The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-10-05
DEAlHLlSl GRuNING
SEVERE ST INNS IN SaUTHtRN
SlaTlS Wa, DEVASTATING.
over a Hundred Are Known to Have
Been kiIIed-s,ooo Are Homeless
Miles and Miles Of Wreckase-
Fort McRae Damaged - 6arrancas
Navy Yard Lost Million.

Pensacola, Fla, Sept. 30.-Already
| the list of dead from Thursdays storm
| has grown to rs. and it is known that
many more have been lost, others In
llured, while more than 5000 persons
are homeless. For two days rescuing
| parties have been working to bring
conditions to some degree OF order,
hut their efforts have not shown to
any extent, and there are many yet
Underneath the masses of wreckage.
| For 10 miles east and west OF the
city are strewn the wrecks OF homes
and vessels of all kinds.
| At Fort McRae five lives were lost.
The 20 men there had a terrible expe-
rience. They sought the batteries and
flashed themselves to the guns. There
they chung for more than IL hours.
Only one lady and her little child were
at the post. She was the wife OF Ser!
lgeant Prentice, and although the big,
lstrong soldier fought to save the lives
of his young wife and baby, they were
almost literally wrenched from his
arms. Three artillerymen were lost
by being washed from the batteries.
The fort was almost RACED.
Fort Barrancas was badly damaged
The navy yard suffered probably to
the extent of $1,0O0,000. Many of the
new buildings have been damaged or
destroyed completely. The floating
dock crushed against stone one, the
latter was damaged, and the gunboats
Vixen, Isla de Luzon, and number
|, of tugs and launches are complete
wreck. Some of these vessels have
been driven in shore for more than
200 yards.
Further down the island the United
States main quarantine station has
disappeared, except one house. Gus
!. toms Inspector Bailey, stationed there
saved the lives of eight of the attach
es by swimming with a line across
> channel to the remaining house, and
the men were enabled to reach thai
point. The hospital there collapsed
. early in the night. With two nurses
Collins and Bass, three others chung
to the floating roof. The five spen
= the night on the raging sea and were
: brought in the next morning.
n At Escambia trestle, mile il
length, was the cottage of the keepe
r. of the drawbridge. This was carried
+. away, and his wife and little children
T. drowned. He and his assistants wer'
=. washed upon the beach five miles dis
a tant.
o Across in the city it Will be full.
9 three months before the vessels cal
# be dug out from their positions. o
s the 22 ships and banks of foreign flag
anchored in the harbor only one re
mains, and it is badly damaged. Som
of the immense ocean ships of 200
tons are resting in front yards, other
g. have been driven through houses
some have their noses pointed int
TX stores, while some others are keele
n over on their side in the bay or pile
e. up in masses of wreckage. Only fou
a tugboats out of feet of ABOUT 20 re
s. main.
e. About 80 fishing schooners of 80 @
le rs tons were moored alongs1d
IS wharves, and tow remain intact. Som
Sc of the schooners are mile in shor'
a For one mile west of the city were tn
a. small cottages of fishermen, all clos
is to the beach These have been wipe
out.
nd At New Orleans.
nj Six persons drowned, eight goo
sized sailing vessels wrecked, abol
~ 80 smaller vessels sunk or ashore an
. property damage of more than a mi
lion dollars was the result of the hu
" ricane in the Mississippi sound.
It's
ri At Birmingham, Ala.
es- Mobile is still cut off from the OF
lg side world. Dispatches just reachil
or. here by mail, which left Mobile at g.:
of a. M Saturday say that the city W
suffer loss of $5,O00,000 in damage
ed buildings, steamboats,, shipping. ra
roads and commercial houses. II
use famous shell road is gone, and pre-
lis ably will not be rebuilt. Fifty-ni
ar are known to have lost their lives
points west of the city, the loss bel
I'M heaviest at Coden.
IN At Meridian, Miss.
'Ao Delayed mail from Hattiesbu
brings advices of great havoc wrong
lthara oDd in tho uaiohhOrhood a