The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-14
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A TERRIBLE hurricane, which resulted in
great loss OF life and immense destruction of
property, has visited Savannah, Ga. The tor
nado burst over the city from tho northeast,
and in o few minutes the place was in darkness
and the parks, streets and squares were rem
dored impossible by falling trees and houses.
Every wire leading out of the city was pros
tratcd, fully one hundred dwclling-houses,
stores and warehouses lost their roofs and many
had their walls blown in. One house containing
six persons was blown into tho river and five
people were drowned. Every person living on
Shad Island was reported to be drowned,
and there was great loss of life among
the negroes on the rice plantations and
in the ncighborhood of the city.
Tho Georgia Infirmary was wrecked, and the
patients barely escaped, anumber being bruised
by falling bricks and plaster. The pilot boat
Maid of the Mist came in collision with q
schooner and sunk, and several tugboats we're
injured. house was swept down the river,
and three of it's terrified occupants-Mrs.
Stokes and her two ch~ildren-were drowned.
Engineer Richard Fitzgerald, of the steamer
n. B. Plant, was drowned. The family Of
David Bowens (colored), comprising seven per-
sons, were drowned. A colored woman and her
four children we're washed away in their house.
Tho ships in the river broke loose from their
moorings. Several were sunk and a large num-
Der damaged. On Tybee Island, SaTannah's
Coney Island, nearly every house IVES blown
away. One house took fire after it fell, con-
Stunning Mrs. Georgia Wolfe, her child and her
little brother. Other dreadful scenes are re-
ported at various river resorts. In Savannah
the depots, wharvcs, elevators and largo build
inss suffered great damage. The Savannah
Mcrninq Ne,cs building was unroofed, and the
printers set up the paper in six inches OF water.
The beautiful trees for which the city is noted
arc greatly damaged. Business was paralyzed
and over 81, 600, 900 loss has boon incurred.
BY the exploding of a saw-mill boiler at
Campbellsville, KY, three men were instantly
killed and three more injured.
MARVIN, the man of many wives and numer-
ons forgerigs, was arraigned at tho Richmond
(Ya) police court the other day, and claimed
that he was not the man wanted. He was iden-
tilted by the clergyman who married him to a
Richmond young lady, and by several others.
Marvin is charged with having married fourteen
women and deserving them ono after another.
Two large Chicago firms, who have received
telegraphic advices from about sixty CORE
spondents stationed at different points in the
South, estimate that the cotton crop this year
will be below the average. From the data at
their command they estimate that the entire
crop of 1881 will not exceed 5,0o0,0o bales, or
1,5OO,O 900 below that of last year.
On the day following the terrible cyclone
which visited Savannah, Ga, the bodies of
about fifty colored persons we're recovered
from swamped rice plantations. These, how
over, were only a part of the persons who lost
their lives. At least threc-fourths of the city
suffered heavily. Many Of the rice plantations
in South Carolina also suffered severely.
LATER reports declare that there has been
no massacre of the citizens of Eureka Springs,
New Mexico.
a LARGE uuLlDCI VI NlcSho IuA ouAiA
the recent storm along the Southern coast.
Among them was tho ship Sandusky, whose
crew Of fourteen men wero rescued by a steam
ship after having been without food and water
for seventy-eight hours. Another wrecked
vessel was the schooner Lucie Wheatley,
bound from Jacksonville, Fla, to Baltimore.
Her crew and eight passengers were also res.
cued by o passing steamer.
An overcrowding of trade has caused q large
number Of business failures in Deadwood,
Dakota. within the past few weeks.
HILLsDoEo, Ohio, and surrounding country
las been we'll shaken by an earthquake shock.
1t is described as lasting three or four seconds
and causing quite a rafting Of windows,
dishes, etc.
NJ. P. EzELL was shot and killed ono mile
south of Pulaski, Tenn, at night, by Fletcher
Hargravc. Ezcll was accompanying DR.. Nc
knight, who had just been married to Har-
graves sister, after All elopement. Hargrayc
overlook the party, and, announcing his pur-
pose to kill DR.. Mcknight, began firing. The
men jumped from fhe wagon. Mcknight
vas wounded and Ezell was shot dead.
The horses. becoming frightened, ran away and
seriously injured Mrs. Mcknight.