The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-06
NOT so BAD AS REPORTED.
People Say There Is No Dcstitation
ut CnrrnhelIe.

Tallahassee, Fla, Aug. 5.-Parties arriv-
ing on The Carrabelle train this afternoon
say there IS no dostltution at Carrabele
and no storm casualties among people Of
that place.
The presence of men Interested In navel
stores and mills has oheered up the Cara
belle people, and they have commenced
the work of recupcration. Laborers are in
demand at good cash prices.
Only one vessel, the Grace Andrews,
Capt Brown, was loaded and ready for
the sea. She dragged her anchor was
wrecked and Capt Brown was severely
injured.
The bodies of white woman and child
have been found in the marsh west of
Carrabelle They are supposed to have be-
longed TO a Tampa family. who recently
arrived in a small boat This makes the
death list five.
Less than a mile of the railroad track
was displaced. The only transfer now is
a MaClntyre.
Tobacco crops in Gadsden county are
said to have suffered severely.
There is no telegraphlc communication
beyond Arran, twenty miles out on the
Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Gulf Rail
road
one train a day gets through by trans
fers Parties coming in this train are
the only sources for obtaining news from
the storm section.
c. NJ Patton, who occupied cottage
at st. Teresa with his wife and two 1T Tie
girls, says the wind turned up the shingles
on the roof and let the rain literally pour
in. Soon the water was several inches
deep on the floor and ne had TO devise
some way of getting rid OF IL. Selling an
AK he chopped several holes In the noor
This worked very we'll for a time, but
soon the furious wind rolled the Gulf
waves up under the house with terrific
force, and the salt water spoutcd upward
through each hole IN the floor Ike so many
fountains Then he gave up the fight for
any degree of comfort, as everybody and
everything in the cottage were as wet as
they could be. This condition OF affairs
confronted him untll after ] o'clock next
morning. when the wind suhsided and a
regular thunder and lightning storm came
on and lasted for several hours, heavy
rain falling continuously.
All the bath houses there were swept
away. Many OF the boats were lost and
some driven ashore.
Mr.. Patton came across to Mcintyre.
about eight miles from Teresa, walking
half the distance in knee-deep water.
A. b. Chlrvis of New York is up from
Panona Springs. There was high water
there and some wind, but no serious dam
age. He came TO Ashmore, a distance of
| seven miles, and had an experience simi
| lar 60 MIR. Patton. Ile started to count
| the fallen trees. When the number had
reached 266. and he had not covered half
| the distance, he gave up the count
A noticeable freak of the storm at Car
rabelle is a four-room house turned bot
tom-side up and resting on the spot where
it formerly stood.
The body of a white man has been
found floating in the river at Carrabele
which cou,d not be identified. 1t is not
known whether IL came from the Gulf or
floated down Crooked river.
This makes the death list three, as far
as reported.
Nothing has been learned OF the fifteen
fishermen reported to have been on Pine
Island.
Parties interested In naval stores and
mills down the Carrabele Tallahassee and
Gulf Railroad are coming I'm TO look afier
their interests.
The Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Cuff
Railroad VIII run an excursion through the
storm-swept section to Cafrabelle on Sun
day.
The train which was blown from the
track near Lanark by the storm Is still
in the woods.