The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-29
PENSACOLA ENERGIES
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company, stood the hurricane better
than the hrst reports indicated.
II Ia damaged but not destroyed. All
the smaller wharves are gone and
nothing is left to show they ever ex.
listed except a few black piling project.
ing from the water.
The fish house of E. z. Saunders and
Company. the largest shippers of rec
snappers in the world. Is tottering or
Its piling, warped and twisted. The
wharf that led to 1t is now only a mass
| OF broken and split lumber, inextri-
cably entangled with the other debris
on the beach. The beach from one side
of the city to the other looks as though
ii had suffered from some great dyna-
mite explosion so great is the destruc-
tiCn and Its succeeding confusion
Great vessels have been thrown upon the
beach, and launches are along the bus
mess streets of the city many yards
from the water front.
Scene In HarbOr.
Destroyed vessels are lying upon the
beach interlocked In death like twa
great locomotives which met in collis-
ion. A great vessel Is lying upon
and covering smaller vessels. Sailing
smacks were thrown with irresistible
and crushing force upon the wooden
houses that line the beach. Bare Leg
ged sailors with axe in hand, are cut
heAh8 anu ShOpPAh6 ~ 6Cb SoAiAo SOAh Va
order out of the chaos that has followed
the storm.
No definite loss of life has been re-
ported In the harbor. but 1t seems hard
ly possible that such destruction to
shipping could have taken place with
out loss OF life among the sailors.
Disquieting rumors come from the
army and navy posts below the city. A
heavy loss of life Is reported at Fort
McRee, but the report is not confirmed.
A party of leading Pensacolans early
this morning chartered a steamer and
are making a tour of investigation
along the bay shore. The most persist
emit rumors have to do with heavy
loss of life among the soldiers at Fort
McRee. This report Is being investt-
gated.
All telephone and telegraph lines
leading from Pensacola are down. No
street cars are running in the city and
the light company has not been able
to show an arc light since the storm.
The Western Union today established
communication with the outside world by
securing an engine and running mes
senger service on IT between Pensaco-
la ana F1omaton.
Driving the sea before IL, the tropical
storm of early Thursday morning swept
over Santa Rosa Island and delivered to
Pensacola the most crushing blow in its
history. When the fury OF the elements
were over Pensacola shipping, her
wharves and her river front formed the
most desolate wreck THAT gulf port
ever saw.
List of Dead.
The known dead are: Mrs. LeBaron
Gonzales, and 13-year-old son George:
Mrs. T. F. Matthews and two children;
Mrs. Prentiss and one child; Sergeant
Overlander; Private Jordan; unknown
FariVafn. I'd HnOhao William Sim
son. colored; Ella Simpson. colored; un-
identified man, woman and child at
wharf near Zarragossa street; five men
lost from quarantine station. The list
will no doubt be increaser when all bay
points have been heard from.
A conservative estimate places the
property loss at 100000. When be-
lated information comes from outlying
points the figures will probably go
higher.
- The United States government Is the
heaviest loser. With the exception of
the custom house. practically all of its
valuable property about Pensacola is
damaged. The quarantine station on
Santa Rosa Island is a complete wreck.
The life saving station on the same
ISLAND is a total loss.
Old Fort McRee, which, with Fort
Pickens. commands the entrance to the
city's splendid harbor, is as badly dam
aged as though foreign feet had stood
in the off1ing and hurled shell after
sheet at 1t.
I Soldiers Lose Lives.
Great waves swept over the fort and
huge mortars and guns were swept
away from the walls and ramparts. Sol
diers OF the United States army. with
legs and arms, chung to the heavy guns
to DO swept out Of the fort and into the
sea by the pounding OF irresistible
waves and more than one OF them lost
their lives before the fury of the ele1
ments had been spent.
The l.. and N. Railroad was per-
haps the next largest Individual loser.
Miles and miles of trestle running
were destroyed and the costly bridge
over the river is a total wreck. The
model wharf 1t built at Pensacola at
an enormous cost is practically no bet
ter than a ruin. Its magnificent grain
elevator is seriously damaged but 1t
is believed that the damage can be re-
paired
The storm struck a vital blow at
Pensacola when it struck at the timber
and fish industry To the fishing in
terests alone it is estimated that dam
ages amounting to at least half a mill
lion dollars has been done.
There is not a wharf, and a num-
Der of these wharves were devoted to
the fishing trade; there Is not a wharf
that runs from the city out into the
harbor that is not reduced to splinters
There was not a fish house that stood
at the end of the wharves that was not
wrecked and ruined. 1t was said today
that of the great fleet of Pensacola
fishing smacks there remains only two
today that are not beached or badly
damaged by the storm. Two of the
fishing firms have announced that their
business was utterly destro yed by the
storm.
Havoc With Lumber Mills.
In wreaking its fury upon the lum-
Der mills and lumber yards the storm
showed its greatest fury. Not only
were great ptlls wrecked or destroy
ed but huge timber RATS weighing tons
upon tons were lifted by the force of
the storm and hurled upon the beach
as easily as a child would run its fn-
gers through a bowl of water, and
gather a handful of straws. The
RATS spiked together with huge chains |
were hurled with crushing force
against the slender wooden houses that |
lined the beach. In the wreck of these |
houses there died all of those who |
were killed in the city Limits of PEN
sacola by the storm.
At Bagdad, two miles from the citv
the plant of the Robinson Point Lum- |
Der Company was destroyed together |
with a large quantity of lumber.
The immense plant of the Stearn |
Lumber Company at the same place |
was badly damaged. Some OF the |
buildings have been wrecked and the
put out of business. A num-
Der of lighters and great quantities
OF lumber were added to the wreck
n n haU