The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-02
EVERY MAN In
PENSACOLA

PENSACOLA
(C0ntiiuued From Page Ome.)
| with people almost as poor as them
selves, but whose houses had been
left by the storm. There were forty
Ave Of these unfortunates fed today
by the generosity Of the city.
The relief committee will continue
out among the byways to find those
will care for them. She Is able to
do It.
The storm to her Is an incident, a
tragic incident. but not a tragedy.
| The wreckers today found that some
Of the vessels thrown high and dry
or locked in the wrec\age would
float when they succeeded in getting
them in water. While quite as many
| vessels were wrecked as were orig
inally reported, the wreckage inju-
ries to these vessels were not serious
as was at first thought, Immediately
following the storm.
| Many of the vessels. especially the
smaller crafts, will never fly another
flag; many of them are SO crushed that
they could not even furnish fire wood
but the larger vessels on the beach
| diu IhC WICChdeo al ii" )
cases, be able to take the shipwrights
have hammered and sawed on them.
Steamers Fared Well.
During the storm the big steam YES
sells Jared well and fortunately. 1t Is
said that practically every steam ves-
sci was saved and that every sailing
vessel was wrecked. No intelligent
estimate can be made Of the injury
done shipping in the harbor. 1t will
be many days before this can be done
But the harbor was filled with crafts
when the storm broke. Warnings of
the approaching hurricane lad been
sent out for two or three days pre-
vious.
| The knowing shippers who could
cock their eyes upwards and read skies
kne what an equinoxial gale was COM
ing and they knew that their was no
place on the Gulf Coast so safe as
Pensacola harbor. So Pensacola mar
Dor entertained many marine guests
on the night of the storm. and on first
view nearly a week after that hurri-
cane had gone, the shore Of Pensacola
harbor is a marine grave yard. such
as never before seen in the South. but
some of the vessels high upon the
timber wreckage or rolled upon the
beach will again ride the waves and
carry their share Of the commerce,
| but there are many others whose course
is ended and whose usefulness Is end
| ed
Admiral Capps Arrives.
| Rear Admiral r. c. Caps. of the de-
partment of construction. reached Pen
sacola today and went Immediately &c
the navy yard. He left Washington as
soon as the magnitude of the storm
was understood. He will examine the
extent OF the disaster to the navy yard
and make his report to the depart
ment at Wa shington.
| 1t Is understood that the enlisted
men of the artillery and perhaps some
Of the officers, are anxious to have
FIT. Pickens abandoned as a garrison
point Fort McRae which felt the
force of the storm more than Pickens
is but little more than ruin and It's
abandonment has been forced upon the
government by wind and waves.
But the artillerymen are still garri-
.soned at FIT. Pickens and they are
afraid they are going to be kept there
They, too. had a horrible experience
for to save their own lives. they had
| to go hand over hand, over rope 10
| the gun mount while neaVy seas pea'
upon them.
| After that night of terror there Is
| talk that unless the men hear that the
| government intends to garrison them
in the future at Barrancas, there VIII
be wholesale assertions when the men
| have Deen pdiu oll anu ''>S "
money enough to get away.
The naval tugs, Uncas. Osceola ana
| Herculas. came into the harbor TINS
| afternoon. The navy department by
wire. sent them from Key West to heir
in the wreckage work at Pensacola.
Alarm ut Storm Reports.
| There was some disquiet anu uneas
liness today when the Weather Bureau
issued another special warning of
! storm gathering in the West indies
and moving to the northwest. as die
| the destructive storm of last week
| The storm signal was set hylng IRON
the custom house. storm warnings were
posted along the water front and II
all public places, but the fear soof
died. Old sailors discouraged the re
| ports They had never heard OF two
hurricanes formirG in the same place
/ and traversing the same track in les!
| than a week Still Pensacola has al
eye on the weather tonight.
| In the storm of Wednesday night
light keeper Landrum Clark and hi!
young wife and baby had narrow
and fearsome escape. The light keep
er's house was on the mainland lit
tie southeast of the city. 1t was hi
duty to go from light to light in TIL
harbor in a launch and see that thu
beacon lights were kept brightly burn
ing He lived near the beach to b.
close to his work
AT an early hour Wednesday morn
ing he left the house holding his wifi
and child. He beat his way through
the heavy seas with his little famil,
while the heavy waves were pounding
his home to pieces behind him. IL
did fear the sea and the storm for h.
had never heard of the sea coming L
his house no matter how high TIL
storm was.
He decided to leave his home onl.
because of the intuitive fear of hi
| wife.
Not only at the light keepers hom
but in many other places lives wcr
saved by woman's intuition and he
| fear.
The men knowing the sea did no
appreciate the danger. They knew tn
SEA of the past and they sea they knew
had never risen like the sea of Wed
ncsday morning. Expecting nothin.
| like this the men were quite wIllin.
to remain in homes that were late
overwhelmed or beaten to pieces by tn
| storm. But the women would not per
NIT 1t. They seemed to grasp tn
magnitude of the storm to know tina
death rode on the waves
| Today many n father and child owe
their lives to the prayers and pleadin
/, of wife and mother
No man can sit in a comfortable in
land home and reading. appreciate III
| strength and violence of this West In
| dian hurricane. The works OF man O
| the sea, and the works of man on tn
land. were taken and smashed togethe
| by the angry elements. Ed. Hught
was killed at his home in Woolsey by
| fishing smack A heavy smack Wa
seized by the sea and thrown heavil
| L.,