The herald., 1896-10-03
Wrought in Florida by the Hur .
ricane
MANY TOWNS DEVASTATED
And Not a Few We're Practically D..
mo,lshed
Sensation Mongers Send Out Grossly
Exaggerated Accounts, Where the
Truth Is Terrible Enough.

Associated Press Special Wire
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Oct. 2.-Reli-
able news of the storm In the western
part of Levy and Alabama counties has
just reached Jacksonville. Not less
than 200 families are destitute. A series
Of injuries have been reported,with over
thirty fatalities. in Levy county.
Z The town of Fannin is completely de-
stroyed, except one small house. Tyson
& Craig's warehouse was blown into
the Suwanee river, with stock of gen.
eral merchandise. The town of Need
more was demolished. The postmaster
can find no part of the mail or postoffice
fixtures. Every house at Yulare, judi
son and Chiefland was destroyed, with
one or two exceptions, killing people in
both the former places.
The people of Broson have issued an
appeal for aid.
The reports firm Baker, Suwanee,
Nassau and Columbia counties confirm
the story of death and destruction re-
lated in these dispatches last night
The death list has been increased by
nearly dozen. Columbia county Jared
very badly. All the country north of
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mountain neighborhood scarcely a resi-
dence or house is left standing. In the
vicinity of Payne and Mount Tabor
postoffice the destruction was great
Fred Hodge, farmer in that locality,
had thigh and arm crushed. and his
wife was killed by a tree falling on the
house. George F. Drew's planning mills
at Columbia City were wrecked Hill
dreth's and Tolen's turpentine camps
and distilleries were wrecked, and all
the timber between that point and Fort
White on the Savannah, Florida and
Western road is down. Fort White Jared
badly, all the churches, school houses
and many stores and residences being
blown down. Toward Live Oak the
storm did but little damage. In the
country between Lake City and We'll
bourn much timber and nearly all the
fences are prostrated.
Hagen station, ten miles southeast
from Lake City, was wiped out, stores
demolished, ard residences destroyed.
Baird's turpentine distillery, Lewie
sawmills, Hatcher's place, and every
thing else in that vicinity was destroyed.
At Lake Butler, further down the lne,
the destruction was almost as great
Lacrosse was almost wiped out of ex-
istence. A number of injuries and IA
talities are reported from these vari-
GUS localities, but the news is not def
mite.
Along the Florida Central and PENN
sula railroad, from Lake City to Mac
Clenny, the damage was great, that
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and many places are almost entirely
destroyed.
Sugar cane is everywhere prostrated
Much stock and cattle WEI e killed. II
is said there were twenty turpentlne
stills, with equipments, camps and
teams, between Lake City and Cedar
Keys, and not one Of those will ever run
another charge. All the timber being
destroyed in this section throws out OF
employment many people and leaves
the mules idle; the camps are deserted
the operators ruined and factories hit
hard.
Exclusive of hundreds Of spongers
supposed to have been drowned off
Cedar Keys. the death list in the state
proper bids fair to reach 100. The prop
erty loss will run into millions. People
seem paralyzed by the calamity. In 9
majority of the reports nothing like q
detailed description is attempted, and in
but few reports are the names Of the
dead given. 1t is inferred from this that
the majority of those killed outside Ce.
dar Keys and points at which schoo
children were the victims, were negroes
employed on the turpentine farms.
| NOT SO SERIOUS.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. oct. Pre-.