The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-22
Survivors Brought in from Sea Tell Narrowing Tales of
 Narrow Escapes
MANY WERE KILLED BY THE
 WRECKAGE OF HOUSEBOATS
At All Atlantic Ports Disabled Vessels Are Putting Into Port and All Re-
 port Great Losses from Recent Hurricane.

2 Key West, Fla, October 21.-Survivors rom one of the houseboats on the Flori- da East Coast railway extension along the keys tell narrowing tale of death ! and destruction during the storm of Thursday
 w. P. DusenBery, civil engineer in charge of the work on Long key, who miraculously escaped death, arrived here on the Russian steamer Jennie, among other survivors rescued. He says house. boat No. 1, on which were 15o men, was struck by the storm at o'clock Thurs day morning and was driven out into the gulf through Hawks channell At 6 o'clock the houseboat began to break up and as the great waves hit her, men, singly and in punches of two and three, would be washed into the sea and drowned. Some went below for protection but when the top of the boat was carried away the waves rushed. in and the boat soon went to pieces, thirty or forty of the men being crushed to death in the collapse, the others grabbing tlmbers to save themselves from drowning
 Men Float Away on Logs.
 Engineer s. Dusebery was in the hold but succeeded in getting log and fioated until Friday night, when he was rescued On one piece of timber sixteen men were clinging and nine were hanging to an- other. The side of the houseboat was crowded with men. It turned over three times, each time reducing the number.
 The Russian steamer Jennie sighted the wreckage and succeeded in reseuing the forty-nine men who were brought here Three other steamers with search lights were picking up men dead and alive when the Jennie left the scene. There was an- other houseboat with one hundred and fifty men on board at Long Key. which Mir Dusenbery thinks was also swept into the sea- There were in all ten boats at Long Key
 Mortar mixers, dredges and other boats engaged in the work. The survivors were furnished food and clothing from the East Coast railway commissary here and were given medical attention.
 The extension work of the railway along the keys was not damaged
 List of the Injured.
 Among the rescured who were injured, some of them seriously, were the follow ing: M. s. Martin. Philadelphia slightly bruised; Frank Woodward, Aiken s. C., slightly bruised William Parmentiren, Dl1ODs GdtCt, SllBIlig lllJhiSu, votiH 4tNT Manus, Boston; David Fortier, Springfield. Mass. internally injured; George Ensey, Palatka, Fla; l.. M. Marick, Palataka. Fla: A. IT. Walden, Burlington, Ia; V. l. Walker, Rebarsburg, Pa. Charles Allen, Cleveland, O.; Walter Moore, badly bruised; w H. Sanders Miami, Fla, badly bruised Harry Hansen, Nor way, internal injures D. Morrissey, New York; Otto Klrchiff Ponce DeLeon Springs, Fla. slightly injured; Frank Murray, New York, badly bruised; Charles Blair, Tampa, broken leg; John Bradley, New York bruised leg; J. H. Woodall Kissimmee, Fla, bruised leg; James Madden. New York, internal in juries; Chris Koerner, New York, E. J. Mccall. Dade City, Fla. bruised; J. Mitchell (GreelS), A. J. Lively, New York, internal injuries J G. Wicks, Jackson vile, Fla; R. N. Lewis. Massachusetts, bruised; W. T. Connor, Syracuse, N. Y; Charles Larsen, Mobile; Mark Brant, Galveston mashed; William Mccormick, Galveston, mashed; w Mccormack, Erie, Pa; V. E. Laboute, Burlington. Va. head injured; John Miller, Brooklyn, badly bruised; J. L. Padgett, Tampa, Fla; Tom McGowan. New York. bruised; William l.. West Pennsylvania, knee hurt; E. w. Booth, rupture; William Bremen, South Carolina; Luke Drlscol. Brooklyn, ankle hurt: G. w. Franklin, Miami, badly bruised; Frank West Jersey City: Fred Larue, Philadelphia; w. c. Fry, Miami, badly bruised; James Nolan, New York, head hurt