The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-29
DISASTER And WRECKAGE
florida Dispatches All Tell One
Story OF The Cyclones Fury.

Inealoulable Damage to the Or
anEe Growers and Groves of the
Peninsular A Dismal Record Of
stroyed- Damage to Shipping and
River Graft,
jacksonville, Fla, Sept 2s,-Communi-
cation with South Florida is being re-
stored, and special dispatches are pouring
in on the Tfmes-Union 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,
TIDINGs FROM TAMPA.
The Tlmes-Unio received a dispatch
from Tampa to-day, which is the first in
formation from that place since Tuesday.
At Tampa several large cigar factories
we're wrecked. The large three-stoFy
brick factory of Seidenburg S Co. was
destroyed. The factory of o. A. Joyce
was demolished, as were also the faeto-
ries of Ybro aud Maurara, Theodore,
Perez & CO., and O'Hallaran. The First
Presbyterian church aud the palatial
Tampa Bay hotel were badly damaged.
Several smaller structures were also de-
molished, The total loss on buildings at
Tampa is estimated at $4,000.
Com mmunieation with Fernandina was
also restored to-day A dispatch to the
Times Union from that place says that
the schooner Edward Stewart which
was loaded and was lying at aaohor, was
blown across the river, pulling her
anchors with her. and is now lying on a
mud fiat in about Ave feet of water. The
small boats were all blown away, and
numbers are now lying high and dry up
in the marsh, together with the floating
dock, which was at the foot Of Center
street. During the storm at Fernandina
the British steamships BOSTON City and
Elemville collided and were badly
damaged
DAMAGE TO RIVER CRAFT.
A dispatch from Palatka aunohunees
great damage at that place TO river craft.
The steamer Princess was sunk between
Palatka and PicOlata. She Is valued at
Sl2,OO0. The steamer Edith was driven
ashore. The steamer De Barry was driven
against the drawbridge aud wrecked,
The steam yacht Maude was sunk near
Crescent City.
To-day the Times-Union received ad-
vices from ST, Augustine, which has been
cut of since Tuesday. These advices
were brought by Mrs Anna NJ Narcotic,
| the Times Unions ST. Augustine corre-
spondent, who made the trip on hand
| car. Mrs. Narcotic gives graphic ao-
count OF the condition Of things at So.
Augustine. No lives were lost but several
houses were wrecked, and the losses
will run into the thousands. Nearly all
| the windows In the city were blown In
and the houses flooded with water, The
Ponce de Leon hotel was damaged in this
way The loss on the hotels furniture Is
heavy At ST. Augustine the waves
dashed over the sea-wall and made rivers
of the streets. Many wharves we're
blown away.
Between Green Cove Springs and
palatka, on the st. Johns, twelve wharves
| have completely disappeared. Between
Jacksonville and ST Augustine not tel
egraph pole was left standing.
The damage TO the orange growers Is
incaleulaole Dispatches 10 the Times
| Union say that in the large groves the
ground is completely covered with green
oranges, The loss will be fully 20 per
| cent.
The east coast is still cut of from COM
munication below ST. Augustine and
Palatka, though cowmunication may be
! restored tonight, Every enort Is being
made to hear from Titusyille, Jupiter and
Key West, which are supposed TO have
been In the storm center.
Dispatches TO the Ifmes-Uniop indi-
cate that the storm was as severe in the
| interior of the state as on the coast, IL
struck Tampa aud then travelled north
east for Jacksonville and ST. Augustine.
AT Ocala and Orlando, interior poin Ia,
several sea gulls and sea eels were found
after the storm passed,
II is safe TO say that the orm has cost
Florida more than Sl,0O0,000, but
no lives have been lost unless at Key
West, Titusville, Jupiter and other East
Coast points