The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-22
SURVIVORS,
 EXPERIENCE Narrowing Tales from
 Long Key. <; - SCORES LOSE THEIR LIVES House Boat Containing Workmen Fell Victim to Hurricane. lran After Man Was Washed Overheard and Finally Weasel Collapsed.
 Forty-Nine Were Rescued
 By Russian Ship.
SCORES LOSE THEIR LIVES

Key West. Oct 21.-Survivors from one of the house boats on the Florida East Coast Railway extension alone the Keys tell narrowing tale of death and destruction during the storm o: Thursday.
 W. P. Dusenbery, civil engineer :n charge of the work on Long Key, wh, miraculously escaped death. arrived here on the Russian steamer Jennie among the survivors rescued.
 He says houseboat No. 4. on which were 150 men. was struck by the storm at o'clock Thursday morning and was driven out into the gulf through Hawks Channel. At 6 o'clock the house boat began to break up and as the great waves hit her. men, singly and tn punches of two and three. would b. washed into the sea and drowned
 Some went below for protection. but when the top of the boat was carried away. the waves rushed in and the boat soon went to pieces. thirty or forty of the men being crushed to death in the collapse. the others grabbing tim bers to save themselves from drown ing. Engineer Dusenbery was in the hold, but succeeded in getting a log and hoated until Friday night, when hs was rescued.
 On one piece of timber sixteen men were clinging and nine were hanging tO duOlucT. lHC 6luc OI tHC uOuSC boot was crowded with men. It turned over three times, each time reducing thu number.
 The Russian steamer Jennie sighted the wreekage and succeeded in rescu- ing the forty-nine men. who were brought here. Three other steamers. with searchlights. were ricking ur men. dead and alive. when the Jenn.e left the scene There was another rd q Long Key. which MT. Dusenbery thinks was alsv swept into the sea
 There were in all ten boats at Long Key. Mortar mixers. dredges and other boats engaged in the work
 The survivors were furnished food and clothing from the East Coast Raii- way eommissary here and were given of the railway along the Keys was not damaged.
 Among the rescued who were injured some of them seriously. were the foi- lowing:
 M. s. Martin. Philadelphia. slightly C.. slightly bruised: Wm, Parmentier. Dion, France. slightly injured; John McManus. Boston; David Fortier. Springfield. Mass. internally injured; George Ensey. Palatka. Fla; l.. M. Burlington. Ia; V. L. Walker. Rebars- burg, Pa: Charles Allen. Cleveland, O.; Walter Moore, badly bruised; W. IT. Sanders, Miami, Fla, badly bruised; Harry Hansen, Norway; internal in1u- chiff, DeLeon Springs. Fla. slightly in 1ured; Frank Murray, New York, badly bruised; Charles Blair. Tampa, Fla. broken leg; John Bradley. New York, bruised leg; J: H; W1odaii: Tslaa. Kiadnn Kissim- New York, internal injuries; Chris Koerner, New York; E. J. Mccall. Dade City, Fla, bruised; J. Mitchell iGreek): A. J. Lively, New York. internal in turies; J. G. Wicks. Jacksonville. Fla; R. N. Lewis, Mass, bruised; w. T. Connor, Syracuse, N. Y.; Charles Lar sen. Mobile; Mark Brant. Galveston, mashed; Wm. Mccormick. Erie. Pa. wm. Mccormick. Erie. Pa; V. F.. La boute, Burlington, Va, head injured; John Millen, Brooklyn, badly bruised; ]. L. Padgett. Tampa. Fla; Tom Mo- Eowan. New York. bruised; W m. l.. West. Pennsylvania. knee hurt; E. W. Booth, rupture; Wm. Bremen. South Carolina; Luke Driscoll. Broklyn. an iy bruised; Frank West, Jersey City; Fred. LaRue. Philadelphia: W. C. Fry, Miami, badly bruised; James No- Ian, New York, head hurt
 Captain Finder. who was In Miami at the time of the storm, on returning to his home on Key Largo. iouho sa ans ms home swept away and his wire ana children missing. No tra,e of them has been found. and 1t Is believed they were drowned.
 Among the known dead. as result of the storm. are:
 B. A. Parlin of Miami, George McLen- don of West Palm Beach. Harry Thompson. Principal efforts have been made to rescue the living, and no com plete list of the dead has yet been pre- pared. Most of them were strangers here, coming from Northern cities to work on the extension. and the pay rolls of the railroad company will have to be checked with the living before names of dead can be accurately given