The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-12
City Is Rapidly Recovering From Great Storm of
 Last Week
DOCKS AND SHIPS
 SUFFERED GREATLY
Streets and Bay Filled With Debris, But Work of Repair Is Going Steadily On-Cotton and
 Other Freight Scattered

Mobile, July 11.-A revised estimate to-
 day of the damage in the city of Mobile as a result of the tropical storm of last week placed the total loss to buildings 1 shipping, merchandise stocks, railroads, wire companies, docks and water front and l other interests at approximately $1,200, ,000 | This estimate was based upon careful survey of the city and of the water front l for a distance of about three miles and l also upon statements of actual damage sustained made to the Associated Press by 1 heads of firms and interests affected and also on information obtained from other authoritative sources. 1 The city has rapidly recovered from the effects of the storm and today, six days after, there was but little visible evidence excepting along the water front and few streets just back of the river, that Mobile had been visited by such severe storm. Normal conditions practically have been restored in the city, the various public utilities have been in operation the last few days, the streets have been cleard of
 debris and there has been no call for re- lief. excepting in very few instances of poor families who suffered misfortune in the storm. The water front at casual glance might give an impression of great destruction. as logs, poles, lumber, drift wood. pieces of wharfage and other de- bris from the river and bay are piled along the shore and docks in mass of wreckage. Many small boats and a num- Der of packets, schooners, barges and in several instances excursion steamers at various points along the water front stand outlined in relief from the debris and on damaged wharves, where they
 were blown or washed by the wind or
 waves from the river and the bay. SHIPPING LOSSES
 A checking up of shipping losses showed the water front included six small steamers; 20 harges, several schooners two tugs, two packets and two dry docks. There was no loss of life on vessels sunk in the river. Near Fort Morgan, down the bay, four men were lost when the schooner Emma S. Lord was sunk. Eight persons drowned when the barge
 Harry T. Morse was swamped. Along almost the entire length of the water front there are scattered abouf u,OOO bales of cotton and other freight sm ept from the municipal and Mobile and Ohio docks.
 No large building in the city, with the Fsxception of few near the river, shows
 signs of being badly damaged. Very Jew dwellings in the residence section of the town were destroyed. The principal
 losses to buildings was due to broken windows and roofs torn off. A statement of the estimated losses to
 the various interests as compiled from information available today was as fol- lows:
 To railroads, docks. piers and mer- chandise in the docks and in cars,
 $150.O00
 Damage to 11.000 bales of cotton and other articles in docks and warehouses on water front. $135,000. To buildings in wholesale district, $225.O00
 To lumber washed away and dam
 aged, $60,000.
 To merchandise and stocks in whole
 sale and retail houses. S200.00O
 To wires and equipment of telegraph, telephone, electric light and trolley companies S250.000
 To residence property, churches, etc..
 $100, ,000
 To shipping, s200,0U0. Total, s1.220,ooo
 The individual estimates obtained from firms were requested on a con- servative basis as Were the totals for
 the various interests