Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
DAY AFTER THE STORM.
THE DAMAGE HEAVIER THAN
AT FIRST ESTIMATED.


No Florida mail was received yester
day. and railroad communication between
Savannah and points south OF Jesup was
cut of. The Savannah, Florida and
Western railway, the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia, and the Brunswick
and " estern railroads were all reported
badly washed. Not a train passed Jesup
during the day. The hotels IN savannah
were crowded with delayed travellers,
who could not get any further south, and
but little satisfaction from the railroads.
No trains lett the savannah, Florida
aud Western depot Yesterday. This
road seems 10 have suffered the worst
so far as learned. The water rose very
high i'm the sWamps and low country
along its line between Jesup and Jack
sonyille, and the road bed was torn up in
dozens Of places. The storm seems to
have been worse along this line than was
the storm OF two weeks ago. large
force Of men are at work, and Supt. Flem-
ing hoped to get a train through last night.
Fortunately, the most Of the washouts are
very small, but sufficiently large to re-
quire repairs before travel can be re-
sumed. In one mile on the jacksonville
division nearly dozen Of these small
washOuts were reported.
SENDING OUT TIE MAILS.
The jacksonville and South Florida
mail " as made up TO 90 around by Dupont
and Live Oak, but il was not sent out last
night. II is understood that work is be-
ing pushed forward most actively on the
line between Savannah and Waycross,
and that the Jacksonville division, from
WaycrOss south, will be attended TO after
ward. Nearly every one Of the places
l4s.l #rrrn M
were cut out again Sunday, and many
more besides.
A special dispatch says the weather
was fair yesterday around Jesup and the
water fell rapidly, but there was still so
much last night that it was impossible to
tell wnen work could be begun on some Of
the places, and il was wholly impossible
70 say when trains would resume their
schedule.
THE heavy rains undermined and weak
ened the Mcmillan trestle north Of Jesup,
on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad. Hardly anything was
left except a awaying, thread-llke suspen-
sion bridge of rails and erOss-ties.
THROUGH A TREsTLE.
Train No. Ia, which left Jesup at 1920
a. m. for Macon, ran on the trestle, and
the locomotive and tender went down
several feet, carrying the engineer, }. T.
Balch, and the fireman, o.. II. Garner.
Neither Of the men were seriously injured.
Washouts were reported on other lines,
among them one on the Fernandina road.
These reports, however, could not be con-
hrmed last night
munication with Jacksonville will
doubtless be open today by way Of Live
Oak, If not direct through Waycross and
FOlkston.
Planters and everyone who was in any
way interested in the devastation Of the
storm were out early yesterday morning.
With short intervals Of cessation, the
ram had poured down all night. Although
very few knew it, this section had
AN EXTREMELY CLOSE CALL
between l and O'Clock q. m. The rain
ceased, the wind fell, the temperature
rose, and the barometer sank rapidly.
For half an hour there was nearly dead
calm. The Signal Service observer
looked anxious, Luckily the wind
veered, the mercury in the barometer
went up several hundTedths, and the
rain came down harder than ever, but it
was not accompanied by violent blow.
The nights tide did not 90 as high as
was expected, owing to a light change in
the direction OF the wind, and the fact
that the storm center had passed up the
coast, north Of this section.
Although the tide yesterday was not
unusually high the food su bsided very
slowly from the inundated fields. Not a
single rice field escaped the food 80 far as
learned. The banks around many plan
fatiOns gave way in from one to half
dozen places. Some Of the breaks We're
small, butmany 1t will take great amount
Of labor TO repair.
REPAIRING THE BANKS.
The growers will give their attention
first TO the banks and put them in order,
for it will be useless to try to dry the grain
with breaks in the banks. On some Of
the plantations ii is doubtful il the banks
can &c repaired Def - the grain sprouts
In some places the stacks were floating,
and there were few stacks that were not
half under water.
Reports from the Carolina side OF the
river were rather more encouraging than
those from the plantations along the south
bank Of the river, for the wind had fair
sweep at the waves on this side and blew
them away from the banks on the north
side, ana drove the flood with great force
across to this side.
An ex-planter said last night that this
season has been the most disastrous since
the memorable one Of 1884. lu 1881 many
crops were entirely destroyed but the loss
was not near so general as this year.
About Aug. 1 the prospect was uncon-
monty bright; but the storm OF Aug. %
and the subsequent wet weather, coupled
20 Sundays tidal wave, have made sad
havoc IN the rice fields.
on THE sATILLA AND ALTAMAHA.
From the Altamaha and Satilla rivers
north into Carolina there is nothing but
bad news. A special dispatch received
last night says
4 planter on the Altamaha states that
the storm has swept of every single
bushel ofrice on that river. Col. Jno. X.
nightingale. a planter on that stream, has
lost about 5000 bushels Of rice. The
principal streets Of Brunswick are still
Hooded.
The rice crop around Brunswick has
been terribly damaged.
A special dispatch from Hardeeyille
say: Reports from the rice plantations on
the Savannah river say the lower places
VIII suffer heavily from high water The
rice that was stacked in the fields Is
nearly all under water, and in some IN
stances has been washed away. On the
point on Gowrie place about 80 acres
were cnti.elY washed away. and is
total loss. The upper places are not sup
posed TO be damaged much. Lucknow,
Beech HIll, Laurel Hill and Joun Hill
VIII not be damaged from high water.
The places on New River viii suffer very
badly. The fields are all under water and
rice is floating The loss cannot be esu-
mated yet.
WHAT THE PLANTERS SAY.
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