The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-10-28
UNDATED, TAMPA PROCEEDS TO
WIPE OUT EFFECTS OF STORM
Constant Work on Part of the
Citizens All Trace of Hurri-
cane Damage Is Gone.
az The AssoeIatsd Pressl

TAMPA, Fla, Oct. 27-Tanipa has
/ emerged from the hurricane of Tuesday
and Tuesday night to point where the
/ big storm bids fair to soon be nothing
more than memory. Any person walk
ing or driving through the downtown sec
tion of the city tonight would have been
hard put to find a trace of storm DAM
/ age. Here and there an awning is sup
ported by temporary props and in few
| instances there remains a plate glass
window to be restored.
| But all storm debris is gone, due to
constant work on the part Of the city S
street cleaning department. the street car
company's crews and individual workers.
All street lights We're on full blast to-
night.
1 street car service was partially re-
stored today and viii reach further out
tomorrow. There was some extension
also Of fight and power for houses and
Industrial plants. Telegraph companies
set up more wires so that Tampa was
in communication with nearly every out
! side point The long distance telephone
lines are still out of shape.
The Tribune" got its first direct AS
soeiated Press" service tonight since
last Monday.
TRAINS are running and highways are
being cleared of debris.
Reports from outlying sections as to
losses were overdrawn. 1t is probable
that the Tribune" estimate published
Wednesday morning at $4,000, 900 for the
entire storm swept section, with loss of
81, 500, coo to 100000 in Tampa and its
suburbs viii prove very close.
Unquestionably the citrus fruits have
suffered and there has been heavy loss.
liaf In, %he @fa SIT sta
at five-three at Tampa and two at ST.
Petersburg Not more than 125 persons
were rendered homeless by the storm in
Tampa. and these have been taken care
Of
supplies Of clothing ana house furnish
ings as well as food hlva been made
available by the Red Cross and city gov
ernment.
or the fve or six ships when were
washed ashore here during the storm
only one or two viii be lost
The greatest damage was along tho
Southwest Coast from Punta Rassa.
where the gale attained a velocity Of
100 miles, to just north OF Tarpon
Springs. A few miles back from tho
coast the damage was much less and the
path OF the hurricane apparently was not
more than fifty miles wide.
wind and water at Passagri1le and Anna
maria Islands, and at Cortese, Indian
Beach, Clearwater Beach. Indian Rocks
There was also some damage to wooden
buildings on Egmont and Mullet Keys,
where Forts Dade and DeSoto. are H.
Gated; also at st. Petersburg Beach,
Sarasota, Siesta Key and Long Beat Key
in the upper coast; at Fort Myers, Sani-
bel Island. Useppa Island. Boca Grande
and some other points.
The Mary II. Diebold, i've 1nasted
schooner from Portland. Maine. reached
port this afternoon With six men. crew
Of the fishing schooner Francis of Tampa
which foundered in the Gulf Tuesday.
The men were picked up about forty
miles outside of Tampa.
The Gulf and southern liner Truxillo
from New Orleans made port this after
noon overdue, storm battered. The
Truxillo's steering gear broke during the
height Of the hurricane and it took hours
to make temporary repairs under difficult
circumstances. The Mallory line steamer
Lake Fillmore, came into the bay this
morning two days over due, after
weathering the storm outside, only to
ram her nose into a mud fiat nine miles
from her pier. She will be taken ofe
at high tide tonight.