New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-29
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ers. but so far OILY one body has been recov-
cred. that Of George Morgan. a fisherman. Other
bodies are reported along the shore. but have not
been recovered.
Beginning at o'clock last night the wind blew
at fifty miles for three hours. then increased to
sixty-five miles From that time until o'clock
this morning 1t remained about eighty and ninety
miles an hour The tides from the bay backed
into the city for blocks destroying homes and
making rivers out OF streets.
When the gale was at its highest this morn
ing and women and children running
frantically about the streets in darkness, the
alarm OF fire was sounded, and this added 10
the confusion. The fire started in the Pitt MIL
near the business district and horses OF me
Fire Department refused 10 go out in the
weather With the tin roofs flying about Them
trees and wires falling over them. the hreInen
took their hose wagons by hand and rushed
down the streets 20 the scene, and after hours
Of work controlled the blaze
This afternoon the water rose. Business dis
tricts present an almost indescribable scene. OF
the fifty or sixty big steamers and sailing YES
sells lying in the harbor only five or six are there
now They have been driven ashore and along
the waterfront IS q mass OF wreckage Of steam
ers, towboats launches and sailing craft
Thirty fishing vessels IN port have been de-
stroyed or damaged, and the three big fish
houses with their wharves. are gone Muscogee
Wharf and the Commandments and Tarragona
wharves Of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
are badly damaged. Great iron ships of 1000
and 5000 tons have been driven not only ashore
but have gone through houses block from the
waterfront
Every house along the waterfront for dis
tance OF ten miles has been destroyed, and the
wonder IS that the loss of life is not greater.
The tracks OF the terminal railroad 10 the navy
yard and Barrancas have all been destroyed as
also the trestles and bridges.
No communication can be had with the navy
yard but Il is believed that the yard has
been badly damaged
Every business house from the wharf at Pala-
fox street 20 the Union Station has been I'M
rooted, many piategiass windows broken.
stocks badly damaged and wires and poles all
mixed up together. There is no electric hght
trolley or telegraph or telephone service The
tracks of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
on the Pensacola & Atlantic division have
been washed I'D for thirty miles. and two en-
g1nes and cars sent out to the quarantine sta
ton have been destroyed
Acting Mayor AIaura ordered every saloon
closed this morning, and fifty extra police Off
GERS have been sworn in. Homeless families are
being cared for in all parts of the city, but
many VIII walk the streets without food a
place TO sleep until order can be brought
out of the chaos existing. Added TO the
horror of the situation are the thieves who are
breaking omen trunks all along the beach enter
ing unoccupied houses and stealing everything
IN sight. Several arrests have been made, but
II is impossible to protect property under such
conditions.
Five sailors from a British steamer were
clinging TO a roof that was washed ashore to-
day. and three others from the same vessel had
been drowned.
War vessels at the Pensacola navy yard I'M
dergoing repairs were the gunboats Vixen, Ma
several smaller craft and the quartermasters
steamer Poe. They were in an exposed position
and Il is feared they may have been beached
Washington, Sept 2s-Tnr gunboats Isla de
la Luzon and AIachias and the converted yachts
Vixen and Gloucester. for which fears felt
at Pensacola. have been at the station there for
some time. The Isla de Ia Lyon IS one Of the
Spanish vessels sunk by Admiral Dewey's feet
at Manila and subsequently raised by this gov
eminent. She is Of 1880 tons displacement
The Vixen, of 500 tons displacement, figured in
the engagement off Santiago de Cuba during the
Spanish The Gloucester, of 7S6 tons dis
placement, was one OF the small squadron to
which the ity Of Ponce Porto Rico surren-
dered duriIz that war and which formed part
of the convoy for the transports carrying the
army in the campaign against Porto Rico
The MRchias, Of SOC displacement, took
part in the engagement at Cardenas soon after
the opening OF hostilities in Cuban waters.