Show I GREAT STORM ON ONI I THE TilE GULF COAST Most Destructive Tropical Hurricane Hurricane Hurricane Hur Hur- Since October 1893 LOSS OF LIFE AT MOBILE Many Train Annulled Because e of Washouts Hamage s. ge I ne Jo 10 o Growing ru ruIn In Cotton Coltun Crop CI 4 4 New cw York Sept 27 A 7 A late lae 4 4 to a local paper from Pensa- Pensa 4 t cola FIn Flo makes the tho assertion 4 4 that hundreds of or lives have been 44 4 4 lost and millions of or dollars' dollars 4 worth of property destroyed by 4 4 thu bl big bli storm The Tue statement Is 4 4 followed however b by the announcement an- an 4 that It Is Impossible 44 4 4 to secure to un any details as tho lie wire Ire 4 service 13 Is paralyzed all along the lie 44 4 4 coos coast t 44 4 New cw Orleans Sept 27 fhe 7 The Louisiana Mississippi anti and Alabama coasts were wert last nl night ht and toda today swept lJ by the lie most disastrous tropical hurricane that has occurred In ln this section since tho lie memorable mem mem- orabie storm torm of oC October 1893 While considerable rable damage was done In the he vicinity of or New w Orleans tho the most de- de e work of oC the storm occurred on oil the tile coasts of oC Mississippi and Ala In barns bama Mobile J has been completely isolated all do day and It is 14 feared fc that thoL tho ho loss 1053 lossIn lossin In that city has been heavy The government weather lather Instruments In New Orleans at nt 1 o'clock this mornIng morning morn- morn Ing showed that hut the lie storm center was miles due duc east cast of ot this city This Indicated that Mobile was In the path I of the storm New Orleans was as cut off from Crom wire communication with the outside world I until nearly noon toun today when tho tue telegraph tele tele- graph raph companies succeeded in opening open In ing their thell lines through Texas via Houston and Lind Dallas In the tile da day clay wire communication was wa established with St. St Louis Memphis and amid Kansas CIl City ca ty All 11 wires along the Louisville Nashville Nashville Nash Nash- ville ille and amid the time Queen Crescent railways rail rull- ways Wl'S were annulled this morning lie bc- C cause ause of oC washouts The Queen Crescent Cres Cres- cent erit Is ls washed out In four tour places b be- be I tw n New Orleans anti ami time the the south louth horo oT or Like Lake The Time t. t j J. J lI ur OO tiTI 71 ethe e- e he the track be beyond ond Lal Lake c Catherine Is not I Ii known mown all alt wires being down IMIe Detached A floating pile driver became detach dc- dc l tach ached eel from Its moorings mooring at aL South I Point last night und anel the waves used 11 it Hus II is us a tL battering ram In heating beating down t the he telegraph and telephone wires for forn r c n distance of over live five miles In New Orleans proper the storm wrought much havoc trees irons and fences suffering the most Hut the storms storma wrath wroth did not ilOt stop hero an and today many houses housos were minus chimneys und anti factories some stacks and in some in instances instances In- In stances s parts of roofs torn away The weather bureau instruments show that the thc wind Ine in New Orleans attained a D. velocity of nine forty-nine miles an hour At West cst End the Cone Coney Is Island Island Island Is- Is land of Now e Orleans much damage wu was dono done to wharves und and boats boals Milneburg Milne- Milne burg another pleasure resort on the tho luke lake was WUK completely submerged and scores of club houses house swept away The rhe inhabitant inhabitants of oC this resort sought safety safety sat sat- ety in box curs cars of the Pon Pontchartrain railroad Atm n Ducktown a lake resort frequented ted by by- negroes wa was almost wiped out of ex ox- ox on the Queen Crescent Crescent Cres Cres- cent railway was WUK practically destroyed arid and u tl number of people hud had narrow escapes escapes es es- es- es capes from drowning Reports from the loul Louisiana hana coast southeast of oC here hru Indicate that a u most condition of affairs exists Time The from the time gulf wax was driven by tho the hurricane clear clar across the time coun country try to the tho 1 Mississippi l river Scores of fishing settlements were Vure submerged und and nil all of ot the and plantations in that re region region region re- re gion flooded with salt l lt water wl At Burns the thc water from the gulf ran run over r the levee le Into the time Mississippi river I The rice crop on both bOlh tildes sides of the river rl up to Wednesday was unusually unusually ally promising but reports tonight show shote that it has been beon practically destroyed de tie- Thia will cause great suffer suffer- ing No reports have been received from rom Port Kudu Eats and 11 other points near neur the mouth of ot the river rl The engine and dynamo from the room engine-room at the station at Port Ends Cads wore were flooded und and us u it result the system was VaS put out of bu business Not a n vessel has crossed d the bur bar at nt the mouth of the river since Mince Tuesday All tho the vessels l are remaining In tho the river until the lie storm abates Vessels at ut semi ecu undoubtedly undoubtedly edly suffered and It is 1 feared some SOnIC have hav been boen losi lOBI I COTTON corTO CHOP enol I I IS S mi 1 u it Lii I I In I U I cry Very Great buy u I Jackson l Miss B 81 Sept pt 27 Eq 27 Equinoctial U Jul today lodAy damaged dt the Mississippi ppl cotton crop Riot nut le less s than thun I which i I. I is equivalent to bales bale Some Somo estimates by crop experts are uro even higher r than these figures A 4 large amount of ot damage t to properly property oj or 1 1 minor minar character throughout the time state stale vas wu vu alpo aipo caused by high winds wind The norm l Is I. raging tonight with Unabated un- un I I abated fury I l I I. I 11 IS II iS IOSI of cor 1 Hun l One tu u Pensacola colu Flu Sept 27 The north gulf coast coa tt was visited lust last night and today b by the time mo most t violent hurricane ne In yours years In conjunction with a Ii terrific wind came caino unprecedented tides lIllee which curried carried small craft eruCt high und and dry ul alt all along th the coast S Several veral steamers stet ant mind IRr large sailing ve vessels jJ b ure uro reported reporter stranded Several Sc lives liven arc are known to have been lost host Houses are arc flooded and anti numerous r families hove have boon been rescued today lJ bj y boats boatH All telegraph and telephone service ser see vice wu lu was paralyzed until late into this after after- noon Time Tho electric light plant went won out of or commission last lust night The estimates estimates estimates es es- es- es of damage o run from rom one to five millions I In thIs thin ett city many buildings s have hn been unroofed and anti some somo small structures structure blown down rf h j. j f 4 i 1 |