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HUNDREDS DEAD.
CEDAR KEYS WRECKED BY
A TIDAL WAVE.
Tie West Mian Cyclone Swoops
Down Upon Fiorida,
WREAKING DEATH AND DISASTER
ON ALL SIDES.
Seven Hundred Dead in tlie Vicinity
of Cedar Keys
WHILE OTHER POINTS SHOW A
RECORD OF DEVASTATION.
Ybe Damage to Property Will Reach
an Enormous Figure.
Cedar Keys, Fla., a few days ago a
thriviug town of 1,500 inhabitants, is
now a place of desolation and death.
Many of the people are corpses, scores
of others are injured and there are but
few houses left standing.
Twenty bodies have been recovered
and it is known that many others are
dead. Of those recovered but few have
been identified, so mutilated were they
by fulling timbers.
Many of the corpses were dug.out of
the mud iu which they were buried by
the mighty wave that swept over the
town last Tuesday morning.
The town is situated at the mouth of
the Suwanee river on a number of
small keys connected by bridges. It
had no protection and went to pieces
when the West India hurricane, with
a velocity of eighty miles and hour,
came roaring from the gulf.
The storm struck the place about
3:80 o'clock Tuesday morning and
continued for several hours, though
warning had been given, nothing indi¬
cated a blow of unusual severity.
About 4 o’clock a. m. it blew a per¬
fect tornado, and suddenly changed to
the southeast, bringing in a perfect
deluge of water, the tide rising two
feet higher than in the memorable
gale of 1894, which was at the time
said to be the severest storm on re-
cord.
At 7 o’clock an immense tidal wave
came in from the south, carrying de¬
struction with it. Boats, wharves and
small houses were hurled upon the
shore, and breaking iuto fragments,
covered the streets with wreckage aud
rendered them almost impassable, while
the torrents of water rushing through
every open space would take the strong¬
est man off of his feet.
It was this tidul wave that caused
tho principal loss of life, many honses
being swept from the foundations and
the iumatos drowned.
4*)f the twenty bodies recovered,
twelve are white aud eight are colored.
The difficulty in recovering the dead
irose from the fact that the town was
built on several small keys, the bridges
lonnecting tho keys were swept away
md the only communication was by
neans of boat?, of which there are but
ew left.
Then, too, most of f the victims were
■juried deep iu the mud by the tidal
vave and many of tho bodies will
jrobably never be recovered.
But deplorable as is the loss of life
u Oedar Keys proper, it is as nothing
u comparison with the number of
pongers and fishermen who were
frowned.
The Mary Eliza, a sponging ichoon-
r, reached Cedar Keys at 10 o’clock
Ibnrsday morning jury rigged, hav-
ag had to cut both masts away to pre-
ent capsizing.
She reports that at dark Monday
ight nearly one hundred vessels were
aohored on the sponge bar, just be-
>w Cedar Keys, and that nearly every
ae of them was sunk by the hurri-
uie. At daylight Tuesday morning
ie captain of the Mary Eliza says he
iw only about twenty of the one huu-
ned sponging and fishing vessels
Ibat, the others having gone to the
>ttom during the early hours of \sh«.
or in.
Twelve of the twenty vessels that
do out the hurricane during the
inrs of darkness, the Mary Eliza's
plain says, went down about 8
clock Tuesday morning.
Bsfnnd the bar the tops of scores of
asts are visible just above the water,
■-d each top indicates the burial place
I a sponging schooner and its crew.
As these vessels carried from four to
q men, the loss of life is hardly less
an 700.
It is possible that many of ihe V«3-
is were blown into the gulf and rode
t Hie hurricane, but the Mary
iza's captain thinks by far the
eater number are beneath the water
tii their crews.
ffe says that there was not one chance
a thousand for such frail craft to
e in such a hurricane.
is expected that for days to come
•pees of the spongers will be found
ng *» ^sst.
u 'eye proper, those who
lad a terrible experi-
the’ 1 tidal wave came and
gj§§ honses many of the in-
1 in the water, clinging to
i.ber. Others clung to tree
ighfl Its until the water receded,
fetmffeted by wind and
fey women fainted, eliag-
ing though, even while unconscious,
with a death grip to the succoring
limbs. They all showed the effects in
their tattered clothing and bruised
hands, but are thankful to escape with
their lives.
Many are still unaccounted for, and
families and friends are filled with
anxiety, hoping for the best, but fear¬
ing the worst.
In view of the utter destruction
wrought by the storm it seems mirac¬
ulous that th'*ro is a single person
alive iu Cedar Keys today. The prop¬
erty loss is enormous.
The force of the wind totally demol¬
ished the large and haudsome Metho¬
dist church south, the Cedar Keys high
school building, the Christian church
aud three colored churches, the Suwa¬
nee ice factory, Wolfe’s cedar miliand
the Eagle Pencil Company’s mill, also
the large lumber mill of V. J. Her-
long, and the planing mill of George
W. Moyer k Sons, just completed aud
ready for work.
Scores of private residences were
also wrecked by the wind aud waves.
Scores of the handsomest and appar¬
ently most substantial baildings are
damaged beyond repair.
Not less than 200 families are left
destitute; all their houses, fencing
and crops are totally destroyed. What
they had gathered was blown away
with the buildings and what the storms
left in the fields canuot be protected
from the stock at large aud is a total
loss.
Death List in the State.
It is said that are twenty-two tur¬
pentine stiils with their equipments,
camps, bauds and teams between Lake
City aud Cedar Keys, and not one of
these will ever run another charge, all
the timber being destroyed. This
throws out of employment many peo¬
ple, leaves the mules idle, the camps
deserted, operators ruined and factors
hard hit. The result cannot but be
severely felt throughout the whole dis¬
trict. There are other stiils and many
suw mi Is over the territory likewiswe
ruined in one way or the other.
Exclusive of tho hundreds of spong¬
ers supposed to have been drowned off
Cedar Keys, the death list in the state
proper bids fair to reach 100 and the
property loss will run into the millions.
The people seem to be paralyzed by
the calamity that has overtaken them,
and this is reflected in the accounts
sent in of the storm’s work.
Truly, for the majority of cases
nothing like detailed description is at¬
tempted and iu but few instances are
the names of the dead given.
It is inferred from this that r ma¬
jority of those killed outside of Cedar
Keys and the points at which school
children were victims were negroes
employed on turpentine farms.
FROM PREVIOUS DISPATCHES.
A Jacksonville special says: The
West Indian hurricane which entered
Florida at Cedar Keys Tuesday morn¬
ing and swept through the southern
part in a northeasterly direction left
death and destruction in its path.
Owing to the prostration of tele¬
graph wires, and the delay of trains,
due to washouts, only meager reports
have been received, and yet, meager
as those reports are, thaey show that
over twenty towns and villages have
been wrecked and that forty or fifty
persons have been killed, while prob¬
ably thrice as many more received
wounds more or less serious.
About 4 o’clock in the morning the
hurricane, which had been churning
the gulf, left the water and swooped
down upon Cedar Keys, a town of
1,500 inhabitants, about 100 miles
southwest of Jacksonville.
The only report from Cedar Keys
came by way of Gainesville, fifty miles
northeast of tho gulf town, and is to
tho effect that Cedar Keys was swept
away and many persons killed and
wounded. This report reached Gaines¬
ville by courier from Williston, which
is twenty miles north of Cedar Keys.
The report is hardly exaggerated, as
Cedar Keys was directly in the path of
the hurricane rjhI received its full
force as it leaped raging from the gulf.
After demolishing Cedar Keys the
storm, moving in a northeasterly direc¬
tion, struck Williston, a vibnge of 400
inhabitants. At that place eleven
houses were wrecked, one person killed
and fifteen wounded, some, it is feared,
fatally.
Near Williston is a large turpentine
farm, on which many state convicts
are employed. Twenty of these con-
victs were huddled in a cabin, across
which the storm blew a great tree,
crushing six of the inmates.
Leaving Levy county, the hurricane
dashed across Alachua, one of the
most populous counties in the state.
The storm’s work in Alachua couuty
was frightful. In Gainesville about
twenty residences and business houses
were demolished and a number of per¬
sons injured, but none fatally. The
Methodist churoh in West Gainesville
is a total wreck.
At LaCrosse fifteen buildings were
demolished, and Rev. W. A. Barrs,
Mrs. F. F. McIntosh and baby are re-
ported to be fatally injured.
Near LaCrosse another cabin in
which laborers on a turpentine farm
had taken refuge was crushed by a fall¬
ing tree and four of the men killed.
Newberry, a thriving town iu West
Alachua, was wrecked, only five build¬
ings being left standing. At Newberry,
over twenty persons were injured, while
four are said to be fatally injured.
High Springs, in Alachua county,
was destroyed. Among the buildings
destroyed are the High Springs Oil
Company’s works, the funiture factory
and the riant System house and de¬
pot. Melissa Harden, Jane Morris
and Sallie Nobles, negro women, were
killed by being blown against trees.
At High Springs a number of per¬
sons took refuge in a box car to escape
the storm. The box car was blown off
the track a distance of fifty feet and
crushed. Every person in the car was
injured, two of them fatally.
At Graey, a few miles from High
Springs, twelve houses were destroyed
aud a negro woman was killed.
Bradford was the next county in the
storm’s path and at Lake Butler fifteen
buildings were wrecked, including the
Christian and Baptist churches. Mr.
Haskey, Mrs, J. M. Futch and her in¬
fant were so badly injured that their
recovery is doubtful.
Four convicts on Judge Bichard’s
turpentine farm near Lake Butler
were crushed to death by falling trees.
In Baker county, which adjoins Brad¬
ford, the work of destruction was con¬
tinued. MacCIenny, Sanderson, Glen,
St. Mary and Olusteo were almost
completely destroyed.
At Olustee three churches were
blown from their foundations. No
one was killed outright in these towns,
but over twenty were injured, of whom
three will die. Continuing in Suwa-
nee county, the hurricane struck Live
Oak, demolishing many houses and in¬
juring several persons, but none fatal¬
ly. Weiborn, in Suwaaee county,
was also wrecked. Near Weiborn the
house of Amos White was destroyed
aud two of his children killed.
Leaving Suwanee, the storm contin¬
ued its work of destruction in Colum¬
bia county. Lake City was in the
hurricane’s path aud suffered severe¬
ly. Eight business houses and thir¬
teen residences were destroyed. 3Irs.
Sarah Fletcher and two boys were
killed and Dora Jennings, Samuel
Hudson and Jonas Mabry were fatally
injured.
The state agricultural college a
Lake City was badly damaged and
panic prevailed among the students,
euteen Deaths.
The list of fatalities reported Tues¬
day night were not increased by Wed¬
nesday’s developments ant! additional
casualties are few. Damage to property
are variously estimated in total Iron
$225,000 to $400.000. A houee-to-hous:
canvass places it at $200,000. This it.
considered exceedingly low, and $300,-
000 damages is more popularly con¬
sidered.
Five lives were lost during the storm
in Brunswick. Four of them were
killed by falling timbers in the city;
the fifth, the engineer on Grady’s
water boat, was blown overboard and.
drowned.
STORM IN WASHINGTON.
Alexandria and Chicago also Experi¬
ence a Gale.
A Washington special says: An
equinoxial storm Tuesday night gave
Washington the worst shaking up it
ever had. The wind blew in a rotary,
twisting, wrenching velocity of 75
miles an hour. Bain was driven in
floods. Lightning pierced and lit up
tho tossing black clouds and sharp
claps of thunder contributed to make
nature a weird cauldron.
A new brick building, five stories,
on Pennsylvania avenue, 1218, was de¬
molished, the ruins falling upon and
crushing Beatty’s restaurant and Kel¬
ly’s dairy lunch adjoining and impris¬
oned six men. Four of them were soon
released. George Sutter, a cook, was
pinioned in the wreck and was not re¬
leased until 2:45 o’clock. The steeple
to the New York Presbyterian church
was blown off.
E. W. Blount, a member of the In¬
ter-State Commerce Commission was
in tho Beatty restaurant at the time of
the crash and was carried into the cel¬
lar and. so badly bruised about the
face and body that he has been un¬
conscious ever since. It is feared
that he is also injured internally
and that he may not recover. The
storm’s damage is estimated at
from a quarter to half a million dol¬
lars. No lives were lost, though sev¬
eral persons were badly injured.
Four Killed at Alexandria, Va.
The storm relatively was move se¬
vere in Alexandria, Ya., than m Wash¬
ington. There were four fatalities
and many persons were more or less
injured.
The churches of the city eufiered
severely. The First Baptist was com¬
pletely demolished; St. Elmo Baptist
was also wrecked and robbed ; Chapel
M. E. South lost its spire.
Nearly every business block in the
town was more or less damaged and
hundreds of private houses lost their
roofs. The loss iu and arouud Alex¬
andria is estimated at $400,000.
Boats Sunk at Chicago.
A Chicago special says: Great dam¬
age to property and many accidents
resulted from the furious gale on the
lakes. The most serious accident in
the port of Chicago occurred Tnesday
morning when the schooner Seaman
broke loose from her moorings in Slip
E, at the foot of Randolph street, and
while being hurled about by the storm
wrecked and sunk half a dozen smaller
craft.
AN IOWA BANK FAILS.
Concern at Atlantic Owned by Whl -
ney & Son Has Closed Its Doors.
Frank H. Whitney and Whitney k
Son, managers of the Bank of At¬
lantic, Is., have gone to the wall.
Coupled with the failure is the an¬
nouncement that F. H. Whitney, who
is highly respected, is at the verge of
death. Ho has been ill for several
weeks, aud this may account for the
inability of the bank to recover from
its difficulties. J. B. Bruff has been,
appointed receiver and announces that
the b&uk proper has $200,000 liabili¬
ties, and assets of $175,000.
Work Begins With Lower Wages.
The York Mills at Saco, Maine,
which have been idle three months,
resumed operations last Monday. The
operatives have been informed that
wages will be slightly less than those
received last spring, but the ex¬
tent of the cut down has not yet been
announced.
TO mXESSTEANS
CANDIDATE BRYAN DEVOTES A
DAY OF SPEAKING.
Great Crowds Hear Ilim ait Various
Towns and Cities.
Great crowds greeted William J.
Bryan in bis eight-hours’ jnnrney
through Tennessee Monday. People
thronged from the surrounding coun¬
try to every station where stops were
made.
Dirt-covered men on horseback,their
trousers legs stuffed iuto big boots;
scores of pretty girls iu summery cos¬
tumes, and negro cotton pickers were
everywhere to be seen.
Arlington was the first stop after
leaving Memphis, and several hundred
people there pressed around the rear
platform of the candidate’s car to
shake hands with him. The local mil¬
itary company, wearing uniforms and
bearing arms, was drawn up on the
station platform. Brownsville came
next, and the crowd there was large
and full of enthusiasm.
A big crowd was at Humboldt. It
numbered six or seven thousand, and
packed deeplv around a stand that had
been erected near the railroad tracks.
A pathway that had been kept for the
candidate from the train to the stand
was lined with young ladies wearing
Bryan and Sewull caps, blue blouses
and white skirts, who waved flags aud
shouted a shrill welcome.
There was wild cheering when Mr.
Bryan appeared on the speaker’s
stand. A. Pierce, democratic candi¬
date for congress, introduced Mr.
Bryan, who made one of his charac¬
teristic speeches.
Three thousand demonstrative peo¬
ple were at Milan, and they, too,
beard a little speech. Mackenzie had
even a larger crowd.
Mr. Bryan spoke from the rear
platform of the train to quite a large
audience at Huutington. Ke was
presented by Senator Harris.
At Nashville.
Three speeches was the task William
J. Bryan found before him when he
reached Nashville at 8.85 o’clock Mon¬
day evening, after a hard day of it
across Tennessee from Memphis. The
railroad station in Tennessee’s capitol
and tho streets in its vicinity were
thronged when his train rolled in, and
all along the route to the Ilaymarket,
where .he first speech was made, deep
lines of people cheered him.
An artillery salute was fired by
a section of Battery A Tennes-
see state troops, and a large number of
political organizations took purfc in
the escort procession. Twenty-six
clubs from places in middle Tennessee
were in line on foot and on horseback.
Some* of these contingents rode thirty
miles to bo present. About SCO stu¬
dents from the university also turned
out. Excursion trains had been bring¬
ing in big crowds ail day, and long be¬
fore Mr. Bryan came thousands of
strangers augmented the crowds of
Nashville people on the streets.
The Haymorket is a spacious inclos¬
ure, and estimated by measurement to
hold 59,000 people. It was pretty
well filled and the figures given of the
audience there range from 25,000 to
40,000. The gathering was like all
those Mr. Bryan had addressed iu
Tennessee—wildly (o enthusiastic, ever
ready jell f?hrilly its approval of the
national nominee’s utterances, and in¬
tensely partisan in its expressed feel¬
ings.
Senator Bate introduced Mr.Bryan,
and the closely packed people cheered
themselves almost hoarse.
ARE NOT WORKING MEN.
80 Says Henry George of Delegations
That Visit McKinley.
Henry George sent The New York
Journal a dispatch Wednesday from
East Liverpool, O., in which he makes
sensational statements of the working
men’s excursions to Canton. He says:
“I did not see at Canton any of the
great excursions sent there by the rail¬
road companies and the great protected
manufacturers to give a pretense to
the assumption that the working men
of the country are enthusiastic for Mc¬
Kinley. I did not see, for instance, the
great delegation that came week be¬
fore last from the Carnegie works at
Homestead, and which Major Bice, of
Canton, declared to me was composed
of 2,000 men, not a union man among
them, and 1,000 of whom were un¬
naturalized foreigners, the whole body
led by Pinkerton detectives, who made
in their name, as workingmen, the ad¬
dress to which Major McKinley re¬
sponded.”
MINKIIS WILL REMAIN QUIET.
The LeadvilSe 3 Ien Decide to Wait
Until After the Election.
As a result of the miners’ meeting
at Leadville a majority have decided
to remain quiet until after tho election.
If McKinley is elected the present in¬
tention is to abandon the strike. If
Bryan is elected, the hope is that ihe
pr ce of silver will advance and the
managers of the mines will at once
grant the demands of the union. Tho
unruly men are aggrieved over the
decision aud are eager to adopt de¬
cisive measures at once.
THREE PERSONS CREMATED
And Sixteen Business Honses Burned
to the Ground in Texas.
Sixteen business houses in the town
of Ladcnia, Tex., were destroyed by
fire at midnight Wednesday night.
The fire originate! in the Ladonia
hotel aud the landlady and two other
persons were burned to death. The
loss is estimated in local insurance
circles at approximating $100,009.
fllKEK TICKETS IN FLORIDA.
Every Offlo** From Governor Down to
Be Filled.
The campaign in Florida closed last
Saturday and the people will now de¬
cide at the polls who shall conduct the
state government for the next four
years. The election is a general one.
A governor and cabinet, one justice of
the supreme court, all the members of
the house of representatives and six
teen members of Hie senate (sixteen
members of this body holding over)
are to be chosen. Iu addition, county
officers are also to be chosen. The leg¬
islature to be chosen will take part in
the election of a United States senator
to sueceed Wilkinson Call, whose term
expires March 4, 1897.
There are three complete state tick¬
ets in the field—democratic, republican
and populist. The prohibitionists also
have a candidate for governor, but
have made no other nominations. For
chief magistracy the democratic candi¬
date is former governor and present
comptroller, W. I). BJoxham, of Talla¬
hassee ; the republican nominee is Hon.
E. B. Guuby, of Tampa; the populists
have named State Senator A. W. Week ",
of Calhoun county, and the prohibi¬
tionists, Hon. Arthur C. Jackson, of
Palm Beach.
The campaign has been most spirit¬
ed, each party, with the exception of
the prohibitionists, having sent out
speakers who have canvassed every
county iu the state. The result is that
u great deai of interest has been
aroused and the indications are that a
largo vote will bo polled.
WKYLEirs PLANS FAIL.
So Incensed at Defeat that lie Won’t
Allow Reports Feinted.
A special dispatch to the New York
Herald from Havana, via Key West,
FI a , says:
“Captain General Weyler’s initial
operations inaugurating the campaign
in the extreme west, intended to trap
Maceo or defeat aud drive him ea-t-
ward, have proved a failure.
“General Molguizo, who as military
governor of Dinar del Bio, was dele¬
gated by the captain general to start
tho ball, Las been defeated in three
successive engagements with Maceo i?i
the mountains of Dinar del Bio, where,
with the combined columns of Colonels
Francis and Hernandez, be attacked
the rebel positions. Those columns
suffered tremendous losses and were
compelled to retreat to the coast.
“The news fell like a bombshell in
the palace. The captain general will
not even permit the Havana represen¬
tatives of tho Madrid papers to wire
the facte, and he gave strict orders to
the press censors and postoffice officials
to use every effort to prevent the news
of the failure of his plans from getting
out.
“The editor of El Dinrio del Ejer-
cito, the army organ, whose paper is
seldom if ever censured, daring to
print a few details, was called to the
palace by tho captain general and
severely reprimanded. ”
FOUGHT TO THE DEATH.
A North Caro'ina Murderer and Out¬
law Dies Game.
The official report of the lulling of
Barnum Jones, the North Carolina
outlaw’, murderer and moonshiner, lias
been received by Revenue Collector
Simmons at Raleigh. .
Jones was killed iu Baden county
by a pcs.se of six. The chief of police
of Florence, S. O., and Deputy Sher¬
iff Farish, of Robertson county, North
Carolina, crept up to within seventeen
yards of him, intending to capture
him. He was several yards from liis
shotgun when he discovered ihc offi¬
cers, 'but sprang to it and shot Diem
both.
Then he ran, and loading as he went,
fired again. The posse fired at him
aud four bullets struck him. He fell,
but reloaded and rose and fired, but
misstd. Then he was shot and fell,
but as he went down fired both barrels
at the posse again. The third volley
killed him, one bullet piercing his
brain, another his heart aud the third
his abdomeD.
The verdict at the inquest at Lnm-
berton is that the killing of Jones was
justifiable. There is some doubt that,
Jones murdered men in Alabama and
Texas. He had twice recently made
attempts to kill people in Baden.
Revenue officers bad run after him
for four years.
INDIANS AI WAR.
Trouble Brewing Between Bucks ol
the Choctaw Nation.
'Advices from Tuskahoma, I. T.,
states that trouble which has been
blowing for some mouths between the
fullbloods and the squaw men of the
Choctaiv nation, has broken out more
violently than ever, and unless indi¬
cations fail, there will be much blood¬
shed.
The fuilbloods who obtained control
of the council passed laws cutting the
squaw men off from their landed prop¬
erty and made provisions for evicting
them. When the first attempt at evic¬
tion was made, ft few weeks ago, sev¬
eral squaw men were killed, and many
on both sides were more or less injured.
Both sides have been gathering
their forces for some days aud are pre¬
paring for a pitched battle, which ie
expected at any time. Citizens of the
town have appealed to the federal au¬
thorities and troops will be sent at
once. There are several troops of
cavalry at Fort Reno 40 or 50 miles
away, and they are expected in time to
take a hand.
North Carolina Gobi Men.
At Greensboro, N. CL, Friday even¬
ing the state executive committee of
tho single standard democratic party
met to start its campaign and completed
its list of electors for the various dis¬
tricts. Up to this time it hss only
electors »t Urge.
A FEARFUL, STORY
Is Made by the Latest. Advice* Re¬
ceived from the Storm Center.
A special received from Jacksonville,
Friday show conclusively that neve’
before has the fury of the element-
wrought such destruction of lifo ar •
property iu the state of Florida.
The death list on laud, counted by
bodies recovered, will easily reach 100
now, and it is certain that it will large¬
ly exceed this number when all tl
truth is kuown.
There is no way ot' accurately esti-
mating the property lost, but no esti¬
mate x> ll iees ^ under $2,000,000, wh::
many place it at double that amount.
The chief interest centers in thecoi
dition of Cedar Keys, for there tl;
hurricane entered the state and tb*
ravages of the wiud were augmented bj
the horrors of fire and flood.
Advices from Cedar Keys Friday
state that the first reports of the dam¬
age done by the elemental monstir wei-
not exaggerated and the news as fir.-.;
told is near the mark.
The town has been praoticaiiy wiped
out, the property loss being estimated
at thousands of dollars. The death
list, too, in that ill-fated town is grow-
!
Twenty-eight victims mot their deal
in Cedar Keys proper, aud to then
must be added the corpses of four tec:
unknown spongers washed ashore 01
the coast below the town.
The fate of the-hundred *-pongcr-
aud fishiug craft, anchored oil* the bar
below Cedar Keys, is not yet certainly
known, but there can be no doubt that
the larger portion of the schooner-
went down with all bauds.
No such frail craft, could liov > <
in such a wind as came snorting c t-r
the gulf on that fateful morning.
Then, too, the night was still and
the sleeping spongers were entirely
unsuspicious of danger. The hurr -
caDe came with such awful suddenness
that there was no time to prepare th».
vessels to meet the shock.
Parties who went out to the Cedar
Keys bar report that they war Ulfi
mast3 of five schooners protrudit.
just above the waiter.
It is believed by watermen at Cedar
Keys that the fate of these five schoon¬
ers wasi.be fate of the majority of the
spongfng fleet.
The reports from other points in tie-
track of the storm are just as bad a-
those from Cedar Keys, differing only
iu the number of the dead, Lev-
county has been devastated and tb
citizens of Bronson report over 8*>t
families homeless and without food.
The people of Bronson who were
but slightly injured are doing all in
their power to aid the unfortunates,
but their means are wholly inadequate
and an appeal for help Las been iesned
“I estimate that fully one hundred
people were injured in this county, an<
there is no telling how many wer.t
killed. Three people were killed'uea?
Olustee. Mr. Gordon S. Taylor, om
of the leading citizens of the cc ty
had an aria and a leg broken, and tb er<.
are scores of them iu the same fix.”
The citizens of Baker have aL
| issued an appeal for aid. From
Suwannee, Baker, Columbia and Nas¬
hua counties come similar stories of
wreck and death. The death roil by
counties so far as has been reported
stands about as follows:
Cedar Keys, proper, 28.
Levy county, outside Cedar Ke 73. Id.
Alachua county, 12.
Baker county, 7.
Bradford county, 5.
Columbia county, if.
Suwanuee county, 8.
Nassau county, 14.
It must be remembered tha tne
above is by no means complete. Tb*.
telegraph wires are prostrated and the
mail service deranged so that no re-
porta have been received from rnauv
points in the track of the hurricane.
Then, too, the fate of hundreds of
the spongers off Cedar Keys will never
be known, and they will bo reported
as “missing and not accounted f<-r. *’
S<K(’RE t’ARY HERBERT KKTJIRi-
Torpedo Boat Contracts Are Awarded,
Bancroft Reaches Gibraltar.
Secretary Herbert returned k his
desk Monday morning after nearly tw<
months’ absence and at once took unde:
consideration the complication arising
out of the torpedo boat competition.
Late in the afternoon the secretary
scttled the controversy by awarding
two torpedo boat- of the thirty-knot
class to the Bath Iron Works, ol
Maine, and one thirty-knot torpedo
boat of the larger class to the Union
Iron Works, of San Francisco.
The little cruiser Bancroft, her
way to duty as American guardsiiip st
C onstantinople,reached Gibraltar Mon¬
day and relieved all doubts as to her
ability to cross the Atlantic.
In the cablegram from Captain
Johnson, of the Cincinnati, received
at the navy department, be said tb*
little ship had been delayed by heavy
bead winds, but tli^. all were weY*;'<
board.
I*A I J. TYNAN ItELKA'FO.
MIeged Dynamiter is Now or. His
M ay to the United >tates.
A news agency in London state-
that. Pat J, Tynan, Ibo alleged dyna¬
miter, who was arrested in Bonlogne-
bur-Mer, has been released by the
French government, and that ho nat
started on his return to the Wo-u q
States.
Million Bonds for Sale.
The Atlantic Trust Company of
New York has filed in the Fed era.
court a bill of equity against Frank
Hager man, agent of the Lombard In¬
vestment aud Company iu Topeka, Kan.,
others, asking for a decree of
foreclosure in the million dollars of
debenture bonds delivered bv tbt
Lomhard Company to the plaintiff in
trust for money loaned.