Show PENSACOLA WRECKED Heavy Loss of Life Among Amo g Mariners Damage of Pensacola Fla Flit Sept 28 via Flomaton ASa MaThe The worst hurricane to visit this city c ity in its history raged here furiously all an last ast l night and this morning and today with a gale gaJe still sun blowing The rhe city pre presents s a wrecked appearance and the dam damage damage age ago is estimated at The loss of life l ife will be heavy among the mariners but thus thua far only one ono body has been bem re recovered recover covered cover c d a man named George Gcorge Morgan a n fisherman f Other Othor bodies are reported along the shore but have not been bean re recovered covered c Commencing at 7 last night the wind blow at nt fifty miles mlles an m hour for three hours hour then Increased to miles From that time until 5 P this morn morning mornIng ing I ng It remained at about eighty and nine ninety ninety ty t miles an hour The tides from the bay backed Into the city for blocks de destroying destroying homes and making rivers out of the streets Women and Children Frantic When the gale was at its highest and women and children were running fran frantically frantically frantically about the streets in darkness an alarm of fire added to the confusion The fire started In the Pitt mill near the business district and horses of the fire department refused to go out in the weather With tin roots roofs trees treos and wires falling around them the firemen dragged their hose wagons wagon by hand tp t the blaze and after hours of work controlled it This afternoon the water rose until the business districts presented an almost In Indescribable indescribable Indescribable describable scene Of the fifty or sixty big steamboats and sailing vessels in the harbor only five or six remain They have been driven ashore and along the water front Is a mass of wreckage from steamboats towboats launches and sail ing craft Thirty fishing vessels have been destroyed or damaged and the tho three big fish houses with their wharves are gone gono Muscogee wharf wharf and the rV dom om m and Tarragona wharves of the Louisville Nashville railroad are badly damaged Great iron ships of two and three thousand tons have ha e been driven not only ashore but have gone through houses a block from the water front Every EVOY house along the water front for ten miles mUes has been destroyed and the wonder is that the loss of life liCe Is not greater The tracks of the Terminal rail railroad railroad railroad road to the navy yard and Barrancas have been destroyed destro ed as also the trestles and bridges es No communication can be had with the navy yard ard but it is believed that it has been badly damaged A number of war warships warships warships ships were there and these undoubtedly have been destroyed Every business house from the wharf on Pala Fox street to the union station has been unroofed many plate glass win dows down broken stocks badly damaged and wires and poles all nU mixed together City In Darkness There arc are no electric lights no cars nor telegraph or telephone service The track of the Louisville Nashville rail railroad railroad road on the Pensacola and Atlantic divi cliv divisions has been destroyed for thirty miles and two engines and cars sent out to the quarantine station have been lost Acting Mayor Maura ordered every eve sa sit loon closed this morning and fifty extra policemen have been sworn in The homeless families are housed in all aU por par of the city but many will Il walk the streets without food or a place to sleep until some order can be bo brought out of the chaos Thieves are breaking open trunks along the beach bea h entering houses and stealing everything In Insight insight insight sight Several arrests have haye been made nade but It is Impossible to protect property under such conditions Five sailors from a British steamboat were clinging to a roof roo that was washed ashore today toda Three others from the same vessel were drowned War Yar vessels at the Pensacola navy nav yard undergoing repairs were the gunboats Vixen Machias Isla de Luzon and Glou cester besides several smaller crafts and the quartermasters steamer Poe The They were in an exposed position and it is feared they may have been beached beach d |