The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-13
DISGUSTING RUMoRs ABOUT 2ooo WoRKMEN THAT ARE IN
 POINTS OF DANGER.
Half of the City of Key West Is De stroyed and the City Is Under Martial Law on Account e
 Lawiessness.

Key West, Fla. Oct. 12.-hall of the city is practically in ruins, over 300 homes having been destroyed and more than a hundred ships wrecke, as a result of the hurricane which swept this clty yesterday afternoon. Seven churches and nine of the larg- est cigar factories in the South also wore destroyed.
 Hundreds of men are now at work cleaning up the streets under tho di. rection of Mayor Fogaity.
 As soon as darkness fell last night thieves began their raids ill the homes and office buildings destroyed by lne storm. The police were unable to cope wi,h the situation and Mayor Fogarty Immediately called for the Key West Guards, the local military organiza- ton and the city was placed under martial law.
 Scores of arrests were made, the police and soldiers in many instances firing on the yandale
 In the residence districts the streets in many instances were ren dered impossible by the aaiins of the hous unole buildings were picked up by the gale and hurled across the street and only advance warnings of the Weather Bureau prevented a heavy loss of life
 Along the water front the beaches were strewn with the wreckage of small boats of all kinds, hardly building was left standing, while piers and wEarves were all swept away. At the time the storm broke yesterday afternoon there were nearly 100 yes sels in the harbor, the majority of these being swept to sea or broken up on the beaches
 Today hundreds of homeless are roaming she streets, hungry and with little prospects of shelter for tonight. Fortunately the weather is bright and warm and there is little physical suf fering.
 The war department has instructe the commandant of the coast artillery companies stationed here to aid the city authorities in every way possible and tents and bedding will be distrib uted by the soldiers.
 At ths time no estimae can be given of the financial losses incurred by the storm, but it is believed 1t will be betweeen two and three million dollars. It will be weeks before the big tobacco factories will be able to resume operations, and business gen. eIally will be at standstiH for at least several days
 One death is reported, that of Frank Gray, a photographer
 The United States Weather Bureau and ship reporting station at Sand Key was swept to sea at 10 o'clock yesterday morning Observers Dague. Keiter and Willard on duty there. are safe
 The launch Lunette. with the crew 'of the dnedge Nimke arrived here at 5 D. m.. bringing additional details of the effect of ahe hurricane along the coast. The dredge Nimke of the East Coat Extension fleet lies disabled in No. trestle between Matacumbie and Long Key, which is badly washed in places.
 The grade of the extension at Jew. fish Bush is washed away; the dock at Pigeon Key is wrecked; the fill at Knights Key is washed away 1eav. ing the trestle firm: the approach to the viaduct at Long Key is gone and wreckage is piled on the shore every where. All of the massive concrete yiaducts of the extension are reported safe, as ts the bridge from Knights Key to the piers
 The master of the l.unette reported that in coming down h esaw several dredges and concrete mixers sub merged along the coast, in some cases miles from the work Many small