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Show oo PENSACOLA HIT BY HEAVY STORM WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. Pensacola, Fla., was not seriously damaged by the Indian hurricane, but a number of merchant mer-chant vessels were driven ashore, although al-though the storm was of exceptional violence. This Information, the first to reach the outside woiu from Pensacola Pen-sacola since Friday afternoon, when communication was cut off, came to tho navy department yesterday from the pensacola navy yard radio station. Damage to the navy yard was estimated esti-mated at $100,000. The department summarized its dispatches as follows: "The navy department has received a report from the Pensacola navy yard j which states that the estimate of the damage done by the hurricane is about $100,000. The electric railroad between be-tween the navy yard and the city of Pensacola was badly damaged, but the damage to the seaplanes at the naval aeronautical training station was comparatively com-paratively slight. The entire roof of the general stores building was blown off. "Damage in the villages of Warrington Warring-ton and Woolsey was slight outside the complete destruction of the Episcopal Epis-copal church and the practical demolition demoli-tion of the Y. M. C. A. building. "Reports from the city of Pensacola state that the dnmage there was not great, although a number of merchant vessels were driven ashore and the hurricane was of exceptional violence." vio-lence." oo |