The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-10-26
FLORIDA POINTS HARD
HIT BY BIG STORM
Tampa. Without Lights, Telegraph or
Telephones >Service-StreetS Flooded
GREAT DAMAGE TO CROPS
Severe Winds Predicted for Coasts of
South Carolina and Georgia


Jacksonville, Fla. Oct. 25.-At mid
night tonight the tropical hurricane
which entered the State at Tampa this
morning and spread northeastward
across the State, causing loss to
property and crops estimated at APP
proximatey $l,000,000 was apparently
attaining it's maximum velocity in the
vicinity of jacksonville.
The gale was blowing at the rate of
sixty miles an hour at midnight, ac-
cordlng to Metcoro.oSist Mitchell. The
barometer registered 2938 and was
still falling, he sail. The gale in
creased in intensity from thirty-five
miles an hour at noon to the maximum
force at midnight. A heavy downpour
OF rain has been in progress through
out the night. This city was also hav-
ing its troubles with its lighting facil-
ltles, the residential section having
been thrown into darkness early in the
night, while in the business district
electric lights were intermttently on
and off. Beyond two small bazes in
the residential section and minor auto
mobile accidents the storm has had no
Ill consequences here SO far as known.
AS the storm turned sharply across
the State from the west to the east
coast, trees were uprootcd and small
buildings demolished, while crops
were reported as being seriously dam
age" late tonight the storm was APP
pare. ly nearing the east coast be-
tween Titusville and Jacksonville, ac-
cording to reports. At Sea Breeze, a
seashorc resort of Daytona, about mid
ale way between Jacksonville and
Tltusville, distance of some 225
miles, several cottages were blown
down. Division Superintendent Hurley,
of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad,
with headquarters here, reported he
had been in touch with the railroad
offices at Tampa for few minutes
early tonight and that several houses
at that place were reported blown
down while others were unroofcd.
The railroad tracks, he said, for sew
eral miles this side Of Tampa, were
Inundated and the Seaboard trains
were entering the city over the At
lantlc Coast Line tracks. The trains
Of both roads, however, were feeling
then. way, he said as tclegraphic com
munlcatlon was impossible
Citrus Crop Injured
Flfty per cent of the citrus crop in
Polk County was estimated as having
been seriously damaged, according to
advlces from Lakeland in that county.
Iampa is without lights, telegraph,
telephone or street II service, accord
ing to the adviccs eccived here by
way of Plant City, about thirty !nilcs
northeast of Tampa.
Heavy rains are reported Falling
over the entire State Forty niles in
land from Tampa in the section around
Lakeland and Plant City the truck
crops have suffer =. serious damage.
me highways are virtually impassa-
bic because Of fallen trees, but so far
as known railroad service has not been
seriously inconvenicnccd. Officials of
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad with
division headquarters at Lakeland re-
port interruption of service south of
Tampa with water three feet deep over
the tracks between Punta Gorda and
Bocagandc.
The flooded area in Tampa was
described as extending from tn the Bay v
Shore sea wall to the heart of the
business section, a distance of about
a mile. Fashionable residence along
the Bay Shore drive were reported
badly damaged from the high water.
gale of 56 miles an hour was re-
ported in that city.
At Plant City the rainfall for the
last forty-eight hours registered 4.26
inches with Il wind Of 35 miles an
houf blowing. Railroad officials re-
ported they were unable to communi-
cate with any intermediate stations
between Plant City and Tampa. A
number of cattle are reported
drowned.
No information as to the plight of
st. Petersburg, 20 miles across the
bay from Tampa, has been obtainable,
but it is believed the city is fearing
very much similar to Tampa. Both
cities are protected by sea wall,
with st. Petersburg enjoying a
slightly higher elevation.
The heavy rains throughout the
State have thrown many cities and
towns in darkness because of the
iailure OF power plant facilities. No
table among these are st. Augustine
and Orlando. At st. Augustine po-
dcstrians and property were cndan-
gercd by broken live wires dangling
across the streets. Three small blazcs
IN the business section also resulted
Orlando was in total darkness and
newspaper plants there suspended
along with other business
The wireless station at st. Angus
tine reported it had heard distress
calss throughout the day and that
communication with west coast sta
tlons had failcd\