The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-22
DEATH CLAIMED
MANY VICTIMS
Narrowing Tales Told by Sur
viv0rS of Hurricane off the
Coast of Florida.
HOUSE BOATS WENT DOWN
RUSSIAN STEAMER RESCUED
NINETY-NINE MEN.
HOUSE BOATS WENT DOWN

Key West. Fla. Oct. I.-Survivors fron1
one Of the Households on the Floridas
East Coast Extension railway along the
Keys. tells narrowing tale of death and
destruction caused by the storm of Thurs]
day.
W. p. Dusenberry. civil engineer in
charge of the work on Long Key. who mi
raculOuSly escaped death. arrived here one
the Russian steamer Jennie among otheT
survivors rescued lie says hOuse-bOat Nod
T. on which was 80 men. was struck bY
the storm at . O'Clock Thursday morning.
and was driven out into the Gulf through
S9wk channel
One by One Drowned.
AT O'Clock the house-boat began To
break up a nd as the great waves hit herr
men, sinGly ana in lunches of two and
three. were washed into the sea and
drowned. Some went below for protect
ton. out when the top of the boat waS
carried away the waves rushed I'm and the
boat soon went To pieces. thirty or fortys
o. the men being crushed 10 death in thu
collapse the others grabbing timbers td
save themselves from drowning. Engi1
neer DuSenberTy was in the hold, but
succeeded in getting a long timber and
Heated anti Friday night
on one piece of timber sixteen men were
cllnging and nine were hanging 10 am
other. The sides of the house-boat were
crowded with men Ii turned over TIRES
times each time reducing the number
Ninety-nine Saved.
The Russian steamer Jennie sighted tho
wreckage and succeeded in rescuing the
ninety-nine men. who were brought here
Three other steamers were picking IN
dead ard alive men when the Jennie lefCi
the scene.
There was another house-boat with $50
men on board al Long Key. which Mr.
DuSenberry thinks was also swept 70 sea-
There were in all ten boats at Long
Key, mortar mixers. dredgers and other
beats engaged in the work.
The survivors were furnished food and
clothing from the East Coast railway
ste, atteRtiOn.
Tie extepsion work of the railway along
thett keys>srds rot damaged
List of Injured.
Among the rescued who were injured.
some of them seriously. follows:
NJ J. Martin. Philadelphia; slightly
W. 4. Palmer. slightly injured
John c. McManus, Boston.
David FOrtier. Springfield. Mass, inter-
nally.
George Envy Palataka, Fla
L. NJ Marick Palatka. Fla
A G. Weldon. Burlington. la.
V l. Walker Rebarsburg, Pa.
Charles Allen. Cleveland. o.
W. \. Sanders, Miami, Fla, badly
bruised.
Harry Hansen. Norway. internal inju-
ries
D. Morrissey. New York.
|, Otto Kirchieff, De Leon Springs. Fla,
slightly injured
Frank Murray. New York badly bruised
Charles Blair, Tampa, broken leg
John Bradley, New York bruised leg
j. P. Woodau Kissamme Fla, bruisef
leg.
James Madden New York internal inju<
ries.
Chris Korner New York
E. J. Mccall, Dade City, bruised
A ]. Lively. New York. internal injus
ries.
J. G. Wicks, Jacksonville. Fla
r. N Lewis, Massachusetts. bruised.
w. T. Conner, Syracuse, n. 7. IS
Charles Larsen, Mobile.
Marguerite Brant.
William McKerrick. Erie. Pa
V. z. Laboute. Burlington, We
John Miller. Brooklyn. badly bruised
J. L. Padgett, Tampa, Fla.
Ten McGoveTn. New York bruised.
William L. West, Pennsylvania, knes
hurt
e. W. Booth.
Luke Driscoll, Brooklyn, angle hurt.
g. w. Franklin, Miami. badly bruised.
Frank West, Jersey City.
Fred Larue, Philadelphia.
w c. Frye, Miami badly bruised.
r. ]. Hardman, Ohio, badly bruised.
James Nolan. Lynn, head hurt
Among the Key WeSters rescued were:
Carl A Swanson. foot hurt.
r Russell foot and ankle hurt.
Z. w. Feter bad foot and bruises.