Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-08
FROM MANY POINTS.
NEW ITEMS OF VARIOUS KINDS
BRIEFLY RELATED.
over 90 Peoples Reported Killed In Flor
ida--Georgia Suffers Tremendous Prop
erty Loss-11 Killed In Savannah
Pennsylvania Touched %.

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total property loss is something enor-
nous and the loss of life can only be
estimated at present and until full re-
ports can be received, which will be
sometime, as communication by wire
is completely crippled in the storm
| stricken districts.
| News comes from Jacksonville, Flor
ida, which say that fully so deaths re-
| suited from The storm in that state
The hurricane struck Florida at Cedar
Keys and reports show that it passed
in its path of destruction over 20 towns
and villages and that between 80 and
40 people have certainly been killed.
Cedar Keys is about 100 miles south
west of Jacksonville. Moving north
easterly, the storm struck Willistown,
! where IL houses were blown down, one
person was killed and several fatally
wounded. Near there is a large tur-
pentine farm where state convicts are
employed. Twenty of these were hud-
died together in a cabin. A tree was
blown across the cabin and six of the
convicts were crushed to death. In
! Alachua county the storm did fright
full work. In Gainesville the Methodist
church, about 20 residences and bust
ness houses were destroyed. At La
crosse 10 building were destroyed
Rev. w. A. Barr, Mrs A. Mcintosh and
her baby were killed. Near there four
laborers on turpentine farm, were
crushed by falling trees. At Newberry
four were killed. five at High Springs;
one at Crazy; four at Lake Butler. In
Baker county foer towns were almost
totally destroyed; they are McClenny,
Sanderson, Glen st. Mary and Olustee.
Among other towns which suffered
severely when Live Oak; Welborn;
Lake City where six were killed; TT.
White also had six fatalities. North
of Jacksonville, in Nassau county, con-
siderable destruction is reported. Five
children were killed in the wreck of
schoolhouse. Miss Stewart, the
teacher, had her arm broken. Near by
Lila Rails, a 12-year-old girl, was killed
at her home, her brother being fatally
injured and Harry Johnson was also
killed. At Hillyards another school
house was wrecked and four children
were killed. At Kings Ferry, five were
killed, besides three sailors on schoon-
ers that were loaded with lumber. In
Jacksonville no person was killed, but
almost every public building in the
city, including churches, hospitals,
7 schools, depots, etc, and very large
number of business houses and resi-
dences We're more or less wrecked.
After crossing the state line between
Florida and Georgia the cyclone con-
tinued the work of ruin through the
country districts and came upon the
city of Savannah with terrific force.
1t continued two and a half hours, en-
failing loss of dozen lives and over
$1,000, 900 in property. Each report
received was worse than the preceding
one and the death list continued to
grow until IL were reported killed and
large number injured Besides the
damage to scores OF business houses,
churches and public buildings, hun
dreds of residences were partially, if
not totally, wrecked and the most beau
tiful trees blown down. The loss to
shipping is over 100000; five large YES
sells were wrecked and many small
craft driven to sea. AT Brunswick, Ga,
| IL vessels in the harbor were wrecked
and dynamite boat with 100000
pounds on board was sunk.
The loss in Pennsylvania was great
est about Shamolin and Lancaster.
The Patterson breaker at Shamolsin is
total wreck. Fourteen of the dwell
ing houses and 20 board shanties occu-
pied by the mine workers were also
blow down. Two of the tenants were
killed, several injured and IL cattle
were crushed to death. Mt. Carmel,
Locust Gap and other surrounding
towns suffered heavily. Reports from
the farming districts indicate that
barns were demolished by hundreds.
At the Colbert mine, the fan and en-
CINE house, and both boiler houses were
demolished, throwing 400 men and
boys out of employment. A block of
eight new houses erected by DIR. f. ID.
Baker at Springfield were leveled to
the ground. Barns and hundreds of
outbuildings were overturned in all
portions of the town. Individual losses
were small at Lancaster but hundreds
of them make large aggregate.
nC Bltdb tuhSN iNsAhi1 ailA osh1l =
across the Susquehanna river at Column
bia, comprising q spans and insured
for $3.50, 900, was completely demolished.
A coal breaker at Natalie was blown
down, six houses demolished and six
people killed. The Conemaugh river
rose II feet and flooded Johnstown.
The casthouse of the Temple furnace,
near Reading, was blown down and
n dozen men buried; two were killed
and the others badly injured. Vast
tracts of country districts were swept
and great damage done. Trainmen
say the storm in the mountains was the
worst they ever experienced.
In ''ole Virgny" the Shenandoah val
lev suffered most and every tributary
stream became roaring torrent. At
Staunton the lower portion of the city
was submerged, many houses carried
away, several lives lost. Scores of
families are homeless and the property
loss is about 100000. Richmond ex-
pcrienced the worst storm in her his