The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-15
FLORIDA / [. R !: |
DISASTER 1|.'1[
Many Lives We're Lost and and
Much Damage Done.
HAVOC At At PALM Il, BEACH {.
Business Houses Unroofed. and the
Newspapers Also Heavy Sufferers.
a List Of the Buildings
Injured.
HAVOC At PALM BEACH
- iif ~, iait4t y i X 80 "a s'1s 5sS
(By Associated Press.)

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JACKSONVILLE. FLA, September,
14.-The fate Of Middle and Southwest
Florida is only matter OF conjecture.
This much is certain: The storm was
destructive enough In these sections to
sweep down the wires and stop railroad,
communication. This, Of itself, Is suf :
ncent to justify Y forebodlngs {, OF unpre-t
cedented calamity. The middle L Florida
section, from which not a word can be
heard, is the. most Ioopulous part Of the
down. every train s stopped !, and no one
can tell what the news Of theS morrow
will tell. & 453Y rs . 4. .s Is I'll! II II
Beginning Friday morning on the east
coast and Saturday morning on the west,
and lasting twenty-four hours at each,
South Florida has been swept by the
strongest cyclone ever known in the
history, OF that part OF the state. Tho
wires went down at the beginning, and
railroad service was 4 delayed On that
! account 4 no detalls reached this place
untils sl to. day. Even now they arc not
full for many H places that were d in the
i center OF tho path tof the storm have not
yet been heard from. and the wires into
1.-the storm swept ;sdistrict are not vet
1 ss LIVES 10 ST AT TAMPA.
Two lives were lost In Tampa, due to
| the storm < Louis Baron, the cigar
nal who was struck by a part OF the
cornce OF the Dinz building. died the
day after receiving his injuries, His
| skull was fractured, nm eye knocked out
and his body badly bruised
II. Y, Hunnicut. a motorman. met his
death near the Cuesta Reyt cigar factory.
| at Tampa. He attempted to remove q
wire which lay across tho track. but did
not know that 1t was a live electric wire.
He received a shock which proved fatal.
The conductor, who came to his assist is'
ance was also severely shocked,
The spire OF the Bulah Baptist
Church (colored) was torn from the
building and carried across the street,
The gable ends OF Avery & Owens build
! tng. adjacent to the seaboard Air Line
depot, were torn completely away. IN
damaged. The property loss at Tampa
] will reach at least $4,000 The orange
| crop has beon cut off around Tampa md
one-f fourth on the east coast. There are
no wires south OF Tampa and trains are
delayed What has happened at Punta
| Gorda. Punta Rassas and other places pace
4 MANY sEANlEN LOST;
Further details OF the Florida storm dis
n ster came by mail and by passengers on
an Incoming train. The steamer lnchu1vsl,
OF Liverpool, owned by tho men ol'plnns pl'ns
Company, from Galveston, loauea wv,
lumber and cotton seed meal. ana pouha
for Hampton Roads for coal, Went hshore
near Boynton Friday night at o'clock'
The ship's steering gear broke ana she
| aoated at viii, striking the beach with
great force and breaking into three pieces.
| The oaptain and mates and fourteen OF
the crew, were saved, Nine were drowned,
among them the engineer the boats
| had a. hard time landing, One boat win
| ~ l,otf n
tho waves and It's occupants were
The schooner Martha T, Thomas. 76o
| tons. CAPTAIN Watts, with a cargo of
lumber. bound from Appalachicola to
| Baltimore, was wrecked nine miles south
| Of Jupiter, The schooner is' split In half,
The crew We're all saved
DAMAGE AT PALM BEACH.
! At Palm Beach the damage was serl-
GUS Grubers' Opera House was parti-
ally unroofed, rs we'll as his business
block on Narclss,,s Street, and his ware
house, The Seminole block suffered
heavily and the Palms block to smaller
extent The root of the Tropical Sun
building Is gone, and all the glass In the
News was also a heavy sufferer, The
Masonic Temple the Dade County State
Bank and the new Jefferson block We're
also greatly damaged or tho latter q
| portion of the roof was torn off.
| All the boats on tho land front except
| three, We're sunk, and are total wrecks.
On the east side the loss Is heavy. The
Hotel Royal Polnciann was slightly dam
aged. IA
ENTIRELY CUT OFF
Miami and West Florida ara entirely
out off from the outside world. The
train which left this molnlng for River
Junction could get 10 further than
Greenvie. There Is no wire connection
beyond Drianton, Both these places are
Approximately one hundred miles west
OF Jacksonville. Nothing is known or
can be learned hore OF the storm which
J has swept the middle portion Of the
State, 4ss