The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-08-09
DEsoLATIoN ON FLORIDA COAST.
The Town of Carrabelle Laid in Ruins
bV Hurricane.

The town of Carrabelle, Fla, pros
porous port on the Gulf Of Mexico, is
reported almost completely destroyed
By terrific wind and rain-storm which
passed through that section during
Wednesday. Many boats which were
in the harbor have been wrecked and
most of the long wharf is gone, together
with large quantities of naval stores.
At Lanork, the ho"ses, pavilion and
boats have been destroyed Uncon-
frmed reports say that the steamer Gre
sent City has been lost between Apala-
chicola and Carrabelle Several per-
sons are reported drowned at St Mark S.
A few houses were destroyed at St.
Teresa. The McIntyre, Ashmore aud
Curtis mills suffered severely. A pas
senger train on the Carrabelle, Talla-
hassee and Gulf railroad thirty five
miles below Tallahassee, was badly
wrecked but no one is reported killed
or injured. The turpentine interests
in this section are greatly damaged and
much injury has been done to the czops.
The wires are down south Of here
and railroad service to the Gulf ports
is suspended The storm was one Of
the hardest that ever passed over this
secti n 1t came directly up the great
Gull ID started north8ard. For hours
the wind was terrific, blowing at high
rate !, i the rain fell in torrents, wash
ing away maoy bridges, endangering
thoroughfares and railroads. The
storm reached the coast Wednesday
morning and there was no cessation un-
til far into Wednesday night. The
wires and railroads have been so inter-
fered with that the results of the storm
are just beginning to reach this city.
Along the coast the fishing industry
has been severely interfered with.
Many Tallahasseeans are at the va
rious resorts along the coast from
which no reports have come and the
conditions at these places is causing
much anxiety. Parties who returned
on the wrecking train which went to
Carrabelle Wednesday morning report
that the country along the route shows
the effects of the storm. The train
was compelled to run with great caution
owing to the condition in which the
storm had placed the roadbed. The
water had been over thu tracks in many
places. Passengers on the train which
vas wrecked say the train was blown
from the track. The city Of Apalachi-
cola at the mouth of the Chattahoochle
river is entirely cut off from communica-
ton anc nothing can be learned from
there.
A new trestle over the Ochlocknee
river at Mcintyre was blown away.
The wrecking train which went cut
Wednesday into the storm devastated
territory. found over 200 trees on the
track in run Of thirty miles. General
Manager Crittenden who had charge Of
the train. says that every town along
the line is desolated. Hotels, houses,
churches, saw mills, wharves and pa
vilions were in many places blown from
their positions and in several instances
completely wrecked. There are many
rumors afoat Wednesday night as to the
loss of life. One mill hand is known
to have been drowned at Mcintyre. One
man was drowned at St. Marks, but
rumors place the loss Of life there at 10.
1t is not believed here that any lives
were lost at tie numerous summer re
sorts but reliable news is unobtaina
hle