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Show 1NY LIVES LOST III Wi STORM From Seventy -five to One Hundred People Perish; Loss of Millions. Death and Destruction In the Path of a Hurricane That Visits the South, Two Score of Vessels Being Driven Ashore or Wrecked In Gulf of Mexico. Mobile, Aln. Between seventy-flvo and one hundred lives lost, fully two scoro vessels driven ashore or wrecked in various parts of the Gulf of Mexico, Mex-ico, damage amounting to $4,600,000 In tho city of Mobile nnd two millions or more nt outside points, Is tho record of the storm which swept Mobllo on Wednesday nnd Wednesdny night Wo accurate estimate of tho casualties can bo made as yet, and it is doubtful If exact figures will be known for a week or more. Grnvo apprehension exists regarding Gulfport nnd Blloxi, whero It is believed be-lieved mnny lives havo been lost. Reports from thoso places are meager mea-ger nnd unsatisfactory. It Is declared by tho local municipal ofTlclals thnt no lives havo been lost In Mobile, but thnt nil of the deaths havo occurred within n radius of fifty miles of hero. The following boats havo been wrecked or driven ashore in tho vicinity vi-cinity of Mobile: Tug Lo Bnron, barkcntlno Hornet, a pllo driver belonging to Holllnger & Co., n sloop nnd dredging boat of the National Dredging compnny, schoonor Pendleton, Pendleton Brothers of Now York; barkcntlno Trojan, Genoa, Italy; barkcntlno Corrlerlore, stcamoi Josephine, sloop Mlncoln, sloop Olive, tug Overton, tug Hattfo B. Mooro, steamer Dalshoota, schooner King of Avon, ship Phcr Ugland, revenue launch Alert, sunk nt her moorings. Tho steamers Ncttlo Quill and Mnry B havo been damaged. In addition to these boats numerous fishing smacks nnd small craft have been driven aphnro nnd smashed. Threo bonis belonging to tho United Fruit company, the Helen, Impcrator and Colombia, hnvo not been heart from, but It is believed they havo ridden rid-den out the storm in safety. Now Orleans, About twenty-five wrecked schooners on tho gulf coast between hero nnd West Pascagoula, Miss., woro observed Friday by a Louisville Lou-isville & Nnshvlllo railroad engineer on nn Inspection tour. At McNeil, Miss., J. M. Roberts wns killed by n falling tree, and nt Mc-Comb Mc-Comb threo persons were sovcrely Injured In-jured by the falling coping of a hotel. Captain J. D. Scars, U. S. N., commanding com-manding tho Eighth llghthbuso district, dis-trict, has returned from a trip down tho Mississippi river, which ho mado during tho storm. He Bald that at all places ns far as tho oyo could reach tho land was under tidewater, but thnt ho had been unable to learn of any loss of llfo. Pcnsacola, Fin. While tho storm was nt Its holght Wednesday a Btcamor, barkcntlno and schooner woro sighted In tho gulf, but no tug could venture to them. Waves were running high and broko entirely ovor Santa Rosa Island Into the bay. Flvo Ashing schooners anchored In tho bay broko their cables nnd drifted seaward, sea-ward, nothing having slnco been heard from Uicm. In tho city tho tldo backed up two and thrco blocks In the western part, coming as high as Government strcot nnd completely Inundating that territory. |