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til" "Tf Hip Jiimt TOLtTME II. Xew Orleans Times and Xew Orleans Democrat: Consolidated December 4, 1881. NEW OELExVNS, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1896. TEN PAGES.

fSIXGLB COPIES, Fll tt.H FKH A VMM. I AOt AM'B. EVOULKA-S litJHKflAT blisacd IS infant died as the house fell. The teacher visited by a terrible flood to-day. 31 jay NEW ADVCRTISK-MENHlffr lives were lost and great damage done t.

six children. Inmates, lost their lives. The fire originated from a stove overturning in one of the summer kitchens from the shaking by the wind. escaped. Two schooner, loading lumber ai King's Ferry, were blown from their 1EPI 81 UK ffi if I the Georgia coast this morning.

It waa of terrific fore, and great damage ami loss of life recited. All the wires along the coast were down and communication -H-H" -j-Wr-J- -S-M- propesty. The great storm yeerdjy caused the lake to rise and flood the city. moorings, ana landed in a inarsu, tnreeor the sailors being killed. wn not restored to Brunswick, Savannah At Buffalo, S.

Y. From Nassau county the hurricane All the water courses In the valley lie-came raging torrents and swept over their or Charleston until 1 o'clock this ESS Buffalo. K. Sept. 30.

The wind passed Into Georgia, destroying a logging settlement In Camden county. Just aerosa banks, carrying destruction la their paths. raged here at a velocity of fifty miles an WORD WITH YOU me uue. and killing rour persous. oia The water invaded the lower portion nf The virM vr ilnvn fnr a rllstnnre of hour this morning, doing considerable rPTTlfin Storm fin thp A I forty or flfty miles this aide of Bruns- ston, near the Florida line, was also struck, the schoolhouse being wrecked and four children killed.

"LJ-U wick. A train which left there while the Forty or More Killed in Florida by the Storm. damage to overhead wires, roofs, chimneys and outside buildings. The storm centre had passed by daylight, but brisk winds continued all the morning. Hica water prevails In the harbor and all navi storm was stnl raging wan delayed in the city, rising so rapiuty that many were liable to escape in tinw and were engulfed.

Others barely escaped with their live, leaving their property to the merer of the water. Houses were swept frota It is impossible to accurately estimate the property loss in Florida, hut conser 1- lJ. nin4- I Brunswick two hours this morning. luiLlXlv UOiXSLt I Wind and water worked destruction, and -V suntlriea. Our lit gation proceeds with great caution.

as the tram leit llninswltk the streets were filled with debris, wires, telephone! fi is cooipiete; priet low. We nave tt their foundations, la several cases persons were with diUiculty rescued tioui Vs-roofs and tipper stories. "i Thousands of Dollara Worth of and telegraph poles and parts of build- vative men say it will exceed The full extent of the losses In this city will not known for several days. In tlie business and residence section there was not a building that escaried serious damage. It would be practically Impossible to enumerate the damages, aud only Prouorty Destroyed at Syra aowu and carried away.

Peo-injured by hying objects uuu it is impoitaible at this hoar fVr' A 'lr tt i'le were I lCXtbtnide.e Brunswick and Savannah Suffer "Zdldil cuse. tain the extent of tb Iiss of lif-'-i was killed at Everett, a sin all a Il-v tM 1 Syracuse, X. Sept. 30. The severest iiimtrnte I station a ic nines rrom Brunswicx.

laa Twenty Towns and Villages Almost Completely Wrecked, or particular importance can oe given. Every church, hospital, adytum will exceed rrir Hut. jueroie attempts are bvlns m. gale ever known la this city struck here early this morning. Thousands of dollars worth of damage was done.

No lives are and school buildiiie In the city was more or less damaged. The most complete ana roies ana tne oiuy train wnicn came through from Brunswick was preceded by Immense Damage. it'll cue those in danger. An II. Mil WW i ne noon came so mm-! mux wreck was the Second Baptist Church.

a wrecking train and crew for a distance reported lost. Llit Ku. Alt White Bicycle and Sundry Corner Earonne an PoyJras Sts. The tower at the northeast corner waa or twenty miles, the crew clearing the it Mi iitBi rati a i. time before trie MteW'''1'' lue telephone, telegraph, street rait- track of debris and trees.

wa Mr. H. N. Merrill, of the Atlanta Tele realise Telejw resiuen.t 1 It I wiresvt I Wug. la the .3 1 111 an H-M- WW4--4--Kurteen Livea Kno to Have phone Company, who reached Atlanta late to-night from Brunswick, states that the blown down, carrying with It a portion of the eastern wall.

The tower fell In pieces across IulTy atreet. completely blocking the street. Inside the church la almost a total wreck. The spire of St. John's Episcopal Church was partially Sc Cedar Keys Reported to Have Been Wiped Out.

way and tire alarm systems were demor-llzed. Tree were uprooted, bouses were unroofed, chlpineys were blown over, and chaos prevailed for a time. The big grand stand at Kirk Driving Park was completely demolished. The Yates Hotel ores 4 I Tabor 1 9 JT areI Wft 1 1 many CitT of Brunswick is badlv damaged and the wherea I 1 1 that three biar vessels were sunk in Been Lost. are mall a farmer 1 1 I jv ho gTTTmnmTTmTmTmTTTjTmmiTTTri Brunswick harbor.

The latter were blown away from their moorings. The wares mown down, xne second rresoyierian Church was unroofed, and the roof car who an hUh rn.l I lr i' those ried some distance away. ana tne wina destroyed much ol Bruns the f.u was bauiy damaged ty a tailing cornice, and the immense plate glass windows forced outward by the suction of the air. Several fires are reported from near-by wick's shilling Interests. The spires of the Cathedral of St.

John ,1 New and the dawn ta" y'VOi The Ceo Mr. Merrill says that the famous old It Was the First Town Struck by the the Baptist were badly damaged. I St. I'hilllD African M. E.

Church suf htlltp IxH'ause of the eiTt tilumhla irnnbcat, the Monitor, was blown away towns. Terrlfle Weather Reported at Sea. which its light will tnnS'H and that she was floating fered more severely than any other Hsstls with Their Cargoes Go Down I helplessly in ier. i ne searcn lor West India Hurricane. the harbor in danger of wre-ked.

New York. Sept. 30. It is reported from St. Charles I going to the bottom.

church edifice in the city. The steeple of the church was demolished by the storm of 18ai and was restored. The steeple in the Storm. A nart or the Ozlethorne Hotel, the Texas, a small town in Baltimore county. that one man was killed and six in ruined Is beini? pro9e-tited i.

in the dark, but little can roaii. is to-morrow. "Scv. fell northward, across the body of leading hostelry of Brunswick, was blown away, and other big buildings were total jured by last night's storm. All the regular steamers of the various Chesapeake the church and crushed It In.

The church appears to be almost a total wreck; ly or partially wrecked 1 Hotel. New Orloans. AVA9HIVGTOX SH1KE1 11," th aiik, uaad Many houses In the suburbs were blown Uvem 0f Children Crashed Out DT Falling ne navannan. Fiorina ana iiesieru nay unes nave arrived a-na report terrific weather at sea. L'h the the Railway suffered the greatest loss.

The away, and the water rushed through street in torrents, carrying property. A Rotary. TnUtlair XV l.jl timriiS rmsftpnirpr ileoot Is a tuiai wret-K. MX ve Fears Entertained for the Safety of Fear Fatalities and Three Injured School Houses. Much Daa In th fTmsitalL Pullman cars, which were In he shed household furniture and valuables toward the harbor.

cz Absolutely fireproof and 3 when it collansed were overturned and at Alexandria, V. Washington, Sept- 30. An eoulnoctlal htoa ilk ta Others Known to Be in PeriL Four nersons were killed ontricht in badly damaged. The loss on these cars Alexandria, Sept. 30.

The storm alone win amount 10 several relatively was more severe in Alexandria centrally located. Furni- 3 JH ture and management 3 EE strictly with un- 3 storm last night gave Washington the worst shaking up It ever had. The wind blew in a rotary, twisting, wreiichlu velocity of seventy-five miles an hour. Rain than in Washington. There were four Brunswick Wm.

Daniels, Abel Davis and John Jefferson and a baby, all colored. A careful estimate places the datnaae at Many persons were dangerously injured. The new office building of the Central Special to Tho Times-Democrat. fatalities and three persons were more or Railway of Georgia and the long freight shed running back in the rear were badly Jacksonville, Sept. 30.

The West irx. surpassed cuisine and dis- 3j less injured. The dead are: was driven in floods it did not fall. tal to The Times-Democrat. India hurricane which entered Florida at damaged by the storm.

W. D. Stewart, killed by falling walla. tilled drinking water. 3 STORM IX JfEW YORK.

van nan, Sept. 29. The worst Cedar Keys yesterday morning and swept Mrs. Holt, a visitor from North. Caro Lightning pierced and lit no the toaulng black clouds, and sharp claps of thunder contributed to make nature a weird ELEVEX LIVES LOST.

a since August, 1SU3, if not the worst in a southeasterly and northeasterly ui lina, killed in bed. Will be kept open on 3 3E: both European and Amer- 3 Strsrk the City at O'clock and he memory of those living here, was rectioa left death in it path. Owing to Unknown colored woman. height at 12:30 o'clock to-day. Busi This I the Somber Reported Dead Tiiiman Dlles, colored, dead from shock.

ican plans during June, 3 Steadily Increased Till Mld-nieht. New York, Sept. 2ft. The storm which the prostration of telegraph, -wire and the delay of trains, due to waahouts, only at Savannah Property Loss la a in the city was suspended for over injured Lester Cor Charles Aaaas, A new brick building, five stories, on Pennsylvania avenue, 1223, was demolished, the ruins falling upon aad crush struck by falling bricks, and Miss Stew- our, the storm being furious for that Srr uiy ana August. 1 erms 3 meagre reports have been rtoeived, and prevailed along the coast and down to ail, wsirr ii i iir 1 1.

Mi of time. No person dared appear Special to The Times-Democrat. moderate. Special rates Alexandria churches suffered severely the Atlantic stations struck this city at Savannah. Sept.

30. The hurricane he streets. The street cars Mopped ing Beatty's restaurant and Kelly's lunch house, adjoining, and lnipriaoiilnir six The First Baptist was- completely de- yet. meagre as those report are, they show that over twenty town- and villages have been wrecked, and thit thirty or to commercial men. A.

R. 3 which swept over Savannah yesterday at itiig, electric currents were ehut on aioiijttiea, st. Elmo uaDtifct wa aiso men. Four of them were soon released. about 8 o'clock to-night, and steadily increased until midnight, when the wind was blowing at the rate of twenty-five wrecked and Robert's Chapel, M.

E. South. fear or because of breakages; noon cost nearly a dozen lives, and entailed a financial loss of nearly $1,000,000. George Sutton, a cook, was pinioned in forty persona -have been killed, while probably thrice as many more received iiwg and shades were blown In every iiiately iTops. llMiliiMMMMMMliiiM lost its spire.

Jsearly every Business otoca in town was more or less damaged aad hundreds of private boujeo lost their roofs. The loss In and around Alexan Each report that is received Is worse. wounds more or less serious. wires were hurled down; trees razed, fences are down, houses are miles tin hou and combined with the rain which began to come down in streams as early bs 10 o'clock, made It anything but At first it was thought only one death About 4 o'clock in the morning th hur would be the result of the hurricane. dria is estimated at SiuO.ouo.

oafed, portions of big buildings are ricane, which had been churning the Ginf. Dieasing lor people woo were forced to be out tcd, skylights are blow out, window IIAND-3IADE CISTEUXS lea the water and awept down upon Ce but the number has Increased until there are eleven persons reported dead. The Beaufort Has is Reminder of 1883. At the weather bureau It was said that tfcra are hurled int treetops, yeels Special to Tbe Times-Democrat. dar Key a town of luOO Inhabitants, about 100 miles southwest of Jacksonville.

following Is a list: terned over In the river, church then reports were coming In very slowly, as I he storm had played havoc with tefe- Columbia, S. Sept. 30. A letter from J. Wallace Johnston, Capt.

E. Mur 1 1 S-foot bottom and 6-foot staye 675 gallons. $9 t'-f-x't bottom and fc-fuet stare VKt gitllotig. $15 7-foot bottom and 6-foot iae il20 gallons, j-e S-foot bottom aad 8-foot stare 31o0 gallon, (km graylilo communication in ail directions. are toppling and the streets are rally strewn with debris of every lui- Beaufort, just received here (the wires Thirty-six hours have elapsed since the storm atrnck Cedar Keys, but 'not one ray, or the tug Robert Turner, ana tne It wax stated that the storm along the beln down), says: "Without warning following, all colored: Mary Waring, Hliia Jtl'le kind coast and Southern Atlantic States still continued and extended inward to the from the Weather Bureau or any intima word has been received directly from that place as to the damage done or the num soele lived in dread for an hour in Beatty, Fannie McFall, Ruby Williams, tion of anything to bo expected, Beaufort ror other sices write to Cor.

St. Joarph and Caroadrlrt. la fee regions. Julie Jackson, two deckhands of the tug asuah to-day. The stoutest building ber of lives lost.

No trains hare been was visited to-day at 12 o'clock and last Terrlflc at Rata and tadatorm able to reach there because the tracks Robert Turner, an unknown man, and an Infant. A great many persons were in ing until 2 wtth quite as violent and de he city trembled. There is the greatest reiinsion for vessel out and for small that are known to have been in the the wreck, and was not released until 2:45 o'clock. The steeple of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church was blown off. The tower of the Grand Opera House was hurled to the sidewalk.

Trees oa every hand were uprooted, their branches being strewn so thickly as to form complete blockades In many places. Some of these are made compact with addition of tin roofs from houses, sign boards, shutters, pieces of fencing and boxes and barrels from in front of ad-joining: stores. Th ilegraph, telephone and electric light wires were snapped, and their ends dangled furiously in tue storm. A horse stepped on a live wire at Seventieth street and Pennsylvania avenue, aud dropped dead. At the water front every boat received terrible wrencbinss.

The Mattauo, an excursion steamer, had holes stove In Its side, and was half sunk. The yachts were ail torn loose from their mooring, and some of them went adrift down stream or were dashed as linst other boats and the sea wall. It is Impossible to compute the amount of ilamaje. The storm came up about lo o'clock last niht. A few minute after that hour the wind struck the city ii a are covered with heavy timbers.

The only structive a cyclone for the length of time Plttabarar. rittsburg, Sept. 30. A terrific wind and jured. Those most seriously hurt are It lasted as the memorable one of Aug.

Zl Fannie Jackson, colored, back broken: report from Cedar Keys cornea by way of Gainesville, fifty mile northeast of the Gulf towns, and is to the effect that Ce W. F. Thompson, leg fractured; A. B. rainstorm broke over this section about 2 o'clock this morning, and raged with (arnham.

leg broken; Jas. Smith, serious Crescent Insurance NEV ORLEANS. Incorporated 1849. Kroraanized 1SSO The violence, force and velocity of the wind equalled. If It did not exceed, that of 1893, and if we had experienced as high a tide the destruction of life and r.

Relatives of persons known to be ta are frantic in their endeavors to re- ew8 from them. Early there were irti) that there had been loss of life In tat. It Is estimated that the loss will ly hurt by falling timbers; John Sheehau. dar Keys has been swept away and many fierce Intensity for nearly two hours. The wind attained a Telocity of thirty struck by falling- timbers; S.

Roddy I'rit property would have been proportionately chard, hurt by falling bricks; Ben West, greater. As it Is the town has suffered persons killed and wounded. This report reached Gainesville by courier from Wll-llston, which Is tweny miles north of colored, struck: cy a failing barn: Jos. i MKAt.OOO, and some say miles an hour, prostrating telegraph and telephone wires and cutting off communication with the East, but other terribly. The chief and greatest sufferers Hamilton, colored, struck bv a fallinz iere was no indication at 8 ciock ot are among the oldest and most staunca oarn; jonn nuson, nit by a tailing Cedar Key.

The report is hardly exag bouses, such as the Col. Paul Hamilton kinds. At that 'hour the observer tliitt there would be wind of over cSJX CAPITAL, $240,000 hou, th Mlddleton Elliott home, the wise so far as known at this time doing no serious damage. Among the prominent buildings dam- gerated, a Cedar Keys was directly In the path of the hurricane and received clubhouse, now the property of Commo lAiueg an nour. ine winu wrau ojf uw siorm are: tue.

iity Duffy Street Bantlst Church. St. Heavy washout are reported on the dore ismdley. lr. I'nars lioik-e on tne it full force.

A relief party left Gaines 11110 o'clof and 12 clock was old Colbert Barnwell avenue, the Gage Pennsylvania liallroad east of Huntington i-muiua- Arrican Mctuodist Cuurch. Cen ville for Cedar Keys this morning and Havs Paid Over Elcyea MllUoaa tor house aud Mr. F. Schefer ho, forty-eisht miles an hour. At tral Railway warehouses, St, Patrick's and all trains are from four to six hours late.

hciiuol, Georgia. uasur' a rniory Hen! by to-tnorrw the DETAILS OP THP. DISASTER." Loaaca Sine 1S49. full force, the rain followiiur Immediately. Aoout 11 o'clock a crash that could be heard a mile away told thus la tli- Lar torren tra-y been sent ont to clear Hail.

City Market Electric Railway nower literally that has overtaken the Golf town will be house. Vale Royal Mills, Comer, Hull A Guano Factory, Commercial Guano cU flying debris. At that time the All of tliem were unroofed and tae piaztsas and verandahs smiisi.ed. The old St. Helena Episcopal Church was wrecked, trees prostrated upon the tombrtone and monuments destroyed.

The courthouse was battered and glasses smashed, windows torn to piece, yachts sunk in the th tracks, and the officials expect to have trains running as usual in a few hours. knwn. vicinity that the Metropolitan house, on Four and a Half street, ha 1 fallen In. All the houses in the vicini'v were shaken to their foundations. TLie ut at the observer's office waa company's factory.

Jones Marine Railway, Fawcett Bros." wholesale grocery There were also several bad washouts of working order. A few min W. E. LTMAX, resident; E. F.

W. BACHMAS. Vie President; JOHN M. BEKKNEN. Secretary.

building. Henry Solomons Son' whole whole rear shed, wails aud roof had ooe Alter demolishing Cedar Keys the storm, moving in a northeasterly direction, struck Wllllston, a Tillage of 400 inhabitants. At that place eleven houses the wind wa at its height and down In a tangled mass of iron giniers sale grocery, ji. j. lioyle retail grocery.

on the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio and Pittsburg and Western railroads. Baltimore and Ohio train Xo. 9 was lot for six hours, but finally turned Road. The tug Weymouth ans at tne wharf after being wrecked and broken up. There Is no news from the Islands and no a velocity of eighty miles an iiuminfua or reHiaencen sr iniiirerf sad brick.

Seven men were at work in the bnlldtng at the time it fell In. and as ovr. At noon the barometer were wrecked, one person killed and fif the most beautiful trees in the city are down. The lows to shipping will amount to over The most serious casu- up at Cumberland. to 29.20, and at 12:30 it was Dord of Traateeai teen wounded, some It Is feared fatally.

they heard the cracking or the roof they ran ont of the structure lust In time tj funiculars from the phosphate worts, 'ort Roral was damaged, but not very badly, fortunately the fviry of the storm 'ter that further reports from It Near Wllllston is a large turpentine farm, lty wa the capsizing in midstream of save their lives. Loss Heavy la Pennsylvania and be secured. lasted but one and a hall hour." E. W. Blount, a member of tie Intet- on which many State convicts are em toe Norwegian Dart Koseiiins, the ground B.

F. W. BACriMAN, josgpir i- JAMES T. i.TD, B. W.

BOWLING, i report of the observer received Sew Jer.ey. Philadelphia, Sept. 30. Last nlght'a state Commerce Commission, was ia nut vi rne oars cao. arming of the Nor- R'chiuond Streets aad Parka ployed.

Twenty of these convicts were huddled in a cabin, serosa which the Beatty's restaurant at the time of re was at 11:30. The wind waa e(riu uara rt. i. Metcair and the total IT. MARIXOXT.

W. R. CHAS. H. DOLSEN, T.

H. WATSON. F. R. JOHNSON, CHAS.

M. WHITN2T HENRT W. CONNER." 1(M4H nf thi tllfir Rnlu.r 'T ing forty miles an hour. Since storm did great damage in this State, but the wires are down in nearly every direc craxh. and was carried Into the cellar and so badly bruised about the head, face and Strewn With Dehrls.

Richmond, Sept. 30. The severest etorm blew the Inmates. ias been impossible to secure a Birot ucc, vr i er uovernor satiord. of the Beach A Mil ler Line, is aground in Copper river body that he has been unconscious ever tion, and it Is difficult to obtain reliable K.

D. McCOWX. 1 I. M. LOCKHART, VO.

C. BRIGHT. Ui-6ilGE MATHER storm in the history of the city was ex with the island. The damage In Alachuca county the storm did fright- Ji, i Hi1 much. Many Information.

The storm swept througH ince. it is tearea mat lie is alx injured Internally, and that he may sac was great A tramp steamer perienced here last night and to-day the streets and parks are strewn with debris. CEO.W. SEN TELL, ful work. In Gainesville the Methodist "cl.a"u "'ng ves sels the Lebanon Valley and did great damage.

have been blown out to W. P. NJCHOLLS. ant system wharf is aground. retspver.

1 tie storm 8 damage Is et-mnWd to run from a quarter to half a KwninT Norwecuin slipped her Xortl Reading there was also much Church and about twenty residences and Tybee Railroad is badly damaged." many The loss to property will reach a con hiiuremus. tuwun i no ont I hiiliiesB timiseK were destroyed, and. I bridsea Ivinir nnt I damage, but trains are arriving, and business houses were destroyed, and. bridges being out of plumb. Tybee! no Thunderbolt.

Montromerv unit lal miliMa dollars. No lives were lost, but several persons were injured. Several ana canslzea. one is loiaj siderable figure, but fortuuately there was no loss of life. All of the higher build while a number of pec-ple were hurt, no there are no wires, consequently definite V) Samuels and his son got hotses were blown down.

Reports received this monitor from the all prominent resorts near this city, were injured by the blow. fatalities are repotted. news is not obtainable. The wires of ings of the city are more or less damaged Vrn? Ocean Steamship Com- Newberry, in. West Alachuca, Is totally suburban town about Washington hw the Western Union and Postal Telegraph.

and churches were injured In various ways. iiattanoocnee puueu P. BUCKLEY, CAMP STKEET 8 NEW ORLEANS. MIERICAN WATCHES. wrecked.

C. J. Eastlln, Mrs. Nancy Moss, companies and the long-oistance teiepnone VA1. HI LDIG BLOW DOWl.

that great damage wa done tbmnchont the surroundintt country. At the Catbli ncs and got out in the Frank Olmstead and David Jones were are down in all directions. The most serious work of the storm was at the Second Baptist Church, where the immense steeple was toppled aeross the hi I nlverslty, Just outside the eliy, the in process'of construction was killed. two Killed and Vtvm. n.i.

The Western Union sent fifty linemen tal all right. She pulled up -ta. The steamboat Flora -k this morning with a injured Readlasr, Pa. At High Springs Melissa Harden, Jane Morris and Sallie Nobles, colored women. street on ttie DMKtmg occupied ty tne 1.

M. during the fury of the gale a section of the steeple of the Broad Street Keaaing. sept. At 2 o'clock thla tel. from this city on early trains through the State and on the main lines south.

Trees are reported blown across the wires in dozens of localities, and groups of poles Brunswl' k. Nothing has FrRIOlS UALE 0 THE LAKES. jpealer in Fins Watches, Jewelr and Silrerware are reported to have been killed. At this morning the casthouse of the Temple Fur- Methodist Church also toppled into the pn a her. The steamer uot- place a number of people took refuge in nace.

at Temple Station, five miles above ine steeple or tne tnira t-resoy JBWELBI REPAIRED. ter Several Small Craft Snnlc hy a aa to leave Beaufort for were broken on and tne wires strewn terian Church was relieved of part of Its a box car, which was in the path of the Heading, was blown down by the' wind. a. m. tirave rears are en- support ana lert la dangerous condition.

was also done to Grace Episcopal una nay Schooner. Chicago, 'Sept. 3. Great damage to cyclone. It was blown along tne traca ana nearly a flozen workmen were buried th, vessel.

She was due at In the ruins. The men were Dinned down and then off of it a distance of fifty feet, Cturch. Many of the large factories, had property and many accidents' reaui'ed along the ground. Between this city and Baltimore ont of 1J0 wires only five are working. South of Baltimore there is not a single wire of any sort.

In this city there was a heavy downpour of rain lasting until 4 a. accompanied by high lick and it Is thought the and every person In It was badly injured. by the heavy timbers, and it waa seate 'n fiiat hour at Its height at MRS. F. S.

GILHAtVl. (XOW MRS. HALL.) S3 Bourbon Street. Sew Orleaai Fitting; Corsets Made to Order. BT SPECIAL MEASUREMENT Rufcs for their roofs carried away.

The Pace Tobacco Company. Richmond Chemical Works. Richmond lee Company and sev Steve Mason and George Johnson have time before they could be resched. f. from the' furious gale on the lakes.

Th- most serious accident in the port of hica go occurred thla morning wh-n the schooner Seaman broke from her moor since died. the Killed Edward Rlsmlller. Samuel Trout. wiuas. in ew jersey tae storm was aiso At Gracy, a email place, twelve houses "ilWa.

owned In Savannah, st night at 11:30 for Bruns- severe. Tue trains irom tne west on me eral other concern were among those to lose the roofs of their building and sustain other damage. The Exchange Hotel The Injured Wm. Collar Inun), were blown down. A woman was killed.

Pennsylvania road were delayed by a 4 ALSO PREPARES AN I) fir AW a vtcm of tbe tug H. M. C. Smith. oecaer, nm.

Schadler, but a babe at her breast was unhurt, at washout at Mill Creek, on the middle division. The trains due at 4:40, tt and was roughly dealt with, limbers from a falling roof smashed luto the too of the ings in Slip at the foot of Randolph street, and while being hurled about by the storm wrecked and sunk half a dozen smaller craft. A number of men had nar All are badly hurt, lr la though it had been carried some distance 'ted in the resse! and the the tug are worried. The DEW OF TUBE ROSE the Complexion. Removes Wriuklwi F.

6:30 a. were from live to eight hours nuarters occupied by Fireman Kestder. His voung daughter wa badly cut and bruised viub ui tueui will uie. by the force of the wind. late.

The railroad officials say they have heard nothing of the reported de Souther left at 4:30 a. m. At Lake Butler, Bradford county, Mr. aoout tne head, but was not dangerously Several Houses Demolished at Lan Sou' I let Of C( ipras in a cotton, bound for Bruns- Injured. Many minor casualties were re C.

H. Harkey, Mrs. J. M. Futch and her struction of the Steelton station, and discredit the story.

The Pennsylvania Rail caster. Pa. tow of the tug Cinthia. infant were fatally hurt. "Many buildings ported along tne streets as a result or falling trees and flying debris.

Shipping YFIfJRlKewYorkSteainDyeWorM Lancaster, Sent. 30. Fnr turned this afternoon, report- were blown down. At this place the wind blew to pieces two cars loaded with bricks. ter and cargo lost.

hour last night this city and county wn I unVred severely, steamers being wrenched sublected to th. W.8! from their moorings and whipped against subjected to tho severest windstorm road wires are down west aud snntn. ana trains are run Terr canttouly. In several places on the main line telegraph poles were blown across the tracks. ever mlnent buildings damaged are the docks.

ORLEANS. and a negro, Henry Sulllvau, who was i now a here. It is Impossible to form -ichange, Savannah theatre. Reports from the suburban town of Man 300 yards away, was killed by being Tho Lfadinj Dyo Uoua of ti South. estimate or tbe number of a Son's foundry.

Savannah chester show that much damage to prop Many Bulldlnars Wrecked at Sha- struck by one of the flying bricks. erty resulted from the atorm. 'T, Savannah pants factory, EANING wholly or partially demolished or the monetary extent of the damage. The At Lacrosse fifteen buildings were de mokia, l'a. Shamokln, Sept.

30. A terrific rl guano factory, Henry Damage to Shipplnsr at Brunswick. stroyed. Rev. W.

A. Barr, Mrs. F. a wholesale grocery buiid- greatest single loss Is that of the Penn etorm passed over this section of the Brunswick. Sept.

30. Twelve ves -tCt riiij I fit DOVV. row escapes for their Uvea, among theui being Capt. McCreary, of the Seaman, and two of his men. also several m-ti aboard other boat moored In the all p.

Three or four sailors were thrown 1st the water and were forced to battlo for their live. The list of craft sunk or damaged by the wild race of the Seaman includes: laeiit Midnight A hreech, owned by Roiwrt sunk. HoiMc-buat Mary, owned By 1. Stewart: sunk. Househoat Biue-'Ooose, owned by Tnnj Wnite; forward portion badly Vacnt Fanny Small, owned by Frank Davis; sunk.

Yacht Annie. Capt. Pickles; Mult-. Yacht Yellow Boy, sunk and partly Yacht Irene, badly damagwl, forwar portion stove in. Aside from the above four nften-fot IMiinir smacks were sent to the bottom by the runaway schooner.

tf 'icon Son's planing mills. State last night and caused over fJOO.ooo sels in the harbor were more or less dam Mcintosh aad her baby are reported killed. Near there four laborers, who wjre in a cabin at a turpentine farm, were i'ay system depot, a total sylvania Railroad bridge across the Susquehanna at Columbia, nothing being left of it but the piers, the Iron span In the TO KENT JORDT. damages. All the telegraph and telephone aged by yesterday's hurricane.

The dy tint system shops. Central wires and hundreds of trees were blown crushed by falling trees. i.yeorsrla shops, Chatham Acad- namite boat HeraliL with pounds of that explosive on board, is sunk. The UDERS' PLANTERS' SUPPLIES miauie and the flrst apan at each end. down, and a doien or more buildings were terian and Lutheran churches.

1 tie bridge was a mile and a quarter long. either blown down or unroofed in Shani- schooner Sarah H. Fuller, partly loaded McClenny, Sandt rson, Glen. St. Mary and Olustee, la Baker county, were almost completely destroyed.

At Olustee three orruraia ana Crimp Iron i Railraiid Iiri. k. Jack tt the City and Suburban Rail- and was said to be the largest covered with lumber for Xew York, was carried e. ttutfUiir 1 Sand, tfBy. and Savannah Brewing meet.

Dridge in tne world. KOXIIKLI.T a fanm haw ewu-w 1 1 irej a nil IiIabiii a a KaVo rhirches were blown torn their founda okin and Mount Carniel. Railroad trains are all delayed by trees and other obstructions that were blown across the tracks. NEW ORLEANS. 3 Aeff dwt lincni vittwr totally numoer or ounuings xhe, Sylvia C.

Hall, also partly tions. Jo one was killed outright In were partly demolished and unroofed and loaded with lumber, for New Haven, was LLJNOIS STEFI no these trfwps, but over twenty were in damaged, and many of the A block of eight new houses erected by tne streets littered with debris. Telegraph and telephone Wires throni-hnnt tb run into by the Fuller and damaged. The jured, of whom Mrs. Richardson.

James t-iifii nores of the city are suf- "1 More Miaiiiea oars r.ncaruacioit. loaueu witu Dr. F. D. Baker at Springfield were lev McAlpin and North Webster will die.

Con not been such a gen- i country are down or badly tangled, but of STANDARD lumber for Valencia, went ashore, and I has J- a a ioss of tinuing in Snwanee county, the hurricane storm in this city in st now lies on her side full of water. Th eled to the ground. Barns and hundreds of oiit-buiidings were overturned in all nortiotM of the town. Lincoln 1 i i i 1 1 I ,1... irom tue meagre accounts thus far received the country sections must have suffered more severely than the city.

bark H. I. Routh, loaded with railroad life It Is feared will stiuck Live Oat. DEMOLISHING MANY HOUSES PV COTTON TIES. ties for New York, is ashore: she li y.

ten deaths are report- SCnOOl OrciKIUlS- lue 1 llItit.Fi niuri, luxr easy. The Norwegian barks Longfellow roiu every part conies reports of tobacco sheds destroyed, school houses en. I liiirke P. lock, ine woiverton biiii.iiuk, tue I A be to-morrow, and injuries several persons, but none i and Poseidon, with cargoes of naval "tivpTTp IKRI5- dimerous islands about th fatally. Wellborn, Suwaiiee county, was were both the former churches damaged and private residences unroofed.

I'enBsvivania roundhouse, and many other btiiidi.igH in S'uaiuekin, were unroofed. i "JV- AU Jrv a in ashore. Uner vessels ashore are the bj negroes, and the loss of Columbia appears to have suffered more Tne Patterson oreiiKer is aimosi a luuu also wrecked. Near Wellborn the house of Amos White was destroyed and two Ifra! Salrs Aeot. iit '-rw.

bttanish brig Anton, the schooner Lizzie kL will be heavy on them. wreek tint the debris was saved rnm tne JvooKry. The man any otner section or tbe county Iennison and the pilot boats S. Graciilo of his children killed. damage in the boronch la eotinmroit and a half after the flames by the downpour of rain that followed the wind.

Superintendent Vincent ana pn-ie. Leaving Suwannee the storm continued I a half million dollars, and the streets.this fcartiiie sun was shining and the places the damage to tne coinery at 1- The streets were filled Seven People Killed as at Result itt work of destruction in Colombta ,1 tne recited buildings, and not one of imO. Fourteen oid oweliing nouses ana twenty board shanties occupied by the sightseers this afternoon. the Storm. A Tropical Cretan Fraaa thu Caribbean Sea.

Washington, Sept. Weather Bnreaa give this official statement as to the storm: lie storm which p.nse4 oyer Wash in f-ton last night was reported oa Sept. i as a tropical cyclone moving northwest from the CaribUaa Sea, it being the southeast of Cub. During the 27th It parsed northwestward Into the southeastern part of the Gulf of Mexico, aad the 28th moved northward, west of Ftori. da.

On the morning of the 2na It waa central over Southern Georgia, aad at p. m. of the X'ta had advanced la Southwestern Virginia. The centre passed Washington about o'tiork Tuesday Ifwe barometer reaai- fT3W. loirl-dd Cotnrd of tae day tta storm api-- i bit on the jr afcont jr.

fun-e ae it ttp'r teij-itv hfy- vuuuij. itae v-iij wu iu uurncaue a J11 1:1 total darkness to-night. Washington, Sept 30. Intelligence of mine workers were olso piowu oown ana the many big manufacturing plants along the river tscaped injury. The remains of the bridge, wnich was lifted bodily- from rice the death of seven persons as the result blowing down of electric path, and suffered severely.

Eight busi-ness houses and thirteen residences were destroyed. Mrs. Samuel Fletcher and two boys were killed, and Dora Jennlags, ine piers, ne in me river attove the piers. of last night's storm reached this city five of the'former were consumed by the flames. Two of tle tenants were killed, several injnrea and eleven cattle were crushed to death beneath the dismantled As it was carried away cries for help during the day.

Dr. U. C. Sherman, of FE AT BRUNSWICK. were uisiiio-iiy ileum coming rrom it, but it was imuosHihle to search the ruins.

Samuel Hudwn and Jonas Mabry were fa barn. The killed aDd injured are: this city, cousin of Senator Sherman, of Ohio, died of fright at his country residence at Oluey. Md. While going out to tally Injured. The State Agricultural James Hanlou.

crusuetl Dy neons or nis I'iligent examination is being made to on salvm Killed in the City college at Lake City was badly dam day py tae aid or boats, but so far with in a XeisrhborlnK house, died ia a few hours; Minnie Kline, fractured skull jumping from second story window to escape fire, died from TF.HXSJJ)1 his bam two large trees suddenly blew aged, and a pa ale prevailed among the students. At Fort White. In Columbia out success. Two ni' are reported to have gone down with the bridge, but this remains unconfirmed. The bridge cost "'ee Vessels sink Great down in front of aim.

lie returned to near liaro'unsM county, it is reported that six persons El 1 I' Vra of Property. the house, sat down in a chair and imme FIDS. CAGKS. were aiueo, uut tne reports nave not Been TS- on aoout ei.uuu.ow. The fierceness of the storm at Coluiulda where.

Wr.t diately expired. couhrmed. From Columbia county the H8. Bird UiflS eatlv i'ur fin" Three colored men. whose names are 1 1 In'- Sept.

3. A disastrous vMTi 3 VHror and along Is indicated by the timbers of the bridge. aurncane aasnea across Lmvai. its edge which were carried by the wind up as were ourneu to ueam at au far as the tunnel on ine Pennsylvania iugton Grove, about twenty mlies fria UUVW-m. Itallroad.

a inn n'lie-Ti way. trains Washington. iney were in a cabin. PRICES Ror.tr. striking Jacksonville, but doing no damage, and causing no loss of life, in Nassau county, however.

Just north of Jacksonville, the hurricane seemed to gather additional force, and did awful worx. At Boulogne the schoolhouse, in which there five children killed. Miss Ada Stewart. LT EDGED SEEDSj 1 When the storm broke a tree blew over demolishing the cabin and overturning the lamp, set lire to the place burning -j large crops I am in pol- fll "Ell. the Pennsylvania Railroad were ail late this morning, and for several hours a wreck at Steelton blockaded all traffic The waiting shd at that place was blown li-y iTated sto-t of hjpiK jifff l' i.lantuu: at redured tne uitu.

At tne oioerT mine me ian auu engine h.ue. both boiler hoisses and ail of the smokestacks were demolished, throwing 4U0 hands out of employment. Severe Hurricane Strikes Baltimore. Baltimore, Sept. 3p.

A severe hurricane struck this city a tl midnight last night. Houses were unrooK'd, wires prostrated, windows smashed signboards blown from their fasteniiks. The high wind forced the water ill the harbor up Into The bed the stree and almost the entire northern water If ront is submerged. Several schooner tlrt were tied up at Pratt street wharf brlse from their moor uuvixJi( it" down and fell upon the tracks. The Capt, Robert CheReiaine.

with his taest Cabbage. Turnips, a brought to tie Prenn Mar- PhliadelDhia express ran Into it. but with- schooner Capital, having a crew of a 1 t. on-iir Here gruwa Irvui luy white and colored man. was canirht br out receiving any merlons damage.

The entire middle division of the road is tied blow at Sandy Poiat. thirty-rive No up by a washout at Mil Creek. from asniuKton. tlie rtoat was ute. tli A lt the teacher, escaped with a broken arm.

Lilla Rains, a twelve-year-old girl, ran from the schoolhouse just before it collapsed to her home. As she entered her borne it was wrecked, and the chill was killed. Harry Johnson, who was with her, was also killed, and Mrs. Rains. was fatally injured.

At Hilliard's the schrf.1-fcouse was wrecked, and four children were killed. At King's Ferry, on the St. Oat Dntt h. Ir lb 00 th. turr.el unit Mil threw were ili-ournerl r.i,er ead r.

2 Six Children Perish at Pettavllle, 'rltis to IE -r LpHa no, I Fa, STAtXTOS FLOODED. n. extm tine 2 oo tut SPILES wis. TunBB. rwlueed Pottsville, Sept.

30. Last night's beet ing, and are rest in! in the middle of Write Tor tor illustrated l'-S Terrible Catantrophe Overtakes atorm blew down the coal breaker belong Mary river, Andy Johnson, Moses Sassi Pratt street. nJi Trf for tbe Jiitiini Statea. Vlratlala City. i cellars of ware- The lower noors a er, fcimon Henderson.

Mary Jones ana tusn Hi Richmond. Sent. 3rt. The CP- 'V W. EICHLINC; SeeJ KzKUnil ing to the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Company.

Six tenement houses belonging to lae cajup wera destroyed by fixe, and hlr child, ail negroes, were killed. Mrs. houses are flooded. ihe storm was ae- Stanton. th.

SldoAU i'SLy lA6r waa nursing a sick, child, and thu companied by a heavy liownpeur of taiu. HI- 'ill temmi a tuuiiidoau ft 4 tvU. meat -tut "itvf.

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