreck due to washout; three ne
groes drowned In flood near Birming-
ham; two negroes drowned in gale on
Warrior river, near Tuscaloosa; negro
drowned in flood at Hawkinsville, Ga;
white man and woman and negro kill
ed near Fort Morgan.
The missing: Forty men, the crews
OF seven schooners reported missing
from Biloxi, Miss, as follows: Mary
G. Dantzler, men; Champion, men;
NJ. A. Acharn, men; Emma Harvey,
6 men; Lagoda, men; Beulah D, Z
men; Cambria, ! man. These vessels
are known to have been in the gulf
when the hurricane broke Wednesday
and marine men fear they were samp-
ed.
ANCN OiiCduc, Ld.-A scNoIc
and rain storm, part of the tropical
hurricane reported the last few days
in the Gulf Of Mexico, passed inland
Wednesday, sweeping along the south
eastern coast Of Louisiana, the lower
Mississippi and Alabama coasts and
the northwestern part of Florida.
Mobile was cut off from wire COM
munication shortly before II d, NJ,
when reports stated the winds veloc
ity was more than seventy miles an
hour. Unofficial reports gave the
winds velocity In Mobile at between
seventy-five and eighty miles an hour
High tides also were reported
throughout the storm area. Late We'd
nesday there was fifty-mile wind at
Biloxi, Miss, with gusts at times as
high as eighty miles an hour Two
schooners were reported blown ashore
on Deer Island, near Biloxi. Other
Mississippi coast cities reported high
winds and tides, but no serious dam
age.
In New Orleans the maximum ve1oc-
ity OF the wind during the day was
thirty-four miles, decreasing to about
twenty at night. The barometer re-
corded 2s.43 and was about stationary,
Pensacola reported a maximum wind
velocity of eighty miles an hour from
the east. Appalachicola. Fla, report
ed 8 rainfall OF 4.19 inches in twenty
four hours.