The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-01

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 3O-A special
from Jacksonville, Fla, to the Con
stitution says:
The West Indian hurricane which
entered Florida at Cedar Keys yester-
day morning, and swept through the
sollther part in a northeasterly direc-
ton left death and destruction in its
path.
Owing to the prostration of telegraph
wires and delay to trains due to wash
outs, only meagre reports have been
received; and yet, meagre as these re-
ports are, they show that over twenty
towns and villages have been wrecked
and forty or fifty persons have been
killed, while probably thrice as many
more received wounds more or less
serious.
About o'clock in the morning the
hurricane which had been churning the
gulf left the water and
sWOOPED DOWN UPON CEDAR
KEYS.
a town of 1,5OO inhabitants. about one
hundred miles southwest of Jackson
vile.
Thirty-six hours have elapsed since
the storm struck Cedar Keys, but not
one word has been received directly
from that place as to the damage done
or the number of lives lost. No trains
have been able to reach there, because
the tracks are covered with heavy
timber.
The only report from Cedar Keys
comes by way Of Gainesville, fifty miles
northeast of the gulf town, and is TO
the effect that Cedar Keys has been
swept away and many persons killed
and wounded. This report reached
Gainesville by courier from Williston,
which is twenty miles north Of Cedar
Keys. The report is hardly exagger-
ated as Cedar Keys was directly in the
path of the hurricane and received it's
full force as it leaped raging from the
gulf. After demolishing Cedar Keys
the storm, moving in a nOrtheasterly
direction struck Williston, q village of
four hundred inhabitants. At that
place eleven houses were wrecked, one
persons killed and fifteen wounded,
some, it is feared, fatally.
Near Williston is a large turpentine
farm, on which many state convicts
are employed. Twenty Of these con-
victS were huddled in q cabin across
which the storm blew a great tree,
CRUSHING SIX OF THE INMATES.
Leaving Levy county the hurricane
dashed across Alachua. one Of the most
populOus counties in the state, where a
number of persons were killed, and
many more severely injured.
At Fort White, in Columbia county
it is reported that six persons were
killed but the report has not been
confirmed. From Columbia county the
hurricane dashed across Duvall, its
edge striking Jacksonville. but doing
little damage and causing no loss of
life.
In Nassau county, however, just north
of Jacksonville, the hurricane settled
to gather additional force and did awful
-york
At Boulogne the school house. in
which there were over thirty children.
was wrecked, and five children killed
Miss Ada Stewart, the teacher, escaped
with a broken arm. Lila Raines, ALP
year-old girl ran from the school house
just before it collapsed and fastened to
her home. AS she entered the house it
was wrecked. and the child was killed
Harry Johnson, who was with her. was
also killed. and Mrs. Raines was fatally
injured
At billiards, the school house was
wrecked ard four children We're killed
At Kings Ferry, on the st. Mary's
river. Andy Johnson, Moses Sassiter,
Simon Henderson, Mary Jones and her
child. all negroes, were killed.
Mrs Fisher was nursing q sick child
and the infant died as the house col
Iapsed- The mother escaped.
Two schooners, loading lumber at
Kings Ferry, were blown from their
mooring ard landed in marsh, three
of the sailors being killed.
From Nassau county the hurricane
passed into Georgia, destroying a log
ging settlement in Camden county, just
across the line, and killing four per-
Sons.
Folkston. Ca. near the Florida line.
was also struck, the school house being
wrecked and four children killed. 1t is
impossible to accurately estimate the
property loss of Florida, but conserva-
tive men say it will exceed S2,00O,O0
At La Crosse, fifteen buildings were
destroyed. Rev. w. A. Barr Mrs. F.
T. Mcintosh and her baby are reported
killed Near there four laborers, who
were in a cabin at the turpentine farm,
were crushed by falling trees
Newberry, in West Alachut, is total
ly wrecked. c. ]. Eastlin, Mrs. Nancy
Olmstead and David Jones were killed.
At High Springs, Melissa Harden,
Jane Morris and Sallie Mobiles, colored
women, are reported to have been kill
ed. At this place a number of people
took refuge in a box car, which was
BLOWN ALONG THE TRACK
a distance of fifty feet and every per-
son in it was injured. Steve Mason
and George Johnson have since died.
AT Grady, a small place, tweIve