Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-10-01
IELEGRAPHlC.
TOWNS SWEPT AWAY
m, D,stratlIY, Work Of lhs Cyclone
10 Florida.
,,fIy rEorLE REPORTED KILLED.
Aud III. VI, liability Is ,ha, iha Numb'r
viii Be Larger When the
Details ore known.

MNrnis, Tenn, Sept 3O.-h
,,,cl,l to the Commefclal.hppshi
IAN jacksonville, Fla. says; IL 10 a
,op,stvatlvo estimate to say that fiiy
,,ople have iost their lives from yosiof.
s,,. hurricane and the number may
run much higher
The hurricane struck Florida at &c.
duKsys, and II passed In lie path OF
dotuellon over twenty towns aud
villages, AMI reports show tina, be.
,sssn thirty aud forty people have
Certainly teen killed.
Cedar Keys l. about 100 miles south.
w,,t Of Jacksonville. Tho hurricane
which hsd been ohurning tho waters
nj the quit frt struck this place, n
village Of 1 500 Inhabitants. The only
fspou which has come concerning
cedar Keys Ia that the town has
been swept away and many liyog have
tssn Loot. This report comes from
tlslptvill., which IL nity miles
SWsy. Nobody has been able to
at anything definite from Cedar
II. im stfuck WillistOn, n small town,
Al which eleven houses were blown
down, several parsons allied and sew.
,fhto badly Injured that they will
W.
Near hofo was n large tutpentlns
iaim, at which stat. convicta arc om.
ll1ytd. The convIcls were buddled
itrlhrf IN a cabin. a heavy tree was
-. a.
clnvicts were crushed 10 death.
10 AlAohua county tho storm did
lnrhuul WORK. la Gainesville the
Methodist church ana about twenty
fttldeucea aud business housed were
tstifoyed and quite numDot Of peg
lls wsfe hurt, but no fatalities are
lepouod.
A. LaCfosas fifteen tulldlng. were
destroyed. Rev. w. A. Barr aud MTs.
> Mclntohh and her baby nfe reported
ktifd. Mar ,htre tour labofers, who
we've 10 ca0iu NJ a turpontiEo farm,
Nsfs crushed by failing trees.
Nswbury IL totally wrecked. &. J.
K,ttliu, Mis-. Nancy Mvss, Flank
OmsleaJ anu David Jone, were killed.
A. High Springs, Melissa Harfen,
James Morris aud Sallie Mobiles, col.
Oisi women, ATE reported killed. NJ
tbs place n number Of people took
niugo IN n box.oar which was In thu
pih Of the cyclone. IL was blown
isuR the track and then wrecked, aud
Fuy person In u was badly injured.
sleve Mason and George johnson have
iincs died.
At Gtacy. y small place, twelve
hluiea were blown down, woman
vas killed, but a babe ~ her breast
vas unhuft, although II had been car
iiei ,nmo distance by tho force OF tho
Elnd.
Al Lake Butler. bradford county,
Nc. q. II. Harley, Mr. J. NJ. Fuloh
aud her infant we're fatally hurt Many
buildings were blown down. At this
Race the wind blew TO pieces two cars
o,ded with brick, and Henry Sullivan,
negro, who WAS 800 yards away, was
billed ~ being struck by ono OF the
tying hfiekr.
90 Juigo RiohArds'a turpenlipo farm
hut conviols were killed ny falllng
lfpei,
In Baker county four towns were
tlmost totally destroyed. They api
McCleoney, sandefson, Glen ~. Mary
aud Ouslcc. No one was killed out
f.ghl In these town., but many were
lillud, among whom was Mis-. &. \.
RchAfdt0n, James McAlpiu And
Nouh Webster, all OF whom viii die.
Alive Dat tho destruction Il com.
Jlsl-, but no loss Of life Il reported.
Nsat wslborne, the house Of Amos
White was drutteytd and two oi his
children were killed.
At Lake CITY eight busln,ts houses
tnd thirteen residences were destroys 81.
MI. Sarah Fletcher and two boys wets