The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-02
City Appreciates OfHs but Will Decline to Accept Aid
 from Outside
FACES THE HUGE PROBLEM
 WITH REMARKABLE VIM
Mayor Bliss Says Exaggerated Re- ports Have Been Made of the Dam-
 age, Which Will Not Be
 Over $5,ooo, ,ooo All Told.

Pensacola, Fla, October LA feeling of cheerfulness after days of gloom pre- vailed in stricken Pensacola today, ard the citizens faced the situation, that of clearing the wreckage and rebuilding with a vim and ardor that speaks vol umnes. It is known that the destroyed portions of the city, wharves and mills will not only be rebuilt, but in the place of the old ones will be erected larger and more commodous ones. Immense sawmil plants will take the places of those destroyed, new and handsome buildings are to be erected at once on the sites of those so badly damaged as to be condemned, and new Pensacola will emerge in the course of a few months from the wreck of the old Pensacola.
 Downpour Greets Workers.
 The morning broke badly a downpour of rain greeting the thousands of workers who are now employed in clearing away the wreckage, but nothing undaunted, they rushed the work vigorously and by nightfall the water front was assuming more pleasing aspect, while many boats
 
 CTS were busily engaged in making re- pairs and getting the vessels in condl- tion.
 Within few days the Chapman Mer- ritt WreclSing company of New York will have it's entire fleet of wreckers and workmen here. It is believed that fully one-third of the vessels beached can be gotton off
 Rear Admiral Capps. chief of the bu- reau of construction and repairs, arrived here tonight and will go to the navy yard to look over the situation, and determine what is best to be done there with the many war vessels and docks that have been wrecked.
 Three More Deaths Reported.
 Three additional deaths were reported today. one a negro named Leslie Shepard at Robinson Point, and the other two section hands near Escambia Bridge. The latter two bodies were recovered. The death list is thus swelled to thirty-three, but it is understood that Miss Parsons, the young lady reported as having been drowned near Mary Esther, has been found alive
 Today the cutter Penrose loaded with provisions made trip the entire length of Santa Rosa Sound, where they found many hungry and destitute families who were given provisions. Another relief ex- petition of similar nature will go out to- morrow.
 In the city every person is being cared for and no aid will be asked from out side cities Many prominent men and wo- men are working with the relief commit tee, and providing food and clothing for the destitute and every able bodied man who has no work will be compelled to work
 Much Work for Laborers.
 There is an abundance of work for la borers, the Louisville and Nashville alone having over 1000 men at work, and the officials propose to see that there are no loafers or iders at this time.
 The saloons are still closed by order of the mayor. and the club rooms were today ordered to close their bars which was done.
 The Louisville and Nashville today learned that two solid train loads of freight with engines had been lost ten miles from the city on the P. and A. d. vision The trains were left on the tracks by the crews when the water put out the engine fire and were washed into the bay and lost, the engines being buried in the sand
 Sensational reports published in some papers and sent out by the special cores pondents are being harslly citicised and today the mayor issued a statement to the Associated Press in regard to this
 The Associated Press estimate of $5,- 100000 loss is conservative and it now seems that it will not exceed that amount.
 Mayor Issues Statement.
 The Mayors statement is as follows: s'The reports that have been published regarding the disaster at Pensacola have been greatly exaggerated The widest stories of congregation have been publish ed over the United States, and it is de- sired that a calm statement of the facts be made to the public that they may be correctly informed and that those who have friends and interests in Pensacola may know the true state of affairs. The hurricane was very bad, the worst in 175 years, but the stories regarding steam ships being driven ashore and lodged in the center of the city, and the destruction of all houses for ten miles. and of parties being rescued from second story windows, are not true The water rose eight and one-half feet above normal The quaran- tine station and life saving station on Santa Rosa island which were small frame houses were washed away by the sea breaking over the island, which is composed of low sand dunes The frame house at Post Pickens suffered, and all of the frame houses at Fort McRae which were only few feet above the sea level were washed away. Not a steamship in the bay was lost, but each was saved by steaming to anchor. All of the sailing vessels were beached and many of them are being fioated at the present time. The small craft, such as fishing smacks and
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