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VOL IX NO S 233 S PENSACOLA FLORIDA FRIDAY MORNING I SEPTEMBER 28 1906 PRICE 5 CENTS
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SCENEOF RUIN
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togBe Perdido Palafox and
Bayien Wharves All Gone
THE WORK OF YEARS REPRE
a c SENTING MILLIONS OF DOL
C1 LARS ALL DEMOLISHED IN Aj
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FURY OF THE ELEMENTS
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Like an avalanchelike a sudden
I blow from a mailed handas Irre
sistible as Fate and as inexorable I
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the herricane that swept Pensacola I
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CO Wednesday night and Thursday
morning fell upon the city with an
00 compelling force and fury that no
man could withstand or understand
00 In the teeth of the tremedous gale
00 that poured its Titanic strength
through these streets from midnight
00 of Wednesday to after daylight
00 Thursday morning the strongest man
quailed and felt that he was at
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nothing in the relentless grasp of
00 Nature
lie That gale needed only an opening
to do its deadly work of destruction
It crept under the tin roofing of
stores and warehouses and the next
moment tore the great metal sheets
from their fastenings and sent them
whistling and whining through the
I rainswspt streets
It held up strong men and shook
them as a cat shakes a mouse
It caught great sticks of timber in
its mighty grasp and dashed them
down again in wanton waste
It piled up the waters of the great
deep and spread them over the
shore until they worked their will
high among the busy haunts of men
And all was grist that came to its I
mill Engulfed by the insatiable maw
of the hurricanewhich at times
almost seemed animated by a soul
and inspired by a demoniac intelli
gence ships smacks wreckagethe
thousand and one bits of the jitsam
and flatsam of the sea and its shores
were again cast forth and churned
In a wild swelter of foam into an in
describable chaos of wanton waste
In which appeared and disappeared
toe frail work of mortal hands
roken dismembered and cast aside
The hurclcane did all this and
more and no man who felt the aw
ful strength and power of that mys
terious force but felt that he was as
nothing lp the eyes of Him who
uides the whirlwind and directs the
storm
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THE DAMAGE ESTIMATED
FROM 200000000 TO 400000000
Xo satisfactory estimate of the dam
Ige of this great disaster at Perisa
coIn can be made Some placed it
at OOOOOOOO Others believed it
Would run to 400000000 Probably
the latter figure is more nearly cor
ttct Whatever it is no one can ever
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ll finitely estimate it No one can
ver compute the damage which the
Worl of years along the water front
nud the enterprise and ambitions
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those who go down to the sea in
ships have suffered while the de
struction in the business and resi
dence portions of the city where
stocks of goods business blocks
fences sidewalks shade trees and
residence properties though much
easier repaired can never be esti
mated
The damage to the fishing industry
alone chief of which was suffered by
E E Saunders Co and the Warren
FIsh Co will probably Aggregate a
third of a million dollars possibly
half a millIonand the towboat in
dustry with Jhe countless lighter
launch and small craft equipment
which goes with it will aggregate as
much more
The great L N Wharves Tarra
gona street and Commahdancla street
which have been the pride of the
city ate still standing but it is be
lieved that great damage has been
done them by the heavy vessels
which crashed into thelr sides Mus
cogee wharf the big coal export
structureIs broken in two and will
require many thousands of dollars for
repair f
The wharf of E E Saunders Co
and the Warren FIsh Co are com
pletely gone as is also the wharf of I
the P A T Railroad at Perdido
These are the largest objects of the
storms furry along the water front
though not a single smaller wharf or
strutvire of any kind within reach
pf the Avaves escaped All are totally
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lost
I Of the big ocean going vessels both
steam and snlllJyfar the greatest
portion are either ashore or are badly
damaged from contact with wharves
and the various wreckage that formed
a part of the great disaster A few of
these vessels were anchored far out
Iin the bay and these are presumed to
be safe but they constituted only a
small part of the total shipping in
the harbor
Elsewhere the work of the storm
is told in fuller detail
TOM HARRIS AND
FAMILY ARE SAFE
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CAPT JOHN WALTER WHO WAS
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I REPORTED LOST ALSO
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Tom Harris wife and child of Big
Bayou who it was reported had been
drowned turned up all right last
night as also did Capt John Walter
who had been working all day with
his boat
I Mr Harris lives in his store and
residence at Palmetto Beach and he
escaped from there with his wife and
I child in a skiff at one oclock Thurs
day morning His house was located I
near the dummy line at the Big
Bayou station and in order to reach
high ground he had to cross the nar
row neck of the water over which
the foot bridge there runs This was
full of timber and wreckage all
churned together in a seething mass
and the wind was blowing so fiercely
that a lantern was of no use With
the assistance of a man named Cas
tro who held the baby e Mr Harris
managed to work his boat across the
water and the party landed on the
beach among the trees to which
they clung until they could see their
way to a higher point of safety
Mr Harris says his loss of house
hold goods and stock will aggregate i
350000
MANAGER CROKETT RETURNS
TO CITY FROM FLOMATON
Manager Crockett of the Western
Union Telegraph who left here
early yesterday morning on a
special train for Flomaton returned
HP
this morning about 1 oclock
handled his busines and he reports
that each day he intends forwarding
dispatches to that point until connec
tion can be restored
He reports that no connection
could be had with Mobile New Or
leans Gulport or any of the ports
along the gulf coast either oy the
office at Flomaton Qr by the central
office at Atlanta which has not heard
from these places since Wednesday
have
Fears are entertained that they
suffered the same as Pensacola
He also reports that a bad wreck
occurred on the Southern Alabama
division when a train on which was
Conductor Wilson of this city went
through a culvert The engineer
fireman conductor and in fact the
entire train crew suffered injuries
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THE JOURNAL STARTS RELIEF FUND
TO CARE FOR HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE
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RELIEF FUND
The Pensacola Journal 5000
W A DAlemberte 2500
The terrific destruction of homes
and property along the water front
las rendered hundreds of people
homeless and many of them are ab
solutely destitute No one who has
not witnessed the scenes of destitu
tion and disaster can apreciate the
condition of these homeless and hun
i gry wet and cold men and women
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BLOWN ACROSS LA Y
ON HOSPITAL J OOF
Terrible Experience Eight Seamen Dur
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ing Wednesday Night Three of
Whom Were Drowned Other
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Victims of Storm I
The hospital at the quarantine sta
tion was carried away about mid
night and among the inmates were
eight seamen from a British steamer
which is detained there As the
building fell into the water these
eight meen grasped the roof and
spent the entire night upon the bay
Yesterday morning five of them
clinging to T6cTcage were washed
ashore at Fisherville and were later
taken to the Marine Hospital Three
of the men gave out in the struggle
for life and were lost in the storm
Body of Girl Found
The body of dn unknown girl was
found last night about 8 oclock at
the foot of Clubbs street in the west
ern section of the city It is believed
that the entire family has been
downed and that they lived along
the beach near that point The girl
is believed to be a Creole but the
body has been in the water apparent
ly for some time and the color is not
easily distinguished Coroner Nich
elsen viewed the remains and order
rifle maelstrom of Wednesday night I
and yesterday morning Every foot of
the beach from Terragona street to
the foot of MJuscogee wharf is one
continuous tangled mass of debris
the roofs and sides of dwellings I
household furnishngs of every de
scription wreckage from seagoing
craft of every variety and every
rig lumber timber unbroken bun
dles of shingles merchandise of ev
ery kind uprooted trees trunks and
branches everything in fact that
could go to make up a scene of
destitution and desolation is piled
pellmell helterskelter on that
stretch of water front
Between H G DSilva Cos
planing mill and Florida Blanca
street the homes of the following
were utterly demolished Jack South
erland James Sinderscott William
Graves Charles Mertins Charles
Brown W Ford Charles Kurd Hen
ry Powell George Pope William Geb I
hart and J G Anderson Not a yes
tage of any of these homes remain
today to identify their location of
yesterday Every bath house in the
bathing district is demolished and
on East Zarragossa street between I
Florida Blanca and Cevallos streets 1
every home including that of Mayor
BUss is more or less damaged while
the home of Frank Sigari is entirely
destroyed
On East Government street be
tween Cevallos street and Ninth
avenue the homes of Dr Wilmer
Hall James Jadrevich Theodore
Schoenstein Mr Griffin Mose Chis
holm colored and Gus Jackson
colored are in ruins From the end
of East Government street to Mus I
cogee wharf is a scene of wreckage
and ruin whi h would balk the ablest
descriptive writer alive to adequately
portray In this section the old
iWright Mill now the property of the
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They must have clothes food and
shelter j
There is but one way that this can
be supplied and tHat is by those
who were more fortunate and are
able toigive and help
The Journal wil fart the work of
relief by a subscription of 5000
which it will pay Jmmedately to the
first pijoperly organized general re
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ed the body held at Pous undertaking
parlors for identification
George Morgan Drowned
George Morgan a fisherman and
exmarine was among the drowned
I His body was found yesterday after
noon in the western portion of the
city underneath a pile of timber
Searching parties saw thearm of the
man protruding friry ndernrath the
tunuei ami recovered the body with
difficulty Body at Barclay Point
The body of some unknown man
was seen yesterday afternoon near
Barclays point in the eastern section
of the city The parties who caught
sight of the body could not recover
it
Another Near Coyle Street
Among the wreckage of timber
boats etc near Coyle street late
yesterday evening searching parties
saw the body of a white man The
waves were constantly breaking over
the wreckage however and the body
could not be recovered only portions i
of it being occasionally visible
Graphic Description of
Water Front Devastation
By W C Jones
On the water front from Tarangona
street to Muscogee wharf is a section
of the city which it is impossible to
describe with any degree of accura
cy an attemtpt even at description
is paralyzing to the senses Misery
destitution want is staring several
hundred people in the face who lost
their homes and their all in the ter
Escambia Land and Manufacturing
Co is located What was yesterday
a practically new sawmill with a ca
pacity of hundred < l thousand feat of
lumber daily with a magnificent sys
tem of wharves and storage sheds
plant equipped with
ands a planing
the most modern machinery is today
a confused mass of broken machin
rey tangled debris and broken bat
tered lumber The ruin of this one
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of Pensacolas most important manu
facturing plants simply beggars de
scription
Muscogee Wharf
Magnificent Muscogee wharf Built
at enormous cost to withstand the
most savage onslaught of the ele
ments it was thought possible to be
visited upon IPensacola It still
stands but how battered and bruised
it is Pounding against Muscogee
wharf were three wrecked barks
while in the slip between the wharf
and Wrights Mill Jie stranded in
what will be when the storm subsid
es three to five feet of water two
other barks of a thousand or more
tons burden each two more barks
in all there are five shipwrecks at
Muscogee wharf and in the back
yards of Wr Wilmer Hall and Fred
Scoenstine the fishing smack A J
Chapman lies on her beam ends a I
hopeless wreck Hundreds of thous
ands of dollars is the pecuniary loss I
sustained between Tarragona street
and Miuscogee wharf the sentimen
tal value of innumerable keepsakes
and heirlooms lost by the score of
families whose all was destroyed is
I incalculable
That there has already been acute I
suffering by the unfortunates of this
section is indubitable that this suf
fering will be intensified by time is
inevitable
There should be relief provided at I
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STUCK TO HIS POST
WITH A BROKEN ARM
During the worst of the hurricane
Police Ocer Etheridge slipped and
fell on the sidewalk on his beat but
notwithstanding the fact that he
broke his arm he stuck at his post
of duty until other officers could be
secured to relieve him
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lief authority which will use it
The Journal also has a check from
W A DAlemberte for 2500 for
this relief fund
The work of relief should com
mence at o l ethis morning
The Journals relief fund will help
start it and this paper will be glad
to receive other subscriptions during
the day for that fund orif more
convenient they can be paid at any
of the city banks
But above all things let us act
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MANY BUSINESS
HOUSES BADLY
DAMAGED
Awnings and Roofs Torn Down
and Plate Glass Windows
Demolished
STOCKS IN MANY OF THE PALA
FOX STREET STORES SUFFER
ED SEVERELY FRIOM WATERI
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LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL
BUILDINGS DAMAGED
From the wharf north to Wright
street on Palafox there is hardly
building that escaped damage and in
many instances the losses will be
heavy as the roofs were blown from
and th driving rain
manv of them n the ng
a aattaj
damaged stocks to a great extent
Probably the firm of William John
son Son will be the heaviest loser
by Teason of the building being un
roofed The roof left the building
at 2 a m and later the awning was
sta
also blown away Mr Johnson
ted yesterday afternoon that he could
not at that time estimate the dam
principally to the
age which Was
clothing and shoe departments
The following buildings have been
damaged to greater or less extent
but the damage to the stocks by wa
ter cannot be ascertained as yet
Bar Pilots roof damaged also bal
cony
Hannah building roof gone win
dows broken
A Zelius both roof and awning
Old Morasso residence roof and
balcony gone place badly damaged
Old Cosgrove shops almost total
ly destroyed
C Stanavatin awning and glass 1
Mrs Kate Fay roof and balcony
McK Oerting roof
ft
A LiLustro root ana balcony
Bay Hotel balcony portions of
roof and windows broken
J E Concannon Co roof
Klien Grocery Co slight damage
roofH O Anson roof slightly damaged I
Cashmans pawn shop roof and
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awning
S A Friedman roof
M Dannheisser roof
Knowles Bros roof and balcony
First National Bank roof
Merchants Hotel roof balconies
and windows broken
N Apostle roof and other damage
Fisher Building roof completely
stripped
Clubbs bbullding roof
Wm Johnson Son roof awn
ing Clutter Music Store roof and bal
cony completely gone and glass
broken
F lE Brawner awning and other
damage
Peoples Bank awning
Hooten Watson owning
Brent building awning of entire
building destroyed and other slig
damage
Old Armory Hall roof stripped
awning gone
New Method Laundry roof dam
aged
agedKress Store plate glass window
broken
Standard Clothing Co plate glass
window broken
Avery Hardware Co awning gone
Oerting Bakery awning damaged
Court house with exception of two
or three all fine trees blown down
roofs damaged and glass broken
chimneys gone
Escambia Hotel roof damaged
windows broken
St Michaels parsoage chimneys
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MANY LIVES LOST H
AT FT McRAE AND
ALONG LOWER BAY
WIND REACHED
VELOCITY Of
88MILES
At Time Center of Hurricane Was i
Passing Over
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DISTURBANCE WAS FIRST RE
PORTED OFF YUCATAN AND
LATER OFF WEST COAST OF
CUBABAROMETER BEGAN TO
RISE AT 5 A M THURSDAY
The storm which wrought such
havoc in Pensacola Wednesday night
and Thursday was first reported by
the United States Weather Bureau
off the coast of Yucatan and was re
ported off the western coast of Cuba
on Monday moving in a northerly di
I ction Ample warning was gi h
all vessels and as a consequence
I irany that were ready to sail regain
ed in port The general course of
storms that are reported moving
northerly off the western coast of
Cuba at this time of the year is more
to the northeast than north and as
Pensacola has been lucky in the past I
in escaping tropical hurricanes it i
was not believed that the full force
of the storm would be ielt in thI3 I
vicinity although it was a foregone
onclusion that high winds would pre
vail over this section during Wednes
day and Thursday
Although the storm began to mani
fest itself at an early hour on Wed
nesday morning it was not until the I
wind reached a velocity of 23 miles
an hour at noon that any apprehension I
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sion was felt Between I
oclock the velocity was 25 miles per I
hour and by 3 oclock the wind was I
howling along at the rate of 27 miles I
an hour From then until midntght
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the increase in velocity was constant
and at midnight the gale had reached i
a velocity of 55 miles an hour from
I the northeast The highest recorded
velocity was SS miles an hour be
ween 3 and 4 oclock Thursday morn
ing The storm center passed be
tween 12 and 5 a a m Thursday and
the baromater which had reached its
lowest point 2913 inches at 5 a m
began to rise The hourly velocity
of the wind from midnight Wednes
day to noon on Thursday was as
follows
Time Direction Miles
12 to 1 NE 55
lto2 E 64
2to3 E t 68
S to4 E 74
4to5 SE < 68
fi to 6 SE v 67
C to 7 SE 72
7 to 8 SE > 60
StoD SE 58 I
P to 10 SE r 55
10 to 11 SE 52
11 to 12 SE 53
The storm was the most severe
that Pensacola has ever experienced
considering the length of duration On
July 7 1S9G the wind reached a ve
locity of 100 miles per hour but the
storm was of comparatively short du
ration At that time the barometric
prpssure was 2S93 inches
During Wednesday night the total
precipitation was 38 inches and dur
ing the height of the storm the In
strument house of the weather bu
reau on top of the custom house was
blown away
gone
All trees with few exceptions In
parkway from Garden to Wright up
rooted
On Wright street from Palafox to
the union depot a number of the
fine shade trees are uprooted and res
idences slightly damaged
Union depot and suroundlng build
ings apuparently did not suffer to any
great extent
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HARROWING TALE
Uf DEATH ANn
DISASTER t I
Remnants of Forts Occupants
Lashed to Big Guns on
Batteries
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THREE WOMEN AND
GIVE CHILD PERISH
Women and Children of Warring j
ton are at Naval Hospital
THEY ARE DESTITUTE OF PRO
VISIONS WITH NO WAY TC
DRV CLOTHES OR TO KEEP
WARM AND HELP IS NEEDED
AT ONCE
A terrible tale of loss of life human
suffering and destruction of proper
ty at Fort McRae and other points
near the mouth of the harbor was
brought to The Journal last night hyI
three men of the 20th company sta
tioned at Fort Barrancas i
These men Sergeant J M Pal
mer Corporal H E Elder and Cookjj
Wm M Welch left Fort Barrancas
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at noon and after a terrible trip
reached Pensacola at 015 last night
They reported that everything at j
Fort Mcllae except the batteries wad
gone and that three women two chil
dren and several men who wore sta
tioned there had lost their lives
The drowned were I
The Drowned
ORDINANCE SERGEANT PREN
TICE WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN
ELECTRICIAN SERGEANT COOIQi
AND WIFE AND THE LATTERS
SISTER MISS BESSIE BONNER t
SERGEANT HAMMOND I
QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT
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OVERLANDER I
COOK HADDON J
Eighteen others started across the
lagoon on a raft and only four aro I
known to have survived they having
reached Fort Barrancas
The whole of the 22nd company1
under Lieutenant Edwards was stuj
honed at McRae and the last soen
of the surviving members they were
clinging to the mortar battery over
which the waves were breaking1
fiercely
Miss Bessie Bonncr when last soen
was on top of the water tank cling
ing to it The body of Mrs Pren
tice was washed ashore in the morn
ing near the light house
At one time seventeen persons
were seen through a glass clinging
to the top of the water tower and
Capt Douglass of the 20th company
at Fort Barrancas ran a field gun
down the beach below the light
house and tried to shoot a line to the
water tower but failed to reach them
There were SO mon in all stationed
at McRae and it Is believed that ful
ly onethird of them have been drown
ed
SOME OF LIFE SAVING
CREW PROBABLY LOST
The men reported that the life say
ing station was washed away anl
probably some of the crew were lost
although several had gotten to tho
navy yard In safety Fifteen oari
marked U S L S S were picked up
in the morning on the beach near the
navy yard
ONLY ONE MAN SAVED
FROM FISHING SMACK
When the storm began the fishing
smack Colt was anchored between
the navy yard and Fort Plckens out
the smack now lies on the beach near I
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