Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-29
WIND Of 100 MILES .
AN HOUR REPORTED
FROM PENSACOLA
Last Word From That City
at l O'clock Friday
Afternoon.
MAKING WAY THROUGH
ALABAMA AND FLORIDA
Several Mississippi Towns Feel
Hurricanes Fury. but New
Orleans Escapes.
PROPERTY DAMAGE IN MOBILE
No Loss Of Life So Far In Any SEQ.
tion Which Is in Communication
With Outside World.
PROPERTY DAMAGE IN MOBILE
No Loss Of Life So Far In Any SEQ.
tion Which Is in Communication
With Outside World.


NEW ORLEANS, September 2s.-Tho
Mississippi. Alabama and Western
Florida were emerging tonight from
The batterinG of the II oplcsl hurricane
which swept in from. the Gulf of Mex:
leo early to-day near Pilot Town, La.
The course of the storm shifted after
striking Pilot Town from northwest to
northeast, aid, sweeping across a nar-
row portion of Southeast Louisiana,
missed New Orleans. but struck Gulf
port. Biloxi and the Mississippi coast
section. swept through Mobile. where
the wind reached a velocity of ninety
six miles an hour, and extended east
beyond Pensacola. where. according to
latest reports received here at
o'clock this afternoon. the wind was
blowing 100 miles an hour.
Communication between Pensacola
and the outside world was cut of at
that hour, and no reports had been re-
ceived from there UP to a late hour
tonight. ts'
According to report received by tho
Weather. Bureau in New Orleans tho
storm was continuing it's way inland
in northeasterly dir -ction through
Alabama and Florida.
The wind velocity at Pilot Town was
In excess Of serenty-six miles an hour,
and the barometer fell to 2906 at one
time this morning. Last reports from
there stated the wind was steadily
diminishing. and the barometer rising
rapidly. No damage to shipping off
the mouth OF the river loss Of life
had been reported.
SQUALLS OF RAIN
ACCOMPANY THE WIND
In New Orleans. The minimum baro-
meter reading was 1851. and the MAXI
mum wind Velocity was thirty-six miless
an hour. squalls OF rain accompanied
the Wind AT intervals.
The hurricane. according to DR.. I. M.
Cline. district forecaster, had an un.
usually wide diameter. its spread being
about 300 miles. At the time the hur.
ricane was passing Ship Island, DR..
Cline said. vessel nearly 800 miles
west in the Guif reported 1t was pass
ing through light gales. The lowest
barometer reading at Pilot Town wan
nearly lU0 points L'gher than the low
record OF 2s.11 established at Burwood,
near Pilot Town. during the hurricane
OF September. 1915.
At midhIInt commercial teleSraphio
communication was restored as far east
as PascaGoula. Miss, about ten Miles
from the Alabama lin.
Needing the Weather Bureaus warn.
ing of the probable approach OF tho
storm. hundreds OF New Orleans resi-
dents deserted their homes in the out.
skirts and spent last night in hotels.
public and official buildings downtown.
More than 300 sought refuge in the
post-oitice building. the customs -housa
ana the new courthouse, and tho hotels
vert crowded.
AS precautionary measure. DR.. I.
A. cine district forecaster here, rad-
Nised the authorities. at Thibodau..
Hammond and other small towns 49,
here TO keep their schools cIosed ~.
day The New Orleans school hoard
issued orders to the same effect.