Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-10-12
THE STORM IN FLORIDA.
Great Damage Done mt Cedar Key ana
ApalachicoIa-Loss of Life.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. October H.
Communication has been re-establlshed
with all points on the west coast visited
by the storm which ragged Monday night
and Tuesday morning. and dispatches TO
the Times Union tell woful tales of the
destruction caused by wind and water.
Apalachcola and Cedar Key were d.
rectly In the storms path. and the damage
at those places is almost incalculable.
Communication with these points has
been cut off until to-day.
The storm first struck Cedar Key, and
the following dispatch descriptive or IT
has been received:
CEDAR KEY, FLA, october IL
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 emu
TO the other with debris, consisting OF
wreckage from boats, wharves. and
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 and continuing until daylight
Tuesday morning
"The damage to and loss OF property
are very great The Florida Central and
Peninsula railroad is a heavy sufferer.
Almost the entire track to the mainland.
"A distance of three and one-half miles,
Is either destroyed or badly damaged.
From the mainland to Sumner. distance
of four and half miles. there are nearly
100 washouts. The mail train got In
Monday night, but is caught between two
washouts. and cannot move either way.
"The Town Improvement Company Is
a heavy loser, as a number OF dwelling
houses were swept away. The nsh and
oyster-h houses adjoining the railroad and
occupied by Dopson Clarke and w. III.
Anderson are demolished and the contents
are a total loss, amounting 10 several
thousand dollars. The f. Fabre Cedar
Company loses the steamer Media, valued
at $500. and had swept away $1,000 logs
of cedar, which they will be weeks in
collecting. The cedar-mll Just started UP
by w. II. Anderson was badly damaged.
and 1900 logs Of cedar were scattered
for miles.
"The City Hall. two-story concrete
building. with offic~s below. had its tin
roof blown of and one entire side knock
ed out by logs. etc. The city jail cannot
be found The five bridges 10 the she'll
road leading TO the mainland are washed
away. great many small boats were
wrecked and fish-camps washed away.
zone sloop came in Tuesday morning
with fve men, who 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 shell-bank ever since,
without food or water. II IL reported
that five sponge-vessels went ashore du-
ring the storm ana were driven seven
miles into the woods"
APALACHICOLA.
From Cedar Key the cyclone travelled
UP the west coast until It reached ApaIa-
lachicola. 1t was even more severe there
than at Cedar Key. II possible. as the
| following dispatch indicates:
"APALIAHICOLA. October l1.-Never
before In the history Of this town was
such havoc and destruction played by
storm and tide rs Monday night between
! the hours Of and 10 o'clock. Water,