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Show SCORES GO DOWN TO DEATH. From Florida Coast Comes Harrowing Stories of Recent Cyclone. Miami, Fla. Tho steamer St. Lucie, Captain Qrnvo commanding, hns sunk off the Florida coast. Ono of tho extension ex-tension steamers nrrlved In port Friday, Fri-day, bringing sixty injured, who wero taken to tho hospital, and twenty-eight twenty-eight dead bodies were brought up. It Is believed now that a part of tho Florida Fish & Produco company's licet was destroyed. Captain Itravo says that ho anchored an-chored on tho leo side of tho Elliott Key, twcnty-flvo miles south of Miami, nnd soon nftcrwnrd n tidal wave engulfed en-gulfed tho Island. Ho says thero wero 250 residents on the Island, nil of whom wero lost. Tho St. Luclo wns crushed by tho Bnmo wnve, and of tho 100 passengers on board twcnty-flvo wero killed. Cnptnln .Dravo wns seriously seri-ously Injured. A bargo containing 100 peoplo Is snld to havo been torn nwny from its moorings at Elliott Key and after-wards after-wards picked up near tho llahnma islands, is-lands, fifty of her passengers having beon drowned. |