The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 1

1 he Unreliable Paper is not a NEWSPAFER. Miami's Growth has been phenomenal. MIAMI METROPOLIS Published Every Afternoon The Metropolis keeps Faith with Its Patrons. The Metropolis KEEPS THE PACE. MIAMI, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1909 8 PAGES VOLUME 6 NUMBER 251 Prosperity Comes to the Business Man Who Intelligently Seeks It A Key to the Secret is an Ad.

in the Metropolis THE 1 II MPW tWITO'l? raw1? Ju lb lAi Lb Li iluvHJ lAi LjUV- PROPERTY DAMAGE SMALL a calm and the streets were astir; early with persons eager to learn to; what measure the town had been CITY MASS OF WRECKAGE AND MY LEFT HOMELESS DEVASTATED in SHORT CITY IS hurt. TO INDIVIDUAL March Villa Wrecked. I New March Villa Demolished by Fury of the Hurricane feet in the city intervening fallen trees, sign-boards and flag poles. Along the Boulevard In the vicinity of the Royal Palm borel and park, there were hundreds of coccanuts on the ground this mornnig, and limbs of trees were well scattered over the city. Several cocoanut trees along the Boulevarl, the large Has pole in the Seminole CltiH tiark.

nwnfnzs and Except for the destruction of the March Villa, which was under course' of construction and nearly coinplet-i ed damage in no one locality amounted to much. The loss of the! SPACE OF FORTY-FIVE I1IITES Commanding Officer Coast Artillery Ordered to Assist Maintaining Order Though Aggregate Loss to Growers and Others will Be Considerable i hnaMs all ei-ei. thu nil hotel will be ten thousand dollars. I The Masonic temple was lut as little rain fell after the ua-i HOTEL WAS TO HAVE BEEN" put out of commission and leaves, which filled the air yesterday after noon, are deposited in all conceivable OPENED DECEMBER 1 ENTIRE i places where they eddied from the WRECK RAZED TO GROUND swirl. FURY OF WIND LASTED FOR AX roofing the damage to the interior cf K.e building was The injury done to the fruit crops! difficult to calculate, but the best information obtainable at this time indicates that while the growers will I suiter considerable loss in the ag-! AI QUARTER AT AXD CONTRACTOR CHASE DECLARES HIS LOSS FULLY TEX THOUSAND DOLLARS XO Reports from the country south adjacent to the city, indicate that the wind blew off about three per cent of the fruit crops, and the heavy rain flooded all the lowland districts.

Good Work of Storm Sewers. nr HOUR. KIPPING OFF ROOFS AXD FLOODING HOUSES SEVERAL FEET WATER IX NEW THEATER PUMPED OUT -1 FEARED THAT GREAT LOSS OP LIFE WIL BE FOUND WHEXT XEWS IS OBTAINED FROM PATROL OF THE COAST HURRICANE TURNED AT MIAMI AXD IS NOW HEADED TO WART BERMUDAS ur II gr-'gate that the individual loss will be small. Xo News from Extension. The greatest anxiety Is felt for the workers on the extension of the ricrida East Coast Railway.

Xo etmmunication had been established with the lower part of the work this afternoon; no farther than Homestead, some thirty-eight miles be- DEMOLISHED AND ONLY 3 With the rushing sound of many LEFT STANDI mighty locomotives, the sky a molt- 1 1. The greatest damage in Miami was the wrecking of the new March Villa, on the Boulevard between Eighth and Ninth streets. The entire structure is a wreck, and J. W. Chase, of Buffalo, builder of the hotel declares his loss to reach with no insurance.

Mr. Chase stated this morning that about five minutes to five in the low could any news be had. A short sirewts convened iuiu uic vrnjo i the rattle and roar of furious wind KEY WEST. Oct. 12.

The city today is a mass of wreckage as a re-" suit of the hurricane which swept all before it here yesterday. The streets are being patrolled t. prevent vandalism. The property. the hurricane which was central near Under the stage of the Lyceum, water reached a depth of several feet, flooded the orchestra pit, and reached the eighth row of seats.

This was pumped out by the fire department engine today. The effective work of the catch basins at the various street corners and between streets ctused much favorable comment yesterday afternoon. The section between Thirteenth and Fourteenth street, on Avenue which before the new storm sewer was laid, caused great floods of water to seek the floors of stores, was conspicuous by its freedom of water. During the heaviest downpour of rain, the water was carried away with great rapidity. At the Jetties.

While work of the envernment jet- Key West in the early part of the day broke over Miami yesterday af track was displaced for a distance of forty yards but several relief trains were sent to the extensio nlast night and it is probable that a crossing has been effected there. Great Devastation in Kfey Wist. Scores of people living in Miami have been keyed up with anxiet: concerning the safety of that rorn Irte yesterday afternoon has beer, rumored on the streets thut the there amounted to thousands afternoon he and others went into the building to see if any damage had been done, and left after making a test, to ascertain whether or not the building swayed with the wind. At two minutes after five o'clock, a great gust of wind from the nortn lifted the building which dropped ternoon at five o'clock. The storm had been brewing all day and grew gradually fiercer as the day neared its close.

Early in the afternoon it became necessary to resort to artificial light, all business houses were closed and the occupants of the business district sought their homes with much dif- UM NARROW ESCAPES-BALMS FAMILY CASE HEAR TO DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPHER LOSES LIFE IN TRY1NB TO SAVE BBRT FIRE HORSES KllED BY FALLING ROOF loss is estimated at two milloina of dollars, but it is impossible at this, time to form any sort of an accurate estimate of the damage. Many homes are a complete wreck and hundreds of people are homeless and lost practically all that ther possessed, but the situation is being taken care of by the city authorities. The commandant at the U. S. military post here has received orders" to assist the Mayor in any way possible to maintain order and prevent vandalism.

KEY WEST, Oct. 12. The city was visited yesterday by the worst storm in its history. Rain had been falling since Saturday. The barometer seemed to be wavering and not until t.lx o'clock yesterday morning did it begin to fall: The fall was rapid and indicated the approach of serious disturbance.

The wind was blowing from the northeast and at nine o'clock had reached a velocity of seventy-five miles an hour. The rain fell like SOME LOSS OF LIFE FEARED OX THE KEYS I- hail and continued until 10:30 when it shifted to the north, working the ereatest destruction to property ever known here. The hurricane continued but forty-five minutes, but in that brief period two million dollars worth of property was destroyed. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.

All storm warnings on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts were ordered discontinued today. It is expected that Incoming reports will disclose severe damage to shipping and much destruction to property, with perhaps some loss of life on the Florida keys. The commanding officer of the Coast Artillery at Key West has been instructed to render such assistance as asked by the mayor in maintaining order. Factories, churches, residences and outhouses of all descriptions were blown down. The damage at the barracks alone will reach Thirteen churches were blown the only ones remaining being one Catholic, one Methodist and one Baptist.

John Wardlow's factory is a total loss. The Lopez factory on the county road is a complete wreck. The Nicholas factory was destroyed. Pobalski's factory was demolished. Engine house No.

1 fell in, crushing one engine, the hook ladder outfit and the chemical, and killing three horses. There were manv thrilling escapes, but no lives were lost. i. and STORMED RECURVED AFTER STRIKING AT MIAMI The Baldwin family making a miraculous escape, from a collapsed building The factory place occupied by A. Tores, opposite William Curry's was blown down, as was also the place occupied by Thomas Reedy a furniture store.

I ii LOST LIFE TRYING TO SAVE BOAT. JUPITER. Oct. 12. The hurricane did not extend north of Miami with any force.

No damage is reported north of this jxjnt and the lowest barometer here was the highest wind velocity was 5 miles an hour. The storm recurved south at Miami, and passed eastward oftfr th? Bahamas at fifty miles an hour at Nassau, but no damage was done in that city, so fr as can be learned. FOUR BODIES FOUXJtt IX HUNS AT HAVANA Hundreds of houses were blown off the blocks and there is not a CURRY'S DOCK SHOWING A BEXX ER I.IN'R SCHOONER IX HER BERTH. of iloliati and that there woro a num- into a tangled heap, not three feet ties across the bay was stopped, and her of persens killed in the sUitm. from the foundation.

The windows the dredges towed inside, there was but no response could be haa from on the north side of the building no damage done there. One pon- meswges of inquiry. The were not in. and Mr. Chase believes toon was sunk, but recovered, the lines were engaged wih J3ck- the wind entered these windows and s-ation Zero, at the north shore line office all thj foreaooi.

lifted the building from its founds- was blown down. Tha beach was news was received direct from Key tion. well levelled hv the breakers, and single house that escaped flooding. A scene of devastation presents itself from every point of the compass. Telephone poles, trees and tin roofs are in every street and the throughfares are impassable, and debris of all kinds litters the entire city.

Yesterday will be a day memorable in the history of Key West. Along "he shipping it was equally as destructive all the wharves aion the water front have suffered. Currys. Sweeneys are a total loss. Vessels were c-ushed against the fish wharf by steamer McAdain which sunk.

Mr. Archer and family who lived abroad had a narrow escape from death. Mr. Gray lost his life in attempting to save his craft. Acuity through the driving rain and sharp wind.

Many who read aright the portents of a storm were in the street when the wind reinforced by the approaching hurricane began to unroof houses and beat down wires. They hastily sought shelter in any available spot and were held in their places while the awesome assault of the storm lasted. Skies of ISrimstone. The velocity of the wind was about forty miles an hour, but the queer lights that suffused the scurrying clcuds shrouded objects in a jaundiced illumination that gave the pallor of death to the tace and car In all probability. Mr.

Chase will now the slope from the pavilion to begin at once to rebuild the hotel, the beach is gradual, which was about two-thirds finish- Houses and Stores, ed. He stated this morning that he Verv few houses ia the cltv with-would net decide until tomorrow up- stood "tne hpavy rain, and during the on rebuilding, adding, however, that afternoon, show windows were fiood-the work will no doubt proceed. in many of the stores. Iaks The building was to have bn forced by the pressure of the Wist until this afternoon the Associated Press brought ifie first news to that the loss at Vst amounted to two million dollars, but no loss of life wa reported. Tt-e rcmandant of the i.n.

tary -st has been given or in to the city authorities in eveiy iianner to prevent Ti Roof Lifted. HAVANA. Oct. 12. Four bodies were found in the ruins of homes today as a result of the hurricane yesterday.

It is now believed that the death toll is twelve. Communication with the Interior lias not been M. Ferguson was struck by nvin wood and Knocked unconscious laiven uy as an and is in a critical condition. The telephone street car and city have hundreds of men engaged in addition to March villa, and would renewed, but the information received here shows that the property I damage from the storm was heavy. clearing the streets but it will be a Ions time before the effects of the About five o'clock, when the great have been ready for operation thus Slow in the west, attracted the at- winter.

tention of everybody on the streets. ried with it in the confusion of rip BLIZZARD AT DULUTlt DELAYS SHIPPING storm in some of the best built houses, although damage is siiglit. ruitless Trips. At four o'clock this ttternoon. the which left here this morning, returned to the city, with all hki rs aboard, the train being unable to go further than about 40 miles boutk of here, on account of washouts the line.

Xo communication could be had with the extension operations, and as far as the nil road company is concerned, it will be several days be- ping roofs and falling cornices interjected wiih the thunderous booming of the wind, a seeming worse than it proved and blent "strange communion of hope and fear in the features of those who witnessed it from ibe midst of its defenceless theater. a terrific blow, from the norrheast pealed the. tin rooting trom the top of the Masonic hall en Thirteenth street, and carried it a block away, landing onAventie in front of Keller's grocery store and the Miami Kellum an 1 family, tied at the Seminole Club dock, came near being sunk by ue force a falling cocoa-nut tree. The top of the tree struck the ist end of he houseboat and tore nwav fh lek row I hnt ftiri DULUTH. Oct.

12. Yter-' lays blizzard continue today aTb, head of the lakes with much delay Meat Market. The tin tore away all other damage. to shipping. storm will be obliterated.

WEATHKR lil liKAl'S ACCOUNT OF STORM. The weather bureau gives out the following: S. Weather bu reau. Key West. I'la Oct.

12th. The pressure began to fall commencing 10 P. M. Oct. loth, reading then was 29.Su inches then till (J A.

M. there was a steady fall 42. After A. M. the fall was extremely sharp until A.

when the minimum reading 2S.I inches. This is the lowest ammeter reading on record in this city during the past 39 years. After A. M. with the sud len shift of wind to northwest a rapid rise occurred.

From noon to 4 the barometer rose one inch to 29.50 inches. The wind was steady during the night averaging from 15 to 16 miles mostly from the southeast. For an hour th rush r.r the i wires in its path, ana rendered elec- Bridge Tender Overboard. lasted with an occasional lull, when tric Iight an'' tek'Pnn service use-' i. aj nmir.e.1 that less beyond that point.

OST MIAMI. ATTENTION. Reports came from the freight de- No Infor the w-ind was cliancine from south- The rain ceased about this time, pot this morning that tridge tender, fore their wires are up Every member of the mllitarv iiieuioer ot tne military mation from the extension could be i or- secured. southeast to north-northwest. This was a welcome sign to those experienced in tropical storms.

The cir aaj consequently there is no damage J. S. Howell, was blown from the to the interior of the Masonic lodge draw bridge at the freight dejot. and tortus, or the room underneath. landed in the middle of the Miami The tin roof of the Landis build-; river.

The man was clad in a heavy cular motion of the hurricane is well NASHVILLE After being kept in iail fli'e Irinnthc with rubber coat and shes, and lantern. known and when the Hirrrtion of thJ lnS on the corner of Avenue and a gale and at A. noon the wind blew M. it Increased steadilv at the aii.it io i-ost Miami, will bear in mind that orders have been published calling for inspection and muster for Wednesday night at 7:30 p. m.

at the armory. The uniform for this occasion will be the service coat and breeches, leggings, and the campaign hat. G. EKOSfER, Capt. 2nd.

Infantry. Commanding Post N.G F. Thirteenth street was also hit by this when blown overboard. He made gust, but had a firmer bold on the for the shore and still hung onto counterfeit money. Jobm building, and was only partially torn the lantern, and made the shore safe ff'on has been at Bristol, off.

ly, though pretty well exhausted. by a Grand ry order, upon At 6 A- it increased suddenly to to hurricane force from 9 A. M. to rate of 72 miles per hour. At intervals during tnls period the rainfall was unusual nearly 8 wtnj changes so decidedly it is certain that the worst of the disturbance has passed.

It was impossible last night to ar-tive at the extent of the damage done, but the morning dawned with the wind reached a force of 80 miles. 1-2 inches fell from fi to 11 A. HouM-lMat Damaged. The houseboat occupied by M. R.

Trees and Signs Go. There is hardly a tpace of in-- discover ma; iue anegeu Daa 100 money is all eenuine. fit- i- FROM THE HARBOR OF KEY 3VE ST SHOWING THE GOVERNMENT 3VA.TER FRONT..