Evening star., 1896-10-02

house were blown down and the stock dam
aged, and they have lost several boats E.
F. ONeill and G. NJ Sistrunk. general
merchants, and McCallum & CDonald.
druggists, had their houses destroyed, ard
have had to move. S. w. Carroll suffers a
total loss of store houses and stock.
In fact, not business house 3r residence
in the place escaped without some injury,
Reliable news Of the storm from the
western part of Levy and Alachna c"un-
ties has just reached Jacksonville. Not less
than 200 families are left destitute.
Scores of injuries have been reported with
over thirty fatalities In Levy county.
Two Towns Destroyed.
The town of Fannin has been completely
destroyed, with the exception of one small
| house Tyson & Chairs storehouse was
blown into the suwanee river, with their
stock of general merchandise.
The town of Needmore was demolished.
| The post office building at that place was
| destroyed and the postmaster can lind no
part of the mail or post office hxtures
| Every house at Yular, Judson and Chief
| tain was destroyed, with one or two excep-
tions, killing people of both the former
places.
The people of Bronson have issued an sp-
peal for aid for the destitute.
Reports from Baker, Suwanee, Nassau
and Columbia counties confirm the story of
| death and destruction related in these dis
patches last Eight.
| The death list has been increased by
| nearly a dozen.
Columbia county Jared very badly. All
| the country south of Lake City is devas-
| tated.
| In the Caleb Marcum neghborhood
| scarcely a residence or house is left stand
| ing. In the vicinity of Payne and Mount
| Tabor post offices the destruction was
| great, but accounts are yet meager.
Fred Hodge. farmer of that locality,
| had his thigh and arm crushed and his
| a
| their house.
The George F. Drew planning mills at Co.
| lumbia City were wrecked. Hildreth's and
| Tolens turpentine works and distlleries
| were wrecked and the timber between that
point and Fort White, on the s., F.. and
| W. road. is down.
Fort White Jared badly, all the church.
| es school houses, many stores and resi-
dences being blown down and many others
| injured.
| Mikesvilie and other southern points
| have not yet been heard from.
| Toward Live Oak the storm did but little
| damage.
| Beyond Welborn to the country between
Lake City and Welborn much timber and
| nearly all the fences are Frustrated.
| Hagen station, ten miles southeast from
Lake City, was wiped out stores demoiish
ed and residences destroyed. Baird's tur
pentine distillery. Lewis saw mill. Hatch
er's place and everything else in that vi
| cinity was destroyed.
| At Lake Butler, further down the line
the destruction was almost as great. La
| crosse was almost wiped out of exist
| ence. Numbers of injuries and fatalities
are reported from the vicinities Of these
various localities, but the news Is not of {
definite character.
| Along the Florida Central and Peninsulal
from Lake City to MacClenney the damage
| was great, that section taking the center
| of the storm.
Crops and Cattle Suffered.
! The cotton crop, or that portion of !
still in the field. is vastly damaged. ard II
many places almost entirely destroyed
Sugar cane is everywhere prostrated, an
damage of every kind has resulted on ever
| hand. Much stock ard cattle were killed
| 1t Is said that there are twenty-five tur
| pentine stills, with their equipments, camp
| and teams between Lake City and Ceda
| Keys, and not one of these will ever ru
another charge, all the timber being de
stroyed. This throws out of employmen
| many people, leaves the mules idle, tn
! camps deserted, operators ruined and FAC
| tors hit hard.
Death List May Reach 100.
| Exclusive of the hundreds of sponger
| supposed to have been drowned off Ced:l
Keys, the death list in the state prope
bids fair to reach 100 and the property los
| will run into the millions.
| The people seem to be paralyZed by tn
| calamity that has overtaken them, and thi
is reflected in the accounts of the storm
| work. In the majority of cases nothin
like a detailed description is attempted
but in few instances are the names of tn
| dead given.
those killed outside of the Cedar Keys an
the points at which school children wer
victims were negroes employed on the tuI
| pentine farms.