Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HALF OF KEY WEST IN RUINS. Five Hundred Homes Destroyed and 100 Ships Wrecked. Key West, Fla., Oct. 12.-Half the city is practically in ruins, over five hundred homes have been de stroyed, and more than a hundred ships wrecked as a result of the hur rieane which swept this city yester day afternoon. Seven churches and nine of the largest cigar factories in the South also were destroyed. Hundreds of men are now at work cleaning up the streets under 'the direction of Mayor Fogarty. One death is reported, that of Frank Gray, a photographer. To-day 'hundreds of homeless were roaming the streets. Fortunately the weather is bright and warm, and there is little physical suffering. The war department has instructed the commandant of the coast artil Jery companies stationed here to aid the city authorities in every way pos sible, and tents and beddng will be distributed by the soldiers. At this time no estimate can be given of the financial losses incurred by the storm, but it is believed it will be between two and three million dollars. It will be weeks, and in some instances months before the big tobacco factories will be able to re sume operations and business gener ally will be at a standstill for at least several days. As soon as darkness fell last night thieves began their raid on the homes and office buildings destroyed by the storm. The police were unable to cope with the situation and Mayor Fogarty immediately called for the Kev West Guards, t,he local military organization. nnd the city was placed undnr martinl lqw. In the residence districts the streets in many instances were renderd im passa,ble by ruins of theihouses.Whole buildings were picked up-by the gale and hurled across the street, and only the 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, and here hardly a building was left standing, while piers and wharves were all swept away. At the time the storm broke yesterday afternoon there were narly 100 vessels in the harbor, the majority of these were swept to sea or broken up on the beaches. Second Mate Andrew' Cooper, of the schooner Medford, lost his life at the Government wharf, and his ~body was washed overboard. Three members of the crew of another schooner are missing, and it is thought they were drowned. Mataeumbie reports no loss of life there. The reported loss of eight hundred lives along the east coast is believed to be unfounded. The United States weather bureau * and ship-reporting station at Sand Key was swept to sea at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Observers Dague and Keiter and Willard, on duty there, are safe. The launch Lunette, with the crew of the . dredge Nimke, arrived here at 5 o'clock this aftrnoon, bringing additional details of the effects of the liurricane along the coast. The dredge Nimke, of the East Coast Extension fleet, lies disabledNin No. 5 trestle fill, between Matacumbie and Long Key, which is badly washed in places. Tihe grade of the extension at Jew-Fish Bush, is washed away, the doek at Pigeon Key is wrecked, the fill at Knight's Key is washed away, leav 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 via.duets of the extension are reported safe, as is the bridge from Knight's Keys to the piers. The master of the Lunette reported thet in coming down he saw several dre1tes and -mnerete mixers sub mer'ced along the coast, in some cases me' from +h"' work. Matny small boats and o:her wreck ag" were een on the shore. but he co--l not e"' whether there was any locs of life. J F. Gre'. the photographer, lost h' :fe i, - omrpting to save his *M. *'a~ mV wa struck ,by fly in', wod3- in a critieal condi tion. Ther- , re many narrow es ea"'es from 'llapsing houses, and that the fatt'ities were not greater is regarded as miraculous. The damage to the barracks alone will total $250,000. Thirteen churches were blo%vn down, the only ones in the city re maining standing being one Catho lie, one Methodist and one Baptist. Of the many fae:ories which suf fered from the wind, Jlohn Warlow 's T/e factory place "'.enied by A. Torrese was blown down,. as was also M. plae occupied by Thomas Reedy as a furuiture store. 'Not a single residence or business house in the city escaped flooding and few were uninjured by the wind. A scene of devastation presents it self from every side. Telephone, telegraph and electric light poles, trees and tin roofs are lying in every street, the thoroughfares are impass able and debris of all kinds litters the entire city. All the wharves along the water front suffered, Curry's and Sweeney's being demolished. Many small vessels were crushed against the fishing wharf when the steamer MeAdam dragged her anehor and was driven along helplessly by -the severe gale. The MeAdam went down, but all on board were rescued. Hundreds of men will continue throughout the night the work of clearing the streets of debris. BEACH STREWN WITH OINS. Buried Wealth of Pirate Lafitte (Perhaps) Uncovered by the Storm. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, Oet. 1. -The recent severe storm along the .coast of Yueata-a is believed to hav.e IF I 0 Good 1 0 AND YO . YOU WIL P 3 'PHONE 1Charlestol &c Festiv Octobc: RUSSIAN SYMPH The best organized a talent in the United 5 a splendid chorus of and female voices. SPECIAL RATES FROM ALL F Ask the Preacher. Ask the Lawyer. uncovered from the beaoh at Puerto Celestum the buried wealth of Pirate Lafitte, who died and was buried in Yucatan. Soon after the storm subsided the crews of fishing boats began picki::g up many gold and silver coins of English and Spanish make and bear ing dates of the early part of last century. These coins are scatterel all along the beach at Puerto Ce!es tum and several thousands d:>!ars of them have been so far colle?ted. Reduced Rates. First Stork-What are you figur ing 1 Second Stork-One of these Mor mon elders wants to know my dozen price for children.-St. Louis Times. MUSIC. Mrs. Alice Robertson Teacher of Piano, Voice and Harmony. Studio 1218 Main St. Open Monday, October 4. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Phone 263. T'S . 0 :at U WANT BEST IND IT AT S 0 IRCERY I N.212+ /e 0 ii Musical al Week e 25=30 ONY ORCHESTRA nd most uniform in tates, supported by two hundred male 'INTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Ask the Doctor. As:k the Banker_ Turn PIOWS, Disc PIOWS, THE ONLY Practical Reversible DIsc Plow on the market. 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