The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-09-29

Florida Cities and Towns Heard
from at Last,
PROPERTY LOSS INoALoULABLB.
Throughout the State There was Great
Damage Done TO Homes, to Public
Houses and to Orange Grovss-No Los,
OF Life Reported.


Houses and to Orange Groves-No Los,
Of Life Reported,
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Sept % - Com
munication 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 a 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 Seidenberg & Co. was to-
tally destroyed The factory of c. A.
Joyce was demolished, as were also the
factories Of Ybor x Manarara, Teodoro
Perz & Co. and O'Hallan. The First
Presbyterian church and 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
Communication with Fernandlna was
also restored. A dispatch from that place
says that the Schooner Edward Stewart
which was loaded and was lying at
anchor, was blown across the river, pull
ing her anchors with her, and is now lying
on a mud fiat in about FIVE feet of water.
The small boats were all blown away, and
numbers are now lying high and dry up
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
Elmville collided and were badly dam.
aged
A dispatch from Palatka 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 drawbridge and wrecked. The
steam yacht Maude was sunk near Cres
cent City.
The Times-Union also received advices
from St. Augustine. These advices were
brought by Mrs. Anna NJ. Narcotic the
papers st. Augustine reporter, who made
| the trip on handcar.
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 flooded with water, The Ponce dc
Leon hotel was damaged in this way
| The loss on the hotels furniture was
heavy. At St. Augustine the waves
| dashed over the sea wall aid made rivers
of the streets. Many of the wharvet
were blown away. Between Green Gov,
| Spring and Palataka ON the St Johr
twelve wharves have completely disap
| peared. Between Jacksonville and St
Augustine not telegraph pole was let
standing.
The damage to the orange growers il
incalculable In the large groves thu
! ground is completely covered with greer
oranges. The loss is fully 90 per cent
The east coast is still cut off from com
munication below St Augustine ant
Palatka. Every effort is being made t.
hear from Titusvlle Jupiter and ke
West, which are supposed to have been il
the storms center.
| Dispatches iudi cate that the storm wa
as severe in the interior of the state as ol
the coast 1t struck Tampa and Travelled
northeast for Jacksonville and St Aug
ustine At OCala and Orlando, interiO
points, several sea gulls and sea eels wer
found after the storm passed
1t is safe to say that the storm has cos
Florida more than million dollars, bu
no lives have been lost unless at Ike
West, Titusville, Jupiter and other cas-
coast points,