Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-05

The Fiercest the Town Has Expe-
rIenced Since s24.

From our contemporary, the Darien
Timber Gazste, we condense the following
in reference to the great storm Of Au-
gust 9th, which It seems included that
prosperous little town in its visit, giving 1t
the liveliest shake since the memorable
hurricane Of 1924: For several days pre-
yious to the 9th the weather had been
threatening, the wind blowing from
the northeast, the usual storm point,
at this season Of the year; but
up to Saturday night, there were no indica-
lions that the wind would exceed an ordi-
nary "northeast blow" Towards night,
however, the wind veered to the northwest
and the gusts became more frequent and
heavier. By nine o'clock the wind had got
around to the west, and by ten it was blow
ing q gale, and increasing IN violence, from
IL p. m. until a. m, OF Sunday, when u blew
hurricane from west southwest. AT the last
named hour, or perhaps q little sooner, the
storm began to subside, and gradually
sighed itself away, until nothing could be
heard but the falling RAIN which continued
in uncertain showers until morning. Day
broke on a desolate scene In this city. The
streets were strewn with sign boards,
tin roofs, fallen trees, broken limbs, dry
goods boxes, and every conceivable article
that goes to make up the debris OF storm.
Although few fences Withstood the shock,
no buildings were overtkrown In the city,
except the Second Baptist Church, colored,
in process of erection, and no lives were
lost, except Mr.. Roughen, who was drowned
on Saturday in attempting to make his way
from Doboy to his home on the Ridge. The
principal injuries to buildings were the
roofs torn from the fine residence Of Mr.. J.
K. Clarke, and the stores Of Messrs. Joseph
Mansfield, Philip Keller, Robert LeVison,
Wilcox & Churchill, George Mansfield.
The roof on the shed over the ice house
of Mr.. Aiken was torn OF, together
with a portion of the shed. The roof of the
saw mill of Messrs. Todd & Huntington
was also torn of. In the country the losses
we're quite as great as those wrought In the
city. On the Ridge the beautiful trees be-
tween the Episcopal Church and the Metho-
dist chapel were oveTthrown or badly
broken, aud the roadway in front OF the resi-
dences of MIR. Thomas Hilton and Captain
Patterson rendered impossible. Fences were
generally wrecked as in town; and on Union
Island two of the smoke stacks OF the mills
of the Hilton Timber and Lumber Compa-
ny were blown down, and one Of the wharves
dragged down by vessel moored to 1t.
More or less injury was sustained in other
respects by this firm, but nothing eeri-
Gus. Father out, where the places are
larger, the damage has been correspond
ingiy greater The fine places of Mr.. r. L.
Morris, Mrs. Pease. Messrs. w. Robert
Gignilliat and j. A. Atwood, sustained
heavy damages in loss OF fencing and in
jury to the beautiful groves, which were
their great attraction. Mr.. Gignilliat's
vineyard was seriously injured. On all the
rice plantations on the river, from the Gig
nilliat plantations above, to the Barnwell's
and Cogper's below, we are glad to
report that the damage is SO slight as to be
hardly appreciable. This happy result is
from several causes. In the first place the
storm, instead of being !from northeast or
east, which would have driven the sea-
water In, and overwhelmed these river
plantations, was from the west south
west, which rather drove the water
out. In the second place, the
coast storm differs from the interior cyclone
in this, that it does not sweep the ground
like the latter, and low lying crop like
rice does not feel its violence as higher OBJ
jects do. In the third place, the rice is sup
ported by the harvest flows, which at this
season are kept to their height, almost up
to the ears, and the plant, therefore, lie not
so liable to be tangled and thrown by the
wind. The little rice which had been cut on
the river was recently stacked when the
storm came along.