The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-01
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ADDITIONAL FATALITIES
Fish Company Crushed by Losses
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BY WILL r. sHEEHAN.

The depression of a day of clouds
and pouring rain coming upon the
heels OF the great disaster was deep
ened tonight by the news OF four
deaths of which nothing had been pre-
viously known.
The news tonight augmented the
death list around Pensacola until now.
II numbers 80. .vg.s
1t is feared that other bodies are un-
derneath the wreckage that cavern
the city water front. The odor from
the wreckage has given the city au-
thorities no little concern. and, be-
ginning this afternoon. Ave sanitary
inspectors were put patrolling wreck-
age for discovery and removal OF any
thing that would injure the health %
the city.
A relief party sent out to Narrows
on the sounds. fourteen miles east OF
the city, returned tonight with infor-
nation that Miss Pricer. the l6-year-
old daughter of Rev. Mr.. Pricer. had
been killed In the storm.
Her mangled remains were FOUND
beneath the wreckaRe Of her nome
and were given burial
She was the prettiest girl in the
uoighhorhcod end one most genera4 TX
beloved. People who lost their all m
the terrible storm took time to sriey~
for her untimely and violent death.
The same party brought news of tho
death of two children Of the sama
neighborhood. They disappeared early
Wednesday morning when the storm
was BLOWN a hundred miles an hour.
They have not been heard from since
and no doubt exists but that their
lives were claimed by the enraged ele-
ments
News of the death Of Frank Blitchey.
a sailor. was received today. The hugs
seas that beat upon Fort McRae claim
ed this sailor He sank beneath the
waters of the sea in sight OF the fort
where soldiers were cnnging to the
big guns and fighting terrible death
that rode with the storm. Blitchey was
n member Of the crew of the fishing
schooner Colt. belonging to Warren
and Company of Pensacola.
The Colt was struck by the storm
when she was in the gulf and near
the entrance of Pensacola harbor ~t
The Colt was overturned. her crew
spilled in the angry sea Blitohey with
fellow sailors swan for the beach. The
others reached II safely but Blitchev
was overwhelmed by the huge seas
from the gulf. His body has not yet
been recovered. go
News Of hunger and suffering ana
exposure OF storm victims moved the
Pensacola relief committee to send out
today two relief expeditions. one to
Trout Bayou. thirteen miles from the
city on Escambia Bay and other 20
the narrows above Sabine on .Ns
sound.
These parties found that suffering or
people had not been exaggerated. and
that their coming was n blessing to
starving storm victims. -.
The Trout Bayou party headed bysDr.
Herbert DAlemberte. left early this
morning on the gasoline launch Cupid
and returned tonight at o'clock The
first stop was made at Cartons Point.
To the whistle OF the launch as II ap-
preached the mass OF timber that
marked the place where the landing
once stood there was no reply.
Trout Bayou Party.
II was thought that there were per-
haps some sick or injured people IN
the partly wrecked houses. who were
not able to respond. Members of the
party jumped out OF the launch and
waded ashore. but the houses were de-
serted The people. after the storm,
had deserted their homes Just as the
storm had left them. 1t was later
found these people had made their way
10 Trout Bayou for the companionship
OF their fellow sufferers. Here 1t was
found that thirty families had congre-
gated. drawn together in misfortune
and with no better protection than
afforded by cattle shed on the high
ground.
The salt water had ruined all the
provisions that had been at that place
when the storm broke. The hungry
people had put what provisions they
collected out in the sun to dry ana
were cooking what part of the food
that could be eaten. and IL was small
enough.
The men had found some hogs in the
neigh borhood and the fresh pork was
the only meat of any sort the men and
women and children had eaten since the
storm. Some of the men were in tho
woods hunting rabbits for food, for
the women and children. when the re-
lief party arrived. All were in great
des6tution Hungry and only partially
clothed.
Relieved By Penrose.
The suffering people above Sabine
on the sound were relieved by a party
in the steamer Penrose. Lieutenant
BRYAN of the revenue cutter service
headed the party. News of the plig
OF these people had been brought
the city by I. T. Wentworth. WI
house was the only one left I'M
neighhorhood by the storm.
In his house were gathered the men
bers OF twenty families OF his neighI
bors These people had had but littlN
10 eat since Tuesday night. The q
dren especially were ravenously hun
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