THE HURRICANE IN AMERICA.
FORTY-FOUR LIGHT HOUSES DESTROYED. v Received Ootober 15, 10.59 p.m. NEW YORK, Ootober 15. The recent hurricane destroyed forty-four lighthouses between Mississippi and Mobile. (On September 28th hurricanes, aooompanied by floods, raged over tne Southern States of America. A number of fatalities occurred. The damage in several o? tbe States amounted to a million "dollars, not including the cotton-growers' losses in Alabama. Many places were unroofed in Pensacola (a seaport and tbe oapital of Escambia County, Florida, situated in JHensaoola Bay) and steamers were stranded in the streets. The losses at the latter place amounted to two million dollars. One hundred persons perished at Mobile, and twenty-five at Pensacola. Twenty-eight vesaelß went ashore at the Mississipi delta. The loss in connection with the cotton orop was estimated at five millions sterling).
CABLE NEWS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8262, 16 October 1906, Page 5
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140THE HURRICANE IN AMERICA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8262, 16 October 1906, Page 5
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