The San Francisco call., 1906-10-22

e-ranhic communication with interior
points has been restored, ana news
Of the disaster wrought by the terrlhc
storm which has swept over the coun-
~ IS helms. received. over 100 persons
we're drowned in Coatepeque. A vast
Quantity Of sulphur water was thrown
ont Of the Chuio volcano and inundated
me town Of Panchinalco, killing most
of the inhabitants. From other points
also. reports Of terrific devastation are
coming In. Piminento and other towns
are reported to have been swept away
by the floods. The schooner Azelene,
with a number Of passengers on board,
has been lost between corinto, Mica
ragua. and Amapala, Honduras. Every
body on board was drowned The Hoods
have disinterred a number of corpses
from cemeteries and are carrying them
down the streams. It is reported that
the railroads IN Honduras have suf-
fered serious damages.
MOBILE. Ala, Oct. 2l-The Nor
wegian steamer Harald arrived here
this afternoon with the first news Of
a terrible hurricane that visited Rua-
tan. Tela, Utilla, Colorado and FL
Provenir, Honduras, doing hundreds of
thousands Of dollars damage TO fruit
plantations and shipping. Captain
Henrichsen says the damage to fruit
alone at the places above mentioned
or six large business houses were de-
stroyed and hundreds Of places more
or less wrecked The damage to fruit
at Tela, Utilla, Colorado and FL Prove
mir was extremely heavy. A regular
tidal wave prevailed.
PERISH on HOUsEBoATs.
KEY WEST, Fla, Oct. 2l-Survivors
from one of the houseboats on
the Florida East Coast Railway ex-
tension along the keys tell a harrow
ing tale Of death and destruction
caused by the storm OF Thursday
". p. Dusenberry, civil engineer in
charge of the work on Long Key. ar
rived here on the Russian steamer Jen-
ME. among other survivors rescued. He
says houseboat No. 4. on which were
$50 men, was struck by the storm at
o'clock Thursday morning and was
driven out into the gulf At o'clock
the houseboat began to break up, and
when the great waves hit her men,
singly and IN bunches of two and three.
were washed into the sea and drowned.
Some went below for protection, but
when the top Of the boat was carried
away the waves rushed In and the
boat soon went TO pieces. thirty or
forty men being crushed to death in
the collapse, the others grabbing tim
bers TO save themselves from drowning.
Dusenberry was in the hold, but sue
eeeded in getting onto a log, and float
ed until Friday night
STEAMERS PICK UP VICTIMS.
On one piece of timber sixteen men
were clinging, and nine We're hanging
10 another. The sides of the house
boat were crowded with men. It turned
over three times, each time reducing
the number.
The steamer Jennie sighted the
wreckage and succeeded in rescuing
ninety-nine men, who were brought
here. Three other steamers were pick
ing Up dead and alive men when the
Jennie left the scene.
There was another houseboat with
$50 men on board at Long Key which
Dusenberry thinks was also swept to
sea-
There were in all ten boats at Long
Key, mortar mixers. dredger and other
boats engaged in the work. The sur
vlvors were furnished food and cloth
ing from the East Coast Railway com
missary here, and were given medical
attention.
SAVANNAH. Ga, Oct. 21.-The
British steamer Alton. Captain Bell. ar
rived in this port today with twenty
four survivors of houseboat No 4.
which was engaged in building the ex-
tension Of the Florida East Coast Rail-
v
picked Up on Thursday. The Alton had
passed just in time and had seen the
signals Of distress.
The rescued men were bruised and
torn IN their efforts to keep their hold
on the wreckage to which they had
ciung after the houseboat went to
pieces There were 137 men on the
hOuseboat at the time. It is believed
that at least twenty lost their lives
MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 2l.-Reports from
Long Key are that every house was
demolished by Thursdays storm and
it was there tht so many Of the men
employed on the Florida East Coast
railway extension lost their lives. Dam
age TO the roadbed and concrete via
ducts OF the extension was very light
and there viii be no delay in recon
struction.
All the injured are in the hospital
here receiving the best Of medical at
tention. Henry NJ Flagler telegraphed
from New York to spare no expense
in caring for the men and their fami-
lies. Only q few Of the men were dan
gerously injured. most of them suffer-
ing merely from sprains, bruises abra-
sions and exposure to the weather
Captain Minder, who was in Miami
at the time OF the storm. on returning
~ AlAc AADlAt On 6Ey AdIRO IOQnQ 1t
swept away and his wife and two
children missing. No trace Of them
has been found, and it is believed they
were drowned.
Among the known dead are B. A Par
lin Of Miami, George McLennon of
West Palm Beach and Harry Thomp-
son
The principal efforts have been TO
rescue the living, and no complete list
Of the dead has yet been prepared
Most Of them were strangers here
coming from northern cities to work
on the extension, and the payrolls of
the railroad company viii have to be
checked with the living before the
names Of the dead can accurately be
given.
STEAMER DRIVEN ASHORE.
NORFOLK, Va, Oct 21.-The steam
er George Farwell, timber laden. from
Jacksonville. Fla, for New Haven. IS
ashore on Cape Henry and probably
viii be a total loss. All on board were
saved, Captain J. D. Chisholm and his
crew OF fifteen men being landed to-
day by the life-saving crews from the
Cape Henry and Virginia Beach sta
tiOns.
The steamer, laden with $4,000 feet
Of cypress timber, went ashore in a
gale last night. She left Jacksonville
!