Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-09-19

ILL WIRES DOWN and DETAILS
OF The DISASTER INCOMPLETE
Several Vessels Wrecked and Others
Driven Ashore - Property Loss In
City of Tampa Estimated at About
$1,000, OOO-Northwest Experienced
Terrific and Deadly Storm.

Jacksonville, Fla, Sept. 15.-No wirea
were working south Of Jacksonville
Monday morning and details of the
hurricane which swept across the south
ern part OF the state Saturday are incom-
plete. So far as known seven people
met death, the bodies of five being
washed up near Miami on the east coast
and two near Boynton on the west side
of the state. Passengers arriving on be-
lated trains report that on the east
coast many vessels have been wrecked.
Above Miami it is reported that seven
or eight vessels are ashore. The prop
erty loss in the city of Tampa is about
$1,000,OO0. West Tampa was flooded by
the rain. No loss of life is reported in
Tampa, although several persons were
hurt by falling trees.
Much injury has been done to orange
groves and gardens and it is feared that
the beautiful winter homes of northern
people have been damaged.
The disturbance Monday morning
was sweeping across Alabama and
Louisiana. All wires south of Mont
gomery, Ala, are down; in the neigh
borhood of Flomat6n, Ala, and Biz
mingham, Montgomery, Mobile and New
Orleans report high winds. There is no
evidence of the storm at Charleston, s.
c., although precautionary signals
have been displayed there for two days.
Government Bulletin.
Washington, Sept. 15.-The weather
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special bulletin:
Tho tropical storm has crossed the
gulf coast line east of Pensacola, Fla
and will move northward over the In
terror with diminishing strength caus-
ing heavy rain in the southern Appala-
chan mountain districts. There are no.
present indications that it will cause
dangerous gales on the middle and north
Atlantic coasts. Frost was indicated In
the corn belt Monday night as far
south as northern Kansas, extreme
northern Missouri, all Of Iowa and
northern Illinois,"
Storm in Northvest.
Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 15.-One oe
the earliest autumnal storms expert
enced in the northwest for years swept
over the country on Saturday and early
Sunday morning. The only fatality re-
ported comes from Gretna where an old
man fell from buggy and persisted In
the storm. At Hartney II horses died
in the Canadian Pacific yards and In
the vicinity other live stock are report
ed to have persisted.
"A telephone message received from
Minnedosa reported that the storm WA
one OF the worst experienced there In
five years. It started to blow about ten
o'clock in the morning, and q heavy
rain soon followed. At noon this de-
veloped into snowstorm and by dark
the snow was ten inches deep ON the
level prairie. - e. VS.. .... 70. e.
This storm was regular old time
blizzard and neither man nor beast
could stand against It. Grain which wsa
still standing is almost totally ruined.
@s$S77 steamer Capsizes. .s~-szr 5@5--
La Crosse, Wis, Sept 15.-The steam
er Park Bluff was capsized in a fiercss
storm which prevailed on the Missis-
sippi Sunday night, between Prescott.
Wis, and Saltwater, and Engineer,
James Ferguson. Of this city, wa1,
drowned. The rest OF the crew were
rescued BY the crew Of the steamer,
Glenmont