16 Aug 1901
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1901
Page
1
A severe storm sweeps Mobile and Gulf Coast with tidal waves and floods. Since yesterday afternoon, Mobile's communications are cut, telegraph wires prostrated, and no reliable news has come in, raising fear of a Galveston like disaster. News officials report efforts to verify reports from Hurricane and Mobile, with trains and wires down and limited telegrams reaching Montgomery.
Special Telegram reports no tidings from Mobile as a severe storm rages there. Communications between Mobile and Birmingham are down raising grave anxiety about possible disaster resembling Galveston. Locals with friends in Mobile fear extensive damage and await further reports.
Atlanta August 16 The tropical storm raging along the coast has isolated Mobile from the outside world for two days. Major damage is reported along the water front with the country south of Mobile unseen as the first wire failed. The Western Union office saturated with three feet of water. an AP operator reached the flooded room by boat and sent a final message from atop the switchboard.
Birmingham reports at 4 p m that New Orleans and Mobile are improving after the storm. Rail lines between Mobile and New Orleans were washed out but telegraph communication is restored this afternoon. Property losses are lighter than feared and no lives were lost at Mobile as waters recede toward normal levels by night.
A storm floods Mobile and surrounding areas with three feet of water. Winds at fifty mph drive danger and mass evacuations. Communications fail as telegraph lines collapse, raising fears of multiple deaths near Fort Morgan and Mississippi Sound.
A family of fifteen including nine children drowned when a house near the quarantine station was swept away. The Chamberlain towboat ran aground but its crew were saved, while the General Reise was reported lost and Captain O Briens house flooded. The Port Eads pile driver also sunk.
Montgomery report states a special L and N train with the road’s superintendent has reached Mobile while wires to the city remain down. The up river line was flooded twenty inches near a Bay Minette area and passengers were ferried by row boats to Mobile.
August report from New Orleans describes a gulf coast storm sweeping from Pensacola westward damaging telegraph lines and threatening Port Eads at the river mouth. A survivor from Burns reports a tidal wave feared to mirror the 1893 disaster, with residents evacuating to the Jump.
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