Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-08
STORMS WORK
TERRIBLE TO
CON TEMP LATE
WRECKED HOMES MINGLED WITH
THOSE OF SHIPS.
DEATH | LIST GROWING
Homes of Thousands Swept Away
Navy Sustains Loss of Over ST.
,0oo-Many Vessels Yet to Be
Heard From-SetIements Wiped
Off the Map.

Pensacola, Fla, Oct. 3-The loss
of life and damage resulting from
the hurricane which struck this city
Thursday morning is something ter
rible to contemplate. Already the
list of dead has grown to 26, and il
is known that many more have been
lost and others injured, while more
than three thousand are homeless.
For ten miles east and west of the
city are strewn wrecks of homes and
vessels of all classes. At Fort Nc
Rae five lives were lost. The expert
ence of the 20 men there was some
thing horrible. They sought the
batteries, the very highest point, as
the waves began to dash over them
and dashed themselves to the guns.
There they chung for more than u
hours. Only one lady and her little
child were at the post. She was the
wife of Sergeant Prentice, and al
though the big, strong soldier fought
to save the lives of his young wife and
baby, they were almost wrenched
from his arms. Three artillerymen
were lost by being washed from the
batteries. The fort was almost
RACED.
Across on Santa Rosa island is
Fort Pickens, where over 100 men
were stationed. There was no loss
of life, but great destruction of prop
erty. Mortar batteries were even
driven in and guns wrecked. The
barracks were nearly demolished, and
the men under the captain sought
higher points. Five artillerymen vol
unteered to go through the water,
then dashing over the post to the bat
teries, carrying a line, which enabled
all to reach safety, where they too
dashed themselves to the highest
points.
Million Dollar Navy Loss.
Fort Barrancas has been badly dam
aged. The navy yard suffered prob
ably to the extent of $1,000,000 Many
of the new buildings have been dam
aged or destroyed completely, the f0at-
ing dock was wrecked. Gunboats Vix-
en- Isla de Luzon, Gloucester, Machia
and Wasp, as we'll as the naval tugs,
W7auban and Accomac, and a number
of smaller tugs and launches are coln-
plete wrecks. Homes of workmen at
Warrington and Woolsey were wiped
off the earth and three lives lost.
Not board is left of the United
States life saving station, across the
bay The men remained at this post
until everything was carried away,
then with their families, they
launched life boat and were later
picked up by the army steamer Poe
The United States marine quaran-
tine station has disappeared from the
map, except one house. Customs In
spector Bailey, stationed there, saved
the lives of eight attaches by swim
ming with a line across the channel
and the men were enabled to reach
that point. Five seamen from an
English steamer persisted.
Across in the city the scene beggars
description and it will be fully three
months before the vessels can be dug
out from their positions. Of % ships
and barks of foreign flags anchored
in the harbor, only one remains and it
is badly damaged.
Ships in Front Yards
Some ocean ships of 1000 tons are
resting in front yards. Others have
been driven through houses, some
have their noses pointed into stores,
while some others are keeled over on
their side in the bay or piled up in
masses of wreckage. Only four tug
boats out of a fleet of about ~ re
main Twenty-eight fishing schoon-
ers are gone and the homes Of the
fishermen wiped out.
At Carsen Point, fully so people are
homeless and starving with no way
of reaching any place, and it is feared
they will perish.
Much Damage at New Orleans.
New Orleans, Sept. 50.-Six per
sons were drowned, eight good sized
sailing vessels wrecked, 80 smaller
vessels sunk or ashore and property
damage Of more than 100000 re-
suited from the hurricane in Missis-
sippi sound. The full extent OF the
disaster there became known Satur-
day when the Ship, Cat and Horn isl
ands were heard from. They had
been completely submerged according
to reports of tugs sent out from the
mainland to the islands to investigate.
All the loss of life and the greater
part of the wreckage occurred at the
eastern end of the sound SO miles
from Mobile. The worst catastrophe
was at Horn Island, where LightkeeP-
er Johnson with his wife and daugh'
ter were swept into the gulf with their