The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-07
EIGHTY MISSING
HURRICANE LOSS
into MILLIONS
Believe Eleven Fishing Parties
Have Perished.
Many Ships Probably Went
Down in Gulf.
MOBILE, ALA, SUFFERS MOST
City Cut OFF Two Days-Partly
Wrecked by Gale.
Docks and Shipping Along
Coast Is Devastated.
MOBILE, ALA, SUFFERS MOST
City Cut OFF Two Days-Partly
Wrecked by Gale.

New Orleans, July More than
eighty persons are Kissing, according
to reports reaching here at O'CLOCK
this morning from various sources
The radio to Mobile and Pensacola
was working fairly well at this hour
and it is thought the loss from Thurs-
DAYS hurricane will be known some
time this afternoon.
Pensacola reported only slight prop
erty damage. The loss at Biloxi
mostly in the residential section, is
estimated at more than $2Oo,ooO.
Eleven fishing parties which departed
for various islands Wednesday ana
Thursday were still unheard from ana
it is feared they have perished-
Many ships are missing today The
Frieda, Captain Wick. with a crew
of twenty-one, New Orleans to Pro
greso, Mexico, is two days overdue and
it is feared she went down. a schoon-
er with sixteen aboard, which Ieft
Gulfport Thursday afternoon is still
unheard from. Reports from Chand-
Ter said five fishing smacks with crews
of six men each were missing. These
boats put out Wednesday evening.
First Word From Mobile.
Mobile, Ala, July 7.-Gale-stricken
Mobile got it's first word to the outside
world today since Wednesday. Heavy
damage was done by the gulf storm
to sailing craft and steam vessels in
the harbor.
Four persons, two of them white,
are known to have been drowned 1t
is feared others may have periShed-
The damage throughout the city
may not exceed $3.50. 900. This damage
consisted largely of roofs whipped
from dwellings and office buildings
at the height of the blow. Railroad
service into the city is still paralyzed.
Railroad officials admitted this morn
ing it may be twenty-four hours be-
fore damage can be repaired and SER
vice resumed.
Storm Rages Inland.
Montgomery, Ala, July THE gulf
storm hat has wreaked havoc in many
gulf coast cities in the past forty-eight
hours was apparently centering inland
in the vicinity of Vicksburg, Miss,
early today. Reports began to come
in to Montgomery of the damage done
at Pensacola, Mobile and various
smaller cities. No loss of life has been
reported but the property loss will
reach hundreds of thousands the wa
ter front having been hit hardest in
each of the two cities. Mobile, alone,
it is said has suffered $1,000, 600 dam
age
An urverified report from Reloit,
Ala. told that seventeen negroes had
been killed and others injured.
For a time it was evident that Mo-
bile and Pensacola were in the very
vortex of the hurricane. The wireless
station at Mobile was put out of COM
mission by the wind at the same time
telegraphic communication with the
rest of the state was cut off
Wind Up to 100 Miles an Hour.
Washington, July THE tropical
storm which struck the gulf coast last
Wednesday appears to have about
spent itself.
The first reports received by the
bureau since the storm showed that
the wind reached a maximum velocity
of 106 miles an hour at Mobile and
so miles at Pensacola. The barom-
eter at Mobile was down to 1882
al p. m. Wednesday.
20 Dead Reported by Jacksonville.
Jacksonville, Fla, July Twenty
dead and several million dollars prop
erty damage was today's estimate
here of the toll taken by the storm
which ravaged the coasts of Alabama,
Louisiana and Florida for two days
Most of the dead are negroes.