The Union Times

Great Storm Battering at Gulf Coast's Doors.

Only Meagre Information Comes From New Orleans, Apparently Chief Point of Assault--Loss of Life and Property Indicated.

Mobile, Sept. 30.-Wireless advices from New Orleans at 1:30 o'clock Thursday morning say that ten persons were killed and 150 injured by the hurricane in New Orleans. Property damage was estimated at above $1,000,000. The famous French market section was partially wrecked.

New Orleans (via Wireless Steamships Excelsior and Creole to Mobile).-Five persons are known to be dead, many people injured and property loss reaching into the millions has been caused tonight by the most severe gulf storm in the history of the city.

A howling gale with a velocity of 86 miles an hour swept the city at 6 o'clock tonight, demolishing scores of buildings, stripping the roofs from hundreds of other structures and strewing the streets with broken glass and debris.

At 7:30 o'clock a rising barometer gave evidence that the storm was subsiding, the entire passing to the northwest of New Orleans. Barometer at its lowest registered 28.12 and the wind velocity of 86 miles was the highest ever recorded here.

Railroad and wire communication with the outside world has been cut off and telephone, electric lights and trolley service discontinued in the city.

All railroads have annulled train service from New Orleans.

Wireless communication from New Orleans was interrupted by the failure of the electric plant but messages were sent from the steamship Excelsior at dock here and relayed from the Creole, anchored below New Orleans in the Mississippi river, to Mobile.