But it appears that Hurricane Katrina has taken out the Mississippi Department of Archives and History website. None of images from Sovereignty Commission files will load until things are back on line down there.
In the meantime:
3 dead, 500,000 without power in Katrina's wake
By John Fuquay
jfuquay@clarionledger.comThree people are dead and more than 500,000 residents are without power as Hurricane Katrina continues to ravage the state, Gov. Haley Barbour said this afternoon.
Search and rescue operations are in action in portions of Jackson and Hancock counties, and the state's Emergency Management Agency executive director Robert Latham confirmed three casualties.
The deaths occurred in Hinds, Warren and Leake counties, Barbour said.
Although officials have not released identities of the dead, they say that all three were killed by falling trees.
A woman in south Jackson was struck by a falling tree and died later at a local hospital, and a mobile home resident in Warren County died when a tree crushed the structure. A woman traveling on Mississippi 488 near Carthage in Leake County died when a tree hit her vehicle, officials said.
Barbour also said damage assessments from Hurricane Katrina, the Category 4 storm that slammed into the state this morning, are just beginning.
"We still don't have specific information," he said.
Ron Stewart of the Electric Power Associations of Mississippi said 285,000 people are without power from his association across the state.
An Entergy official said power is disrupted to about 149,000 customers.
Figures from Mississippi Power Co., which provides service to Harrison, Hancock and Jackson counties on the Mississippi coast, weren't available.
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