The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21

the Florida East Coast Railway's
Bsrges-Two B&ryes were NOW
Ashore, but Seven More. win 1850
Aboard, Are MissIng-8S Dead In %.
Lucle wrcck-Damage in Cuba was
widespread. the sugar Crop suffering
Severely Town Of Batsbano TN Sad
straits -Army's Losses HcAyy-One
Transport Makes Port BADLY Battered
and There Are Fears for Another.
MIAMI, Fla, Oct. oo.-The death list a a
result Of Thursdays hurricane will exceed
1000. Some estimates go beyond 1900.
Millions Of dollars worth OF property was
destroyed.
Every hamlet along the coast and IN
the higher keys that escaped some Of the
fury Of the storm has been turned into q
place OF refuge. At each OF these places
are dozens of injured, while each incoming
steamer brings the bodies OF the dead.
Searching parties nave started out along
the coast to look Tor dead and injured.
Workmen on the extension Of the Florida
East Coast Railway from Miami to Key
West suffered most. Ten barges, zach
bearing l5O men, were torn from their
moorings and carried out to sea. OF these
barges Nos. 9 and 7 were blown across
Biscayne Bay and vent aground, with the
loss Of only a few lives.
Another barge. No. 4, was broken up
by the heavy sea. F~orty-nine of the mon
were picked up by the Austrian steamer
Jennie, which took the refugees to Key
West.
The other barges, with their 1850 work.
men, have not been heard from and IL lie
feared that they have been destroyed.
FEARS FOR FISHING AND FRUIT FLEET.
Fears are entertained for the entire fish
ing and fruit feet, as no word has been re-
ceived from any Of the vessels. Manager
Adams of the Florida Fish and Produce
Company sent out boats to-day TO look for
the missing vessels of that feet.
Great damage has been done to the Gov
eminent lighthouses along the coast. So
a a. 10 ANVIL hS"CNVA yin VI NlV hkhN-
houses was put out Of commission and Zach
one is doing its best in aiding the work Of
rescuing the ~unfortunates.
The Florida East Coast Railroad will
suffer heavily from the storm and much Of
the work on the extension out over the sea,
from key to key between the mainland and
Key West, will have to be done over again.
There is also the possibility that the plans OF
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the danger Of storms.
So DEAD ON THE ST. LUcIE.
The Miami steamer 81, Lucie, which was
crushed against Elliotts Key by the high
waves, lost thirty-flve out Of 100 persons on
board. Seventy-hve survivors Of the st.
Lucie were brought here. They are being
attended by DR.. Jackson in charge Of the
Florida East Coast Railroad and a corps
of assistants.
Every one Of the seventy-fve was hurt
in the wreck Of the vessel. The St. Lucie
was one Of the Flagler line md Capt. Bravo
is one OF the most trusted and competent
commanders OF the East Coast system.
Along the keys the extension TO the FlaKier
railroad Is being built and the boat was
plying between this place and the keys with
workmeu. Capt. Bravo told this story
lying on his cot in the hospital here:
Il anchored at EIiotts Key to get out OF
the way Of the cyclone. The waves were
mountain high and the wind at least eighty
miles an hour. had been there about two
hours when the wall o: water appeared.
Our anchors were cut loose or we all would
have been lost.
-Elliotts Key was covered with, water.
Not a sign OF land appeared anywhere,
Houses, barns. trees, bodies. horses, cattle;
all rel by US in the food. We reached
shore by the waves own force"
Another n Of the FlAgler boats, sta
toned at Long Key, between here and Key
West, was torn from its moorings and went
Adrift with 10 men on board. She was
blown into the Gulf of Mexico and literally
torn 70 pieces. Many were drowned.
The steamer Peerless lost about thirty
men, they being blown OF the vessel, The
launch Elmora was capsined and IL thought
TO be a total loss. The launch Nanny was
badly damaged.
Two lighters we're set adrift at Jewfsh
and Two water barges broke loose at Black
water. The tide was three feet higher in
Barnes Sound thar at Blackwater. Knight
Key dock and crew are safe.
About fifty men nave just arrived at
Miami from Long Key. They report about
twenty-five men and the quarter boat at
Long Key safe; also two barges remain at
Long Key, but the remainder Of the men
and plant located there are gone.
1t Is estimated that fifty lives were Ioet
on dredges at lower Metecumbo. The
dredges 0yamA. Mikado, Manotta and
Dodge are safe. Two men were lost on the
pile driver. Al Long Key about forty men
were picked up and are safe. There was
heavy loss Of life on the dredges at Long
Key.
The steamer VigilancLa n expected soon
with bodies. The steamer Miami Is also
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