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Tues., Oct. 2, 1906
"Messrs. George M. Morrison and Charles W. Tompkins, acting for the county commissioners, left the city Saturday evening at 4 o'clock in a sail boat for Alabama Port and Heron Bay. They arrived at Alabama Port about 1 o'clock Sunday morning, and found things in a deplorable condition. ... They found thirty-five men, women and children crowded together in the house of Captain Reed, and about the same number in the Lillie house. The provisions they carried down were divided into two equal parts, one-half of which was sent to Heron Bay and the other half was divided equally and delivered to the two houses at Alabama Port.
"All of these people are in destitute circumstances, their boats, houses, clothes and everything they possessed being lost. There was a great deal of sickness, but the doctor had no medicine. .. The bay is strewn with wreckage of every description, a great many bodies are floating ashore, these being in such a decomposed state that but few can be identified and are buried where found."
"Captain Alba tells of a startling tragedy that occurred at Graham's cottage, Coden. The storm was at its height when the front door of the house was burst by the wind. Mr. Graham said that all there would have to get out or would die in the house. There was a lady with her baby in her arms. She ran out into the hall and the wind literally blew her and the baby through the rear window and out into the night, and they were seen no more alive."
