Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-09-07
THE STORMS TERRIBLE
WORK.

New York, Sept 5.--A special
from st. Augustine, Fla, reports the
arrival there, from Halifax river, of
seven men, survivors of the wreck of
the Vera Cruze. One is O. K. Owen,
passenger, the others an engineer, ,oiler
and four seamen. Talbot, one of
the seamen, gives a graphic and
heart-rending account of the disaster,
in which he says: " It will crafty
the friends of the drowned passen
gers and crew to know that the let
ters have been found, and that they
will be retained until further inquiry
is made respecting them. Many
trunks have come ashore and been |
rifed, but it is believed all the per
sonal property can be recovered.
Word has been received here that |
three more men have been saved
further south. The following are
the saved passengers as far
as can be learned: O. K. Owen,
of Chester, Pa; J. A. Garcia, of
Havana; two passengers whose
names could not be learned, who
were to arrive at st. Augustine to
day. Besides these passengers were
a young lady, an old lady and three
men whose names could not be
learned. The officers and crew saved
/ so far as known are Charles Bran
denberg, quartermaster; Dengole,
fourth assistant engineer; Jno. Green
field, boatswain; JAS. Ell. Kelley, sea
man; Charles Smith, second assistant
engineer. Three sailors were saved
but refused to give Their names.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 5.-The British
steal ler American arrived here yes
terday from Kingston, Jamaica, and
brings papers containing details of
the terrible cyclone which swept over
that island on the 18th ulto. Capt.
Wallace, of the American, describes
the destruction as complete. He
says there were about forty-fve YES
sells, of all kinds, lying in the harbor
of Kingston when the storm occurred,
and his own and German bark be-
ing the only ones that escaped
damage or destruction. The daily
steamer of August 31st, giving de-
tails, says: The treeless, battered
city, as showed in the gloom of a
murky morning, presented truly a
desolate and depressing apprearan ce.
It is next to impossible to catalogue
the damage done.
Reports from points all over the
island tell the same sad story. The
coffee plantations are utterly de-
stroyed. and the cocoanut groves,
yielding thousands of nuts, fell like
so many cornstalks. At Morant the
houses were torn from their founda-
tions and broken like matches by the
wind. The cane everywhere is fiat
tened on the ground.
) Advlces concerning Port Royal
, which we gather from several ources
are truly distressing and only tend
to increase the sad picture of deso1a-
ton. .......-.
All along the coast from Kingston
to Holland Bay the destruction was
: awful and the loss beyond computa
ton. The papers state that thieves
everywhere are availing themselves
i. of the defenseless state of the peo-
pie, and are stealing ad libitum.
It is estimated that the Island ha:
been put back in development abou
two years, and it is feared that th'
poorer classes have an era OF suffer
inc before them. The planters ar
left with shattered and destroyed
crops, and the fishermen have haC
= their houses blown away and thei
" smacks sunk.
, At the markets, in the towns, per
- sons come with empty hands. Traffi
- - is limited to an interchange of sto
~ ~ ries, which are sobbingly told
There is lite,ally no business go
J. J. ing on any where except the work o
% - restoring to some sort of shape dis
- - torted and scattered buildings AM
- wrecked edifces. In many of th
. towns the government offices am
~ buildings suffered much and clerk
- are unable to transact business.
d SAVANNAH, GA, Sept, GA specia
re to the Morning News from jackson
N vile states that siz seamen and pas
e. sengers from the wrecked steame
,r Vera Cruze reached tfat place fror
}; St. Augustine, Saturday evening
e. They, with two others, two seame
ID and two passengers are supposed
IS, be the only survivors. They repol
&c that the cyclone struck the steame
re Saturday forty miles this side
III Cape Caraveral, thirty miles off th
S shore at 4 p. m. The deck load wa
n thrown overheard and the sea swel
is the decks clean. At 2 a M, SUI
day the water reached the engiu
rooms and extinguished the fires
5 a. m. The captain was washe
overheard and the first and secor
mates killed while lowe
An ing the boats and
ed six o'clock the vessel foundere
ed The passengers and crew were pre-
.ce vided with life preservers, but mar
rs. were killed and crushed in Il
he wreck The survivors were wash'
ashore at Dayton and Port Orang
rts Several bodies have been burie
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