Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-10-02
The Peninsula State Devastated by
Wind and Water-LOss of Life
Appalling.
PROPERTY LOSS MAY REACH MILLIONS
People So Paralyzed by the Magnitude
of the Calamity That Detailed De-
scription Has Not Been Attempt
ed-Dead Not Named.


ported with over thirty fatalities in Levy
county.
The town of Fannin was completely de-
stroyed except one small! hpnse. Tyson
& Chairs store. haase wes 10 wn4into tho
su~annee river with its general merchan-
disc.
The town of Needmore was demolish-
cd.
Every house at Yulare, Judson and
Chietiand was destroyed, and many peo-
pie were killed in both of the former
places.
THE INoREAsING DEATH LIST.
Reports from Baker, Saunee, Nashu
and Columbia counties confirm the story
OF death and destruction related in these
dispatches last night. The death list has
been increased nearly dozen.
In Columbia all the country south of
Lake city Is devasted.
Hagen station, ten miles southeast from
Lake City, was wiped out. At Lake But
Ter, the destruction was almost as great.
La Crosse was almost wiped out of ex.
istence.
Along the Florida Central & PENN
sula railroad, from Lake City to Mac
oiOuuyS oho uouokC was SCoduy uudb boC-
tion being the center of the storm.
The cotton crop, or that portion of it
still in the field, is vastly damaged. Sugar
cane is everywhere prostrated. Much
stock and cattle were killed.
1t is said that twenty-five turpentine
stills, between Lake City and Cedar Keys,
will never run another charge, all the
timber being destroyed.
Exclusive of the 100 spongers, sup
posed to have been drowned off Cedar
Keys, the death list in the state proper
bids fair to reach 100 and the property
loss will run into millions.
PEOPLE ARE PARALYzED.
The people seem to be paraiyzed by
the calamity. This is reflected In the ac-
counts sent out of the storms work. In
a majority of cases, nothing like a de-
tailed description is attempted and in
but few instances are the names of the
dead given.
1t is inferred that majority of those
killed, outside of Cedar Keys and at
points where school children we're the
victims, were negroes employed on the
turpentine farms.
Jacksonville, Fla.-Lster.-Re re-
ceived from Cedar Keys tell the story of
great damage to property and loss Of life
there from fire and food.
Early rumors spoke of Cedar Keys
being wiped out, but fortunately later
and more authentic reports show that
this was an exaggeration. However, ff-
teen persons we're reported drowned.
In Mrs. Weldley's house alone five per-
sons perished by the food including
three of Mrs. Weidley's children and her
niece and the latter's child.
Bodies are being recovered along the
coast and many fishermen who went out
on Monday night have not been heard
from since they left.
All the wharves at Cedar Keys were
washed away, several houses blown down
and six destroyed by fire.
WHEN THE STORM BEGAN.
The storm struck the place about $3.50
O'Clock on Tuesday morning and CON-
tinued for several hours.
Att O'Clock an immence tidal wave
came in from the south, carrying destruc.
tion with it.
Boats, whsrves and small houses we're
hurled upon the shore, and, breaking into
Fragments, covered the streets with wreck
age, rendering them almost impossible.
Many houses we're swept from their foun-
dations.
The loss of life at Cedar Keys proper
is nothing in comparison with the num-
Der of spongers and fishermen drowned.
Nearly 100 vessels we're anchored on
Sponge bar, below Cedar Keys, and all
but about twenty were lost. These boats
carried from four to ten men each.
oLoUD-BURsT NEAR WASHINGTON.
Washington.-Reports from the upper
Potomac show that high winds did great
damage to property on this side of the
mountain. A cloud-burst soon changed
the small tributaries of the Potomac into
raging torrents, carrying away much farm
property.
On short spur of railroad, leading
from Hancock to Berkely Springs, thir-
teen bridges were carried off. The Poto-
mao is rising steadily here. Serious dam.
age might follow the rainfall now threat
ening.
AFFAIRS AT LEADVILLE.