The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-10-12
WORK OF WIND AND TIDE
FEARFUL HAVOC ON THE WEST
COAST OF FLORIDA.
Tho Wires Rring Wosful Tales of Death
and Desiruotion-The Towns OF Cedar
Key and Apalsehicola Laid Waste.

JACKSONVIL FLA, oct. 11.-Com-
municaton has been re-established win
all points on the west coast visited by
the storm which ragged Monday night and
Tuesday morning, and dispatches TO the
Times Union tell woeful tales of the de-
structiOn caused by wind and water.
Apalachicola and Cedar. Key were di-
rectly In the storms path, and the dam
age at those places Is almost incalcula-
Bile. Communication with these points
has been cut Off until today.
The storm first struck Cedar Key. and
the following dispatch descriptive of IL
was received to-day:
Cedar Key has just experienced the
most disastrous storm which has visited
her for twenty-five years. The main
business street is piled from one end TO
wreckage from boats. wharves. houses,
and logs OF every description.
The storm began at o'clock Monday
morning, with heavy wind from the
east. gradually shifting 10 the south,
and then to southwest, increasing In
violence ana continuing until daylight
Tuesday morning
Ioss OF PROPERTY GREAT.
The damage and loss OF property IS
very great The Florida Central and
Peninsula railroad Is a heavy sufferer.
Almost the entire track 10 the mainland.
n distance OF three and one-half miles,
Is either destroyed or badly damaged.
From the mainland to sumner. distance
one hundred washouts. The mail train
got I'm Monday night. but is caught be-
tween two washOuts and cannot move
either way.
heavy loser. az a number Of dwelling
houses We're swept away. The fish and
oyster houses Joining the railroad, and
occupied by ~ Dson Clarke and ". II.
Anderson. are Demolished and the con-
tents a total ! 81, amounting 10 several
thousand dol'a s. The f.. Fabre Cedar
Company losses the steamer Media,
valued az SG.j, and had swept away
started II up by ". II. Anderson was badly
damaged. and Is 90 logs Of cedar scatter
ed for miles.
building. with Offices below, has the tin
roof blown of. ld one entire side knock
e1 ont by logs, .tc.
The citv iail cannot he found. The five
bridges to the shell road leading to the
main land are washed away great
many small boats were wrecked and FISH
camps washed away.
one sIoop came I'm Tuesday morning
with five men, VINO had chung to a single
palmetto tree since Monday night. An
other came IN this afternoon with three
men, who were wrecked Monday night,
and had been on a shell bank ever since
without food or water. 1t Is reported
that five sponge vessels went ashore
during the storm. and were driven seven
miles into the woods
FEA FL HAVOC WROUGHT.
From Cedar Key the cyclone travelled
up the west coast until IL reached Apa-
laChicOla. IL was even more severe there
than at Cedar Key II possible, as the fol-
lowing dispatch from there to-day indi-
Gates:
Never before in the history of this
town was such havoc and destruction
wrought by storm and tide as Monday
r4ffr haf Bf 4
Water Commerce and Market streets
were mass OF logs, boats, lumber and
dead fish. 50 far two lives are reported
lost. Two residences were carried halI
TO three-quarters Of a mile and placed in
the marsh near Cypress MIL uninJured,
one Of which h.N Just been completed
for a newly-marrei couple. All the docks
were totally destroyed, houses were un-
rooted and fences scattered everywhere.
Murats wholesale fish house was LAID
fiat. and thousands Of dead fish lined the
streets. ,
only to be routed by the terrific gale.
The water Is six feet deep on Water
street. and some OF the best dry goods
and grocery stores were battered into
by floating timber and shattered 20 de-
struction. rubbish lying deep on the
floors and soft mud and slime line the
floors and shelves. Five barges loaded
with lumber We're blown from East Pass
and lodged in the marsh two miles north
Of this place. The Kimball Lumber
Company are the principal losers. Loss
about $1,000 Murats loss is about
$1,000.
WILL APPEAL FOR AID. =
At present it is impossible to get at
an estimate Of the loss OF goods or build
ings. Fish houses, oyster factories, and
slaHties were literally demolished
The loss In the aggregate will be fully
$4,000. The people are dismayed, and
an appeal for aid will be sent out
From many other points in West Florida
come reports of the storms destructive
Wcrk, but Cedar Key and Apalachicola
seem 10 have been the principal sufferers