Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-10-15
KEY WEST NOW
IN CHARGE OF
The MILITARY
BLOCKS OF FRAME STRUCTURES
RAZED AND DAMAGE WILL
REACH 100000.
BLIZZARD RACES IN WEST.
Heavy Snowfall Reported in Wisconsin
and Michigan, Delaying All
Trains in North.
SUPERIOR GALE is UNDATED.

! KEY WEST. Fla, Oct. 12.-With
the city in the hands of the military
authorities who were called on by the
mayor for assistance, efforts were made
today to concentrate on ascertaining the
damage done by the hurricane which
swept the gulf yesterday. 1t was esti-
mated the damage to property in the
city and narbor would reach $2,OOO,O0O
| No loss of life was reported in the city,
| but the death toll may be heavy along
the eastern coast of the peninsula.
Many of the vessels which had been
| swept from their mOorings during the
blow yesterday afternoon managed to
! ride out the storm during the night and
| limped back to their piers this morning,
| but between sixty and seventy-fve boats
of all descriptions were wrecked 1t is
| feared number of lives were lost on
| these vessels.
In the city whole blocks of frame
| structures were RACED, brick houses also
| fell before the gale. while the great to-
| baccO factories and warehouses suffered
considerable damage,
Jail Filled with Vandals
The city Jail is filled to overlooking
with vandals captured by the militia and
police during the night Thieves began
| operations as soon as the fury of the
| storm had abated, the Wrecking of the
| electric light plant having plunged the
| city into darkness.
Hundreds of homeless today were be-
ing cared for in churches, schools, and
other roomy structures which escaped
! the fury of the storm.
West Coast Escapes.
TAMPA, Fla, Oct. 12.-News re-
ceived here today indicates that the west
| coast of the Florida peninsula escaped
| the full force of the hurricane which yes
| terday swept up from the gulf, but anxi-
ETY. is felt over shipping which is known
| to have been In the path of the storm.
| Every effort was made to reach ali yes
sells by wireless, but without success in
| many Instances.
! Storm warnings were ordered down
along the west coast at 10 O'Clock last
night indicating that the storm had
| changed its course. 1t is now believed
| that the damage from the storm will be
comparatively light in the interior.
| Weather Bureau Reports.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct 12.-The
exact location of the center of the trop-
| zeal disturbance this morning, as indicat-
| ed by the reports to the weather bureau,
was between 200 and 300 miles off Jack
| sonville, Fla. The usual path of the
| West Indian hurricanes which come up
from the gulf and sweep the Atlantic
coast is to pass to sea anywhere between
Key West and Norfolk, then to veer
northeasterly and continue into the
north Atlantic. Storms of previous years
! have been known to continue their de-
structive paths all the way across the
| Atlantic, leaving in their wake many
| wrecked vessel.
At Key West this morning the storm
| had spent its force. A northwest wind
J was blowing and rain was falling. The
| thermometer registered 80 at 8 o'clock
Reports from Tampa, Fla, indicated
that the storm was little felt there, the
| disturbance having passed somewhat to
| the south of that place. There being no
observer of the weather bureau at Mi
ami no reports of the effect of the hur-
ricane in that city have been received
| here.
Storm Warnings Down.
All storm warnings on the Atlantic
and gulf coasts have been ordered dis
continued. but the weather bureau ad-
vises shipping interests that the hurri-
cane is continuing over the Atlantic and
caution should be exercised by masters
Of vessels about to proceed across the
| Atlantic.
1t is fully expected that incoming re-
ports will disclose severe damage to ship
! ping and much destruction to property,
perhaps some loss of life among the
Florida keys but undoubtedly the de-
struction would nave been very much
greater except for the prompt action of
| the weather bureau IN spreading broad
cast through every available agency
warnings Of the approaching hurricane.
Evidently the question of food for the
| sufferers is not very serious one as the
commanding officer at Key West says
that he has $4,000 rations, though he is
! short of vegetables and fresh meats. Nor
| is any fear felt here that this question
will come up as regards the population
| of the city, which is only five or six
| hours from Tampa from which supplies
could be rushed promptly in the event
that such step was necessary.
Considerably damage to the army
property at Key West resulted from the
hurricane. Two barrack buildings are
unsafe and not considered repairable.
| The hospital was partially unroofed and
the supplies for that institution badly
wrecked. The condensing plant was
wrecked and all the buildings belonging
to the army were flooded from the rains
| The hurricane was at the rate of eighty
| miles an hour and continued six hours
Twelve Lives Are Lost
HAVANA Oct. Accommodation
between this city and interior points,
which was interrupted when yesterdays
| storm tore down the telegraph and tele-
| phone wires, had not been renewed to-
! day. Reports from nearby places indi-
| cate that the property loss, especially to
! the westward, has been heavy, but that
! there were few fatalities. -Four bodies
| have been discovered amid the ruins Of
| fallen homes here, and it is now believed
| that twelve lives were Lost in this city.
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