Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-19
CAssociated Pross)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct, 1S.-
with every telegraph wire In the state
south of Jacksonville down, the CEN
ter OF the West Indian hurricane can
not be located. The velocity of the
wind is increasing hourly.
That the property damage from the
storm throughout Florida will total
several millions and/that there has
been loss of life is not doubted. A
forty-mile wind at Jacksonville this
morning had increased to sixty at b
D. M, when it was still increasing.
The barometer there had fallen rap
idly since noon, standing at traction
above 29 inches this evening.
The property loss in Jacksonville is
great. Semi-panic conditions prevent
definite information as to loss of life.
The only means of communication
from Jacksonville with the outside
world is single telegraph wire be-
tween that city and Augusta.
1t Is reported that half the buildings
In the town of Mayport fifteen miles
below Jacksonville, at the mouth OF
the st. Johns river, were wrecked.
1t is almost certain that there was
loss of life there. The population of
Mayport is about zoo.
STORM GRIPS KEY WEST
The tropical hurricane that has been
sweeping over the West Indies and
southern waters for five days took Key
West in its grip yesterday and tore
awav the roofs of houses, shook a
number of buildings from their foun-
dations, blew vessels from their moor
ings and did other damage, the extent
of which cannot yet be estimated.
But three lives were reported lost,
a negress and two children being
drowned.
The first mutterings of the storm
were heard last Thursday, and by
Monday the wind registered ninety
miles an hour when the recorder was
blown off.
The sea poured over the low lying
shores in the western portion of Key
West and many houses facing the
ocean were either wrecked or blown
from their foundations. The new gov
ernment wharf was pounded by the
heavy waves until sections OF it were
broken away.
The damage to the electric company
plants at Key West amounts to $4,000,
while the naval station will need many
thousands of dollars to repair 1t.
Several schooners were sunk.
SAVANNAH IN DANGER
Telegraph communication south Of
Savannah, Ga, Is practically destroyed.
Reports from Tybee island received at
o'clock are that the tide is higher
than 1t ever has been except during
the storm of 1881, when practically
all of the island was submerged. It
is two hours before flood tide; the
water is covering the island.
The wind at Savannah reached fifty
miles and the local weather officials
believe the city Is directly in the path
OF the storm.
Tybee reports a gale blowing with
the heavy seas breaking over the re-
tanning walls of the government res
ervation at Fort Screven and the
island almost flooded. Fearing a repe-
tition of the disaster of 1898, the res
idents are preparing to go to Sa-
vannah.
At o'clock tonight the wind at Sa-
vannah had attained hurricane velocity
during intermittent gusts. The barom-
eter read 1855 and still falling. News
from the ocean resorts show that the
tide is almost unprecedentedly high
and still rising, though the flood tide
hour has passed.
The wireless towers, 20S feet high,
were blown down at Savannah at mid
night.
The sea at Tybee is rapidly en-
croaching upon the island. Govern
ment concrete walls of the piers are
washed away and the Tybee road from
Fort Screven to Point Station is
wrecked.
At midnight Savannah was believed
to be we'll within the influence of the
West indian storm. A great wind was
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