Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
a DISASTROUS STORM.

SAVANNAH, Ga., aug. So.-Ae tnIeo
o'clock yesterday morning a terrible cyclone
broke over the city. The wind had been
stiffening from an early hour i'll the evening,
and at the hour mentioned had attained a
velocity of sixty miles an hour. People in
every part of the city were up and dressed
in expectation that their dwellings would be
blown down. Trees, fences, signs and small
missiles were flying through the air in every
direction. At the Pavilion Hotel a large
tree carried away the roof of the piazza,
and burst i'll the windows and the blinds,
creating a panic in the hotel. George w.
Parish's warehouse was unloOfed. Dennis
Shay's large sheds were completely demol-
ished. AT the Exchange wharf six Or seven
small sloops were sunk at their mornings.
The trees destroyed number several hun
dred.
At Tybee Island, at the mouth of the
Savannah River, the storm was almost as
furious as during the famous cyclone OF
1881. The wind reached a velocity Of
eighty-four miles an hour. The British
steamship Marion, for Savannah, from the
Cape Verde Islands, dragged her
anchors and grounded in the marsh.
She was fioatcd last night. The Savan-
nah steamer ST. Nicholas was ground
ed with forty pounds of steam
up and two anchors out. She was floated
l0oU ulElk Liz pllOI-OOoVo oOASo o1Nu
Wilder were grounded. but have been taken
off. The British bark N. Mosher, in ballast
from Belfast, Ireland, for this port, with
all her anchors out, was landed
high and dry on the beach oppo-
site Tybee lighthouse. She has eight
feet Of water in her hold and her posi-
ton is very dangerous. The British bark
Catherine Chalmers, with mahogany from
Mexico for Ireland, is grounded on Tybee
Knoll in a very dangerous position. She
had put into Savannah for water and pro-
visions. She dragged five miles and lost
three anchors. Several small sailing YES
neighboring islands were seen floating
down the river bottom up, and it is certain
that many negroes have been drowned.
One body has been beached at Schutzen
Park. Telegraph wires are down at
all points, and the damage done
along the coast is unknown. Darien
reports no wrecks in that vicinity.
On Tybee Island Charles Carroll's
summer residence was blown to the ground.
His wife escaped just before the building
fell. The loss is So, 500. At one of the
hotels several windows were blown in, and
many rooms were flooded by the rain. The
out to sea or drowned by a tidal wave.
SULL1vAN's ISLAND, S.. G., Aug. Co.
The hurricane Monday night and yesterday
morning was terrific and destructive. A
number Of houses on Sullivan's Island were
blown away. Over one hundred guests
We're at the New Brighten Hotel, and fears
were entertained for their safety. About
nine O'Clock yesterday morning the storm
reached. its height. At that hour, while
the hotel people were at breakfast,
the Casino fell with a great crash.
Fortunately all the rooms in that
building had been vacated. 1t was found
would soon succumb to the violence Of the
storm. At nine O'clock the wind changed
from the southeast and the storm increased
from the southwest. When the Casino fell
it is thought that the maximum Of the
storm was from siXty-five to seventy miles
an hour. The main building of the hotel
is intact, having stood the storm without
serious damage. At one o'clock it was en-
tireiy over. The loss to the New Brighton
is $50, 600. There has been general de-
struction of property on the island. 1t was
in the main submerged, but when the wind
changed the waters receded.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 26.--Charles-
ton was struck by a cyclone yesterday
morning and o%ne-fourth of the houses in the
city are %unroofed, parts of the spires of St.
Michael's and st. Matthew's Churches
blown down, and the spire of the Citidal
Square Baptist Church demolished. The
wharvcs and warehouses are badly damaged.
The German bark II. feters was driven
ashore. The German brig Freiheit was
sunk in collision. The dry-dock schooner
William E. Lee was blown ashore, and the
Norwegian bark Veritas and the Italian
brig San Frisco are ashore at Castle Pinck-
ney, with a three-masted, schooner, name
unknown.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 26. AT May.
port Monday there was a violent storm.
The Atlantic House WAS blown down. All
the guests of the house, about thirty WON
Ell and children, were exposed for hours to
the furious wind and rain. News from Fer
nandina reports great damage done to
buildings, boats and shipping. The guests
at the Strathmere House OH tile beach were
driven into town for refuge.
FREDERICK, Nd, Aug. 26.-For the third
time this summer a heavy storm swept over
Frederick County yesterday. The Catoctin
River, running through the Middhtown Val
ley, overtlowed its banks and carried away
everything in its track. Barns, bridges and
dwellings We're demolished, and fully S15,-
600 damage was sustained. +, Several of the
bridges have twice been swept away within
the last three months, and much Of the loss
falls on poor farmers. Considerable dam
age was done to the growing corn.
BosToN, Mass, Aug, ga very heavy
thunderstorm, accompanied by a gale, pre-
vailed throughout New England Monday
night. 1t was exceedingly severe in Bos-
ton and the vicinity, and. in the suburbs
many houses and other buildings were dam
aged by lightning.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, Aug. GA series of
extensive thunder-storms passed nor.h of
this place and to the east yesterday alter
noon, and did great damage to the tobacco
crop. The plants in many places were
washed out Of the. ground. Many trees
were blown down, and, in some instances,
whole orchards were ruined. The damage
to the tobacco crop alone is estimated at
$50, 900.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. GA freshet
III Girty's Run Monday night, caused by a
cloudburst near Evergreen, Pa, flooded
twenty-five houses, washed away thirteen
bridges and drowned a large lot of live.
stock. The damage will reach many thou.
sand dollars. No lives lost.
SIDNEY, o., Aug. 26.-The rain Monday
night and yesterday morning was the hcavi.
est ever seen here. About sevcnty-fye
linear feet Of the twenty-tive-foot embank-