Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07
HUNDREDS PERISH.
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE IN
FLORIDA.
Awful Effects OF the West Indian Hur.
ricane-Eighty Boats, with From Four
to Ten Men Each. Undoubtedly Lost
Cedar Keys Almost Wiped Out.

In Florida - At least loo people
killed, many of them children. Many
injured. Property loss incalculable.
In Stanton. Va--An unknown num-
Der of people drowned and great dam
age done.
At Savannah. Ga--Eleven killed;
nine injured. Losses $4,000.
In and about Washington, D. c.
Eight killed and many injured.
Losses $3.50, 900
At Natalie, Pa.-Six children
burned to death in ruins.
At Alexandria, Va.-Four killed
and many injured. Losses $3.50, 1000
Near Shamokin, Pa-Two killed
and many injured. Losses $500. 600.
About Lancaster, Pa.-Several in.
iured and 81 900, 900 damage done
Off Milwaukee, Wis.-Barge sunk
and four sailors lost.
All along the Alta ntic coast as far
north as New York and far inland
Scores of people injured and hun
dEeds of thousands of dollars worth
of property destroyed.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 3.-FuIl
and authentic advices from Cedar
Keys show the almost total destruc-
ton OF the town and the loss of thir-
ty-nine lives This is believed to in
:lude the complete roll of the dead.
At Shell Mound, II great pleasure re-
sort near the place, a party of five
men, three women and three children
were camping out Some survivors,
making their way home after the
storm, found the eleven dead bodies
strewn along the sh ore, under logs
and brush. They were close together,
which would indicate that they were
simultaneously killed by the tidal
wave. Eight other bodies have been
found on the beach. Twenty more
fishermen are still to be heard from,
all of whom are proba bly, dead.
During the hurricane at Cedar Keys
the water came up with the wind,
and down the principal streets rushed
mad torrent, upon which foated
houses, boats and debris of every de-
scription.
It is feared, however, that the loss
of life at Cedar Keys proper is as
nothing in comparison with the num-
Der of spongers and fishermen who
were drowned. The Mary Eliza came
in dismasted. She reports that at
dark Monday night nearly 100 vessels
were anchored on the sponge bar be-
low Cedar Keys and that all of them
but twenty were lost. AS these boats
carried from four to ten men each,
the loss of life was great
Eight corpses have already been
washed ashore. The schooner Rosalie
was sunk and eight of her crew
drowned.
Beyond the bar there are score of
mas is visible just above the water,
and each top indicates the burial
pla ce of a sponging schooner and it's
crew. 1t is possible that many of the
We ssels were blown out into the gulf
q nd rode out the hurricane, but the
Mary ELIAS captain thinks that by
far the greater number are beneath
the water with their crews. He saws
that there was not one chance in a
thousand for such frall craft to live in
such hurricane.
Communication with the interior is
restored and the news of the destruc-
ton of life and property by Tuesdays
hurricane becomes appalling. Hun
dreds OF persons are homeless and
must suffer from hunger unless relief
shall be quickly furnished. Reports
to the Citizen from seventy-six differ
ent towns show that sixty-seveu per-
sons were killed and sixty-two injured.
These are the known casualties. To
this total probably a considerable
number must be added to cover those
not yet heard from.
The destruction of valuable timber,
turpentine trees, farm crops, phos-
phate works and buildings of every
description in the counties mentioned,
forming belt across the State from
Southwest to Northwest, will aggre-
gate hundreds of thousands. if not
millions of dollars.