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RECORD
AND REGISTER.
FORT WORTH. TEXAS. SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 29, 1906.—TWELVE PAGES.
NO. 349.
VOL. X.
COAST TOWNS
THURSDAY NIGHT ONE OF HORROR
ALMOST ENTIRE BUSINESS SECTION
BUILDINGS CRASH BY HUNDREDS
New Orleans Gets First News
From Lower River Points.
PEOPLE ESCAPED
PROPERTY LOST
fears
HURRICANE’S AREA
CITY UNDER MARTIAL O
OUTER BEATEN TO DEATH
PENSACOLA HIT HARD.
many
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PROVISIONS RUNNING LOW.
MANY VESSELS LOST.
hour
Miasissippi towns indieated
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Vieksburg and
they 0*11 he in shape to t*ume
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GREAT DAMAGE TO CROFS
Porleta Vien
surrounding
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Mobije
bss OF LIFE HEAv.
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pka ea
If
LOSS OF LIFE NEAR PENSACOLA.
The Firsi
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SHIP AGENTS FEEL EAST.
LIST OF KNOWN DEAD.
h
en i
last night, sald the train
com-
L <
tfast
All wires are gone and
ashouts are
Little Gr
of Mrs, Klosk;
Four or
erous in every direction.
ETWEEN 75 AND 100 LIVES LOST
d 6
guif
Along
MOBILE LOSS REACHES $5,000,000
heen
ft Mot
few thousand dollars’
demolished
tifled megre ebildren.
Two
tewed
addition to reporta of rotton
incoming
passengers
d
d that the
Telgraphie oommemicatin
Per-
(Continued oa page two.)
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E suin
In the Vicinity Believed to
Have Been Washed Away.
of Life and IEroperty Has Yet
Been Mad as Complete Con-
fusion ano Panic Reigns.
ported los and many
towne are devastated.
Port
ran-
Largest Business Heuuses Are More
or Less Bamaged.
' ad
i mg
r
a
the Jamce MePhilltp= “j'oe
and T o Catx (rocery (a
of the National Dredging company, the
schooner Pendleton of Pendleton Broth-
t:om
read
the trop-
Wenes-
* ind
t"har
Pln«
crop
mH quite no low lyitK.
severely
were re-
the Bay
he could
dispatch
Proteus continued her voyage Thurs-
day morning while the hurricane was
only partly diminished la violence
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Cloth I MT j
eompany, I
Cevelane ’
Marshall Lyon (irorery co
cate A Look, prod
Government Vessel Was Rammed by Unknown
Ship and Went Down—Great
Damage to Shipping.
Mobile,
fuliy de •
honra Nu
Mepi IT
n i a
ann an
nfn Rve
Tin
ported a damage of 10 per cent to the
cotton crop.
Dr. W N. MeGallalrd, a pasnenger
on the first New Orleans A Northeast*
ern train which came into the city late
Three megro men killed by falling
houses.
Mrs. Henry Warniek.
ferrmer stor
re vinited M
Fert Morgan With its Garrison
and Several Suburban Towns
worth of property in every county and
town.
Vieksburg reported damage to *Mp-
five blocks of thd beet business section
have been swept away. -
v. Musi
the No
where many h-harmsa
pl comp ay were six feet under
The battiricn were flooded with
doyi JM Thu
J* o l he
Area of Damage Extends Along
Mississippi Coast and to
Interior Crops.
AU Steamers Thought to Have Wenth-
ered Storm.
Galveston, Sept. 28.-- Agents for the
many steamship lines entering the port
of Galveston feel no, uneasiness for
thse of their vessels' which were on
the waters of the gulf in the vicinity
lon May Run Into the
1
hurled tkouanti"
ad tin roofina cor
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>
kt
k,
Misslasippi Coast Strewn With Wreek-
age.
New Orleans, Sept. M.—About twen-
ty-five wrecked or sunken schooners
on the gulf coast between here and
West Paseagoula, Miss., were observed
Unknown Number Perished Along the
Bay Front.
Louisville, Sept. 28.—General Mana,
ger Evans of the Louisville A Nash-
ville railroad received a dispatch to-
day from the Pensacola agnt of the
OBILE IN GRIP OF GREAT HURRICA
de annot
ging the
n
ed.
tuose livia 0
other o' tlying
marehr oiet
lve. '
Bi ?
l rure ntede
, and betwre
New Orleans and members
been eit?
rife Wav
wind ri
hurricane did great
northward progrens.
from quarantine anno
vn how soon
The offices
Bay Minette, Ala., Sept. 28.—At least
fifty lives are lost and :3,000,000 dam-
ace has resulted from a tornado that
struck Mobile Wednesday night and
deva* ta tea the business section of Mo-
bile. Five river boats are sunk at their
wharves, the business section, a quarter
of a mile wide, ang extending the whole
length of the city, is Inundated. The
city Thursday night is in darkness.
Military guara the streets with orders
to shoot to kill. Pillaging is reported
in the business sections and one negro
caught was near If beaten to death.
Many buildings have been rased, river
steamers turned turtle but crews es-
caped. The revenue cutter Alert is re-
Scores of People Injured by Collapsing
Walls of Their Homes In All Sec-
tions of the City.
Mobile, Ala., Sept. 28.—Mobile’s shipping
suffered more than anything else.
Many of her river boats now are beached or
sunk; all complete wrecks. Her docks and doz-
ens of private corporation docks are fearfully
torn up.
The revenue cutter Alert has gone down in
Mobile river. She was rammed by some un-
known vessel and sank immediately. Her crew
is believed to have escaped.
The city was put under martial law at dark
and no person allowed to enter the wholesale
district. The city authorities were quick to act
and therefore no disturbances of any sort re-
sulted.
The loss of life is only, so far as known at this
hour, 8 a. m., one negro baby killed by falling
walls and two negro men drowned in the flood.
(hr Western l’nion
Of the disturbance attendi
cal hrricane Wednesday ai
the Hlienvile
The depth of the water in the wholesale dis-
trict, which includes the entire business section
from Royal street to the river, was seven feet.
Among the steamers sunken arc the river
steamers J. H. Sehuh, Mary Esthes, Mary H.
Blees, Gama, Overton, Hattie B. Moore, City of
Camden, tug revenue cotter Alert and hundreds
of smaller craft.
Wharves from Frazier tsreet, the extreme
south end of the city, as far up the river as
Three Mile creek, are total wrecks. This also
ineludes the new Mobile & Ohio docks and pri-
vate docks.
The steamer James A. Carney, plying be-
tween Mobile and the eastern shore, lies beached
just across the river and opposite St. Francis
street. Its sides are jammed in and its upper
structure blown away.
day night. The Mallory line steamer
Concho, which sailed from Key West
at 2 o'clock Thursday morning, doubt-
less caught some of the storm, though
the worst part of the hurricane evi-
Food Supply is Pripelpally Ham and
Esgs,
Mobile, Ala., Sept 22.—Provisions ars
running low. Restaurants feed many
but have no supplies on hand. Ham
and eggs constitute the food supply.
These, too, will soon become exhausted.
Wholesale houses have lost many
thousands of dollars from flood and
willingly paid as high as $1.50 an hour
for common labor and earnestly they
begged men to accept such prices, eo
frantic were they to save their goods.
Even at this figure few men would ac-
cept work.
Mobile, Ala., Sept 21—The dead as
far as known are at present:
Mra. Delnmier sad two daughters,
at navy yard.
Henry Johnsen, at Johnson.
Mra. Simon Klosky, at Coden.
stated further that no loss of life had
occurred among the employes of the
railroad. There is much damage to
railroad property and washouts are
numerous.
McComb City reported many bulldinse
injured Jackson and Brookhaven re-
loot in this way won damawnd by h ‘iright ef -term W Nraehee burs-
lng noakea with m eddy n , d** Merniue
company eat ablishments
dated.
nowerw
• t ter
. hin
i • tnausatrtal • eheol u-rd
+6• -trem -unt. ineg Has
that the
> in it-
teryITie wina
exprem-ga, today
Brotheta, wholemate grain, T *1 Wuna
A Ca. wholeeaie urecera; Jamem M
Donnel eompany. whelenate urerer*
Mobile. Ais., Sept. 11—Between sev-
enty-five and a hundred lives were lost,
fully two score vessels were driven
ashore or wrecked in various parts of
the guit of Mexico. damage amountins
to 14,500,000 In the city of Mobile and
millions more at outside points is the
result of the storm which swept over
Mobile Wednesday and Wednesday
night. No accurate estimate ee the
number of casualties can be made to-
day and it is doubtful It it wi be
known for a week or more.
Grave apprehension exists tegardtng
the situation at Gultport and other
pointe, where It is belleved many lives
bars been lost Reports from outside
points in this vieinity ars meager and
unsatistactory. It is dectared by the
local municipal otricers that no Urea
hae been lost in the city of Mobtle,
tat that all of the deaths occurred in
places within a radius of fifty miles of
this place.
The totlowing vessels hare been
wreckea or ariven ashore In th* vicin-
ity at Mobile: Tug Lebaron, barkentine
Homet, a pile ariver belonging to Hol-
unger A Co.. a alood and dredzine boat
u.e —l.FR
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Memphis, Sept M — Adviees from
Jackson, Mias., auto that the loss to
the growing cotton crop in Mississippi
due to the tropical storm which baa
been raging over that state since
Thursday last has been very, disas-
trous. Various estimates place the
loss to proparty and crops in Missis-
aippl well up in the minions.
At Matches the fleet of the Pittsburg
Coal company aank in deep water two
miles below the city with an estimated
loss of $60,000. There were nineteen
barges in the fleet.
The storm caused damage at Brook-
haven. Miss., blowing down a number
of buildings, including the Masonic
temple.
company, H. O Zeldwelier
company. Paeker A Hums
company, Ameriean Suppiy
Christian Supply eompany.
was veported in dispateies to the Cot- ------- ----------
ton Exchange
Baton Rouge, Ia reported about 20 1_
No Accurate Estimate of Loss
deauy passed west at the vessel ead
strack the eoast betore she had reechea
track at the passine hurrteane
Ths Morgan Hae steamer BI Dia
shoula have arrived her* early this
morntmg. nccoraine ta the easel time
allowed for the voyage from Bond Key
to Gaiveston; however, up oatU late
this arternoon the steamer had not been
sighted, it will be rebelled that this
steamer had her boots earrted away
and surtered otherwise from th* severe
storm att Hatteras two weeks as*,
while en route from Galveston to New
Turk. Ponsibly the steamer has go-
ton into ths hurricane on the gulf and
is lata on that account.
Some apprehenston was felt amona
the friends and relatives at passengers
on tha North German Lloyd steamet
Cassel, bound from Boston for Gal.
veston. However, the veee*l pansed
Send Key yesterday afternoon at I
o'clock and should make this port oa
Ima uniess untorseen storms bold tat
back.
None of th* other lines were ex-
pectins vessels that would have been
in tha track at the storm.
thit marked differen e in wind
(hi years storin 414 far grea
ag- to the etty becaune the
Th •anday was e longer dura
das and at 4 p til
infali was Rapt
>7 7 p. »n . 4 *1 h
offelaal
two Ri
ARE HARD HIT
Besides these, many ether wholeenie
hounen in the city were badly damagt i
The Merehanta hank the Firm it
tfonal bank and th* Lieukauft Rank > .
nices, shingles ar E in fact, all kinda
of debria
The ratiroada I we started wreckers
out to • iean u i and repair tracks
Wan, peuple wer / werinunty injured and
eut by the niyin alate and Un
la dam-
wind of
ition and
more de-
- of lika
dir
Tort worth
down in the mad and Xatehea reported I
that on the Inada ..I—» the river la l
Loutaiana the damage woe probably I
per cent No Aamaze to sugar eane taa
yet been reportedI
The exeuraton steamer Camelta, «a
LakePontehartrain, about whomenatety
familtew have been aeparated hy the
atorm. Allday yesterday and la.i olsht
the washet M the Loutsvile A Nash
vine veilroad twenty-five miles ream
her* marked the farthent point east
ward reached by rail. tele sea ph or tale
For hours after the hurricane panmed
a two-mile portton at the raurond trark
submersed by the incoming tide was
exposed to equaily an dangerou= an
outward llow at recedine high water
1acni Loulavine A Nashville ortieini
lode, announcga that *11 traina were
eanceled until further notice
Thia morning 1—he Pontehartrain has
calmed and the hign waler han fallen
to very near the normat level.
Uaaa late Iuterler
Th* firut reports from the interior
-• .trewn ng the
h. । ■ ■ • <
Kimiir- mna Ge.**
the entire etty
lo** of Ilf* had been amall. Reports
frost Missimeippi points war* scarce,
despite th* fact that several railroad
lln** and many tetegraph unes were re-
sumed from here into the Mat*, end
this fact was taken to tndicate that
the storm covered a widespread terri-
tory in its northern oourse
Damage lo crap*.
Great damage to the eotton crop
today from a Loulsville A Nashville co-
sine on an inspection tour
At McNeill. Mln., John M. Roberts
wss killed by a falling tree, and at
McComb City three persons were se-
verely injured by ths tanline coping of
a hotel.
Captain J. D. Sears, XT. S. N., com-
mandins the Eighth lighthouse district,
returned tonight from a trip down the
Mississippi river which he made durins
the storm. He said that at places ss
far ss the eye could reach the land
was under tidewater, but that he had
been unable to learn of any loan of life.
El CM Misnea it.
The Southern Pacific company's
steamer El Cid from New York, wss
more fortunate, steaming into port
without a seretch, bavins salled to
southward of the entire hurrteane.
The United Fruit company an-
noenced today that anxiety is felt for
a fleet of four of its steamers which
were due to arrive at MebOe Wednes-
day and Thursday. These vessels are
the Columbia, Belize, Kata and Ala-
bama None of them are equipped with
wirelens instruments.
The Southern Pacific steamer Pro-
tons for New Tork. which left here a
few hours before the hurrieene began,
remained in tbs Mississippi river
quarantine station to weather the
Mono there: Belated reports today
barkentine Corriere, stenmer Josephine,
sloop Minor, sloop Olive and the tug
Overton.
Tut Overton, ins Hattie B. Moore,
steamer Davis Shook, schooner King of
avon, skipper Urugtand, Havana,
revenue launch Alvrt, sunk at her
moorings.
In addition to these busts, fish Inc
smacks and small craft in crest num-
bers have been driven ashore snd
smashed Three boats belonging to
the Unitea States Fruit company, the
Helen, Imperator and Colombia bars
not been heard from, but it U believed
they have ridden out the storm in
safety.
Ths fruit trees sad fall vewcetabie
crops all ovsr wouthern Alabama and
Mississippi ars ruined. So also sr* th*
cotton, suzar cane end other crops
One large Mississippi planter mad* th*
assertion today that he would willingty
accept »l» for bis cotton crop and feel
afterward that he cot the best end of
the desk
Pomtai teieeraph -ettev walla
Lem in Flortas City Msy Reach Five
mutome.
Pensacola, Sept. 28.—The worst hur-
ricane to visit this city in its history
raced here all last nicht ant, this
morning and today with a gale stin
r.owinc. the city presents a wrecked
appearance and the damage is esti-
mated st 35,000,000. The loss of life will
be heavy among the mariners, but
thus fsr only one body has bean re-
covered. Other bodies are reported
alone th* shore, but hav* not been re-
covered. .
The New cawthor hotel Junt » <a
pietea, ana the nuenvie hetes ar* dae-
»a^t to taa ratant at ss aaa aa*-a
The Windsor hotel M damaz-d »>.«*•
(he Bi Andrew* »>.»•• and 'he Mouth
era M.*O*
Th* Southern Supply cempany mil
matea Ha lam at non.
Th* wholerale houmes nuntainine lh*
greatent damaue ar« Poiloek,* Hera
Helmer, wholemaie dry eondm: The K»*
ah Wagon Manutaeturing cnmpany.
Jaenh—m eompnny. Ary eoodm, Merg-n
a Young Marawar eompany Cunning
ham Mardware am*iin, Harney Cava
nauuh Mardware ommpany Mobil* Druk
noon ruduy tree* Ml ind 0d evgastea
in by hundredm
Thruga lb* atre cm, carried by lb*
eruse velcity o t. winel,
11 by the wenthe uureau I
Ing The water had fee rded en” ey •
tody, armed with bucketa and bre •
worked lke Trojans
Hundreds ot bales eotton Tbp ri
through the main atreets and m N ■ i
were earried ont to nua Cutton et
dteru quurtere
train* report widespread dmage to
timber. Telegraph and telephone wires
are so universaily damaged that every
town yet heard from reported at Mtn*
time yesterday that It was cut off from
communication with th* outside world
Th* verified loss of life thus far la
confined to the death of on* employe
landed th* forty passengers which th*
hurricane prevented from coming
ashore here laet night.
nd float utg *
iver Much fe
lurtta where
I ne"r*
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IS RUINED BY WIND AND WATER
pelled to run alow through the storm
yesterday, with trees ontinually fall-
ing. some threatening to blockade the
tracks in the crash. Unroofed or de-
molished negro cabin* were continually
passed. Frequently, he sald, the lash-
ing wind and eracking tree* mad* a
roar which drowned out th* train*
rumble.
Damage to Foreste,
Reports from Monticello, Mia*, say
considerable damage was done to th*
pine forests near there, hundreds of
trees being uprooted and trees falling
across th* railroad track* to such an
eitent a* to practically suspend rail-
road traffic. Brief dispatches received
here Indicate the lonnes in the interior
towne of Misuissippi alone will reach
hundreds of thousands of dollars. No
heavy damage I* reported at sny one
point, but the storm appears to have
railroad, stating that there
porta of loss of life along
front in Pensacolabnt that
not confirm them. The
i The nhances ar* that m
life has heri, eauned by t-4
phie”
cH road
>4* T!
At Fort Morgan the wind had a E N
higher velocity than at Mobile T 6 «
along th* Mobile A Ray fit re rhak >
suffered immensely owing to 1he r •
posed condition. No wor trum p e
towns along the Kouisnisle A Na v k
has reeched the elty There Lu ne Au
that many lives have heen let
iiko and mu-'
Fort xergm ata suburean Towm- ne-
ieved to Hav* nees Detrozed.
Louisvme, Ky., Sept 28.— The general
manager at the Louisvile * Nashvinle
receives a mesnage st 3:65 this atter-
noon from Flomaton, Als-, confrmin«
ths loss of lifs ana devastation of prop-
erty la th* city of Mobil*. Th* dispateh
ays:
Th* editor of the Mobile Register and
the Louisvine a Nashville telesraph
operator made their way to Bay Minette
from Mobile, making the trip by boat
and on foot. They report a number of
lives lost in the tropical hurricane and
much damage done to property in the
elty of Mobile. Many people were in-
jured in the collapse of bunldings. Net
groes caught looting property were
beaten to death. A great many ship*
and one or two revenue cutter* wer*
sunk and their entire crews drowned.
city Under Martial Law.
The city is practically under control
of the military and no one is permitted
on the streets except policemen and
those wearing badges
A lance number of houses were de-
stroyed and many people were injured
in the eetnpse of bulldinge. Bienville
square has been destroyed. Christ
Church cathedral was blown down.
The water is live feet deep in ths bust-
nees section of the city snd bales of
cotton, trunks, household goods and
other debris are noating about the city.
. Fears for Fert ntorzam.
The wind reached a velocity of ninety
miles an hour.
Fort Morgan, at the entrance of Mo-
bile bay. and suburban towns hi th*
vicinity of Mobile are believed to hav*
been swept away.
The estimates of the damage ar* be-
tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 tn th*
city of Mobile alone.
" There is no way of reaching the out-
side world except by boat and on foot. I
New orleans, Sept 28— Tbs nrat news
from th* rulf coast town* in Minsis-
•Ippl. which tad mi been heard from
in over thirty-fiz hours, was received
today and inaieates that tb*r« wa•
probably as loss at life. Proparty dam-
age wm not mentioned. The mesnac*
was- brought by S Leuleville a Nash-
vile ornclal from Bar St. bouts, who
crossed th* washout st Labs Catherine
this morning. He sald that reports in
Bay St Louis wars that eastward to
Mobile the railroad tracks are probably
badly damaged as fsr ss Beranton,
which is nesr the Alabama state line.
No word to indicate anything like s
catastrophe hea been received from this
section of the eoast. It wss reported
that st Beranton the storm had con-
siderably damaged the railroad tracks
and that nothing was known of the sit-
uation east of this point
Laaa at Life Small. ,
The Urol dellnit* news from the Min-
ethsippi delta waa received today it
■bowed that the delta land had been
dlooded, that hundreds of nshermen had
been driven from their home* into
nrggere, but that despite the wreckine
et some of these boat*, loss of nite was
probably amall. Property damage
along the lower river, however, was
widespread. Other reports from the
northesst in Mlselaslppi were like those
from the east and south, stating that
New Orleans, Supt ft New orleana
early today la MIU eat att abmolutety
frees communtcation with potato on the
gulf rasM ta at here For thirty el*
hours no information of any mort ho* --- . -
eome from towns lems than an hour
vlde by rail in the dire lion of Mobile *
mAmnengiatv."gar“um"uEvery Hotel An the City and All of the
Impomeibie to Fetiwufe
At thia time it I* impormi
mate or toesrihe th* Lene
no way to arrive af an emtin
fuel An reigna.
dmomnus of Narometer,
*ometet one ateadily
d many fashionable and
de .N wome corina $20,-
Susan CrevilNon. servant of Mr*.
Klosky.
O. werneth,
Mra. O. Werneth,
Mm. MeRne,
Mrs. Henry Turner.
Captain A. Stevens.
Three Mimses Alexander,
Edward Huetiand.
Mrs. Huetland,
Three Huetland ehildren.
Three umidentifed bodies found om
beaeh, .
Twe brothers Banted Cerraway, at
Bayou La Batre.
Mrs, Elisabeth Nelmon, at Alabama
Port.
Mra. A. L. Hasen of Newcastie, Pa,
and two children, at Dol Champa.
Obo unidentined woman.
dent of 13,900 rarh
Mienvilte -quare a wreu.
Wirnviile umuar- anttr a^t Metile- best
serks of whieh Mohie o pronm, pre-
oted a ruined appearasee He large
iks re torn anA twisted nil man
it them win have te be eut down rim
iny road one ot the pretttest
Mobile, Ala. Sept M -W* *t ar
toclty at the wind 4(4 n.a -cre that
at 1592, it wammueh more deeir ttuaa
and iaated lonuer Comaervati v »MI
mat a at Ike Inee la made ut sasmoo
ana fully »aaa hseees Mva Ns at-
teetea in varioua way-
Every cherek in the ety hr l ata
euttered, though Oriel chure h i ad the
St. Francia Ntreet Bapttat char A mt
terea more than others - ramez
to cnriat ehureh to estimated » H«
*44 M Franetn street nepunt chure n
■Mta»ne4 damnu• at namn
The reef -it the Mobite efe w"
Mown off The college had • niunt '
eolieetion at tab s ata *••»•* «»►*
wm Homh conmidurably
m Paur* Cvlored Metnodie
was Wow* te th- ground
The Mebiie ecomty courtne tie pre
senta A » art wreekirke apear" • . The
eteek I* ■« tower Wows tmptet--
ly off by the wina and nothus at it ta-
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