The Montgomery Advertiser
- Entire wharf front of city destroyed; many vessels hit
- Movement started to bring Tide and Tiger together again
- Cotton damage near $3,000,000 as storm departs
Pensacola’s damage report arrives through a briefly restored telephone connection and gives an estimate rather than a completed survey. Alabama’s cotton losses and unconfirmed casualty reports likewise remain limited by broken communications. Alongside the disaster coverage, Auburn seniors ask for unconditional renewal of athletic relations with Alabama; their petition is a request, not an announced agreement.
Translation
Entire wharf front of city destroyed; many vessels hit
MOBILE, ALA., Sept. 21.—(AP)—Pensacola, Florida, felt the full fury of the tropical hurricane which swept out of the Gulf of Mexico Monday, a wind which reached a velocity of 120 miles an hour raging there for more than two hours. Property damage was estimated at $2,000,000, but there was no loss of life. This information was given tonight to the American Telephone and Telegraph company office here from the wires of the company in Pensacola when communication was established for a short time. The information was given by a representative of the Pensacola Journal.
Movement started to bring Tide and Tiger together again
AUBURN, ALA., Sept. 21.—Visions of the Crimson and White of the University of Alabama, and the Orange and Blue of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute streaming through the breeze from one mast, occasioned by battle on the gridiron of the two football teams, representing two of Alabama’s great educational institutions, were had today, when it was learned that the senior class had communicated to Dr. Spright Dowell, president of Auburn, their wishes for the resumption of full athletic relationships with the University of Alabama.
The seniors made their wishes known to their president following a meeting of the class Tuesday morning. Their communication to President Dowell was in the form of a petition in which the class expressed their desire for a renewal of athletic contests in football, baseball, basketball and track between the Tiger of the Plains and the Crimson Tide of the Capstone, without reservations or conditions.
Cotton damage near $3,000,000 as storm departs
Leaving property and crop damage estimated at $5,000,000 in Alabama and the reported death of five persons in Jackson, Ala., still unconfirmed, the West Indian hurricane which swept the southern section of the state Monday night was reported Tuesday to have settled over Louisiana.
Damage to cotton in Alabama alone was set at from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 by officials of the Alabama Farm Bureau, while reports from Mobile fixed the property loss at $1,000,000.
According to a radio report received by the Maxwell Field station Tuesday no lives were lost in Mobile and no help was needed. A request for 100 carloads of gravel was made. The message stated that damage to the state docks would total $200,000.
Communication to a majority of South Alabama towns had not been restored Tuesday and an accurate check on the storm toll could not be made.
Context
The hurricane reaches the Gulf ports
After devastating Miami, the hurricane made another landfall near the Alabama–Florida boundary on September 20. Pensacola and Mobile were therefore part of a later stage of the same regional emergency. Damage to wharves and vessels affected the facilities through which goods normally reached these coastal communities.
Cotton losses and the work of recovery
The cotton estimate places farms alongside ports and buildings in the account of the storm. Lost crops threatened income as well as physical property. Meanwhile, Mobile’s request for 100 railway carloads of gravel shows recovery becoming a matter of specific materials and transport, even while communication with other towns remained broken.
A rivalry interrupted for decades
Alabama and Auburn had last played football in 1907; their series would not resume until 1948. The 1926 student petition thus came during a long break in a rivalry that also involved institutional competition. Asking for four sports to restart without conditions was an attempt to restore a broader relationship, not merely to arrange one football game.
Original
ENTIRE WHARF FRONT OF CITY DESTROYED; MANY VESSELS HIT
MOBILE, ALA., Sept. 21.— (AP)— Pensacola, Florida, felt ,7
the full fury of the tropical hurricane which swept out of the Gulf
of Mexico Monday, a wind which reached i velocity of 120 miles
an hour raging there for more than two hours. Property damage
was estimated at two million dollars, but there was no loss of life.
This information was given tonight to the American Tele
phone and Telegraph company office here from the wires of the
company ?n Pensacola when communication was established for a
short time. The information was given by a representative of the 5$
Pensacola Journal.
MOVEMENT STARTED TO GET TIDE-TIGER TOGETHER AGAIN
AUBURN, ALA., Sept. 21.—
Visions of the Crimson and White
of the University of Alabama, and
the Orange and Blue of the Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute
streaming through the breeze
from one mast, occasioned by bat
tle on the gridiron of the two foot
ball tean'is, representing two of
Alabama’s great educational insti
tutions, were had today, when it
was learned that the senior class
had communicated to Dr. Spright
Dowell, president of Auburn, their
wishes for the resumption of full
athletic relationships with the Uni
versity of Alabama.
The seniors made their wishes
known to their president following; a
meeting; of the class Tuesday morning.
Their communications to President.
Dowell was lit the form o£ a petition
in which the class expressed their de
sire for a renewal of athletic contests
in football, baseball, basketball and
track between the Tiger of the Plains
and the Crimson Tide of the Capstone,
without reservations or .conditions.
COTTON DAMAGE NEAR $3,000,000 AS STORM DEPARTS
Leaving property and crop damage
estimated at $5,0p0,000 In Alabama
and the reported death of five persons
In Jackson, Ala., still unconfirmed, the
West Indian hurricane which swept
the southern section of the state Mon
day night was reported Tuesday to
halve settled over Louisiana.
Damage to cotton in Alabama alone
was set at from $2,000,000 to *3,000,000
by officials of the^labsma Farm bu- j
reau, while reports from Mobile, fixed
the property loss $t $1,000,000.
According to a radio report received
bjr the Maxwell Field station Tuesday
no lives were lost In Mobile and no
help was needed. A request for 100
car loads of gravel was made. The
message stated that damage to the
state docks would total $200,000.
Communication to a majority of
South Alabama towns had not been i
restored Tuesday and an accurate
cheek on the storm toll could not be
made.
Source: Holding institution