The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
Che Haiy EAGLE Saturday ornug October 1895.

Sistrunk, general merchants. and Nc
Calium & O'Donald, druggists, had fheil
house destroyed and have had to move
1. w. Carroll suffers a total loss Of store
house and stock In fact, not a bust
ness house or residence in the place
| ESCAPED without some injury.
DETAILED REPORTS.
| jacksonville, Oct. t2.-Reliable news
of the storm from the western part OF
Levy and Alachua counties has just
reached Jacksonville. Not less than 200
families are LEFT destitute.
The town of Fannin has been COM
pletely destroyed with the exception Of
one small house. Tyson & Chairs store
house was blown into the Suwanee river
with their stock of general merchan-
disc.
The town Of Needmore was demolish-
ed. The postofiice building at that
place was completely demolished and
the postmaster can find no part OF the
mail or poStofice fixtures. Every house
at Yular. JudSon and Chaefland was
destroyed. with one or two exceptions.
killing people Of both the former places.
The people of Bronson have issued an
appeal for aid for the destitute.
Reports from Baker, Suwanee, Nassau
and Columbia counties confirm the
story of death and destruction. The
death list has been increased by nearly
a dozen. Columbia county Jared very
badly. All the country south Of Lake
City IS devasted.
In the Caleb Marcum neighborhood
scarcely a residence or house is left
standing. In the vicinity Of Payne and
Mount Tabor postoffices, the deStruc-
ton was great, but accounts are yet
measre.
Fred Hodge, farmer Of that locality,
had his thigh and arm crushed and
his wife was billed by the falling OF a
tree on their house. The George F.
Drew planning mills at Columbia City
were wrecked. Hildredth's and ToIen's
turpentine camps and distiller1es were
and all the timber between that
point and Fort White, on the Savannah,
Florida and Western railroad, dS down.
Fort White Jared badly. All the chur-
ches, school houses and many stores and
residences being blown down and many
others injured.
Mikesvdils and other southern points
have not yet been heard from. Toward
Liveoak the storm did but little dam
age. Beyond Wefborr, in the country
between Lake City and Welborn, much
timber and nearly all the fences were
Frustrated.
Hagen station, ten miles southeast
from Lake City, was wiped out. Stores
were demolished and residences de-
stroyed. Bafrd's turpentine distdllery
Lewis saw mill, Hatcher's ulace. and |
everything else in that vicinity was |
destroyed.
At Lake Butler, further down the line. |
HE destruction was almost as great. |
la Crosse was almost wiped out Of ex- |
stence. Numbers Of injuries and ia
iaifties are reported from the vicinity OF |
.hese various localities. but the news
S not of a definite character. Along
he Florida Central and Peninsula rail-
Dad, from Lake City to MacClenny, the
lamage was great, that section taking
he center of the storm.
The cotton crop, or that portion Of It
IT'LL in the field, is vastly damaged and
n many places almost entirely destroy
d. Sugar cane is everywhere prostrat-
d and damage of every kind has. re-
uFted on every hand. Much stock and
attic were killed. 1t Is said that there
we're twenty-five turpentine stills with
heir equipments. camps and teams. be-
ween Lake City and Cedar Keys, and
lot oneo f these will ever run another
lIarge, all the timber being destroyed.
,his throws out OF employment many
eopIe, leaves the mules idle, camps de-
erted, operators ruined and factors hit
ard.
Exclusive of the hundreds OF spongers
opposed TO have been drowned off Ce-
ar Keys. the death list in the state
bids fair m reach I'M and fhko |
loss will run into millions.
The people seem to be paralyzed by
he calamity that has overtaken them,
nd this is reflected in the accounts
emit in Of the storms work. In the
Majority Of cases nothing like a detail
4 description satetmpted and in but
sw instances are the names Of the dead
lven.
1t is inferred from this that 4 ma
,rfty Of those killed out side of Cedar
-eys, and the points at which school
hildren were victims. were negroes en-
Logged on the turpentine farms.
THIS is ANOTHER STORY.
Jacksonville, Fla, Oct. 2.-Reports :
>ceived from Cedar Keys tell a story
great damage TO property and loss
life there from fire and flood. Early
Imors from there spoke of Cedar Keys
aving been wiped out, but fortunately |
tier and more authentic reports show
lat this was an eXaggeration. AS IL
!, however, fifteen persons are report
drowned. In Mrs. Weidley's house
one five persons persisted by the flood, ,
tire of Mrs. Weidleys child
n and her niece and the latter's child
odiss are being recovered from along {
le coast aond many fishermen who
ent out on Monday night have not
zen heard from since they left. 1t is
AIRED that fatalities will exceed the {
Imber already reported. The Florida
entral and Peninsula railroad will be !
TO build an entire new track
r a distance OF four miles. All the .
harves of Cedar Keys We're washed
way, several houses were blown down
Id six were destroyed by fire
STRONGER DENIAL YET
Jacksonville. Fla. Oct. 2-The re-
'rts that have been sent out concern -
6 loss of life at Ceiar Keys are gross
exaggerated. 1t Is so far positively
Town that twenty persons have been
owned in that vicinity. In addition
this it Is feared the crews OF numer- 4,
s spongins vessels were lost during
e gale, but as communication with
at district IS still impossible, any
atement OF probable numbers would
merest e1resswork In the interior
Florida the destruction OF property
as great, but no loss of life is re-
rted.
igned.) JACKSONVILLE CITIZEN. T.
POTOMAC TAKES A RISE =
Oct. 2.-Reports from
z upper Potomac show that the high
nds did great damage to property =
Is side Of the mountain. In eddi- \