The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07
ACTUAL DAMAGE SMALL

Mobile. July 6.-(By Courier to Meridian, Miss )-Property damage in Mobile as result of the tropical hurricane of yester- day will not exceed $50,000, according to estimates made today by bankers and other authorities There was no loss of life.
 Although Mobile was in the grasp of the storm for F hours and the wind at- tained maximum velocity of 85 miles an hour, not single substantial or large building was demolished. A number of small houses were wrecked, but the prin- cipal damage resulted from the unroof- ing of large buildings.
 Electric lights, street car lines, tele- phone and telegraph wires were put out of commission, but today the damage was being repaired. Partial street car service was expected to be resumed tomorrow. Fallen trees were responsible for the prostration of the telegraph and telephone service. The wireless towers on top of 8 hotel were blown down early Wednesday, and radio communication with the out side world was made impossible.
 According to reports reaching Mobile, the following vessels were lost or beached in coming into the bay from the gulf: Schooner A. l.. Mangold, crew saved; schooner Nora Belle, vcrew missing; bay packet James A. Carney, sunk and the packet Apollo slightly damaged. Near the wreckage of the Nora Belle was found the stern of a schooner, the only identifi- cation mark being the words Moss Point"
 the schooners T. E. Wells, Newport; Kop- persmith and Cnfidential had gone ashore on the beach.
 The coast guard cutter Tallapoosa was not damaged. She made unsuccessful at tempts during the day to reach outside points, with her wireless.
 WATER ON ROYAL STREET
 The water reached a short distance be- yond Royal street, a trifie farther than during the storm of 1906. Leaking roofs caused some damage in tire business sec- ton, while goods stored on lower floors in establishments facing tne river were slightly damaged
 The negro ward of the City hospital was torn away, but the patients were re- moved to safety The remainder of the building was undamaged. The building owned by the Mobile Yacht club, unpro- tected on Mobile bay, was destroyed. Fences and portions of the pieachers and grandstand of the Southern Association Baseball club were destroyed. The Louis vile and Nashville shops were partially unroofed and slight damage was done to the Mobile and Ohio banana pier; the drydock, marine hospital, medical col lege county courthouse poisce station and the municipal wharf were not damaged. A few bales of cotton floated away from the wharf.
 It was believed persons residing on the eastern shore were safe, as, we'll as those around Golden, Ala, the latter point be- ing on the Mississippi Sound.
 CROPS DAMAGED
 The last word from Pensacola reach ing Mobile Wednesday said the wind was 80 miles early that afternoon. Then all wires failed
 The storm apparently was more severe north of Mobile. Along the railroads out of the city, and in the western Alabama and eastern Mississippi territory, timber was destroyed and corn and other crops were leveled to the ground. The Baptist church at Waynesboro, Miss. was de- stroyed
 Serious fears were felt for the safety of D. P. Bestor and wife and MT. and Mrs. l.. E. Barron Lyons, all of Mobile. They were last heard of Wednesday night off Fort Morgan, and were going towards Dauphin Island, in the Mississippi Sound. Bestor is an attorney of Mobile and Lyons is capitalist They were in a small yacht.