Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-08

amount To- $500.
At Macclenny the BAPTIST church and
one of the largest stores were Blown
flat upon the ground, the principal
boarding house was uuroofcd, the
county jail suffered the same fate, and
a hunter of small dwelling houses
were RACED. other, were blown from
their foundations, not fence was left
standing.
At gainesville a building erected 10y
ID. +. Cooper for saw mill. but which
WAS full of furniture, wa, totally de
struyed, and warehouse were dcmol-
ishcd. 4 Negro church was turned
over ON lis side and four Negro huts
were blown down
In Crawford the Presbyterian and
Methodist churches were blown To the
ground. The Dire Lumber company's
mill is a wreck. The roof was blown
off Gilhcrt'S mill and ahout onc-third of
the tin roofing WAS blown from the
Plant system depot Many nuthou>rs
and Negro dwellings were uuroufcd or
blown down. The store of W. VIII
liamS. general merchandise, was badly
wrecked. 1t Lake Butler, IL miles
west Of Stark. Oiam HroS. and lhoaS
Il Sons stores were wrecked and goods
badly damaged. 4 he baptist church
AMI The old courthouse were blown
Gown. Mckinncy's gin house was
blown down and the cotton scattered.
Fort White caught the fun force of
the blow. Nearly every store and
dwelling in town was more or less
Il. H., 1T
Pres bytCrian churches were dcmol-
iHhcd. They were valued at $3.50,
5000 and 5000 respectively. he public
school building shared the same fate.
I lac Plant system drnot was uuroofcd.
I he losses To the merchants on their
stocks and buildings range from 500
to SI.20o each.
High Springs claims the air monster
scorchrd through tn" town AT rate of
100 miles an hour. Trees and houses
went down like cardhoardS. and ouly
half dozen houses are let To point
ont To the invest gators the once proS-
porous town. Women had children
blown out OF their arms, and mon were
knocked down like nine pms. The
freight depot, used as refuge by
many, was partly demolished and
refuge was sought in box ears on the
track.
Among the casualties were the loss
of the lligdcn hotel, one of the largest
buildings in the town. LEWIS store.
the Auditorium, Vincent, Futch x Co.
furniture factory: the High Springs OIL
Co.'S factory. Mcrner's store and Il bout
- residences.
The new passenger shed of the Plant
system was totally demolished. The
building had just been completed. and
the new binding for the general offices
had all windows blown in and was
flooded
About ~ smaller stores were partly
wrecked Part 81 the new Plant sys-
TEN hospital was Unroofcl. How much
damage was done at Cedar Keys has
not been learned at Savannah yet. II
is not probable. however. that the
storm proved more destructive there
than at other points the state.
SAVANNAH. ia, Oct. The bodies
of two more victims ot the hurricane
were .ound thursday. They are Capt.
Lewis :. Hill and his brother, Frank
Hill, of the coasting schooner Island
Flower. Il little vessel of which Capt.
Hill and his brother and a l1-year-
old boy, Ulysses Steele, are officers
and crew, which went ashore ON the
north side of the Savannah river, near
Venus Point. The United States steam
er Ty tee ~ ght mp the body of Can:.
i,lit ThursTAy afternoon. and Thurs
ca i-ht-Ac schooner Pearl .ycved
With tie body of his brothc.. The
body ~ the boy Steele is still n.>Nir.
IA and his brother lived GA Will
.GtngJau islani, about fifteen miles
from Savs nnah. They were on
their way TO Claghorn plantation, :.
C.. when they were overtal>en by the
storm. Ihy little vessel was driven
ashore on a government training wall,
where she was>4 ,und Thursday. The
bodies of Hill ara his brother were
wedgcd in the wai> The body of J. c.
Mcclure and the colNred deck hand Of
the tug Robert Turner, have not yet
been found.
SAVANNAH, Ga Oct. , The hurri-
cane which swept over Savannah, Tues
day. cost nearly dozen lives and en-
tailed a financial loss OF nearly s., 000,
900.
The other people thus far reported
dead are: J. Wallace johnson. Capt.
C. T.. Murray, OF the tug Robert Tur-
ner, and the following, all colored:
Mary Warning. Eliza Beatty, Fannie
McFall. Ruby Williams, Julia Jackson,
two Gec5hanis on the Robert Turner,
an unknown man and an infant.
A score or more others were il. urcd,
some fatally.
Among prominent buildings damaged
are: City exchange. Duffy Street Zap
fist church. 1T. Philips African Mctho-
dist church. Central railway ware
houses, st. Patricll's school, Georgia
lIussar's armory, Henry hall, city
market, electric railway powernouse,
Vale Royal Mills, Conner, Hull & Co.'S
guano factory, Commercial Guano Co. 5
factory, Jc".'s Marine railway, Faw-
cett Bros. wholesale grocery building,
Henry solomon Il Sons wholesale
grocery, NJ J. Doylc's retail grocery.
Hundreds of residences are injured
and the most beautiful trees in the city
are down. The loss to shipping will
amount to over 100000.
I The most serious casualty was the
capsizing in midstream in the Savan-
nah river OF the Norwegian bark Rose
MUS, grounding of the Morgan bark
Cab, drifting of Norwegian bark Il. ID.
Metcalf and the total loss of the tug
boat Turner. The Steamer Gov. SAT-
ford, of Beach and Miller line, is
aground in Cooper river and small craft
have suffered much.
! WASHINGTON, Oct. l The West In
( dies tornado which struck Washington
between IL p. N. and midnight Tues
day night, respected neither official
nor diplomatic proprietors. 1t ripped
off some of the coping OF the white
house and laid low most of the historic
trees in the white house grounds, in
GLIDING the elm tree which Lincoln
planted.
/ 1t carried away part of the roof of
/ the state department where the official
I documents are stored but fortunately