The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-02
MORE STORM VICTIMS
'hIrty or Forty People Reported
Killed in Florida.
ONLY MEAGER REPORTS RECEIVED.

Ihey SHOW That the Storm Swept Through
the state In a NortheasterIy Direction
and Left Death and Destruction In Its
fath-Over Twenty Towns aud Villages
Wreoked-No Direct News from Cedar
Keys Yet Received.
Jacksonville. Fla, Oct. 2-The West
indian hurricane which entered Flor
Ida at Cedar Keys Wednesday morning
ana swept through the southern part
OF the state in a northeasterly direc-
tion left death and destruction In its
path' Owing to the prostration of tel
egraph wires and the delay of trains.
que to washout, only meager reports
nave been received and yet, meager
as those reports are. rney show that
over twenty towns and villages have
been wrecked. and that thirty or forty,
persons have been killed, while prob
ably thrice as many more received
wounds more or less serious.
Al o'clock in the morning the hur-
rcane. which had been churning the
gulf, left the water and swooped down
upon Cedar Keys. town of 1900 in
habitants about 100 miles southwest of
Jacksonville. Thirty-six hours have
elapsed since the storm struck Cedar
Keys, but no word has yet been re-
ceived 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 COW
cred with heavy timber.
Cedar Keys Il Wiped Out.
The only report from Cedar Keys
comes by way of Gainesville fifty miles
northeast of the gulf town, and it 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
its full force as 1t leaped raging from
the gulf. A relief party left Gaines
Vile for Cedar Keys and details of the
disaster that has overtaken the gulf
town will soon be known. After demol-
ishing Cedar Keys the storm. moving
In northeasterly direction, struck
Williston, a village of 400 inhabitants.
At that place eleven houses were
wrecked, one person killed. and fifteen
wounded, some. IL is feared. fatally.
Six Convicts Are Crushed.
Near Williston is a large turpentine
farm on which many state convicts are
employed. Twenty OF the convicts were
huddled I'm cabin. across which the
storm blew a great tree, crushing six
OF the inmates.
Leaving Levy county. the hurricane
dashed across Alach. one of the most
populous counties of the state. In
Bradford the work of destruction was
continued. McLenny, Sanderson,
eileen, st. Mary. and Olustee. in this
county. were almost completely de-
stroyed. At Olustee three churches
were blown from their foundations. No
one was killed outright in these towns.
but over twenty were injured, of whom
Mrs. Richardson, James McAlpin, and
North Webster will die. Continuing
in Suwanee county, the hurricane
struck Live Oak. demolishing many
houses and injuring several percons.
but none fatally. Welborn, i'm Suwanee
county, was also wrecked. Near We'll
born the house of Amos White was
destroyed and two Of his children
killed