The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-03
STORMS IN THE SOUTH.
THE STORM IN GEORGIA.


A terrific hurricane visited Savannah on
Saturday night. The velocity of the wind
was about eighty miles an hour. Early in the
evening the signal service Office was unroofed
and the instruments destroyed. A portion
of the roof of the Morning News office was
blown off and the building flooded. The City
Exchange was badly damaged. A number
of firms on the quay lost heavily. About
fifty private dwellings were more or less in
jured. The sheds on the new wharf of the
Baltimore steamship line were blown entirely
down. Several flour and rice mills were I'M
rooted and their contents flooded. A large
portion of the city was under water for several
hours. The Central Railroad wharves were
badly damaged The public parks were de-
nuded of some of their finest trees and other.
wise injured. The destruction of shade trees
was very great. The Georgia Iufrmary was
wrecked and the patients barely escaped, a
number being bruised by falling bricks and
plaster. The German brig Maria Louise
Capt. Minke, had her stern badly smashed
and her rudder, bowsprit and jibboom broken.
Her sides were also injured. The pilot boat
Maid of the Mist, collided with schooner and
sunk, and several tugboats were injured. The
steamer City of Bridgeton had hole punched
IN her side. house was swept down the
river and three of its occupants Mrs Stokes
and her two children were drowned, Mr..
Stokes barely escaped. Engineer Richard
Fitzgerald, OF the steamer II. b. Plant, was
drowned. The loss of life among the colored
people occupying little huts on the rice plan.
tauons and along the river was very great.
On Iybee Island the house of Henry Solomon
was blown down and the ruins caught FIRE
Three persons persisted. The family of David
Bowers, colored, comprising three persons.
were drowned. 4 colored woman and her
three children were washed away in their
house. All the people at Shad Island were
drowned. At Fort Pulaski the officers quar-
tiers were flooded. The telegraph lines to
Savannah were all down. The storm has
been very severe and particularly dangerous
to vessels from the fact that the wind shifted.
frequently, blowing from the north, east,
northeast, northwest aud west
Up to Wednesday inquests had been held
in Savannah thus fsron 10 bodies of victims of
the recent hurricane. Others were held on
Thursday on number of bodies found on
plantations near the city. The bodies of a
white man, woman aud child have been washed
ashore at Iybee
At Beaufort the water house wharf was
washed away, two slOopS were washed under
the bluh, aHd the streets we're filed with va.
ter. At Port Royal a bridge connecting the
wharf wIth the cotton compress was washed
away, and part Of the railroad track was
destroyed Ten negro hands Of she Coosaw
Mining Compsny. returning home GA Saiur-
day night, got into the ferry house Of the
Port Royal ferry, 10 miles from town, toF
protection. The house vas washed away,
With all the men. Who were drowned. THIS
Is the only loss Of life reported. Several
pilot boats aud United States tug we're
washed ashore.
HURRICANE Ar FORT guyAt-
A hurricane passed over PORT Royal, 5. c., 4
on Saturday night Ga account Of the storm
the ierrymaH couid not convey passengers
across the river. A number OF persons aerc
IN the ferry hoasc awaiting the abatement Of
the storm when the house aas carried away
IS the high tide. Seyeu bodies ~cre recover. Z
ed Monday. The aambeE actually drusnsd
IS uncertain a. the run1urs cautlef. varying +
he number from tEeuiy 10 forty. Oac wash +
e. aud one drcd<c o. the CoosaS Mining
Company, In the CoosAw RIVER, sank No
lives we're lost there Considerable damage
vas done 20 she whaTyes and lighters 81 the
,0mp@ny. The estimated damagc e. iuiiyid
-ai and railway property IS 5000. TIE
loss Al Beaufort IS estimated II 5000.
INA GALE AZ rusRrEsroN
fae easieFly aorm e Caaglos:ou, South
Carolina, vas especially furious on SATURDAY
fom no3H 10 miduighL 4 heasy sea ran Up
be Arbos, and broke farioasjy asaius; che
lea Nah, tarasipg vast sheets Of spray f9rgy
eeg i1to the ar. Trees. fences. signs aad
'tImneys wese b.aWa doau sad housss ga.
ooied throughout the cs;y. lkc damage bsing
AZ SlOa.010, Ga SHlhvaa's Island
cottages psre s~cpt assay. aad the loss here
. estimated as St0,UU9. FoaF lives uere lost
y the storm, three hegrues and ysaug Waite
nan bsius drowned The iAstrr uas sReps
rom the ea.WAa b sas wiBd uhile watching
he Tremendous sea The shipping. having
ecesVed due warning OF TOE storm, a. marine
.EsAsfcr = reported