The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-02

strument OF the sea and crushed to
death.
Houses Crushed BY Ships.
Near the remainsof Brent's Mills, three
heavy vessels were thrown against and
crushed into a row Of houses high on
the beach. The homes of Charles john
son. Gus Johnson. Charles and James
Cook. are crushed and wrecked by the
fishing smack Nellie Keyser. and the
steamer Angelo.
The collision was SO great that one
can hardly tell where the vessels left
off and where the houses begin. With
in fifty yards there are four other
tered and so beaten to pieces that they
seem to have been wrecks years old.
few yards away is a big Herring safe
which was aboard some big vessel. and
which was on the beach from some of
the big vessels wrecked in that neigh
borhood.
The plant OF the Dunwoodie-A Aiken
Machine Company. a hundred yards
from this point on the beach. has been
wiped out of existence. The building Is
level with the ground and only some OF
the machinery remains A big three
masted British vessel Is midway OF the
piles that were once the support or TINS
company's wharf. The piles have stab
bed her through the side and are still
holding her firm and fast
In this same neighborhood. which Is
little below the junction Of .Zarragossa
and DeVillers streets, the full fury or
the storm was felt.
This point is in the southwestern
portion of the city and when the sea
had leaped over Santa Rosa Island and
the wind was rushing the heavy waves
up the bay, there was nothing to pro-
tect the wooden buildings that lined
tho beach and fhe streets from the
violence of the storm
The houses were only couple or
feet above the sea level and where the
tracks Of the Terminal Railroad passes
down Main Street just below Devillers
Street. The houses face the bay.
No More Houses Now.
There are no more houses there now.
few piles of brick are all that re-
mains as evidence of human civiliza-
ton. On the block bounded on the
east by Devillers Street and on the
south by Main Street. not single house
is standing. 1t is bare waste of white
sand dotted here and there with a few
piles of brick.
The lumber which formed the houses
Of this thickly populated block can not
be seen. On the next block along Main
Street and the Terminal line there are
only two houses standing and they are
completely wrecked.
Fire and dynamite could not have
destroyed these two blocks more COM
pletely In the block are the Pensa
cola homes that are ruins and were
wrecked by the vessels that were
thrown upon them. The Inhabitants of
these homes escaped at midnight Tues
day night because the women were
weeping and praying and insisting that
they and the children be taken out be-
fore 1t was too late.
Mr.. O'COnnOr's Escape.
John c. OConnor, a popular Mont
gomerian now living in Pensacola, had
a trying and dramatic experience, but
he went through 1t without having the
wrecked nerves and hysteria of some
people who had to flee the storm. Mr..
O'Connor has a summer home down the
bay. near the Old Mill Inn. It is a
beautiful little cottage and formerly
had an attractive yard decked with
palms and tropical trees. The house Is
still standing. with every piece of fur
niture in it soaked. but there are trees
no more, and the yard is a sandy, sea-
swept waste.
Mr.. O'Connor and his friend Bob Quina
were spending the night in the bay
shore cottage when the storm broke.
They We're wakeo e, midnight by
the fury Of the storm. The waves were
then beating upon the steps. In few
minutes they were breaking upon the
houses. How the locks of the doors
and window blinds withstood the force
of the furious and heavy waves can
not be understood. Standing at side
window Mr., O'Connor and his guests
could see the waves rush by after they
had been broken by the house. At 3
O'Clock in the morning the two men
decided that the time had come when
the house should be abandoned as II
might he smashed at any moment.
Wading in sea water up to their
necks they made their way to the Old
Mill Inn. where they found not only
the guests of the Hotel but the people
of the entire neighborhood assembled
as it was generally known that this
was of the heaviest and strongest
buildings along the bay front Day
broke the storm lulled and all walked
forth in the morning In safety.
The pet dog of Capt. Rosert Broad
wreckage of the light house station on
Santa Rosa Island of which Capt
Rroadbent was the keeper. Two artil-
lerymen who went up from Fort Pick
ems, three miles away found the wreck
age on the island not Yar from where
the building stood.
Investigating the wreckage for a
possible dead body. they came upon the
little dog, wrapped in a blanket and
protected but imprisoned by heavy
beams. Here the little animal had been
since the storm broke, without food
and water But he had strength to lap
and lick about the hands Of his rescu-
erS.
Reunion of Dog and Master.
There was a Joyful reunion between
Captain Rroadbent and the little pet
for the dog IS now the only thing that
remains to him of his home on the is
land Chl"f of his and mis- family losses
the loss OF a mccall presented his
dauSht"r' Mrs. Logas by the King of
Sweden.
The medal was given her by the
King because of her signal bravery.
! In res"uing II seaman from wrecked
Swedish vessel, The Life Saving Sta
/ tion was sLprt of men al the time Of
the wreck and Mrs. Logas with her
sister took TIA" place of two men and
/ worked sue cssfully for the lives Of
wrecked sailors Her medal was lost
| In the destruction OF the station, but
i hcr sisters was saved by the fortu-
! nate clrrui stance that it was not on
the island IT In" time of the storm.
| Galveston Offers Assistance.
galveston, tn" greatest of all storm
sufferers. today wired an offer of help
| /" Pensacola. and she was heartily
| thanked, but IN" offer was declined.
Another heavy rainstorm broke over
pensacola early this morning and rain
continued until IL o'clock, but mas
much as 1t has rained every day since
the storm aud all damage that could
be done by water. has been done, the