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Show ' XTOcd OUT i N!-r.y Frcniincnt Pccple !. ' Aneni Dead; Vhitt? f ' Arn to Protect Property A'zinst llec'rces. ?Xeridian, Miss., Sept. 29. information informa-tion from Mobile by train this morning morn-ing eonfims the report that Coden, Ala., Port, . Ala., and Bayou La Batz have been wiped off the map and that but one house, the Julius Home, is left , standing at Coden. Among the dead are some of the most . prominent people of the coast, including includ-ing the wife and .youngest daughter ' ) of State Seaator S. McOae of Wash- injfton county, Ma,ior D. J. Stevens, 1 Oiive eraeth. wife and youngest daughter, and H. G. Turner, a leading lumberman The entire west shore below Mobile! P is reported :, completely devastated. I Twenty-five bodies have been recovered recov-ered and thirty more were reported as known to have- perished. Many bodies of negroes art included n. this report and the survivors of the raee are terror-stricken ana! helpless. The- whites of the vicinity as well as many from Mobile are reported as having heaMly armed themselves and patrolling the devastated territory in order to protect the victims and their property and o compel the uninjured and. terrified negroes to assist in the work of salvage. |