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1 STORM LEVIES TAXES IN LIVES AND GOODS! PROPERTY DAMAGE MORE THAN f TWO MILLION. Sew Orleans Suffers Principal Part of .Material Hurt?Seven Perish 1 in Crescent City. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 30?Between -"0 : and 6u lives lost, several hundred per^ sons injured and property damage to fnzx AVtnrir r\* u-a] 1 n\'Or AflA Hfil! \J jl w ? KsX v v v-v-taa | stitute the toll of the tropical storm i which since yesterday has -virtually I isolated New Orleans and that vicinity from the outside world. This was the sum total of reports here tonight.. ? received by wireless, by telephone and< * occasionally by roundabout and shaky Bp. telegraph wires?all the usual means | T of communication still being useless.; ^ Unofficial reports showed loss of life j I and personal injury as follows: New Orleans. 7 dead, 150 injured; Frenier, j La., 25 killed; Manshac, La , 17 killed; ; Pascagoula, Miss., 2 killed; Mobile, 2-. Wr killed; Natchez, Miss.,'1 killed. Property loss in New Orleans was j estimated there today at approximately , $2,000,000. No definite estimate hasj yet been made of damage to many! coast points around New Orleans, but j * in this vicinity it was said the total loss would not exceed $50,000. Esti mates of damage in this section of the! gulf coast were materially lessened to- J day when Coden, Bayou ^a Batre. Ala- j bama Port, Battles, Fair Hope and other nearby coast resorts were heard from. Four steamers were said to have i been swept over wharves at Guliport, Miss., last night and the steamer Thomas H. Benton was reported lost at Natchez, Miss., with Thomas Lincoln, a watchman, lost with her. Although water was reported two! fc feet deep in the railroad station at Coden, where 60 lives were lost in the great storm of 1906, and the hay front shell road was six feet under water, no loss of life was reported and prop; erty damage was said to be confined to destruction of bath houses and beaching of several fishing schooners, which were found today several hundred yards inland. In iL'obile the west bank of the Mobile river early today was 200 feet p from the postoffice, having overflowed and inundated streets three blocks and a half from the wharves. Both lives lost here were from electrocution. Albert Fritz, driver of a ?te!ivery wagon, stepped on a fallen wire early today and was instantly killed. C. D. Smith, a steamboat employe, late today attempted to remove a fallen wire from the path of some oir^dren. As he touched the wire the \ current in it killed him. All vessels outward bound yesterday irom Xew Orleans were said to day to have been accounted for ana j the Southern Pacific liner Proteus, re-; * ported yesterday in the storm center < i off the mouth of the Mississippi, was! declared to be safe by the Creole o: j r the sair.e line. SWEPT OVEK WHARVES. Four Steamers Are Hurled on Shore! Bv Storm. > Pascagoula, Miss., Sept. 30.?Four steamers at the dock in Gulfport were swept over the wharves by the hurricane last night, it is reported here today by roundabout messages. Direct j rail and wire communication with tha* | city has been totally interrupted, li j is said mere was tome loss oi me. It was said that one of the steamships swept ashore is the British steamer Birchwood of 1,800 tons from Algiers. She is reported aground in five feet of water, though she draws 23 feet. Two children, the infant son and daughter of W. A. Barber, were instantly killed 'here when the family home was demolished. Half a dozen ^ staunchly built homes on the beach were torn from their foundations and a cumber of people were injured. > early Score Perish at Jackson, Miss. Jackson, Miss., Sept. 30.?A report cached here late today through railt read sources that a railroad section foreman and 16 negro section workers were drowned at Manshac, La., a few miles south of Hammond. < /foal Flotilla Wrecked at \atchez Natchez. Miss., Sept. 30.?A fleet of co -nn nncil nnr? siv hnntc was lost, and Thomas Lincoln, watchman ! on the small steamer Thomas H. Benton. is thought to have been drowned t as a result of last night's storm in this -e^ lion. The city wa-- in darkness last ni-:hr. but damage to the electric li^ht an 1 power plant was repaired today. TV coal boats and barges, valued Vvi,v. their cargoes at $n,000. and the T">r.r>rnn mvnod hv tbo Tpffripc: Lumyer companv, were torn from tneir mooring and carried down the Mississippi river. Searchers failed to find them today. L A STORM DEATH LIST, ! SWELLS BY HUNDREDS1 j i -NEARLY l.>0 KNOWN AND FIVE SCORE REPORTED KILLED. I I Reports From Scattered Sections of 1*nil ('oast Tell of More Lives and Property r.iken hv Hurricane. j New Orleans, Oct. 1.?Reports from , scattered sections of the storm swept, area in Louisiana and along the Mississippi gulf coast tonight placed the number of known dead at 149; report-j ed dead 106 and missing 105. The property damage will run into the million?. ! ^ ^ i l nc Known ueaa m juouisiana in- j elude: New Orleans and environs, 24; Rigolets, 21; Lake Catherine, 22; near Fienier, 2-"?; eight drowned in sinking packet near Grand Isle. Reported dead and missing in Louisiana: Shell Beach. S-t. Bernard parish, 16; Island de la Croix, 22; Yolonsk\\ 15 (negroes). Couriers by boat and train as well' as mail advices brought in reports of tremendous Drooertv losses and ru mors of many drowned along both sides of the Mississippi river south of here. i All But Destroyed. Boat passengers arriving here today from Empire, North Duluth ,canal,1 about 50 miles down the Mississippi,. reported that only four large houses still stood at Empire and that 100 per-' sons were marooned in them. The! State conservation commission here, started a rescue -vessel for that point. Many inhabitants of the flooded sections on both sides of the river were reported marooned and some 'were! said to be clinging to tree tops. Re-j lief vessels were sent to rescue them. Bay St. Louis, Miss., on the Missis sippi guir coast, reporter one oeaa and; property loss heavy. Houma, La., reported the city safe and no lives lost. Bur wood, the most southerly point of the gulf coast, also was reportedto have weathered the storm without loss of life. Twenty-One persons were known to be dead at Rigolets and 22 at Lake Catherine, both small resorts on the main line of tthe Louisville and Nashville railroad, a few miles west of the Mississippi-Louisiana State line, ac-1 cording to W. 0. Powell, ose of 12 sur-! vivors who arrived here early today, j Fifteen negroes and one white man j were reported dead at Shell Beach ana; 22 white persons at de la Croix island, j both small settlements in St. Bernard | parish, south of here. Reports of 25 dead between Frenier I and Des Arc, on the west shore of! Lake Pontchartrain. was confirmed to- j day by a railroad man arriving at I Hammond. Only One Survivor. i The sole survivor of a party of nine passengers and crew of the Grand Isle packet Hazel, arrived here early, today. The vessel capsized and was f dashed to pieces near Grand Isle. The. survivor, George Linden, engineer of: the vessel, floated 15 miles on a piece' of timber and was exhausted when j picked up by a passing vessel. Fi . e of the crew and a white woman j aboard the steamer F. M. Owens, j which sank near Lucus Post, were re-' ported missing. Of the 21 known to be dead at Rig-, lets three were white persons and IS j negroes. Mrs. Harris, wife of a rail-' road section foreman, her baby and her j sister. Mrs. Effie Lawson, were said to e the white victims. Among the dead at Frenier were R. L. T7a7slgrave, an Illinois Central roa^master; Adam Schlosser and J. D. Lord, section foreman, and George Schlosser and his wife, according to reports received here. The town of Dunbar, La., on the! Louisville and Nashville railway, a snort distance rrom tne (Mississippi State line, virtually was swept away.' according to Po-vell. He could give no estimate of the dead at Dunbar, j Powell also reported the railroad j j drawbridge at Rigolets wrecked and the track, which was built on embank-j ments and fills across the marshes, washed out for miles. Only meagre reports have been re-' eeived from the Delta section south j and southwest of New Orleans. A wireless message from a staff correspondent of a local newspaper says: Country Flooded. T A T-* J >> uuic vuiuiti y uetweeu rayaras ] and Buras inundated. Levees gone, property loss appalling. Life toll prob-! ably heavy. Conditions worse than ever before. Relief needed." Rpports from Chof Mentur, directlv south of this city, indicated that a wave from 0 to li* feet high struck that section. r - rim oolow noumri ana lerrooonne section 110 reports have been received. ; The country there is low and there is | practically no protection from wind and tido. The Honduran steamer Yoro. arj rr-ins: horo last ni^ht. reported little damn.se at Politton, at the mouth of the I river. C. I-r. Bowers, wireless operator ahord :lu Yoro, said that property loss ail ihe way up ihe river to a point within! 1." miles of New Orleans was enormous. Plantations were flooded and ,-n>n'riirini-!s demolished bv wind and water. .As far as he could see on either sitic of tne river, the country wa? liocded, Bowers said, and his glasses revealed dead horses and other farm animals and wrecked buildings floatinn in the water. The damasre to the w I levees was greatest a few miles below Msgnoila. i Se enty barges of coal, owned by the West Kentucky Coal company, sank opposite Donaldsville, with a lo-s estimated at $24o,000. ma r? - -.i: _ <1:1 rrrsiM ipiiuxi r*?r .1 ik'hu un? i C I Some time ago, according to a ?tory printed in the .Journal and Recorder of Cincinnati, a negro man walked into the store of a pharmacy company in that city and told t'.ie clerk that he wanted a prescription filled. When the clerk asked for the prescription, the neiro took a small Bible from under his army and pointed to Exodus 30:2324, which reads as follows: "Take thou also unto thee five hundred principal spiceof pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calc t'.vo hundred and fifty shekels, and of cassia five hundred shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil, a ilin." The prescription is referred to in the synopsis of the chapter as "the only anointing oil." In the same chapter, paragraph 13, it st tes that a shekel is 20 gerahs. The druggist went to the library, and after delv-. ing old volumes, found that a shekel! was 224 1-2 grains, a hin 1.6 gallons; 1 and prepared the prescription according to those proportions. All the in- i gredients mentioned are in common | use today. When the negro man returned for the prescription, the druggist learned, upon inquiry, that he was | a traveling evangelist of the Christian ; Faith band, and intended to use the anointing oil. Misses His Own Funeral. Andrew O'Brien, a well known resi-! i dent of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., returned! to that city one morning last week,' after an absence of a week, to find | that he was being mourned as a suicide and that prayers were being offered in St. Peter's church for the re-j V? i r* r* /-? 11 1 Vi i lid au u i. iWhen O'Brien arrived at the church there was consternation among the congregation and it was with difficulty! that O'Brien convinced his friends he j was really alive. He was indignant! when he learned that the body of a I man. supposed to be himself had been' fished out of the Hudson river and buried the -day before beside that oT Mrs. O'Brien in St. Peter's cemetery, He said tonight the body of the stran ger would not rest anotner aay m his plot. Members of the crew of the High- i land ferry boat Brickerhoff told the | coroner that O'Brien boarded the boat; at the Poughkeepsie side a few nights I ago and that they did not see him! again. Next dav a body was found . , r-.nd ideniified as rhat of O'Brien. The, funeial was held the following day. O'Brien, who had obtained a position' at Syjvan Lake, heard of the funeral and hurried tc Poughkeepeie. EXPLOSIVE FACTS AWAITED. ? I Sew Swedish Discovery Interests Ex-| perts in >'ew York. New York, Sept. 29.?Men in this j city interested in explosives have no: yet heard of the new high explosive I derived from ammonium, said to have been discovered by experts of the j Swedish government. There are many explosives of great ~ ~ ? j o t-v-? yy"? ar>in o r?/^ i pu \N tl ClCliVCU amuiuiiiu.il unu there are great possibilities tor research work in this field, according to Lieut. Harry Woodward of the Twenty-second regiment. Ammonium explosives as a rule are inferior in power to nitric explosives, but are frequently used in conjunction with these in mixtures for shells. JUTE INSTEAD OF COTTON. Government Will >"ot Use Cotton Twine in Postal Department. Washington, Sept. 28.?Jute, instead ! of cotton twine, will be used for tying letters in the postal service during the j year, beginning November 1. The coni tract Tor the twine, of which about 2.">0O,000 yards will be used, will be | let to a Boston manufacturer at .099 la pound. Thi< year cotton was substituted for jute b'oau-' it was cheani or. bra the lov.*e?r cotton on ior uk> I contract wns $.ir?vT"?. i #^??? , Hate is a low-grade ::o\vuer mat :< j apt to Hash in the pan. i i Piles Cared in 6 to 14 Days j iTo?r druggist will refund money if PAZC j OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Jtr.l:vz Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6to .M C " The first application give- Ease and Rest. :jc j >EW HIGH EXPLOSIVE. ' i Swedish Invention Hclieved to He World's >Icst Powerful. Lcn::on, Sent 2S.?Swedish govern- ' * ment experts in Stockholm have ini vented what is probably the most powerfu: explosive in tne world. The Su- j perphcs-haie company, in conjunction j with th -:e experts, after thorough tests is convinced that this new explosive uas military possibilities. it will be especially effective for use I in shells, large quantities of which have been ordered for the Swedish army. The chief ingredient used in the new process is called kaulosit, an extract of ammonium. Her Hair Brown Again at 76. After having been gray haired for j many years, Mrs. Martha Lewis, 76 I years old. of Atchison. Kans., has had ; her hair restored to its natural color by a freak of nature. A year ago her hair, which was silvery white, comlitncea turning brown, and today it is - ? it v.-?s m ner youtn. Mrs. Lewis is also cutting her third i ?et of teeth. fy/ery Day ?! J^oujandj o| "[jj JjJ delieiouj Lijeuifj, j? 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