New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-12

IMMENSE DAMAGE WROUGHT BY THE
HURRICANE.

ALPHABETICAL AND CEDAR KEY THE WORST
SUFFERERS FROM IT'S FuRY-THE STREETS
PILED WITH wRECKAGE-Two LIVES LOST
Jacksonville Fla oct. Accommodation
has been re-estabshed with all points on the
west coast visited by the storm which raseo
Monday night and Tuesday morning, and dis-
patches tell woful tales Of the destruction
caused by the wind and water Apaiachicoia
and Cedar Key were directly in the STORM
path. and the damage at those places is almost
incaIcuIable Communication with these points
has been cut off until to-day.
Cedar Kew has experienced the most disas-
trous storm which has visited the place ioi
tv,entv-Gve wears The main business street Is
nied from one end to the other with wreckage
Of every description. The storm began at
o'clock Monday morning, with heavy wind
from the east gradually shifting to the SOUTH
and then 10 southwest. increasing IN violence
and continuing until daylight Tuesday morn
ing
The damage and loss Of property Is great. Inc
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad Is
heavy sufferer. Almost the entire track 10 inc
mainland a distance Of three ana a nan iiilleS'
IL either DESTROYED or badly damaged from the
main land II Sumner, a distance OF ioui am ~, "
hale miles there are nearly 100 washouts. Inc
mail rain got In Monday night. but Is caught be-
tween two WashOuts and cam move el1let ""''
Tho Town Improvement Company IS Il hea'y
loser as many business and deWellhS houses
wore swept away. The fish and oyster houses
are demolished and the contents total loss
amounting to several thOusGnd dollars Inc r.
Faber Cedar Company loses the steamer Nleula'
,.alued Al s. 800 and had $1,000 logs swept away.
Tho civ Hail had the tin root blown OF, ana one
side knocked out by logs. The city IAN cannot
be- found Many small boats were wrecked ana
fish cornns washed away. one slOOp came III
Tncedav morning with five men who had chung
I, i palmetto tree since Monday night Nho'hcr
came in this afternoon with three men VINO Were
wrecked Monday nigPt. and had been on 4 siirll
hank eyer since without food o: water. 1t Is re-
r,rt.d that five sn1nge vessels went ashore our
ing the storm. and were driven seven mics 4h'o
the woods. . ,o,,,
The storm was even more severe at ApaIa-
cbir,l, nm at CEDAR Key. Water. Commerce
and Markef SIS. are mass Of logs boats, lu'l'5
bar and dead fish So far tUo lives are reported
list Two housos were carried hair To three-
quarters If mile and placed in the marsh near
cypress Mill uninjured All the docks are u.-
stroyod houses were unroofed ana lehces S'"'
tered everywhere. 81, -. >, -,
routed bv the terrific gale. The water IS SIN eel
deco in Water-st. AMI some ~ me pest ~
Goods and grocery stores We're destroyed. rive
harges loaded with lumb- were blown from r'dS'
pass and lodged in the marsh. two niles ilortn
! ~ this place AZ present It Is impossipe - et'
n an estimate II the loss ~ goods or bu'ldlnsS'
L,ishbou.es oyster factories and shant.es We're
literally demolished. The people are disfnd!ep'
! and am appeal FOR aid will be sent out
From many other points in West f.'tida COM
| r.norts of tn storms destructive work pu'
| cedar Key and Apaiachco.a seem ID nave Deem
the principal sufferers.