Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-10-05
The West Indian Hurricane Does
Great Damage.

Fort large vessel was seen well
up on a reef with all her IN ssts
gone. Yesterday the Ell Rio pass
ed a schooner which had lost its
foremost.
Havana, Sept. 20.-The Sagua
river has overnowed Its banks and
the city of Sagua Ii G:ande is
flooded. Many citizens have been
drowned and an immense amount
of damage has been done.
a press special from Jackson
vile, Fla, SAYS Communication
with Sonth Florida is being re-
stored and special dispatches are
pouring 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
and crops DESTROYED, but
no loss OF life is reported.
A dispatch was received from
Tampa today, which is.the first IN
from the place since
tuesday. At Tampa several large
cigar factories were destroyed, to-
gether with the large three story
brick factory of Ssidenberg "
Go.
The factory of G. \. Joyce was
demolished, as were also the
factories of Ybor & Manarara,
Teodoro, Pelz & Go. and O'HIllan.
rle First Presby terrain church and
he palatlan Tampa Bay Hotel
we're badly damaged. The total
oss on buildings at Tampa Is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Communication with Fernandina
vas also restored today, A dis
patch from that place says that tue
schooner Edward Stewart, which
was loaded ard was lying at anch'
,r, was blown across the river.
pulling her anchors With her, and
IS now lying on a mud fat in
about FIVE feet OF water.
The small boats were all blown
away and Numbers are now lying
high and dry upon the marsh, to-
gether with the floating dock, which
was at the foot of Centre street.
During the storm at Fernandina
the British steamships Boston
City and Emville colllded and
were badly damaged.
a dispatch from Pdlatka an.
nounces great damage at that
place to river craft. The steamer
Princes was sunk between Palatka
and PlcOlata. She is valued at
~ 900. Tue steamer Edith was
driven ashore. The steamer Dc
Barry was driven against the draw =
bulge and wrecked. The steam
yacht Nude was sunk near Cres'
cent City.
Today the Times Union received
adyices from st. Augustine, which
has been cut off since Tuesday
These advices were brought 10y
Mrs. Annie NJ. Narcotic, the
Times Unions s.. Augustine re
porter, who male the trip on
hand-car.
No Ives were los. there, bat sew
eral houses were wrecked, a.d th'
Iosse will run into the thousands
Nearly all the windows in the cit J
were brOkan and Tbs houses flood
ed with water. The Ponce de
Leon Hotel was damaged IN thiI
way. The wages dashed over th'
sea wall and made rivers OF tl'
streets. NJ my wharves wer'
blown away.
Between Geen Cove Spring
and PAlatkl, on the st. johns
twelve wnlrves have completely
disappeared. B.tweep j 'ckson
VILE and st. Augustine not tele
graph pole wa' left stan linz. The
damage to the orange groves i
incalcnlable.
The est cot Is still cut Of
from co nnunlcation below s.. A l.
gustine and PAlatKa. Every effort
is beng III sle to hear from T'tn &
vile, j lpiter and KY West. which
are Supposed to have b'en in the
storms center.
Dispatches inlicAte that tn
storm was as severe IN the interior
of the s ate as on the coast.
It's safe to say that the storm
has cost florida more than a mi.
Hon dollars, bat no lives have been
lost unless at KY west, Titus
VILE, J lplter anil other east coaSt
points.