The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-30
ReSCuarS Are Still HefoIcaIIv a! Work Removing Bodies
 from the WreCkage
EFFECTS OE TIE DISASTER
 TERRIBLE ID CONTEMPLATE
Out of Twenty-two Ships In the Harbor But One Remalns-Many of :. Them Are Far
 Inland.

Pensacola, September 29-The loss of life and damage resulting from the hur- ricane which struck this city Thursday 1 morning is something terrible to contem- plate. Already the list of dead has grown to twenty-six and 1t Is known tnat many more have been lost others injurel, while more than 5000 are homeless.
 For two days rescuing parties have been working to bring conditions to sonie degree of order, but their efforts have not shown to any extent and there are many bodies yet underneath masses of wreckage.
 For ten miles east and west of tho city Is strewn the wrecks of homes and vessels of all classes. Commenclnls at Fort McRae on point overlooking the gulf and continuing to Eseambla bri4ge east of the city, there Is nothing but devastation. ruin and desolation. At Fort McRae five lives were lost
 Lashed Themselves to Guns.
 The experiences of the twenty men .here is horrible to retell. They climbed to the batteries, the very highest point as the waves began to dash over them. and lash ed themselves to the guns. There they clung for more than twelve hours. Only one lady and her little child were q. the post She was the wife of Sergeant Prem tice, and although the big st1ong soldier fought to save the lives Of his young wife and baby, they were almost wrenche1 from his hands. Three artll1erymen were lost by being washed from the batteries. The fort was almost razed.
 Across on the Santa Rosa isllnd. also on the gulf, is Fort Pckens whore over 100 men were stationed. There was no loss of life but great destruction of prop erty The mortar batteries were even driven in, and guns wrecked.
 Barracks Are Demolished.
 The barracks were early demolished and the men under the captain sought higher points. Five artillerymen volunteered to go through the water, then flashing over the post to the batteries, carrying line which enabled all to reach safety. where they, too, lashed themselves 10 the high est points
 Fort Barrancas has been badly dam aged
 The navy yard suffered probably to the extent of sl,OOO,00O.
 Many of the new buildings have been damaged or destroyed completely. the floating dock crushed against stone one, the latter damaged and the gunboats Vixen, Isla de Luzon, Gloucester, Machias and Wasp. as well as the naval tugs Wauban and Accomea and number of smaller tugs and launches are complete wreclls. Some of these vessels hve been driven In shore for more than 200 yards. The homes of the workmen at Warring- ton and Woolsey were wiped off the earth and three lives lost.
 Across the bay the United States life saving station, directly on the gulf beach, there is not a board left to mark tho spot where the station house and wharVes once were. Everything Is clear The men remained at their post until everything was carried away then with their fam ilies they launched life boat and were later picked up by the army steamer Poe.
 Quarantine Station Disappears.
 Further down the island the United States marine quarantine station has dis appeared from the map, except one house. Several vessels detained there are dam- aged. Customs Inspector Bailey station- ed there saved the lives of eight of the attaches ,by swimming with a line across the channel to the remaining house, and the men were enabled to reach that point. The hospital there collapsed early in tho night. Eight seamon from an English steamer were inmated. They were with two nurses, Collins and Bass, chung to the floating roof. Five spent the night on the raging seas and were washed upon this side The other five perished.
 Further down the island was camped a pleasure party. Among this party was the sheriff of this county They fought desperately to save themselves and were rescued when nearly dead. Two had perished.
 At Escambia trestle. a mile in length. was the cottage of the keeper of the draw bridge. This was carried away and his wife and two little children drowned. He and his assistant washed upon the beach five miles distant.
 Twenty-one Ships Wrecked.
 Across the bay In the city the scene beggars description and 1t will be fully three months before the vessels can be dug out from their positions Of the twenty-two ships and barques of foreign flags anchored in the harbor at the time of the storm, only one remains, which Is also badly damaged. The steamers farel peter, but they are damaged. Some of the immense ocean going ships of 2OOO tons are resting in front yards: others have been driven through houses; some have their noses pointed into stofes, while some others are keeled over on their side in the bay and are piled up in masses of wreckage. Only four tug boats out of a fleet of about twenty remain. About thirty fishing schooners of fifty or seventy-five tons were moored alongside wharves. and but two remain intact Some of them are a half mile inshore. The im- mense wharves all along the water front are cleared, excepting two of the Louis- vile and Nashville railroad, the third going down with about fifty cars and an engine.
 T,vervthinr with tin roof has been un-