The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-17
GREAT DESTRUCTION.
SEVERAL FLORIDA. TOWNS ARE Al
MOST SWEPT AWAY.

SEVERAL FLORIDA. TOWNS ARE Al
MOST SWEPT AWAY.
Cut or from the World Until Now-Ap-
peal for sid Will be Made for Apslscht-
oola-Other Towns Suffer But Not Near
So Bad.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 11.-Com.
munication has been re-established
with points on the West coast visited
By the storm which ragged Monday
night and Tuesday morning and dis
patches to the Times. Union tell woeful
tales of the destruction caused by the
wind and water. Apslachicola and
Cedar Key were directly in the storms
path and the damage at those places Is
almost incalculable. Communication
with these points has been cut off an
til to-day. The storm first struck
Cedar Key and the following dispatch
describes Its work:
CEDAR KEY, Fla, Oct. 11.-Cedar
Key has just experienced the most dis.
astrous storm which has visited her
for twenty-five years. The main bust.
ness street Is piled form one end to the
other with debris, consisting Of wreck.
age from boats, wharves, fish houses
and logs of every description. The
storm began at O. clock Monday morn
ing, with heavy wind from the East,
gradually shifting to the South and
then to Southwest, increasing In vto-
lence and continuing until daylight
Tuesday morning. -,
The damage and loss of property Is
very great. The florida Central and
Peninsula Railroad 1s q heavy sufferer.
Almost the entire track to the main-
land, 8 distance of three and one.half
miles, is either destroyed or badly dam
aged. From the mainland to Sumner,
q distance of four and one.half miles,
there are nearly one hundred washouts.
The mail train got In Monday night,
but is caught between two washouts
and cannot move either way. H..
The Town Improvement Company 1s
q heavy loser, as a number Of business
and dwelling houses were swept away.
The fish and oyster houses adjournIng
the railroad and occupied by Dopson,
Clarke Sc Daniel and W, 81. Anderson
are demolished and all contents total
loss, amounting to several thousand
dollars. The E. Faber Cedar Go. loses
the steamer Media, valued at $500
and hal swept away 10000 logs Of
cedar, which they will be weeks In COL
lecting. The cedar mill just started up
by w. II. Anderson was badly dam.
aged and about 5000 logs Of cedar
scattered for miles.
The city hall, two story concrete
building, with Offices below, has the tin
roof blow off and one entire side knock
ed out by logs, etc. The city jail cannot
be found. The five bridges to the shell
road leading to, the main land are
washed away. A great many small
boats were wrecked and fish camps
washed away. One sloop came In Tues.
day morning with five men who had
clung to q single palmetto tree siace
Monday night. Another came IN this
afternoon with three men who were
wrecked Monday night and had been
on ashell bank ever since without 1000
or water. It is reported that i've
sponge vessels went ashore during the
storm and were driven seven miles into
the woods.
From Cedar Key the cyclone travelled
up the West coast until 1t reached
ApalachicoIa. It was even more severe
at Apalachicola than that at Cedar
Key, il possible, as the following dis
patch indicates:
APALACHICoLA, Fla, Oct. H.
Never before In the history Of this town
was snch havoc and destruction played
by storm and tide as Monday night be-
tween the hours of and 10. Water,
Commerce and Market streets are 9
mass of logs, boats, lumber and dead
! fish. So far, two lives are reported lost.
|. Two residences were carried half to
, three quarters of q mile and placed IN
{ the marsh near Cypress mill uninj jured,
one of which had Just been completed
for a newly married couple. All the
docks were totally destroyed, houses
were unroofed, and fences scatteIeo
everywhere. Mursts wholesale nsa
house was laid fat and thousands OF
dead fish line the streets. ,
Families sought safety on the hills,
only to be routed by the terrific gale.
The water is six feet deep on Water
street and some of the best dry goods
and grocery stores were battered into by
floating timber and shattered to des-
truction: soft mud and brush line the
floors and shelves. Five barges loaded
with lumber were blown from East
Pass and lodged In the m arsh Two
miles North Of this place. The Kim
bali Lumber Company are the plncl-
psLlosers. Their loss Is about $1O,OOO.
Murat's loss Is about 1900. At present
it is impossible to get at an estimate OF
the loss of goods or buildings. Fish
houses. oyster factories aad shantles
were literally demolished. The loss 81 10
the aggregate will be fully $a'OV;;
The people are dismayed and an appear
for aid will be sent out.
From many other points IN " esC
Florida come reports of the stor ms
: destructive work, but Cedar Key and
Apalachicola seem to have been the
principal sufferers. 1,s..,,
PENSACOLA, Fla, Oct. 1l:-flfteen
fishing smscks belonging to tnls port
were On the Gulf during the storm.
Nothing has yet been heard OF tnem
and much anxiety Is felt.
Tho split in New York.
= NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-In regard TO
; the third State ticket put up by ehe
Shennard Demoracy, John Boyd