The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
ST. AUCUSTlNE'S BIG STORM
The Loss in the Ancient City by the
Recent Blow Not Heavy.

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Individual Suferers-None of the
Big Hotels Damaged Police
| Selling Winchester Rihes-Fears of
Another Cyclone Money Plentiful.
A Fugitive Caught.
! StAugustine, Fla. Oct. 1S.-The Ancient
| City is fast recovering from the effects Of
! the recent ravages by the cyclone. The
many residences on Bay, Charlotte, Ma
rine, Bridge and Orange streets, and in
fact in almost every part Of the city, felt
/ the soaking influences of the storm,
! either through the roofs from the rain tor
rents or by way of doors from the salt
waters of the oceans tide, and while the
| damage done in individual cases is small,
| the aggregate foots up considerable, but
far from the 100000 figured by the Even
| ing News, paper printed here. The to-
| tai loss might come up to 100000.
THE HEAVIEST LOSS.
The heaviest loss probably falls on the
| St. Augustine and South Beach Ferry
Company by the loss of its fine wharf,
the washing out of its railway tracks on
Anastasia Island and by the drifting of
| the company's steamer Myth on to the
marsh lands near Moultrie creek. Two
! thousand dollars, it is thought, will make
all good, except the loss of business.
Capt. George w. COrbett lost 81, $50
(his estimate) in the destruction of his
fish house and contents and supply Of live
diamOnd-back turtles.
OTHER LOSSES.
George Burt gave about $500 to the cy-
clone in the loss of his Central wharf.
Capt 7. +. Corbett says $1,000 will
make good his loss in wharf, wood and
sunken machinery
V. b. Capo lost the wharf about his
bath house and some few articles washed
away, but $500 will make it good.
Capt. Pinkham, by the waves getting
into the ground floor of his Ocean View
hotel, and by carrying off his wharf
lumber saved from the August cyclone,
foots up his loss at $500.
d. r. Knowlton by his logs drifting
away lost about $500.
THE GOVERNMENTS LOSSES SMALL.
Uncle Sam by damage to wharf and
property at St Francis barracks is out
some $780, He also loses by the Fort
Marion wharf going away about $50, and
by ietty work being shifted a few hun
dred dollars
The old San Marco wharf was worth
little or nothing.
The St Augustine Improvement Com
panys dredge drifted off and the loss is
mere tribe.
The city loses about $500 in replacing
! the cypress block pavements.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Flagler's loss in pave
| ments cypress blocks amounts to several
days labor. The loss in repairing the
grade of the railroad for the whole sys-
TEN amounts to 81 600.
DR.. S. G. Worley, Henry Gaillard, the
Carr heirs, w. 5. Hall, j. w. Estes,
Lynn's hotel, The Brooks Moorish villa,
Alicia hospital, Allen Wood, Roscoe Per
ry and a few others are the largest losers
by the flooding tide entering their houses.
About 30 others lost by water getting
in wells, cisterns and running flower gar
dens, while quite a number sustained
losses by water overlooking their lots and
by roofs made leakv by the heavy winds.
The individual loss ranges from IS to $500
"a very few at the latter sum.
THE BIG HOTELS NOT DAMAGED.
No damage whatever was done to either
of Mr. Elagler's three hotels. Although
| the water flooded the streets surrounding
the Ponce de Leon, Alcazar and Cordova
it did not approach the buildings. None
of the citys hotels were injured, as they
are all built well up from the ground.
The greatest damage was done to vege-
! tatiOn. 1t is reported that every potato
crop within TWO miles of the Matanzas
| river was destroyed by either the over
| flowing of the tide or by the salt spray
carried in the rainfall. Flower beds suf-
| fered greatly, and it is thought that
! many orange trees are injured, but to
! what extent IS difficult to say at present,
| for the tide-water remained, except in
| low lying lots, little over an hour.
REPAIRING THE DAMAGE.
| Everyone is hard at work repairing the
| damages. The city authorities are re
! paving the streets and in a short time the
| cyclone of October 18th, like the cyclone
! of August, '93, will remain only as 1.-The
| time when the tide ran over the sea-wall,
the only time since it was built in 1912.
A FUGITIVE BROUGHT BACK.
i Sheriff Perry returned from Jackson
! vile this evening having in custody the
negro fugitive John Alva, one of the three
ruffians who made the murderous as
sault on young William Mourey, an &C
! count of which appeared in the MORNING
| News several days ago. Alva when he
| skipped went to the St. Johns river and
| shipped on the steamboat Gov. Stafford.
! Sheriff Gerry had already sent descrip-
tions of the fleeing trio and
/ Can't. Floyd of the Stafford had
| been handed one by Lewis Pacetti. This
enabled him to corral Alva, who, of
! course, denied his acquaintance with
ANY such niger Floyd, however,
locked him up for keeps until he arrived
at Jacksonville, when he delivered him to
the authorities. Sheriff Perry was nOti-
fed and he is in the county jail awaiting
| his pals arrival. Being recognized by
Mr. Henry Gaillard, for whom Alva
worked, he weakened.
SEEING wINCHEsTERs.
Sheriff Perry instructed his deputies to
| notify all persons carrying Winchesters
| that they must at once procure some
reputable citizen to go on their bond or
turn in the weapon. Yesterday one
/ Dinkins, colored, came to town with his
| gun in search of a bondsman. AS he
failed to find one, he was taken before
| Justice Forward who, according to a
| recent law. fined him 50 and confsCated
the rifle Tonight the sheriff has Sc
| cured another Winchester, and it now
looks as il the Justices court is going to
become repository for unsecured guns.
TALK OF ANOTHER CYCLONE.
1t was said here last night that
"another cyclone was en- route here
from Cuba, and the folks are looking for
it and do not feel like being disappointed,
IN fact the uortheaster blowing during
the past three days has rather gotten
them in an oNpCctauU condition, especially
as the heavens have a pow
erfully'' troubled look tonight.
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