The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-14
Buildings, Crops and Timber DAM
aged and Railroad Tracks
Washed Out.
CENTER OF STORM PASSED EAST
OF cHATTAHoocHEE RIVER
BUT EFFECTS WERE FELT
MANY MILES TO THE WEST
WARD-TRAcNs WASHED OUT
AND TRAINS BADLY DELAYED.

One Of the most severe wind and
rain storms that has visited West
Florida in years struck. the Gulf coast
about It's miles east of Pensacola
Tuesday and passed to the northeast,
causing considerable damage to tim
Der, crops and, in some instances, to
buildings and other property. The
storm was first reported off the north
western coast of Cuba on June 9 and,
after working back and forth in the
vicinity of the southern end of the
peninsula for several days started
nOrthward', the center of the storm
passing not far from Apalachicola. The
rainfall was terrific, amounting almost
to a clOudburst and as result sever
al washouts occurred on the P. & A..
division of the L. & N, delaying train
number 2, due here at 1O:4O Tuesday
night for over 20 hours.
Twenty-one Hours Late.
The first reports of the storm reach
ed the city shortly after midnight
Tuesday, as reported in The Journal Of
yesterday, when L. & N. train num-
Der 2 was stopped by a washOut just
east Of Sneads. The train arrived in
the city last night at 1880, nearly
twenty-one hours behind schedule
time. Train number 1. leaving the
city at o'clock yesterday morning,
went out without a mail car on ac-
count of the delay to number Of the
night before and the mail clerk had
to do his work on table in the bag
gage car. Train %, due at IL a. m. /
yesterday reached the city at o'clock |
last night, and train q, due to leave
for Jacksonville at D. m. did not get J
away until nine, owing to the fact that
there were no coaches with which to
make it up. The New Orleans sleeper
which came in on belated number 2
was held until the regular train LAST
night before being sent on it's way.
One of the through passengers on
the train arriving twenty-One hours I
late had the following to say to a
Journal representative relative to the
storm, through the track of which the
train passed:
els OF the STORM.
cit was raining in Jacksonville when
We left yesterday morning but the
storm was not severe and, although
It was cloudy with occasional showers
We SAW no evidence of a severe storm
until the train was pretty well along
on its journey to River Junction. At
some places along the Seaboard All
Line east of the ChattahOOchee the
wind had blown down trees and as
we neared the river there were evil
1ences of an unusually heavy rainfall.
The river was high and all the little =
streams were booming. AT Sneads We ,
we're compelled to stop on account of
he track being completely washed {
away for a distance of nearly one ,
hundred yards and in addition to tnis ,
Hashout there were Two other places {
where the track had been washed out I
or somewhat shorter distances. There !
vas no rain at Sneads while We ware I
here, the storm having passed over. {
1T was at first thought that it would {
re necessary to transfer the passen-I {
,ers and send them to their destina- :
ions by some other route, but the Z
finally decided that nothing Z
Ould be saved by that procedure and {
UsheI the work Of repairing t1eI
freaks. In one of the breaks the
water was waist deep and was running {
Ike a mountain torrent. This was the 7
worst break and it was necessary tOI T
uild a sort of temporary bridge with :
imbers before the train could pass +
thine train was obliged to stay at 7
,neads until 1890 to-day before the Z
cad was in a condition for it to pass" {
The engine of train of TUESDAY 7
rOke down just east Of Milton last 7
vening and over an hour was lOsT in \
making repairs before it could proceed
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