The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-30
STORM MARKED BY
 MANY TRAGEDIES
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 ---~~~---~----y--~---~~ All of he inhabitants who survive the storm obtained havens of refuge in 1 trees in which they remained until the
 storm wore itself out Four lost, all | Creeks The names of those lost in
 the King of Avon are:
 Captain Morris, wife, sister and 1 thre children, Mate Bleston, Halifax,
 N S., Boatswain Lewis, Seamon Ar
 thur Hayes, Harley Walsh and James | Jenny, all of Weymouth, Eng, and
 Phillip Gibault of the Isle of Jersey.
 One of Greatest Tragedies.
 The drowning at Golden of the Wer-
 meth family. with the exception of one | daughter, which was reported yester- l day is today known in greater detail,
 and 1t is one of the saddest tragedies l of the storm. In the Werneth house at the commencement of the storm were MT. and Mrs. Werneth, their two | daughters, Mrs. Betancourt, an aged
 woman, and Calvin Williams, a young
 man. When 1t was evident that the l house must be abandoned MT Wer- l meth and Williams placed the family
 in a small boat and attempted to reach | some trees not far from the house
 The boat had proceeded but short dls-
 tanee when it filled with water and sank. | The elder Werneth girl was an accom- plished swimmer and young Williams
 reached a trA with her, which they climbed. The remainder of the people in | the boat were drowned before their eyes,
 Mrs. Betancourt was able to keep on the
 surface of the waters only few seconds
 before she went down. Mrs. Werneth
 made a desperate effort to reach the tree l in which her daughter and young Williams | had found refuge and was within a few | feet of it when huge wave swept over her and she was never seen again. MT. 1 Werneth, bearing his younger daughter l in his arms, reached the tree and was
 about to climb to safety when the grl slipped from his grasp. As she went down Werneth attempted to save her and
 wave overwhelmed him, and he was
 drowned at, the foot of the tree which saved the lives of Williams and Miss Werneth. The young woman became | crazed as her father sank and endeavored
 to leap from the tree into the water, but
 was foreibly restrained by Williams. The 1 two remained in the tree until the storm | subsided when they were able to walk to
 land.
 Five of One Family Lost
 Of the Laidner family which lived at | Navy Cove, three were saved and five 1 were lost The saved were Captain Det- I his Ladner and his two daughters, the lost were Mrs. Laidner and four sons. Ths family remained in their house and man. | aged to get on a portion of the roof and
 on this they fioated out into the bay. Mrs | Iaidner and the four boys were one by
 one carried off by the waves and the wind, | but Captain Ladner after the raft on which the family had been floating had l broken, managed to get the girls into the branches of a tree that came floating by. l While in this plight they were noticed by
 a fisherman on shore who put out to their
 rescue and brought them to shore in | boat.
 Fort Morgan Wrecked. Nave Cove is about four miles from Fort
 Morgan and the damage there and at the l fort is very heavy. Every building at Fort 1 Morgan except the hospital Is wrecked, | and that has been partially unrooted. All l of the officers stationed at the fort with
 their families are now housed in the hos- l pital and are safe. All of the water tanks l at the fort were washed away In the storm. and for a time there was scar
 city of drinking water but this has been
 relieved by the lighthouse tenders and l other boats. As far as known, only one | life was lost at the fort. That of Private
 Murphy of the Ninety-nlnth battery coast
 artillery He Is believed to have stopped
 in the water by accident and was | drowned.
 Fruit Steamers Arrive.
 number of fruit steamers concerning | which there has been some anxiety have | arrived and while none of them report any l damage all declare that the storm was l the toughest in their experience. The Be- | lize. commanded by Captain Hansen, and
 the Banan. under Captain Wilson, were the first to arrive and the Colombo and l Imperiator came soon afterwards. The 1 Belize encountered the blow when just | off the entrance to Mobile bay, ana me
 captain not daring to attempt to cross the
 bar with such high sea running, turned
 out to sea again. The Belize which was | accompanied by the Banan, which reached
 the harbor entrance a short time after the Belize, remained at sea all of Wednes- | day night and encountered the full fury | of the hurricane. On the Belize the chief engineer sustained a fracture of the left | leg when he was thrown across the boat
 after the impact of an extra heavy wave. | The only damage sustained by either
 steamer was the smashing of small | boat on the Banan.
 | Capt Wilson of the Banan reported ! that the beacons in the bay and all Of 1 the range lights have been carried away, l and declared that the lighthouse on Sand | Island has been destroyed, only the tower
 remaining There was no light burning,
 he said, when he approached the entrance | into the harbor Captain Hansen of the
 Belize saw the light somewhat earlier, and 1t must therefore have been destroy | ed on Wednesday evening. The govern ment tender Ivy went down the bay early | today to ascertain the true conditions in | and around the entrance into the harbor | and to make careful examination of
 possible changes made by the storm in | the channels between the entrance to the | harbor and the city. It is believed by veg
 selmen that many beacons and range | lights must hereafter be placed in posi- | lions different from those they occupied before the storm
 | It was discovered today that four | steamers not before reported have been | driven ashore not far from Dauphin is-
 land. The names of these boats are not | known
 Nothing Known of Revenue Cutter. l Nothing has been heard of the Winona, l the government revenue cutter which left | Scranton Wednesday night While she | may have been lost there is possibility | that her commander Is making exam l ination of conditions along the coast and 1 has not pit into any port from which l communication can be had with this city. | Small progress has been made in float | ing the vessels that were driven ashore | and it will be some time before the full amount of damage in this direction is &C., curately known. Several of the river steamers which are badly smashed will