The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-02
The Florida City Gets
Busy.
PEOPLE SHOW THEIR PLUCK
American, Italian, Swede and
Negro Weld PICK.
Mayor Bliss Issues Statement Discred.
itinG Reports Of Certain News
papers on ConditiOn Of City ~s
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John O'ConnOr's Escspe. es
BY WILL T SHEEHAN.

BY WILL T SHEEHAN. '-
Pensacola. Fla, Oct Especially.
Capable. confident and efficient Penso.
cola today set about the work Of re-
with that optimism which
holds that every misfortune Is smaller
than 1t seems. o'-
Buyers and sellers thronged her bus
mess streets. clerks and merchants
moved about her stores busy as
bees. every steam craft that the storm
left able to turn wheel pulled fussily
up and down the bay. and men with
shining axes. brand new, hacked away
at the wilderness Of wreckage on the
water front.
Perhaps the city never before had a
day SO busy as today. Visitors flock
ed to town. They have been coming In
since Friday on every train and steam-
boat traffic has been resumed between
the city and all the bay and coast towns
And every steamer that pulled to the
wrecked wharves was loaded with pas
sengers. The city went to work today.
confident that the misfortune was not a.
great as 1t at first believed and not 90
paralyzed from the blow Of the els-
ments.
Three new deaths were reported to-
day from the storm. all negroes. The
gratifying news was brought in, hows
ever. that the report sent out relating
to the death OF Miss Pricer on the
sound above Sabine was untrue. 4t0
The relief party sent up the sound to
relieve the hunger OF the storm suffer-
ers was told that Miss Pricer had been
killed in the wreck Of her fathers
home. but her parents were In the city
today and 1t was learned that Miss
Fricer passed through the storm unhurt
and unscratched- ..,
The first news Of the death OF Les-
lie Sheffield. Pensacola negro. was
brought in today.
The negro was drowned at Robinson
Point. He was at work in the Robin x
son Point Lumber Company's mill when
the storm struck. trying to save some
of the property. White men directed
Shepherd to leave the mill, but no
stayed too long. His body Is still IN
the bay.
Section Hands DR. med.
The swollen bodies o. TWO negro
section hands were taken from Escam'
bia Bay. about six miles from the city.
where they were overwhelmed. Two
Of their associates. negro section hands.
were undoubtedly drowned at the sans
time, but their bodies have as yet re-
mained undiscovered. The foreman Of
the gang said that early Wednesday
morning the four negroes were dis
covered on a knoll with the water Of
the bay up to their necks and still ris-
ing No boat could be had to save their
lives for all were sunk or destroyed.
There was no earthly power that could
save the negroes from the rising Hood.
With three bodies recovered today,
the known death list amounts to thirty
two In Pensacola and its vicinity.
Counting the negroes VINO were on
yet recovered, the list totals thirty
four The fear still lives that more
bodies are to be found as the wreckage
Is cut away. but no ouch gruesoma
relics Of the storm have been found BY
the wreckage workers.
Bliss Makes Statement.
Mayor Charles II. Bliss today issued
a statement correcting the misstate-
ments by the newspapers who in tho
absence OF direct information front
Pensacola, manufactured specials in
their own Offices.
Some of these home made stories had
steam vessels wrecked on Palafox
Street; Pensacola annihilated: every
house in city blown down or unroofed
and the city n hopeless wreck. The
Mayor declared that all these state
ments were gross exaggeratfons ana
have caused the outside world to think
that the citys misfortune Is more Sc
we're than II is. 1t Is a great disaster
that cannot be remedied. On the other
hand he points out that the storm Will
result in only brief interruption or
the business life of the city and that
within a few days conditions absolutely
normal will be restored.
He estimates that the damage done
in Pensacola proper will not amount to
more than a million dollars.
This estimate. OF course. does not
contain the million dollar damage done
by the storm at the navy yards. nor
does II include the damage to tho
army property at Barrancas. Pickens
and McRae, or the heavy damage done
on Santa Rosa Island. nor the big dam
age done to the wealthy lumber and
timber interests tC the CITY
Damage $5,0OO,OOO.
Conservative estimates have II that
all this together with what damages
that has been done along the bay and
water front adjacent to Pensacola,
will total up the total estimate of be-
tween four and FIVE million dollars,
and may go higher.
The grain elevator of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad. originally re-
nor,ed TO have been blown down, ;s
still standing. but damaged by the
storm. This item originally counted
ms lost by the Louisville and Nashville
officials will. however. be Offset by
to its property along Els
Gambia Bay. not expected and not re-
ported until lately.
The Mayor this morning published
an order permitting the saloons to
omen for business Mt o'clock this at
trrnoon. A committee of the leading
nuslncss Of the city, however. called
upon him and after the conference the
order was rescinded. Today the bar
NJ the Osceola club was closed by the
Governing Boards. after receiving
word from the city authorities. PEN
s,coIa will care for It's own poor and
needy. ---s
Her misfortune was not so great
that she cannot do this. Montgomery
and other sister cities So generously
inclined may give their means to other
cities that have suffered worse than
Work of Relief COMMITTEE. ..sr
The Relief Committee today not onS
Nv cared for those who came but en-
oreotic agents were sent OUT into the