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Show I NOT YET REALIZED. Story cf Great Gulf Storm Is Only Told in Part. MERIDIAN, Missv Sept. 29. Delayed De-layed mail from Hattiesburg brings advices ad-vices this afternoon of great havoc -wrought in that section and south of tho Mississinpi by tho storm. It is estimated that 50 per cent of the 3'el-low 3'el-low pine timber has been destroyed, and it is feared many lives have been lost in the woods. All turpentine orchards orch-ards are ruined, and the. "loss is estimated esti-mated at several million dollars. In Hattiesburg alone the loss is estimated at one million. Gnlfport, Scranton, etc., are reported -as in a deplorable state of destruction, but" no estimate is given of the damage nor mention made of the number of fatalities. |