New-York tribune., 1906-10-01

OIL lhese boats are not known Nothing mas
been heard of the winona, the government rev.
ehue cutter, which left Scranton on Wednesday
night While she may have been lost there Is
a possibility that her captain is making an ex-
animation OF conditions along the coast, and mas
not put into any port from which he can be
reported. Small progress has been made in
hoating the vessels that were driven ashore, and
1t will be some time before the full amount Of
damage in this direction is accurately ascers
tanned
Pensacola, Fla, Sept 3O-The list of dead
from the hurricane has grown to twenty-six,
and il is known that many more have been lost.
Three thousand persons are homeless. For two
days rescuing parties have been working to
bring conditions to some degree of order, but
their efforts have not been successful to any
great extent and many bodies still under
meath the wreCkage
For ten miles east and west streets are
strewn with the wrecks of homes and vessels
Of all kinds. Commencing at Fort McRae, a
point overlooking the Gulf and continuing to
Escambia Bridge. east Of the city. there is
nothing but devastation and ruin At McRae
five lives were lost The experiences of the
twenty men there were trying. They sought
the batteries-the highest potnt-as the waves
began to dash over them and lashed them
more than twelve hours. The wife of Sergeant
Prentice and her little child were at the post.
Three artillerymen were lost by being washed
from the batteries The fort was badly dam
aged. On Santa Rosa Island. also on the Gulf,
is Fort Pickens where over 100 men were sta
toned. There was no loss Of life. but great
destruction Of property there. Fort Barancas
also badly damaged
Z. S. GUNBOATs RENDERED USELESS.
The navy yard suffered probably TO the ex-
tent Of S1O000OO Many OF the new buildings
were damaged or destroyed. the floating dock
was crushed against stone and the gun
boats Vixen, Isla De Luzon. Gloucester, Machias
and Wasp. as we'll the naval tugs Wauban
and Accomac and a number Of smaller tugs and
launches We're rendered completely useless,
Some of these vessels were driven inshore for
more than two hundred yards. The homes Of
the workmen at Warrington and Woolsey were
demolished and three lives were lost.
Across the bay at the life saving station di-
rectly on the Gulf beach, there is not board to
mark the spot where the station house and
wharves stood. The men remained at their
posts until everything carried away. then
with their families. launched nfeboar and were
later picked up by the army steamer Poe.
Further down the island the United States
quarantine station has disappeared, except one
spector Bailey. of the Customs Department.
saved the lives of eight of the attaches by
swimming with q line across a channel to the
remaining house. The hospital collapsed early
in the night Eight seamen from a steamer were
in this. They, with two nurses. clung to the
floating roof. Five spent the night on the raging
seas and were washed UP on this side. The
other five perished. Further down the island a
pleasure party camped. and they fought
desperately TO save themselves. and were res
cued only after two had perished.
Fifty persons are homeless and starving at
Garsen Point, up the bay. A messenger left
there on Friday morning. and at that time the
entire party had been twenty-four hours without
food cooking their last morsel the night before.
They have no clothing shelter, and If relief
does not reach them soon they will perish.
Out OF fifteen fishing schooners OF Sanders &
Co.'s feet only is afoat Warren & Co.'S
fleet suffered equally as bad, only one being
undamaged. The others are on the beach, and
some of them broken up. The tugs Monarch
and Mary Lee are high and dry In Pine street
The pilot boat Pilot and the dredge Caucus
are safe.
Among the ocean going craft hard aground
are the Norwegian ship Ingrid. Captain Donnell.
from Antwerp; the Norwegian bark HeimdaI
Captain Hansen, from Hull; the Norwegian ship
Avanti, Captain Andersen, for Montevideo: the
Portuguese ship Ferrera, Captain Barros from
Lisbon; the schooner Donna Christina Captain
Mcleod. Belize: the Swedish ship Alfhild Cap
tain SYensson, Port Natal; the Norwegian bark
! Andrea, Captain Qvale, Port Natal; the italian
ship Avon, Captain Avegno, Genoa; the Nor
wegian bark Hereford, Captain Jensen, Luder-
! ftZ Bay; the German bark Marie Captain Frenk
Lynn; the Swedish bark NOach VI, CAPTAIN
| Bergfeldt. Port Nollot; the Italian bark Olivan,
Captain Costa, Genoa. and the Norwegian bark
Superb, Captain Ulrich, Antwerp.
New Orleans. Sept. 3O.-Reports that probably
| dozen lives were lost and that hundreds of
square miles of land the delta were under
! eighteen inches to four feet of water during the
hurricane were brought here to-day The fnun-
dated tract begins fifty to seventy miles below
New Orleans and is mostly inhabited by fisher
men. Messages which left these villages last
night said that up TO that time several persons
still were missing
The tug r. c. Vet, which was tied IN during
the hurricane about seventy five miles down the
river, took aboard about eighteen refugees
Early IN the night seven women and two men
were seen near the tug nearly up to their arm+
pits in water, which running inland from
the gulf with sufficient force TO cause them to
dodge from tree TO tree to avoid losing their
footing The refugees told of other families
which had not dared to leave their homes and
members of the tug crew were sent TO the res
cue. In one house they found on three mat
tresses piled on bed two children, placed there
10 keep them above the water. which had al
ready risen to the second mattress.
Captain George Culver, his wife and four boat
men. who We're on an island in Grand Bay, on
/ the IissiSsippi-Alabama state line. when the
Every building on this island was washed into
the bay.