The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-09-30
THE STORM SWEPT COAST
GREAT DAMAGE TO SHIPPING AT
KEY WEST, FLORIDA,
Whore tho Wind, on Tuesday, Eoached a
Velocity Of log Miles AN Hour-Worst 10
over on the Virginia Coast.

JACKSONVILLE. FLA, Sept. 29-Wire
communication has been restored to all
portions OF Florida visited by the storm,
and by Monday all damage to the ralI-
roads will Lave been repaired and trains
will be running on schedule time.
Dispatches tonight from Titusville. lu-
piter. and other east coast points, where
the storm was supposed 10 have been
most severe, state that no lives WeIe
lost, and that the damage 10 property -
not as great as as in the storm Of last
year.
MUCH DANA5E DONE AT KEY WEST.
Tonight the Times-Union received q
special cablegram from Key West, which
Is the first news received from that CiCy
since last Saturday. The telegram is ds
follows
The wind commenced blowing on Sun
day afternoon at about 4.5Q, and con-
tnued until Tuesday night, blowing
hardest between IL and l. O'Clock on
Tuesday, when its velocity registered lu-
miles an hour. There was great deStluc-
ton 10 shipping along the islands. The
Wreckage extends from Dry Vortu-as TO
Cape Florida. No estimate y the loss or
life or damage TO property can De maze
at present. SIX men have been picked up
and brought into this port since " ednts-
day, Two OF them severely bruised.
IN DAMAGE 10 sHIIPisG.
The French barkentiRe Cambronue.
from Jamaica. loaded with logwoOd. was
driven up within one hundred yards OF
the shore. The crew was taken OF by
the Key West Wrcckng Company The
schooner Lily White is supposed 10 be
lost. having left Puuta kassa sunday
night. on Monday night she was seen
of the northwest lighthouse, in COM
pany with the schooner Hero, which has
since come into port without her masts.
The French bark Mariclo, lying I'm the
harbOr, was Cap-lZcl.
The large building OF T. H. Cato ON
the south beach. was blown down and
part Of the roof OF the United states naval
depot was blown Of
oIHEB VESSELS IN DISTRESS
The crack yacht Sophia Was wrecked
of Talbunches on Monday afternoon
about 3 +. NJ. and is being repaIrel
preparatory 10 being br0usht 20 this city.
There Is a large vessel bottom mp at
Turtle harbor, name unNno"n,
The German bark NADIA, from New
Orleans to Lisbon, laden with hoGr and
stayes, stranded on Long hey Bank,
and IS total loss. The wreckers are
All the lighthouses along the water
front are washed away and many trees
uprooted. Otherwise, little damage Wds
done 10 the city.
THE STORM oS GHT VIRGINIA COAST ABATEp.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. Ga spe-
cial from Cape Charles, Va, says: The
storm has abated in this section 10 some
| ENltLN ne NAL4'A blEh AAhlAl ilAf Al'L ~
east d regular hurricane for three days
! and three nights increasingly. The water
has receded, and the steamers VIII re-
sumo their regular trips between mere
and Norfolk The first tidinSs from
| Cobb's Island were received about q
o'clock last evening, when Rev. IHoma5
| Dixon, who Is summerInS on the island
| with his family, managed to get over TO
the main land. He said,
I'VE have been living right in the At
laptic ocean for the past three days.
| The storm broke on uS last Tuesday nlsht
| late, and tor three days aiAi 'hree nights
| the wind blew a regular hurricane from
the northeast. Wednesday and Thurs
Gav the who'd seemed - .ic~eaSp and the
entire island was submerged IA thr~s
feet Of water. carrying away fences, out
houses and threatening destruction II all
Who were living on the island
Mr. Dixon says by actual measure
ment, 200 feet Of CObb's Island and q he
beach were washed away by the enCTmfuS
waves that dashed the shore and that
the inhabitants state II u be the most
violent storm they have had Tor twenty
years. All vegetation ana some pigs were
destroyed. but no lives We're lost. The
water went down 10 its normal cOndi-
ton yesterday morning.
MEY vEssVLs Is DISTRESS.
NEW YORK. Sept. 29-The steamer
FL Rio, which arrived from New or
leans this morning reports stormy
weatheE on her passage. ON the 25th sine
saw schooner ashore near Ieult~Nt'
reef; also, a large foreign steamer ashore
eight miles northeast OF Alligator Sne
was twO-masted. fore and aft rig and
painted stack OF dark buff, with black
top; also, four miles north Of Carey $
Fort. a large vessel we'll up on reef, lying
on her beam ends, all masts gone, and
Yards lying across her deck Ou 18th,
latitude 3Gl5. longitude 7i2. she also
passed a schooner. hove TO- with the
loss OF the foretopmdst and jiDboOm.
SCHOONER STRANDED oS FRYING-rAN SHOALS.
WASHINGTON. Sept @.-Because tele-
graph wires all along the Atlantic coast
are prostrated by the recent storm the
ufe-savlng service have been unable 20
learn OF marine disasters until to-day.
This telegra'- Leache1 here from South
port y. c.. THIS morning.
The schooner y. \. Beasley, OF cam
den, y. j., from Charleston. :. g., to
baltimore. Md, with crew ot seven
and cargo Of phosphate rock, stranded
on Frying Pan Sho3.s al 3 o'clock Fri
day morning. 6yS miles sou.h by west
from Southport station. All on board