The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-04
cARRABELLE WAS WIPED OUT.
HER DOCKS AND WHARVEs WERE
ALL SWEPT AWAY.

s. About 4OOUOO Feet OF Lumber ana
-oo00 BarreIs of Rosin Were Car
ried Away with Them-Thirteen
large Lumber Vessels Left High
and Dry-McIntyre and Curtis Mil
Also DestrOycd-NO Reports Yet as
10 Loss of Life.
Tallahassee, Fla. Aug. s.-The first
y train since Monday from Cara belle
tbr9ugh the storm-stricken Gulf coast
+ section reached here this afternoon, the
Messengers having been transferred twice
from fiat car from Carrabelle TO a lever
car between Crew creek and Ocklocknee
river and then to a relief train from Tai
f lahassee.
The train crew and passengers agree in
B stating that the reports sent out about the
a destruction wrought by the storm have
4 been extremely moderate.
8 Carrabele is literally wiped from the
81 map. Her docks and wharves, containing
about 100000 feet of lumber aud $4,000
barrels of rosin, were quickly swept
B away
Thirteen of the fourteen large lumber
q vessels in the bay were swept ashore, and
n are now lying well up on dry land. These
n vessels contained several million feet of
lumber Their names are unknown.
Il No information is yet obtainable here
Il as to the loss of life from these vessels
. aud from the large fleet of fishing boats
# IN the neighborhood.
4 Only two or three huts are left standing
4 in Carrabelle, and one colored woman is
/ known to have been killed by the falling
Of house on her.
Looking for Relief.
Citizens of Carrabelle are in state of
wild confusion, and are fiocking in every
4 direction for relief The town is isolated.
i and wires are still down.
The towns of Mcintyre and Curtis Mill
are completely demolished, and large in
erests have been destroyed.
The coast resorts, St. Teresa and Lam
ark are more seriously wrecked than at
first reported. and visitors have suffered
great hardships, though the loss of life
not yet known.
Fifteen men, said to have been seen
.shins on an islet called Dog Island. just
fore the storm broke, cannot be found
The water was high at Panacea, but no
amage is reported.
The only damage at st. Teresa is said
be the .oss of TWO or three houses.
Iae cupola was blown from Lanark
n and The large crowd of summer So
burners there viii leave as rapidly as
Gey can Get away.
i Is said that several fishermen were
o Pine Island Tuesday, and no tldings
laya come from there since the storm.
Perhaps his fact gave rise to the story
aat several persons were drowned at St.
Marks
Turpcntine Farms Damaged.
Iae extensive turpentlne farms between
Tallahassee and The Gulf are thought to
& nave leen greatly damaged. Operators in
a ae city estimate that half the trees on
arms in The main track of the storm are
NJ lros nttd
Ia'fe is no further news from ST.
Marks where several persons were report
Cd drowned.
The raiirlad bridge at Mcintyre over the
'A'ock9ne river, win not permit the pass
se oi trains since the storm. The large
)" mil at this point. owned by E. Lloyd
''lN's' recently from Georgia, was de-
'''ned' IN fact, il is said that only two
."-es arc left standing at Mcintyre.
mere are no tdings from the steamer
scent City, which was to have left
paacaieoIa Tuesday morning for Cara
sie.
~ ms city the rainfall was about eight
-.S IT Is believed 10 have been heav-
south Of this point.
e0'k 'ree which stood on a lot at the
'H Oh Tennessee and Calhoun streets
wy DOWN in Tuesdays storm. 1t was
'''a.el by Wird n 1873, and also a few
ats 'eI,r Each tine it was righ ed and
'n'0-ei 20 grow.