Show I TH AND DESOLATION IM TION IMBi LEFT IN PATH OF Bi STORM 4 4 From 75 to Lives Lost and Fully Two Score Vessels Driven Ashore I Property Loss Will Reach Millions Meager News From List of the Known Dead New Orleans Sept 28 About wrecked schooners on the gulf coast between here and West Pascagoula Miss were were observed today by a Louisville Nashville railroad engineer on an inspection tour At McNeill Miss J M Roberts was W lS killed by bya a falling tree and i at McComb three persons were severely injured by the the falling coping of a hotel I Captain J D Sears commanding the Eighth lighthouse dis returned ret tonight from a trip down the Mississippi river which he made during the storm He said that th at at all places as far as the eye j could reach the land I was under tidewater but that he had been unable to learn of any loss of life Pensacola Fla Sept 28 While tHe storm was at Its height Wednesday a steamer barkentine and schooner were sighted in the gulf but b t no tug could venture to them Waves were running high and broke entirely over Santa S Rosa Island into the bay Five fishing schooners anchored In the bay broke their cable cabIe and drifted seaward nothing having since been heard from them In the city the tide backed up two and three blocks in the thc west western ern ern em part coming as high as Government street and completely ing that territory I Mobile Ala Sept 28 Between seventy five and one hundred lives JIves lost fully tully two score cOro vessels driven ashore or wrecked In various parts of or the Gulf of Mexico dam nee ue amounting to in the city of Mobile and two millions or more at out sido points is the record of the storm which swept Mobile Wednesday Vc and p Wednesday night No accurate estimate of oC tho casualties can be bo made as yet and ami It Is doubtful if It exact figures will be b known for tor a n week or more Grave apprehension exists regarding Gulfport and Biloxi where It Is belieVed ninny many nu ny lives have been lost Reports from those places are meager meagor and unsatisfactory It is declared by b the local municipal officials that no lives have boon lost in Iii Mobile but that all aU of or the deaths have occurred within a radius of fitly fH miles of ot here The dead as far tar as known are as fol tol lows Jo vs At Navy Cove Mrs D Ladimir I and two daughters Johnson f S S Si Honry i nry Johnson At Coden Mrs Simon Klosky and infant Cant grand sun son Susan SUsun servant pf Mrs Klosky O 0 Werneth Mrs O 0 Mrs S McRae Miss McRae Mrs Honry Henry Turner Captain J 1 Stevens Three Misses Alexander Mrs Three children childrenS S Throe Three unidentified bodies found on the thc bench At Bayou la Ia Batre Two brothers named Carraway Carra wa waAt At Alabama Port Mrs Irs Elijah Nelson At Delchamps Mrs A L Hazen of Newcastle Pa and ant I two tiso t to children One unidentified Jed woman Q Two Unidentified negro children Three negro men killed by b falling Calling house ho so Mrs Henry Hen Boats Driven Ashore Tho following boats have been wrecked i or driven ashore In the vicinity of Mo iIo Mobile bile bilo Tug Lo La Baron barkentine Hornet a pile C driver belonging to Hollinger Co a aloOf t loor loOf and dredging boat of the National Dredging company compan schooner Pendleton I Pendleton Brothers of oC New York barken barkentine tine Une Trojan Genoa Genon Italy barkentine Cor Corf f steamer Josephine sloop MIne ola o la sloop Olive tug Overton tug Hattie Hattle C B H Moore steamer schooner r King Jing of oC Avon ship Pher revenue C launch Alert sunk at her moorings The steamers Nettie Nettle Quill and Mary B 3 have havo been damaged In addition to these boats bonts numerous q fishing i smacks and small craft have been bee driven Iriven ashore and smashed Three boats boat S belonging to the United Fruit company r the Helen Imperator and Colombia hay have ha I not been heard from but it is believed believe ci they have ridden out the storm In safety I Storm Began Tuesday The storm which was first noticed by b y tho the weather bureau when between Ja Jo Jamaica Jamaica Jon maica and nd Cuba made ma e Its appearance in inthe I Ithe n the tho neighborhood n of oC Mobile Tuesday aft all afternoon afternoon when fitful winds began besan to blow and und the barometer commenced to fall tall The Ine wind rose steadily all aU through Wednes Wednesday Wednesday day and between 2 and 6 In the afternoon blew at a velocity of ot miles an hour Wednesday night It rose steadily and at Thursday morning reached its greatest speed blowing front from froman Croman an quarter at the rate of fifty five miles an hour the barometer falling to 2886 DEVASTATION AT MOBILE Loss of Life Unknown Damage Es Estimated Estimated Estimated at Mobile Ala AIR Sept 28 via yla Meridian Miss Sept Sopt SLoss Loss of life variously es estimated estimated estimated at from Crom five to fifty many per persons sons Hons ons injured five thousand houses dam damaged aged ged cd tho the business section devastated and anda a It property pro perl loss of ot fully tully Is the l effect of oC the tropical hurricane upon the ny of oC Mobile The storm which struck the tho city about Wednesday midnight raged for Cor hours the th wind reaching a velocity of oC ninety miles an alt hour The rite water from Mobile bay was blown Into the city by the gale and for a time was seven seen feet teet deep In the wholesale district which includes that section from Royal Roal street to the tho Alabama river The loss Joss of ot life liCe Is believed to be mainly among negroes although conditions are areso BO so chaotic that definite information Is Impossible Shipping suffered severely Steamers Sunk in River Among the steamers sunk were the river boats J 3 1 P Mary E Sta Staples pIes ples Mary S Bless Cama Overton Hat ilk V 1 e B Moore and City of or Camden tho the d S tates revenue cutter Alert and 1 many n nan other t ler small cra t tJ tf J f It Is feard ear d that the crews of oC these boots botts have been lost The city has been placed under control of the militia No body bod Is permitted on the streets except newspaper men and persons wearing badges Much Muc apprehension is felt Celt for Cor the suburban towns as It Is feared they have been obliterated The chances are that the loss of life In Daupin island Is heavy he Many fishermen live livo there and In i n other outlying marshy marsh districts and from Crom these no tidings have hare been re x A Great Suffering in City The suffering In Mobile is severe The rite annihilation of transportation facilities has l shut off ofT all supplies and unless help reaches the city soon great distress will result resu It livery ery church In Mobile was damaged The Christ church cathedral and St Francis Street Baptist suffered more mort than Itan t others The Tho ho damage dama e to the former is hi 1 estimated at and St Francis street f Baptist church hurch at Mobiles than thap anything an thinS filae ls nI i or of the ne river river b ats are now beached or r sunken all complete completO wrecks Docks Are re Wrecked The docks and hose of private corpora I lions ure are fearfully wrecked The revenue cutter Alert has Iron gone down In Mobile II river She was rammed by some other vessel and sank immediately Her crew is believed to have escaped but nothing has hus been seen of them The city was I put under martial law Jaw at dark Thursday and no persona allowed to enter the wholesale district The city authorities were quick to act All wharves from Frascati street the extreme south end of the city as far tar up the river as on Three Mile creek are total wrecks This includes also the Now New Mobile lobile and Ohio locks docks 8 and the Louisville Nashville docks Telegraphic communication is paralyzed paral zed with poor prospects of a wire for several days das Business Suspended Electric light companies J street rail ways was and in fact all business has been beer suspended The Mobile Ohio railroad L was w s the first road rond to get Jet a train out of tho the city its first string of cars hav hay ing left Mobile at 4 a m Friday Frida Nu sawmills located in the northern I and marshy marsh districts have hac been beon either washed away awa by the terrific waves or torn to splinters by the wind Their Theix lumber h and timbers arc are scattered over OVE r the city or floating down the slowly falling fall ng river Tm Thu harbor steamer James A Carney plying pl between Mobile and the eastern shore lies nu benched just across the inu river river and opposite St Francis street Its sides are jammed in and Its superstructure blown away Much ruch fear is i entertained for Fort Mor gan where the thc government quarantine station is located and many soldiers are ar quartered S Many Heroic Rescues In the city cit many persons and much t livestock was rescued only after alter heroic efforts Provisions are almost exhausted Restaurants feed many but have no sup plies lIes on hand Ham and eggs their food supply These too will wil soon become exhausted Wholesale houses lost jost many thousands of dollars dollar from flood and willingly paid as high as a s an hour for tor common labor and am 3 I earnestly begged men to accept such pay pa so frantic were they In their efforts to t c rj save goods Even at this figure few men L white or black would acce accept accent t work ork Horrors of the Storm I 1 Words cannot describe the terrors of o f C the storm Between 6 G p m Thursday y and noon Friday Frida trees fell and roofs were e crushed by b the hundreds Through the th e street carried by the terrific wind wine L were hurled thousands th of or pieces of or slate slat tin roofing cornices shingles and all a 11 kinds of ot debris Blinds were torn from n their fastenings and windows smashed as though of tissue paper Many people were ere seriously Injured and cut by the fly Ing slate and tin The railroads have hay i started wreckers out to clean up and an c repair the tracks but their task is her herculean cuban The office of the Western Union Tele Telegraph rel graph company compan was six feet under water wate r Its batteries ba were flooded with water and an d It will be some time before business can ca n be bc resumed The Postal Telegraph build bulk I I ing while not quite as low lying also air o 0 suffered severely Some Heavy Losers The new Cawthorne hotel Just com con completed 1 and the hotel facing facin Bienville square are damaged to the ex e i tent of ot each the Windsor hotel hote i St Andrews tho Southern ri i The rhe Southern Supply company compan es estimates e j its loss at Among the tj IC wholesale houses that have sustained the U 10 c greatest damage are Pollock Bernheimer wholesale dry dr v goods the English Wagon Manufacturing c f company S Jacobson dry goods Dor Do r Young Hardware company compan Cun Cm Cunningham I Hardware company compan Barney 8 c Cavanaugh Hardware company Mobile le Drug company E O 0 Zadek Jewelry com con company company pany Draper Burns clothing Ameri Amer Continued d on Page 2 I DEATH AND DESOLATION LEFT IN PATH OF STORM STORN I Continued from Page 1 cap Supply company compan mill supplies Chris tian Supply company Cleveland Broth Brothers Brothers ers era wholesale grain T G Bush Co grocers James McDonnell company gro grocers grocers cers cons Marshall Lyons Grocery company Muscat Lott produce dealers Mobile Mobil brewery Bienville brewery Dixie Chair Chat company James grocer and am many others The Merchants bank the First Na bank and ana the bank wore won Inundated There Is no way to arrive at a correct t estimate of or the losses owing to t the dis disordered disordered ordered state of all aU business The city cit r j was astir early this morning however The water had receded somewhat and anc everybody armed with buckets and an I brooms worked hard for a restoration to ti 3 normal conditions Hundreds of bales balos of ot cotton flowed through the main streets and will be bo car carried carried ried tied out to sea ca Cotton not lost In this thi S Sway way was damaged by b muddy water At t Fort Logan miles down the bay ba the wind had a much higher v oc ity than at Mobile Towns along the Mo bile Bay Shore road suffered immense ly owing to their exposed position No No i word from the coast towns along the thi a Louisville Nashville road has reached reache I the city There Thore is no doubt that many man r lives have been lost and severe damage e done both to residences and business prop erty Along the Gulf coast there were many fashionable residences some cost Ing The rho lowest barometer reading was 2 I at a m Thursday morning 1893 S record was 2916 The barometer ros J steadily from that and at 4 p m read i 2941 The rainfall for two days das was ai 7 I inches Average Velocity Miles The average velocity of the th wind PS r s officially announced by the weather bu bit bureau bureau reau renu was miles an hour The Th maximum was not announced The oft official cial cia maximum record in 1893 was seventy two miles an hour Even with this marked difference In ii a wind velocity this years storm did far fit r greater damage d mase to the city because the tb 0 wind Thursday was of longer duration a and more twisting every thing In Its path The Louisville Nash Nashville Nashville ville yme and Mobile Jackson Kansas City Cit V railroad shops were inundated the thorna ma ran machinery chinery and rolling stock being badly badi y damaged Along the line lIno of ot the Mobile Ohio Ohi 0 railroad to Meridian the Associated Press Pres S correspondent corres on saw huge trees lying flat fj t upon the thc ground with limbs torn off ana an I 1 twisted The streams are all aH out of ot their thol r banks and for miles porth north of 01 c t r Mobile looking to the tho right of at the tue rail rall railroad k road rond one can see ee ce nothing but a a solid solla soIl 1 a sheet of water running swiftly toward a Mobile Many farmhouses are situated in inthis inthis I this Inundated section and there may ma mahave have been loss of life UCe there The fruit fru trees and fall tall vegetables all aU over south souti em Alabama and Mississippi are ruined frn So o also Is tho the cotton sugar cane and an i iother Other crops One largo large Mississippi plants planter made made the assertion today torla that he lie would woul willingly ming accept for his hi cotton crop gro rop and feel that no ne had the best end of the deal The Tho roof root of tho the Mobile Medical college colleg e was 2 blown away The college has a val va 1 1 u ablo collection coll tion of curiosities which was c considerably damaged The St Pauls colored Methodist church v was w as demolished d m The loss Joss is la total The girls asylum and the Creole school o on n Conti street are badly damaged The rhe florists lost heavily Their hot hothouses houses h plants and flowers were strewn along a long the streets for blocks The plants 0 o of f A F Dupin at Elmira and George s streets were destroyed destro ed by the wind C Cavier r Ravier R RI avier Sons on Charles street and the I Industrial school gardens on Lafayette s street treet sustained heavy damage The Mo Mobile Mobile Moile bile b ile county court house presents a wrecked w appearance appearance Tho The clock located j I Inthe tower was as blown completely out by bythe bythe t the he wind The Union station situated at the foot o street which caught fire several everal s days ago is damaged consider considerably considerably jj ably a bly Its windows are arc broken broke and cor cornices cornices n nices ices and shingles are gone The water came up so rapidly that the r railroad were unable to move movell ra a all aU ll the trunks from the baggage room Some S ome were saved but others floated to toward toward ward w ard the bay Suburb Destroyed square one of Mobiles beau beautiful beautiful ti tir ful parks is devastated The Tue Bay Shell r road oad ia la washed away awa in many places place At A t the extremity of the road Is a suburb c called South 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