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Show mmm sots swept ' . by m bpnoctial storm CN-ONUSUALSEVEiTY'. Four Feet of Water Running in Streets of New Orleans; High Winds Prevail. Prostrating Telegraph Wires; Wafer Is Blown in From the Gulf. , NEW YORK, Sept. 27. Reports of sveere storms in Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia were received today. One telegram reads that there is four feet of water in the streets of New Orleans. Heavy rainfalls are reported at Vicksburg, Miss., and Macon, Ga. Telegraphic service ta New Orleans is badly crippled. . LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 27. The Gulf storm which began to show its force last night has destroyed all wire communication to Mobile and New Orleans. Or-leans. The storm appears general be. tween Montgomery, Ala., and the Gulf of Mexico and westward to the Missis-sippi. Missis-sippi. Water is reported four feet deep in the streets of Mississippi Point, Miss., the high wind blowing the water from the Gulf. .At. 10:40 o'clock this morning communication com-munication was restored for a moment with Mobile, which reported a gale blowing, with rain, falling in torrents aad the barometer falling-rapidly.- There has been no communication from New Orleans- since midnight, the last word from there bing that one suburb had been damaged somewhat by the wind and by a sudden rise of four feet in Lake- Paochatrain. New Orleans Heard From. . Communication was had with New Orleans for a few minutes at 10:4.x a. m. The telegraph operator there t ported that the wind was blowing about forty-eight miles an hour, but that th center of the. storm was east of New Orleans and that the city of New Op leans had not suffered any serious dan age, nor had there been any loss ol life as far as reported. . It is. considered probable in New Op leans that the storm probably hit thi Mississippi coast and Mobile hard, but there was nothing tq confirm . this. Tht wire failed at this juncture. Trains Are Delayed. . General Manager Evans of the Louis ville k Nashville road has received reports re-ports from division superintendents oi his road, indicating a very serioui storm south of Greenville, Ala. Th high wind has blown trees across tb tracks, destroying telegraph wires anc interfering seriously with the operatiot of trains. A passenger (rain due in Montgomery at 6 o'clock this morning did not ar rive' until nearly 11 o'clock, the delaj being caused by numerous stops to remove re-move trees from the tracks. |