Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-04

| posse OF pollcemen was quickly on the
ground, and some plucky work was done
in rescuing a number of girls who were
left caught amid the ruins of the second
floor. The people of Camden all tell the
same story of a rumble like rafting of
| train OF heavy wagons over paved streets
that accompanied the cyclone.
PEOPLE TERRoRIzED.
Before il the air was filed with flying
| debris, and people seeing the awful sight
fled in terror by hundreds to their cellars.
The cyclone lasted between four and five
minutes, and was marked with terrific
| puts and roars. 1t is singular fact
that fiat rooted houses suffered the most,
the wind with the greatest ease catching
them under the cornice lifted them
as though they were sheets OF paper.
There was hardly an instance where a
mansard roof building was wrecked. So
! great was the violence of the wind that
! the fronts and sides of houses and bay
windows were mashed in as though they
were egg shells. Roofs were carried
hundreds of yards away.
TREES SNAPPED LIKE PIPE STEMS.
Shade trees were moved down like
platoons OF soldiery on battlefield. Great
monster trees that had stood the storms of
years were uproOted or broken of like
| pi ipestems. The eccentricities of the
wind could be seen on every side. Build
| ings which it would seem that an Ordi-
nary storm would demOlish, aud which
were in the direct path of the storm, were
| spared, while their neighbOrs of modern
structures of brick would be Quilted or
wrecked outright. About the only two
public buildings damaged were the Tab
ernacle NJ. &. Church at Third and Pearl
streets, and the Cooper school house close
at hand.
FUNERALS POSTPONED.
READING, PA, Aug. 3.-This morning
rain was very heavy, and appeared more
! like a cloud-burst. Many streets were
! filed with water from curb to curb. and the
! first floors of many houses standing low
were flooded. The Schuylkill river rose
over a foot. The moulders in several
| toundries were driven out by the flood
running into their working apartments.
At Temple, this county, this morning,
! hurricane uprOoted the Temple iron com
pany's entire orchard. blew over the con-
| pany's stable, tool house, and createl
general havoc in the village. Several
| funerals in the city and county announced
for to-day were postponed because Of the
storm.
CHICAGO's DELUGE.
| CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-The great ram
storm stopped at midnight. The total
rainfall in the preceding twelve hours
was 5.5S inches, an inch more than the
entire rainfall during the month of
! August IN either Of the last three years,
and the greatest fall within the time
specified on record. The fall was 80 great
and rapid that the sewers we're unable TO
carry of the volume OF water. Four hun
dred and twenty miles of sewer pipe are
| constructed on a basis of allowing an
inch of rainfall an hour, while yesterday
it exceeded two inches. The superin-
! tendent of sewers is Of the opinion that
! the flushing of the sewers will prove
| beneficial, thoroughly punging them. thus
proving beneficial TO the public health.
CLEAN STREETS.
The paved streets throughout the city
| this morning, particularly the stone
paved ones, have the appearance of
/ having been scrubbed clean with br0oms.
Many Of the Grant decorations on public
and private buildings are bedTaggled and
torn. The damage by the flooding OF base
ments was heavy early in the afternoon.
EASEMENTS FLOODED.
Easements and cellars that were more
than ten feet in depth soon contained be-
tween two and three feet OF water. Thou
sands Of rats poured from the sewers and
| Easements as the water began to I'LL up
the conduits. Not much unlike them were
the Cinnamon, all OF whom occupy deep
easements. Nearly every Celestial IN the
tlLN iDunu ulAubIlA WAthUub d. pace W lay
his head, and late into night they were
seen hunting lodging houses. Number
less families were forced to leave the
easements in which they lived and seek
for temporary apartments above the level
Of the streets. OF the residence streets,
Huron was conspicuous in this respect,
the tenants Of many Easements being
compelled to leave their homes.
LOSS TO BUSINESS MEN.
Easements and cellars throughout the
portion or the South side where the whole
sale houses are situated were filed with
water to a depth OF several feet. The
loss through this district is very heavy,
though no estimate Of the damage can be
made at present even by those who are
experienced in such matters. The first
business firm to ask for assistance from
the city was Lyon & Healy, dealers In
musical instruments, at the corner of
Monroe and State streets. A fire engine
was compelled 70 abandon the JOB Of
pumping out water after two hours of
truitless labor, as il poured In as rapidly
as it could be pumped out.
FLOOD AT BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 3.--Intelligence has
reached this city that Carroll creek, which
flows into the CatOctin at Frederick City,
OverfiOwed its banks to-day. and all the
people living In the depressed portion Of
the city have been driven from thoir
homes, and the destruction is consider
able.
IL Is still raining heavily I'm Balti-
more. With an inflow OF the tide Jones'
tails was forced beyond its walls. and
Harrison street and the Centre market
space are flooded fully two feet above the
street surface. People used 10 such over
flows were prepared, and removed their
personal property beyond the reach of the
water. IN the western section OF the city
cellars are again flooded, and sickness is
feared from OYerfOws, which have oc-
CURED three times within a month.
RUSHING THROUGH MARYLAND.
Advices from various points through
out the state show the storm 10 have been
the most disastrous that has ever visited
this section. The cyclone swept path
200 yards in width through Cecil county.
Houses, mills and bridges were carried
away. Trees were blown half mile, and
a loaded freight train with all the brakes
down, was blown a mile along the track.
Two mon were badly injured by being !
struck with flying debris.
la Harford county the damage 10 dwell I
lngs and crops is estimated at $4,000. I
Frederick City was inundated az an early
hour this morning. People had 20 flee Tor
their lives, and many narrow escapes
from drowning are reported.