Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-10-26
MANY ALLOWED BY SEA
FIVE HUNDRED KNOWN DEAD AND
AS MANY MORE MAY BE LOST
IN THE SOUTH.
GREATEST HAVOC HITS BOATS.
Cuban Crop Badly Damaged and Capital
Has Suffered Big Money Loss
Twenty Natives Dead.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 90
President Roosevelt today sent tele-
grams to Gov. Magoon at Havana, and
to Gov. Broward of Florida, expressing
sympathy for the sufferers by the recent
hurricane. He suggested that Gov.
BroWard call upon the government for
aid should it be necessary.
Seas Swallow Many Lives.
KEY WEST, Fla, Oct. 20.-The
Austrian steamer Jennie, Capt. Dudnich,
bound from Gulfport to Genoa, has
called at this port to land forty-nine
workmen picked up at sea near the Ba-
hama coast, 100 miles from Key West.
The men were part of a force of 100
workIngmen belonging to barge No. 4,
engaged on east coast extension work.
Most of the others were either killed or
drowned in the storm early Thursday.
Nine other bargeS crowded with work
ingmen engaged III extension work were
at sea with barge No. 4. There is no
news of them and it is feared all were
lost.
Storm Struck Thursday.
w. Z. Dusenbury, one of the engineers
saved by the steamer Jennie, says the
storm struck barge No. / at 3 O'Clock
Thursday morning. One hour later the
hOusebOat went to pieces III the raging
sea and thirty to forty men were killed
in the crash. Dusenbury says nine other
boats working on the extension at Long
Key went to sea with barge No. 4. He
has no Intelligence of their fate and fears
for their safety.
Officers of the rescuing steamer Jen-
ME say that they heard cries for help
Thursday night and following the direc-
ton of the sounds came upon a lot of
men floating in the sea, clinging to logs,
linn hnr apI rnft
lowered and the forty-nine men brought
here were rescued.
Three other steamers, using search
lights came on the scene and assisted
in saving life. How many they rescued
was not ascertained by those aboard the
steamer Jennie.
More Vessels Are Lost
The four-masted schooner Meron is a
total wreck, according to a cablegram
received by W. 5. Jordan q Co., part
owners, from Curacao, Dutch West In
dies. While details are lacking, it is
believed here that she was lost in the
hurricane and that Capt j. L. Williams
OF South Portland, and crew of eight
men, may have had a chance to escape
safely.
The Meron was 925 tons gross burden
and was built at Phippsburg, i'll 1891
Her value was $4,000.
The launch Elmora was capsized and
Il
launch Nanny was badly damaged.
Vessels Go Down in Storm.
MIAMI, Fla. Oct. 2O.-Capt. Bravo
of the st. Lucie arrived III Miami last
night on one of the extension steamers
and reported the loss of his vessel. The
ship brought in sixty wounded, who were
taken to the hospital, and thirty-fve
bodies were brought in today.
Capt. Bravo says that he anchored
rhn cid e Z
day morning and that soon after a
tidal wave engulfed the island. He says
there were go residents on the is
land. all of whom are lost The st.
Lucie was crushed by the same wave
Capt. Bravo was injured seriously.
A barge containing 100 people is said
to have been torn away from its moor
ings at Elliott's Key and afterward
picked up near the Bahama Islands, fif-
ty of her passengers having been
drowned.
Fishing Ships Missing.
1t is believed now that a portion of
the Florida Fish and Produce Com
pany's fleet was destroyed.
The east coast hotels at Miami and
other east coast points all escaped dam
age, there being no loss of consequence
elsewhere north of Maimi. At Miami
the greatest damage was to small houses
and fences
The steamer Philadelphia, from La
Guayra, Venezuela, for New York. ar
rived at San Juan, Porto Rico, Friday.
forty-eight hours late. Her captain re,
ports that a Dutch steamer was lost in
the cyclone at Il point between Caracas
and La Guayra. The Philadelphia en-
eountered the cyclone upon leaving the
harbOr at LaGuayra on Monday. She
was blown ashore and slightly damaged.
Twenty miles of the railroad connecting
La Guayra with Caracas has been de-
stroyed by the storm.
The City of st. Augustine. Fla. be-
yond the damage done by high tides. was
not affected by the hurricane. Messages
received at tie wireless station indicate
that the storm passed this point about
sixty miles to sea.
Twenty Dead in Havana
HAVANA. Oct. 20.-This city recov-
cred quickly from the effects of the
storm, and except for the presence of
gangs Of men replanting uprooted trees
and the sight of wreckage in the har-
Dor. one would not know that such Sc
we're storm had blown over this end of
the island. Street car traffic was re-
sumed today
Twenty lives. all natives. were lost in