Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-29

ed M In numerous places. One party 81 the
wharf had seven head % cattle and one
mule drowned The paint shed At the oe
pot was blown down. One sleeping car and
the superintendent car were under IL, but
not damaged materially. The lamps at the
station were swept away. and the roof OF
the freight depot was slightly damaged.
Everything Is in a terrible state Of con-
fusion, showing that the gale must have
been perfectly terrific at that Point.
The loss to the lumber men will be
very large, but cannot yet be esti-
mated on account Of some Of the lum-
her being in sight, which they viii get.
The total loss TO the mill men, It Is believed,
will not be less than $40, 900 to So, 900, as
Mr.. Reppard, who visited the wharves and
made an estimate of his loss at g, 600, is
Of the opinion that the Others will suffer to
the same extent. The main track Is washed
very bad in places, and all the other tracks
are perfectly useless. The whole country
about this section is one sheet Of water.
Nearly all the Offices on the wharf are
either completely demolished. or so badly
damaged that, practically, they are OF no
use. The turpentine men will also suffer
terribly.
THE WESTERN END.
While the damage west of West Broad to
the Central Railroad Wharves is very great,
it is not to be compared to that at the east
ern end.
The Upper Hydraulic Press is very badly
damaged and the debris blocks up River
street. The elevator of the Planters Rice
Mil was blown off, and the grainery dam
aged. The elevator of Habersham's Rice
Mill was also blown off and the warehouse
damaged.
The Central Cotton Press is unroofed,
Corners warehouse almost demolished, and
the warehouse OF w. W. Gordon & Co. is
injured TO considerable extent, the tide
wall being blown in.
The property on the Central Railroad
whsrves has not been very seriously injured.
Three freight cars loaded with lime, which
had been blown open and deluged with
water, were slightly burned by the Stacking
Of the lime. The elevator in course OF con
struction was not greatly damaged, and the
cotton press and sheds are all right. The
wharf is not injured.
THE PARK AND SQUARES,
the pride Of our city, have been shorn Of
their magnificent beauty by this fearful
storm. Not square In the city but has lost
one or more OF its fine trees, and many Of
them four and five. In johnson square
there are three stretched In a row
across one of the walks. The rail-
ings have been broken down, and general
aspect lof ruin and desolation presented
The sight at the Park is sad to contemplate,
as the finest trees have fallen victims
to the fury of the gale. The iron railing on
CASTOR street has been broken in several
places by the large trees falling across II,
and the interior of the Park is filed with
the damaged foliage. It will require time
and money to restore our Park to its former
beauty, and some Of the trees cannot be re-
placed. In fact, the destruction Of our
shade trees has been
AMPLY APPALLING
and no estimate can accurately be formed
squares are cleared, then and only then can
we fully realize the extent Of our loss in this
respect.
FLOUR AND GRIsT MILLS.
The steam -four mill of Messrs. s. G.
Haynes 81 Bro, on Congress and MUntgom-
cry streets, had the western wall knocked
out and the roof torn of, and was otherwise
damaged. There Is some loss from the
wetting Of the stock, but TO what extent is
not known.
The Enterprise grist mills OF Messrs
Saussy IL Harmon, near the yard of the Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western Railway, lost
its roof, and the stock was damaged about
81, 800 by the rain.
THE GEORGIA IEFIRMARY
Is a bad wreck. The building fronts north
and, from the havoc made by the Storm
must have been badly constructed. The
entire upper part, with piazza, was blown
off and the roof carried some distance be-
yOnd. In the upper room front, known as
the female ward, there were number of
colored women, among them one aged
seventy five years, named Dolly
Rolfe, who had died about
nine O'Clock. The Superintendent,
fearing that the roof was going, was remov-
a..
as possible under the circumstances, and
had just gotten down with the last but two
when the crash came and the ceiling fell In.
| The place is a woeful wreck. The two other
| women were subsequently safely removed,
and yesterday morning poor old Dolly was
| found on her couch nearly covered up with
plaster. 1t was from this that the report
was circulated that there had been several
patients killed. number were slightly
bruised and hurt by falling plaster and
pieces Of brick, but none seriously injured.
One colored man IN the western corner Of
the upper ward had fractured thigh, and
1t was impossible to move him, and so he
remained there all night aud was found yes
| terday morning uninjured, none Of the plas-
tering touching him. There are thirty-nine
patients in the Iufirmary, some very severe
cases, and the exposure to which they have
| heen subjected will probably result fatally
to some OF them. The roof the dead house
and dessecting room, some hundred yards
from the main building, was also unroofed.
ON THE RIVER.
The night on the river will never be for
gotten by those who spent the hours of
that dreadful storm on their boats and
wharves. Amidst binding darkness, the
bowling wind and fierce rain, death and
destruction moved.
SAD FATE or ENGINEER FITZGERALD.
About $50 O'Clock, while the wind
was blowing violently, long iron
spike in one OF the wharf posts against
which the steamer III. B. Plant was
lying, was on the point of being
forced into the side Of the steamer, which
was iammed up against the wharf by the
strong current. The chief engineer OF the
steamer, Mr.. Richard Fitzgerald, jumped on
the wharf, and, with an axe, commenced
cutting the wood in order to get the spike
out. He had nearly finished, when one of
the vessels that had broken loose from
the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway Wharves struck the steamer.
He then attempted to spring on
board rhe Plant, and, miscalculating
the distance, fell into the river and
did not come to the surface afterwards. Mr..
Fitzgerald was a very skillful engineer and
had many friends in this community, by
whom he was highly esteemed. He was
about twenty-seven years old, and leaves q
wife, a very estimable lady, a native of
jacksonville, Fla, to whom he had been
married not quite year. The deceased
was brother Of Captain John Fitzgerald,
owner of the steamer II. B. Plant, OF Captain
- Fitzgerald OF the steamer City OF
Bridgeton, and also had brother living in
jacksonville, Fla. Efforts were made to re-
cover the body yesterday, but had not been
successful up to a late hour. A reward
will be paid to any person finding the
body, who will bring It to the wharf Of the
Plant.
ADRIFT IN THE RIVER.
The German brig Mary Louise, Captain
Meinke, had probably the worst time Of any
vessel In port, and also did considerable
damage to other vessels. She had been
loadingnaval stores at the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway whalves, and had fin
ished taking her cargo on board. She
cleared for Hamburg, Germany, several
DAYS since, but was unable to leave on ac-
CONT of the unfavorAble weather during
the past few days. The officers of the Mary
Louise say that schooner which was an
chored east Of the Norwegian bark Condor
struck that bark, and that the schooner and
the bark came against their vessel
with sufficient force to tear her
loose from her mooriDgs, and
drag up post to which one Of her hawsers
was fastened. The wind had been blowing
from the north, but about this time was
coming from the east, and the bark was
driven up the river at rapid rate, striking
everything in her way. She was driven
over to Kinsey's mill aud struck against
the wharf with considerable force. She
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