The morning call., 1893-10-04

the caie was blown down, and no planta-
tion ncaped. What the loss will be de-
pendSon future conditions The rice suf-
ferea great deal, much having been blown
awa and more injured. One mile of the
Loisvilo and Nashville track at English
Lookout was wrecked, and no train has
arrived since Sunday. Wrecking trains
ae at work at the scene of the trouble.
Many prominent residents of this city,
ncluding business men, were caught ID the
,torm at the fishing swamps at English
Lookout and had night of terror. A tug
encountered schooner bottom up near
English Lookout and two dismasted and
wrecked. It is impossible to learn il there
was any loss of life. but it is feared there
was. A large number of people Of this
city are virtually quarantined at resorts on
the Mississippi Sound. They are unable
to get to town owing to damaged bridges
and washouts.
John Hest, night watchman of the jetty
company. was drowned while attempting
TO come ashore. The signalservice station
and apparatus were blown down, put the
Engineers weathered the storm. At Shell
Beach the clubhouse was wrecked and the
fishing camps badly damaged.
1t has been rumored in the city that
the settlement of oystermen on Bayou
Cook was destroyed by the storm and 150
lives los. As there is not more than 100 per-
sons living in the settlement 1t is reported
the loss of life is ridiculously large, even
if every one of the Inhabitants were
drowned. A rum0r-m onger also destroyed
Grand Isle, but it will be quite safe to wait
until these places are heard from before
erasiDg them from the gazetteer.
PENSACOLA, Fla, Oct. 3.--The most de-
structive storm Pensacola has experienced
in twenty years began at O'Clock yestar-
day morning and ragged with increased fury
until late hour in the evening lard
rains fell on Saturday afternoon and Sum
day, and at A. n. yesterday the wind be-
gan to freshen ana the rain to increase.
Between and P. NJ. the storm reached
its climax. the wind having attained We
locity of &c miles an hour. Rain fell in
torrents and swept in binding sheets
through the streets.
No loss of life is reported, but upon
every street uprooted trees, broken fences
and roofiess buildings testify to the storms
force. The large building Of Warren &
Co., stored with cured fish, was blown
into the bay. The loss is great. A dwell
ing with its contents was lifted from its
foundation and dropped into the bay.
4 Portuguese bark, the Josephine, and
the Norwegian bark Wilhelmina were
blown on the beach, but it is thought both
can be foated. The fishing bark Isabella
is also on the beach. Steamships taking
on cargoes ran down to the lower bay.
where they had plenty of searoom. Every
stick of timber in the bay was cast adrift
and is now strewn along the beach for
miles.
Railroad communication is cut off. The
mail train on the Pensacola and Atlantic
road. which left here for Jacksonville yes
terday morning at $50. could get no fur
ther than Bohemia on the bayshore and
was compelled TO return. A train on the
Louisville and Nashville also encountered
washouts and was compelled to return.
All telegraph communication was cnt off
before 10 o'clock yesterday and no news Of
the storm could be sent out last night.