Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-06
SWEEP OF THE STORM.
Further Damage Reported from
Various Sections.

Further Damage Reported from
Various Sections.
The continued rains have seriously in
lured crops in Clarke county, and bottom
land must be thrown out. The streams
IN Oglethorpe county were last week
higher than has been known in years. A
great deal of small grain has been ruined
in the stack.
A big hail storm passed through Mt.
Carmel settlement, three miles north OF
Hampton, Thursday, lasting thirty min
utes, and doing great damage TO cotton
and corn. The former is perfectly under
in places. Fences and houses were blown
down, but fortunately no lives were lost
as far as heard from. although the wind
was terrific and cyclonish in its effects.
Heavy washing rains prevailed generally.
Fort Valley Mirror: We have had an
unusual quantity of rain lately, and on
! last Wednesday night the rain and wind
seemed to be vieing with each other to see
which could do the most damage. be-
tween the two much damage has resulted.
Corn has been badly injured, being blown
down, and in many instances broken OF.
The cotton is badly damaged also, but the
grass is all right and growing at an un-
heard-Ofrate. 1t is now question which
to save, the grass or cotton.
In Sumter county the corn crops visited
by the late storms have been cut Oft from
fourth to a third. The fodder crop Is
| totally destroyed, and taken with the fail
ure of the oat crop, Will be heavy blow
/ to the farmers. AS the case now stands
! they will have to make an effort to save
all the grass possible, as long forage
N viii be at oIso premium prem g ga6
| by being washed up and falling timber.
| Grass is also plentiful in this crop, but it
! is too early to say what will be
| the result, as few days sunshine may
turn the scales favorably, but farmers
think now the crop will be 1000 bales
short this fall.
| In Stewart county the rainfall was five
! or six inches altogether, and the injury to
growing crops was very great: 1t was
/ with great difficulty that the mill dams in
the vicinity of Lumpkin COT which there
are four were saved, the water rising so
rapidly as to flow over the dams in two
INSTANCES, with all the vent which could
Fbe given by hoodgates. Bottom lands
| were overlooked ard presented the APP
pearance OF great river, which swept
| the crops bodily away. IL was the great
| est rainfall known for many years. 1t is
| impossible to estimate the damage that
! the farmers OF Stewart county have suf-
! tered from the rains OF the past month.
| The crops are tangled, broken, bemired
| and drowned. The farmers are downcast
and almost without hope.
Tuesday evening a severe storm passed
over Americas, blowing down trees and
| fences and loose things into the air.
Corn was broken off and bent down, doing
! considerable injury. MitchelPs mill, near
| the depot, was struck by lightning and
damaged some. +. Jones, mile or two
from the city, had a mule killed by his
stable being blown oyer on it. One or
two houses in the neighbOrhood were
blown from their foundations, but not
badly injured. The wind came from the
| southwest. Wednesday night the wind
reversed and came back with roar, and
did mucn more damage to trees and tenc-
! ing around the city, and has done much
damage to the crops all through the cOun-
try. Mitchel's dam was broken by the
waters that fell and rushed into the pond,
| and the Americas, Preston and Iumpkin
road was washed up near Muckalee creek.
| Milledgeville Chronicle: The heavy
| rains have caused another freshet. The
! river and creek are out OF it's banks and
| over all the crops adjacent. The many
| ON ners of these crops say that their loss
! is incalculable. One gentleman sold eight
| acres of fine corn that was under the
water for So. The rains have also played
| sad havoc with Messrs. W. and j. Cara
| ker's crop on the creek and river by caus-
| ing an overflow. Where they got 100
| loads of corn last year they will not get
| load this year. That part of the crop is
entirely destroyed. They estimate their
! loss at $1,000. Plantations on the river
| bottoms have suffered heavily by the pro-
! tracted rain and overflow the present
week. A gentleman told us on Thursday
! that his loss in corn alone would be S LOCO,
| and he is but one of hundreds of similar
| sufferers. Some old mulberry trees, con-
/ temporary to the early settlement of this
| town, went down last Wednesday night.
Albany News: The damage reported to
crops IN our issue of Friday morning was
! not over estimated, but many OF superior
! judgment in such matters think the con-
! sequences will be more serious loss than
! at present generally believed. The rainfall
| in Mitchell county was enormous, and
! little dry creeks. that scarcely ever run in
summer, are swollen, swimming streams.
Large areas of corn and COTTON have great
ponds of water covering acres. The dam
aye to the melon crop is said by Messrs.
f. +. Putney and j. X. King to have been
very great. The cotton crop is not seri-
Ously hurt, except in places where the
water will stand sufficiently long to kill
| out the plant on the bottom places. But
| it did not revive during the whole of
! Thursday. but looked listless, and seemed
utterly exhausted from the long struggle
! it mad for existence. The Chattahoochee
| branch OF the Savannah. Florida and
| Western railway sustained great damage,
| and no trains were run over the line dur
! ing Thursday. The construction train is
| busy repairing bridges, and it is probable
| that communication by rail with Balm
| bridge and ChattahoOchee was opened on
yesterday.