The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-29
STORM DAMAGE SOUTH
Florida Cities and Towns Heard
.~-.as from at Last. .....
PROPERTY LOSS INOALCULABLE.
throughout tho State Thero Wa, Grea,
bamnge Done to Homes. to Public
Houses and to Orange Groves-No Loss
of Life Reported.

VI Lie Reported.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Sept 90 - Com
mlrnlcHtion with south Florida Is being
restored and special dispatches are pour.
ing In relative to the damage done by the
West Indian cyclone which ragged In the
state Tuesday and Wednesday The
dispatches all tell the same story Of
houses wrecked and crops DESTROYED. but
NO loss OF life is reported
The Times, Union received dispatch
from Tampa yesterday, which is the first
information from the place since Tues.
day AT Tampa several large cigar factor.
les were destroyed. The large three story
brick factory of Seiden berg & Co was to.
tally destroyed. The factory OF c. A.
Joyce was demolished, as were also the
factories OF Sbor 81 Manarara, Teodoro,
PERI & Co. and O'lIallan. The FIRST
Presbyterian church and the palatiaI
Tampa Bay hotel were badly damaged
Several smaller structures were also do
molished. The total loss on buildings at
Tampa is estimated at $4,000.
Communication with Fernandina was
also restored. A dispatch from that place
says thnt the Schooner Edward Stewart
which was loaded and was lying ut
anchor, was blown across the river, pull
ing her anchors with her, and liz now lying
on mud fiat In about five feet OF water
The small boats were all blown away. aud
numbers are now lying high and dry up
the marsh, together with the coating
dock which was at the foot Of Center
street. During the storm at Fernandlus
the British steamships Boston City and
Elmyille collided and were badly dam.
aged
dispatch from Palatba announces
great damage at that place to river craft.
The steamer Princess was sunk between
Palatka and Picolata She Is valued at
$1,000. The steamer Edith was driven
ashore. The steamer DeBary was driven
against the drawhridge and wrecked. The
steam yacht Maude was sunk near Cres-
cent City.
The Times Union also received advices
from ST. Augustine These advces were
Brought by Mrs. Anna NJ Narcotic, the
papers st, Augustine reporter who made
the trip on hRndcar.
No lives were lost. but several houses
were wrecked, and the losses will run
into the thousands. Nearly all the win
dows in the city were blown out and the
houses Hooded with water. The Ponce de
Leon hotel was damaged in this way.
Tho loss ON the hotels furniture was
heavy. At st. Augustine the waves
dashed over the sea wall and made rivers
OF the streets. Many of the wharves
were blown away. Between Green Cove
Spring and Palataka on the st. John
twelve wharves have completely dsap.
peared Between Jacksonville and St.
Augustine not telegraph polo was left
standing.
The damage to the orange growers Is
iBcalculable. In the large groves the
ground is completely covered with green
oranges The loss is fully 20 per cent
The east coast is still cut of from COM
muuication below St. Augustine and
Paatka, Every effort is being made to
hear from Titusville, Jupiter and Key
West. which are supposed to have been in
the storms center.
Dispatches indicate that the storm was
as severe IN the interior OF the state us on
the coast. 1t struck Tampa and Travelled
northeast for Jacksonville and St. Aug
nstine. AT Oeala and Orlando, interior
points, several sea gulls and sea eels were
found after the storm passed.
1t is safe ta say that the storm has cost
Florida more than million dollars, but
no lives have been lost unless at Key
West, Titusyille, Jupiter aud other east
coast points.