The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-17
GREAT DESTRUCTION.

GREAl UESlRUCIlUN.
SEVERAL FLORIDA. TOWNS ARE AL
MOST SWEPT AWAY.
Cut on from the World Until Now-Ap-
psal for aid VIII be Made for Apslachi-
cola-osher Towns Suffer But Not Near
50 Bad.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 1I.-Com-
munication has been re-established
With points on the West coast visited
by the storm which ragged Monday
night and Tuesday morning and dis
patches to the Times Union tell woeful
tales Of the destruction caused by the
wind and water. Apslachicola and
Cedar Key we're directly In the storms
path and the damage at those places is
almost incalculable. Communication
with these points has been cut off an
til today. The storm first struck
Cedar Key and the following dispatch
describes its work:
CEDAR KEY, Fla, Oct. 11.-Cedar
Key has just experienced the most dis
astrous storm which has visited her
for twenty-five years. The main busi.
ness street is piled form one end to the
other with debris. consisting of wreck.
age from boats, Wharves, fish houses
and logs of every description. The
storm began at s O clock Monday morn
ing, with heavy wind from the East,
gradually shifting to the South and
then to Southwest, increasing in vic.
lence and continuing until daylight
Tuesday morning.
The damage and loss Of property Is
very great. The florida Central and
Peninsula Railroad is heavy sufferer.
Almost the entire track to the main
land, distance of three and one.half
miles, is either destroyed or badly dam
aged. From the mainland to Sumner,
distance Of four and one-half miles,
there are nearly one hundred washoues.
The mail train got in Monday night,
but is caught between two Washouts
and cannot move either way.
The Town Improvement Company Is
heavy loser, as number Of business
and dwelling houses were swept away.
The fish and oyster houses adjourning
the railroad and occupied by Dopson,
Clarke & Daniel and W, Il. Anderson
are demolished and all contents a total
loss, amounting to several thousand
dollars. ThseE yFaber Cadar Co. loses
the steamer Media, va'rad. at $500
and had swept away 30,0O f0gs~oeez.
cedar, which they will be weeks in col
lecting. The cedar mill just started up
by ". 81. Anderson was badly dam.
aged and about 5000 logs of cedar
scattered for miles.
The city hall, q two story concrete
building, with Offices below, has the tin
rooT blown OF and one entire side knock
ed out by iogs, etc. The city jail cannot
be found. The five bridges to the shell
road leading to the main land are
washed away. a great many small
boats were wrecked and fish camps
washed away. Oae sloop came in Tues
day morning with FIVE men who had
clung to a single palmetto tree siRce
Monday night. Another came in this
afternoon with three man who were
wrecked Monday night and had been
on she'll bank ever since without food
or water. It is reported that five
sponge vessels went ashore during the
storm and were driven seven miles into
the woods.
From Cedar Key the cyclone Travelled
up the West coast until 1t reached
Apalachicola. It was even more severe
at Apalachicola than that at Cedar
Key, If possible, as the following dis:
patch indicates:
-AeALAcHICoLA, Fla, Oct. H.
Never before in the history of this town
was snch havoc and destruction played
by storm and tide as Monday night be-
tween the hours of and 10. Water,
Commerce and Market streets are a
mass Of logs, boats, lumber and dead
tsn. So far, two lives are reported lost.
Two residences were carried half to
three quarters of mile and placed IN
the marsh near Cypress mill unini niured,
one Of which had just been completed
for a newly married couple. AL the
docks were totally destroyed, houses
were unroofed, and fences scattered
everywhere. Murat's wholesale fish
house was laid fat and thousands Of
dead fish line the streets.
Families sought safety on the hills,
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 to des-
truction; soft mud and brush line the
floors and shelves. Five 5arges loaded
with lumber were blown from East
Pass and lodged in the marsh Two
miles North of this place. The KIM
bali Lumber Company are the princi-
pal losers. Their loss is about $40, 600.
Murat's loss is about 81, 900. At present
it is impossible to get at an estimate OF
the loss of goods or buildings. Fish
houses, oyster factories aad shant1es
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 work, but Cedar Key and
Apalachicola seem to have been the
principal sufferers.
PENSACOLA, Fla, Oct. 1l.-Fifteen
fishing smacks belonging to this port
were on the Gulf during the storm.
Nothing has yet been heard Of them
and much anxiety is felt.
The Split i'll New York.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1O.-In regard to
the third State ticket put up by the
Sheppard Democracy, John Boyd