The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29
SHORES OF BAY ARE
LINED WITH RUINS
Million Dollar Damage at Mayy Yard.
and Fort 1lcRae Combletely
Nlbed Out.
THE
WRECKAGE IS
PILED HIGH

the portion that presents the greatest
scene Of desolation is that from Pal
afox wharf to Baylen street wharf,
including the slip in between which
is now filled and piled high with ves-
sells, wreckage, and debris from
where the city wharf was back to
and up against the old electric light
plant building on Pine street. In
fact, 1t did not stop there, for sew
eral small vessels are now lying high
and dry on both the east and the
west sides of this old building and
nearly to Main street.
The tugs Monarch and Mary Lee,
owned by H. H. Thornton, are lying
side by side. with bows well up high
and dry on Pine street and wheels al
most out of the water. The little
yacht Frolic lies in reverse. order
next to the Mary Lee entirely out of
the water and with her stern on Pine
street.
The smack Sylvia lies with her
stern to the Mary Lee, dismantled
and crushed, and next to her, but
higher up, is the smack Ruth Welles,
with stern lifted high and resting on
lot of timbers and wreckage.
The old barge which had been ly-
ing at Palafox wharf undergoing re-
pairs, lies next to the Ruth Welles,
and between the barge and Pine
,f lny
vessels-launches sailing craft and
small boats-piled upon one another
in hopeless confusion.
The steamer Fidget, which had
been dredging out for deeper water
near the head of the slip the day
previous to the, storm, was lying
crossways of the slip right in the
deep water where she had been
dredging and, outside of a few broken
planks, she Is apparently unframed
and as soon as channel can be
cleared she can move out under her
own power.
A score of small boats and a mass
Of wreckage are lying back Of the Bay
Hotel as far up as Main street, and
a good sized sloop is damned up
against the old electric light plant
building. West of this building, the
launch Wolverine and a number Of
ether crafts and mass of broken
timbers are resting on what is now
dry ground.
On the Baylen street side the
boats and wreckage is damned hard,
fast and high back to the end of the
slip at Pine street Allie Riera's
pretty little racing boat and Dun
hams launch Rseba, lie on top of a
lot of wreckage between the big barge
mentioned above and the street, ap-
parently unframed, the barge serving
to have protected them from injury.
John Walters launch Pauline is also
near them.
Joel Fratel's warehouse formerly
run by the Bagdad Sash Factory CO..
presents the remarkable scene OF still
being on its foundations over the
water, but much of its contents
(doors, sashes and lumber) were
washed out.
The smack Minnie W.. e. e. Saun-
der's & Co.'S newest boat, is lying on
her beam ends, with her stern
against the filled in portion OF Baylen
wharf, white the ctCdlhCAS 6uSSAS
and Capt Fritz rest right side up,
lengthwise along the wharf, on the
tops of the piling where they landed
after the planking on top OF the Pill
ing had been washed away.
From Main street down, Baylen
street wharf (Which is filled In
ground) is piled high with timber,
plank, wreckage, and debris OF all
kinds. 1t takes sure footed man to
pick his way over 1t in safety.
The sofice portion of Warren's fish
house is still standing, as Is also that
portion containing the ice boxes. The
latter are o. K. the fish in them are
all right, and the ONCE itself remain
ed so dry that Capt. Warren, who
made his way to 1t yesterday morn
ing, picked up on his desk box of
matches in perfectly dry condition.
From the end of the wharf, the
desolation as far as the eye can
reach to the west Is something almost
appalling, but nowhere, probably, is
there so much wreckage or SO many
vessels piled up together as there
are In the slip between Baylen and
Palafox and back TO- Pine street.