The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
the city amid theruins, spreading rapidly
owing TO the damage done to the en-
gines by the wind.

: the wind.
OF THE STORM.
ept down with fearful fury,
first just south of the city hall,
ried away the third and fourth
the Mount Vernon mill. From
swept on in a path 500 yards
The Methodist Church fell Just
utes before $50 people left the
room. The Commercial
1st its third-story. Next the
uck the county court house and
it a heap of ruins. By rare
the county records
ed. Crews block, on the south
the square. is leveled with the
d under it was found the body
/ Crew, owner OF the block,
of Chicago. The roof and sec
Y of Stratton & Co.'S hardware
s blown away.
lex BUILDINGS WRECKED.
large, two-story brick school
id not Withstand the terrible
" better than the smallest house
ack of the cyclone. The large,
y frame house of George Ward
,ed up and carried about twenty
left unhurt. while two brick
8 within 100 feet were left in
The loss cannot be estimated,
less than 81 ,000,0O worth of
has been destroyed by the cy-
| fire in that neighborhood.
Ky has cleared, and no clouds
irtimation of the disastrous
few hours ago. 1t is growing
!, many homeless people will
RE weather be- pes severe.
coming in olthe country,
ar m seems to have swept ev-
I;familes. Incalculable loss of
lasoSt suffering will follow un-
TT fsistance is given Mayor G.
who will give it to the
cAEee.
"a HE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
held a # the business men was
the do stees appointed to care for
ertv as anded and protect prop
who esdpossible. Many people
;na bael their lives have moth
streets uang are walking the
..Tbe ,ne to go to.
square il o. tile court mousse
bI,ildings considerably. No
& Stratton heo except howard
cared for wounded are being
possible my seiahs IN the pesV
were ba,,Iv The railroad shops
ber of bomasand great mum
of doors VIII. People are out
storm The IN The track of the
tered thronob lying are all scat
of the ran,aity. All the doors
thrown open I'd uses nave peeh
BUsIsi sioftunate-
"Three-fourthAGE.
of the city is RI tiushless portion
public square is inia niaheiaiiy. Inc
and the court bo,1r Of the town,
the square. The-S She centre Oh
the northeast par uiidlng is III
the dwellings in tina Guy ana an
are destroyed and III OF the city
still burning. In alIpI some are
DESTROYED and many ildings are
THE man Ax1}jured.
1.-The dead arc now Ed.
the Supreme Court Hthered at
been converted into a hieh has
dead and wounded. tor the
also damaged, but not idmg Is
latest reports show twG. Inc
and about 100 injured, & DEAD
will die before morrino whom
Later reports say two
died. They are Eddie Make have
Colonel Cooper A numbort Mrs.
were struck by falling tiWho
whose names can not be learn
snt, are reported badly in es-
living. nd
PRECEDED BY HAIL.
The storm was preceded by
not more than five minutes elaDst
he fearful destroyer had swept d
doomed town. 1t came from the
vest. Buildings were wrenche
visited, and then dashed to piece
wrecks. The Storm passed a littI
# the city hall, missed Joseph G
house, swept away the third and
tories of the Mount Vernon mi
destroyed nearly every house fir
Mill north for a space of about so
he Commercial Hotel lost tho
tory. The entire west side
quare was wrecked. The court
vas struck and the building ,
uced to massive pile of ruins
Jerks have worked into the recor
hey are all saved"
a MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
"R. E. Ryan escaped in a man
lost incredible. He was standin.
I. Murray, in Crews block, and to
} run, but Murray remained an,
illed. Ryan ran west and findi
rect full of flying tlmbers, iuml
the doorway, held to the latch a
against which he was sta
Ill around him, and he escap,
,uched.
WOOD SAFER THAN BRICKS.
= A. B. Coxe's store, G. w. No
welry store, Maxey, West & s
ore. and Jackson's saddlery sto.
ruins, and On the south side @
uare frame buildings, though in
capped destruction. Hasser
4kery, the Baptist Church, Cook
ore, Marion's saloon, Perry's Hote
ration & Johnson's brick store
Teled with the ground. The
st side of the square is DESTROYED
one of the buildings John Walter
e child lost their lives, as did I
alters, father of John. Mrs. w
IS found with her babe in her
th dead.
'sOn the northeast corner of the S.
'ward Bros. &C Co.'S grocery was [