The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-22
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FORT MORGAN MAY BE TEMPORA
 RELY ABANDONED.
Artillery Troops, Who Are Now With out Shelter, Likely to Re Trans ferred to Barracks at Fort
 Barfancaa.

Pensacola, Fla, oct. 21.-(Special. )-- that in all probability that pos. short post instead of 2 ays company one as army to abandon Fort Morgan tempo sisting of two companies of artillery. post the largest in the South com
 While the companies are known as sse aSsn Stationed Spsd at Fort % Piosens. and Se. fore Pickens was destroyed at that place. manning the guns there. At but there are stiiI ample quarters for one company of men there. and at Fort Barrancas the new barracks can ment of troops if the government de- cides to send them here.
 Captain Miller. who commands the from fo here to Mobile Mobile to n make an % in. | spection of the forts down the harbor, | and had reported to the Department abandoning the forts, the men at present being quartered In tents with ordered here to command the district. Me. shortly, win probably settle the position of the troops.
 Repairing Brent Mill.
 The Florida and Alabama Land Com. a. by the hurricane. has begun repairing the property known as the brent mill on Little Bayou. and the manager es. in repairs and recovering timber and lumber washed ashore Will be larger than an eyer yer before a,s,sd known; Ssnv,. tho, .nv cola district. but it is estimated tha. 1t Wiil be again partially m opsration pssa,;,2a many months to restore the property and recover the lumber. me company estimates that four -fifths of the lum- Der can be recovered, but much of this is damaged.
 Fears for Dock.
 | It Is feared that the big old Spanish by by the United States at the close of the Spanish American war. has been maSh fl &ss tEousns Har that dock had only moved from her posi- tion and grounded slightly. but 1t has out of position and hard aground.
 This. however. is not considered so important as the fact that she Is eyer had been partially sunk. and 1t is now feared that these have damaged the bottom to serious. extent, aud may steam ss in' tugs uss's have been @ unable to move the structure The tugs Hercules Os- ceola and Uncas have been attempt failed. ba: tomorrow morning they will make another attempt and if this fails other means will be resorted to. Engine No. 29. which was in charge wreck occurred ThuEssday morning. p.Hn ns 1 moved from the side of the track on Wright Street.. one of the big steel wrecking machines being sent here for l that purpose, and Is to pc repaired. The investigation by the Louisville < Nashville authorities into the cause or the wreck. has resulted in out few de, the blame has not been placed.
 The engineerrknew when he left the shop lines with his engine 10 go on the ment, but evidently thought he had ample time to clear, the main line be- negro hagman, who was slightly in jured and who later could not be round by reason of the fact that he had had left ht just as he did he heard the bell of an engine ringing, and not looking to see approaching called to the engineer to | go back, but his voice was drowned by the crash of the locomotives. | Big Steamer FlOated.
 The big freight and passenger steamer Captain Fritz. which was picked up by the waves and tide and l deposited upon rows of bling on Bay | len Street wharf, knocking innumer- able holes in her hull. was success success The position occupied by the steamer served as a dock for making the nec- essary repairs after she was slightly raised, and later a railway was built | from the wharf to the vessel, and yes- terday she was launched into the wa | ter, and apparently is in better con- dition than ever before.
 We are agents for the H. A. Mover Buggy. very high grade vehicle. CARRIAGE WORKS CO.,,
 St. 21I-21B Bihb St. Travellers Were Honest. In the first four or five days after the San Francisco fire. when people could get no money from the banks, many applied to the railroads for promise to pay when the reached their