The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-03
BY WILL r. SHEEHAN.

BY WILL T. SIBERIAN.
Pensacola, Fla, Oct. 2.-(Special)-
The first car load Of fish. Pensacol@s
famous commodity, went out today. The
electric lights were turned on through
the city. Telephones were working.
complete railroad schedule has been
Established. Boats are running regu-
larly. The city huns with business.
and salvage workers are pulling and
rafting at the great tangle OF lumber
ar timber in the harbor, said to be
worth perhaps over a million dollars.
II the street cars were running and
the city authorities would permit the
saloons to open. Pensacola would b
living her normal business life.
In two days Of fair weather, a won
derful change has been wrought. The
wreckage Of the devastation of the
great. storm has not. of course. bee !
cleared away. The work will need
weeks for completion, but an advance
has been made-a distinct advance.
For one thing, the old-time dredge'
the Fidget drought to have been a
hopeless wreck. has been pulled out
Of the wreckage badly SCARED. but
able to do business.
The survival Of the Fidget is part OF
the irony Of the storm. Great ocean
going vessels three times as large as
she is, are smashed and foundered. but
the old dredge which a sailor said today
had not been permitted to get more
than a hundred yards away from the
docks for fear of. sinking. was saved
and Is now engaged in digging a
channel to get out the heavier, the
stronger and the better boats.
Saw and Hammer Busy.
Saw and hammer fused noisely up
and down the water front and men
called and shouted to each ether on the
heaped-up wreckage. Pensacola was
buster today than If she had never had
q storm. Train and steamboat brough:
people to the city. and every passen-
ger had things to buy in the stores
The storm has made draft on the
stock of every merchant in the city. ~
much was destroyed. There is work
for everybody at good wages. and there
are plenty of customers ready to buy
goods at coed prices.
The lenss melancholy wall OF a tug
boat ip the bay. sending forth the de-
pressing signal for the dead wagon.
was not today heard O single time.
through the streets and back w to IL
wharf while a morbid crowd watched
men pull laway a tarpaulin and lift
the terrible thing underneath. the body
of a man taken from the water, beaten.
gashed and bruised by the floating
wreckage.
On land or water there is no sight
30 gruesome as human body that went
down in storm to be smashed and
tossed about over the under wreckage
of all sorts. There is no pen delicate
enough to describe this horror than
which there Is none greater.
There are those whom a life on the
water has made familiar with the
gruesome duty Of finding and lifting
from the water the swollen and bruised
bodies of those who have died in the
sea, but no normal man unaccustomed
to the gruesome task can do II.
Modern CATER Hexams.
There are modern CATER Hexams who
can 90 the work easily and without
Il -ght, but the man who knows not
sum scenes looks with revulsion upon
them at the gruesome task There arS
men who have travelled far. seen and
viewed the bodies of those who died In
every form of violent death. but they
are not hardened to the CHASTITY and
pristly sight of the work of the fishers
for the bodies Of men.
But in the clear sunlight of today
there was none of that This feature
of the storm, together with its other
horrors, have passed and remain now
only as the memory of a nightmare.
Charles L. Mann, local jeweler, with
a seaside home to the west. reached
the city tonight bringing the first news
from Perdido Bay, a point TO which the
interest of many Alabamians has been
turned since the storm rushed along the
Gulf coast A number OF Montgom
erians and Selmians have summer
homes along Perdido Bay. and many
other people of those cities have vlsiteu
the beautiful little bay on the Gulf.
but Mr.. Mann had but little informd !
tion from the places favored in their
summer trips by the Alabamians.
Perdido Bay Devastated.
He lived on a different portion OF
the bay from that used by Alabamians
but his news was that the bay FROM
from one end to the other had been
devastated by the storm with grea'
property loss. There was rumor froit
up the bay that mother and two
children had been lost in the storm. bu
Mr.. Mann and his neighbors were un
able to confirm 1t. although they made
an unsuccessful effort to do so.
Mr.. Mann. however, brought new:
direct from that colony of Albanian!
on Perdido Bay. six miles this side o.
Caswell. where he came from, wer'
hungry. destitute and in want. Th'
launch in which Mr. Mann and hi.
family made the trip from Caswe.
stopped at this point and the people
Informed him that their provisions hac
been destroyed by the storm.
Mr.. Mann and his party made the
trip in a launch belonging to a Chicag,
man, which, having been packed away
in a boat house, managed to live
through the storm. No other boa
about Caswell survived. Captain Cal
lowaY. who owned two steamers thai
did practically all of the business in anc
around Perdido Bay. lost both hi
boats. One Is high and dry In the
woods at Barge Bayou. and the Other
Is high and dry at Cotton Bayou.
Mr.. Mann had reliable informat ior
of the destruction of property at Shei
Banks and Baldwin County had beer
very large. The entire shore front wit {
all wharves, bath houses. boats and q
couple of homes had been DESTROYED
There was. however. no loss of life
News from Soldiers Creek was meagre
but what there was indicated the same
general devastation along the water
line.
The storm, from the report OF M
Mann and other news to the west, in
dicated that the fiercest portion IF the
hurricane, after 1t passed Pensacola