NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81877, 30 October 1906, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

GRAFTON RAILWAY DISASTER. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, October 29. A despatch from London, dated September 19, says a crowded' Scotch -xpress train on the Great Northern Railway, leaving London last night, ■vaii wrecked outside Grantham at .mdmglit. Ten persons were killed ma sixteen injured. The train ■'liuuld have stopped at Grantham, mi failed to do so, and shortly after passing the station left the rails, md then jumped a bridge. The enewo 3nd several coaches were dashed pyer the embankment.' The en6 r 'ne turning turtle, several of the caches immediately took fire. At ■he spot where tho"train was derailed there is a curve, and it is supposed us brakes failed to act. The train ippears to have gone on to a siding, •mashing- into tne parapet of the iriagc, which was completely wreck -

CENTRAL AMERICAN HURRICANE.

ENORMOUS DESTRUCTION'.

A despatch from Pcnsacola (Floida), dated September 29, says "The '""' of 'if 6, in this city by the hurricane number 26. Ten miles cast and •vest of the city arc strewn, with the ■weeks of homes and vessels of all .:la»ses. Commencing at Fort Mediae, on a point overlooking the Gulf .ind continuing to Escamba Bride, here is nothing but devastation and >uin. At Fort Mcßae five byes, were ."St. Twenty men there had a tefiiwc experience. They soup-fat the liauenes, the very highest point, as ■vayes began to dash over them, and •asned themselves to the guns .there key clung for over ten hours. Only ■>ae woman and her little child were •ic this point. She was the wife of a big strong soldier, who fought to save his young wife and baby, but "wy TO ainiost swept from his .urns. The fort was almost razed, lne Navy yard suffered a million dollar* damage. Some gunboats were driven inshore more than two huni, r rl y ' rds " At th * Unit ed States Waving station, on Gulf Beach, aoi a board remains to mark the spot w>»re the ship and, wharves were. Of twenty-two ships and barques of foreign, flags anchored in the harbour, &ut one remains, and it is badly damaged. Some ocean, ships of two iiliuusand tons are resting in front yards; others have been driven I ilirough houses; some have their uoses pointed into stores; others keeled over on their sides in the bay or !we piled up in masses of wreckage.

New Orleans, October 2. Forty-four lighthouses .were cithej: '■wept into the sea and lost, 01; tli®! *tructures so badly damaged"that no lights cannot, be sJio\yn e and 4 lighthouse peppers were drowned. '.during last hurricane.; | A tropical hurricane struck Alabama and Louisiana at midnight on September 26, inflicting loss of life, an enormous amount of property was lost. wire communications interrupted over the devastated ■uoa. Hie city of Mobile suffered loss of hfc, variously estimated at five [' 1 fifty-five. A thousand were damaged and property lost to the va)>ie of several miUton dollars in the business distriv-t- The stprm raged lor hours, and the waters of the bay jWere blown into the city, covering the i wholesale district to a depth of 7ft, 1 1. ctween Thursday night and Friday Jut noon. Trees fell and roofs were 1 rualied by hundreds. Terrible winds carried tin and slate roofing ' hrough the streets, injuring many persons. Shipping suffered sorely. In some suburbs not p, house was taft standing, patches from the Southern Mississippi report damage t'> slamJiMg yellow pine timber punting to at loan seven million rtollars, and t.he almost total destruction of thfl turpentine industry in e<tens'v« areas. The news of the storm was carried by a tug after sov- ' diiys to districts which had been wmpletely cut off hy fa „ cn wjres wa» found that provisions wcr o exhausted at some points, awi many wore suffering from want of food.