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Show ll New 'Orleans is I : Sweptby Gale Kt Damage Reaching Millions Is Caused BK By Worst Gulf Storm In BH City's History K 1 j Mobllo, A,n-. ScSiit. SO.t-A wlro- BJ; less dispatch revived hero early to- Bl day from tho steamship Creolo at Hi I? New Orleans said that both Bides of B' ji, the Mississippi livbr had overflowed Bn south or that dlty ob a result of B 1 i yesterday's west, Indlah hurrlcano. HI; No details Wero given, but It wns B ) 1 feared that tliero 'had been loss of B j? life. ' BJ , Now Orleans, Sept. 2D. Five per- H sons r.ro known to be dead and many BJ injured apt , property loss renchlng B into tho millions lias been caused to- BJ night by tho .most severe gulf storm BJ in tho history of tho city. BJ A galo wltn a velocity of ol?hty- BJ slXjuHcp qn, hour, swept tho city at Bfl ,v G'oVock,Qi)Jght, demolishing scores BB I ofbuildings, stripping the roofs from j H. hundreds, .of, other structures nnd BB showing tho streots Ith broken Bfl' glavs nnd debrta. BB , At 7:30 p, in.' a rising barometer Bfl gave evidence that the storm was IB' (,ubsdlng, tho center passing to tho IB northwest of New Orleans. .Tho bar-' IB ometcr at Its lowest registered 2S.11 fl and tho wind velocity of eighty-six IB miles was tho highest ever recorded BB hero. Railroad and wiro communlca- Bfl tlon with tho outside world had BB ; boon cut, off and tolephonc, electric B light and trolley servlco discontinued Bfl In tho city. All railroads havo can- pflj celled trains from New Orleans. BB Heavy, Loss of Life Fear.ad H Mobllo, Ala., Sopt. 29. Now Or- PH leans and tho Mississippi gulf coast B tonight Wore, swept by a tropical bur- BB rlcano that demoralized communlca- BB tlon nnd led to fears of heavy loss IB of life nnd property. Tho Misstsstp- H pi river levocs below Now Orleans IH have broken hono8 haVo been wash- BB cd away, and at least two lives havo B been lost in that section, according BB. to a wlroloss mossago Into today from IB tho Morgan liner Creolo, upward IB bound, for Now Orleans. HBJ Tho business section of Dlloxi, B)! Miss., Is under six feet of water, and B'' train .servlco has been abandoned be- IBi'i cnu bo of washouts throughout a largo BH'' section about Hay St. Louis. IBJl Last reports coming from New Or- ! leanskbeforo all means of communl- BBr cation wore lost said the city was in BBii darkness becauso of tho flooding of H; electric plants. Wind had driven BBt1' tho water In lako Ponchartraln above BBl, tho sea wall nt Mllenburg and other BBli New Orleans suburbs along the lake Be wero partially dndor water. Tho ad- IBB; vices said automobiles wero bringing Hi in tho inhabitants of that section and '. that no loss of llfo had been report- H Gulf Waters Backed Up By Gnlvoston, Texas. Sept. 29 T.10 IBB' Galveston station of tho Marconi IIB Wlroloss Tclegrnph company rrcelv- flflflflflfllt - - -..n .1 1 ed the following messngo tonight from the Morgan liner Comus nt New Orleans: "At Nov Orleans waters from tho gulf nro backed up and country Hooded Hood-ed back of levees. Great damage and probable loss of life." |