The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-30

eldor accompanied by his wife, two chil- dren, and his mother, Mrs. E. s. Winter.
 He was seen at his boarding house, at No. IS St. Michael street, shortly after his arrival. His story Is thrilling one, and reads like fiction, but 1t is all true. and the scenes which he and the 270 people at the fort witnssed will be fresh in their minds as long as memory lives
 When the Storm Began. He said that the storm began at the fort on Wednesday night, and at s:sO o'clock the water began coming up to the hospital, the waves washing over the sea wall, and about o'clock it could be seen roaring over the south beach mountain high. The water fin short time cut @ channel through the officers quarters mile wide and fifteen feet deep.
 MT. Winter said that the officers were taken out of their quarters by members of the Eighth company, with the aid of ropes. They were under tho command of Lieutenant Dyce and Captain Dwyer, the now commanding officer These men. said MT. Winter, proved themselves all through the storm to be real heroes, and all the work was done voluntarily. There was no part of the reservation that was not un- der water except the hospital. The roof Dl utdTlN every DuilQl1lR IS OH. EVeTy soul on the fort was quartered on Wednes- day night in the hospital The roof of the hospital held until late Wednesday night when the wind blew it off The people who were quartered there when the rain came in Thursday morning were compelled to go to the first floor, and from that time until Thursday morning tho soldiers swept water out of the place. The doors in the first floor, in order to keep them from being blown down, Winter said there was no sleep at the fort from Wednesday morning until Thursday morn ing.
 Griffin, keeper of the saloon known as the Blue Goose" and his wife were res cued with difficulty. The soldiers who went to their rescue round the wife of the man clinging to the window sill sn water waist deep. Griffin did not want to leave, and the men had to threaten to shoot him in order to rescue him. The water finally washed the place and all the contents away.
 Winter said there Is not a pane of glass left in the barracks of the Eight com pany. Every piece of harness, every wag on, cart and the commanders carriage has been washed away and innumerable stores were lost.
 The people at the fort are not suffering | for the want of provisions, but water is very scarce, there being only two tanks lell 0ut Ol lutSt IS ulldtl luth anu hcy and the other is under guard of the sol- diers.
 Rio Grande Went to Sea.
 Winter said that the Mallory line steam- CT Rio Grande, with freight and passen- gers from Mobile. bound to Brunswick, and New York, went to sea Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
 Winter reported that Dr. Scales and pr. Jones were safe on the quarantine barge, xt. f-ek A ..f. Rl, on Thursday morning the doctors were taken out of their house nearby, sound and safe.
 Two of the employees of the quarantine plant took refuge in one of the motar bat teries, and were found safe and sound Thursday morning.
 According to the story brought here by MT. Winter, Norwegian boatman em- ployed at the quarantine plant, had narrow experience, and from last accounts the man was in pitiful condition. He spent all of Wednesday there until Thurs day night on piling, reaching 1t after the hospital went down, and remained there until Thursday morning. One of his hands was badly cut, and he had to have the at- tention of physician. The man, when taken off, was in nervous state and was completely exhausted.
 He said that the light at Fort Morgan is still standing, and only part of the house was washed away. The tower on Sand Island light is still standing, but the keeper and his family are evidently drowned. The tug Gertrude went in as close as possible and sounded signals for some time, but no life was seen any where.
 Story of Navy Cove.
 Winter said that the fact that the hos pital was on the highest point on the reservation perhaps saved the lives of the people who were at the fort. He said, further that if the storm had lasted an- other thirty minutes the buildings and everybody in 1t would have been washed into the sea He said that when the tide changed, the timber and wreckage was LID to the steps of this building. Winter said that when the storm broke at Navy Cove there were ffty-three in- habitants at that place. As the houses began to be washed away, into a place called the Hammock, and Donnie Ladnier and his family went at this place and his wife and four children were lost The other people got on a knoll with houses on each side, and in a short time deep channel was cut alongside of them Cap tain William Johnson. who was killed, was in the last house standing. He was persuaded to come out and got as far as the gallery and went back Into the house. rro tod not oone ten faat when the build