The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30

or had sunk beneath the waves in the
storm of Wednesday morning.
Experienced sailors shake their heads
and intimate that in that terrible storm
there was no chance for the men aboard
the barge. The Astral and the oil
barge were several days out of Port
Arthur. Texas carrying heavy cargo
of oil to New York The storm struck
them 225 miles northwest of Tortugas.
In the midst of the terrible blow of
Wednesday morning the hawser from
the tug to the oil barge broke Since
then men aboard the oil barge have
been seen no more.
The Astral. when the storm had set
tied, spent thirty-six hours searching
for the unfortunate crew. but no trace
of them has been found. The officers
of the tug are hopeful that the barge
survived, as she was a stauneh craft
and that the men will be picked up by
some passing vessel
Two Unknown Bodies.
The bodies of two unknown white
men were picked up this morning, near
Yates, In the city limits They were
new victims of the storm. Victims who
had not been reported. and of whom
nothing is known. At a late hour to-
night the bodies had not been Identified.
The body Of hospital nurse Collier was
taken from the bay this morning at the
finding was revealed the noblest of the
many acts OF heroism in the horrors OF
Golfer gave his life that one of his
patients might live. fIe refused to be
rescued until his patient, who was with
him, and who was suffering from FEVER
had first been rescued.
Collier. and his patient. made the
terrible ride across the bay on the
roof of the hospital building of tha
quarantine station. Ten men started
on this terrible ride, while the waters
of the hay were dashed into pillows
such as the bay never saw before, The
roof and its human freight swept by
Town Point opposite the city ana tho
men aboard were almost close enough
to reach to land and be saved, but they
missed II.
They swept under. the bow of the
Government boat Pilot, and the look
out tried to throw them a line, but
death was riding on the roof with the
ten men and no human agency could
stay him. Beaten and bruised by the
terrible waves. five of them released
their hold and the waves claimed them.
Near Baskerville, on the dummy line
to the navy yard, the roof was blown
ashore, rescuers waded out and rescued
three of the men. Collier and a sailor
from the steamer Irtskall were on the
side of the roof opposite the shore.
Brave Collier Dies.
On their second trip, the rescuers
went around the roof and Collier said
to them. take the other man first.
he's a patient suffering from fever.
When the rescuers returned again, Col
Iier was gone. A launch picked up his
bruised and battered body today. 1t
will fill the grave of hero.
The remains of Mrs. Lebanon Con
zales were picked up this afternoon
on the beach near Sea Breeze, short
distance from where she and her little
son were overwhelmed by the waters
of the sound.
She and her husband went out from
Pensacola Monday to spend a few days
on the sound at the home of Ed Dun
ham.
The tropical hurricane found them
there.
The Durham home was utterly de-
stroyed and the party sought to make
its way through the awful waves to the
woodlands in the rear. Mrs. Gonzales
and her son were swept away in spite
of the frantic efforts of the husband
and father to save them. Mrs Durham
was lost from the grip of her husband,
but after desperate efforts, the men in
the party recovered her before she was
drowned.
She was recovered, but the furious
elements OF wind and waves had strip
ped her of all her clothing. In this
same neighborhood. Sheriff James Van
Pelt succeeded, after countless dan
gers, in saving himself and his son.
Father and son came out of the terri
BILE experience covered with bruises.
DOOty's Terrible Experience.
J. ID. Dooty who lived upon the beach
at Sea Breeze. reached the city last
night after undergoing Il narrowing eX-
perience. II am satiehed.' he said that
the families of two fishermen who lived
on the beach just above me. We're lost
in the storm. l heard nothing of them
after the storm broke. For sixteen
years 1 have lived upon the beach. but
1 never saw the sea as l saw IL early
Wednesday morning. l was alone when
the storm broke. and God, how l suffer
ed No man ought to live alone. Alone.
i heard the screams of the wind. The
sea rose until 1t beat upon my house on
the hill. 1t had never before done that,
1 heard the boom, boom of the trees as
they fell in the yards and in the woods
nearby. Two pet dogs were with me in
the house and they howled dismaIly
and horribly. I prayed, Oh. how l
prayed for daylight to come. But when
the light came the storm increased it's
fury and / fled from the house to the
can't yet speak of that night without
crying"
The storm wrought its greatest de-
struction on the homes of Pensacola at
Yates, where Zarragossa street crosses
Little Bayou. No less and probably
more than fifty houses We're utterly
wrecked. For acres the neighbor-
hood is only one Understandable mass
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