The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-14
AUGUSTUS HEAVY LOSS.
HUNDREDS OF MEN AT WORK
CLEANING UP THE CITY.


The Damage to the Canal Will Neces-
state Shutting Down the Mills
Three Thousand Hands to be Made
Idle-More Bodies Found in the Mud
and Ruins.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Sept. 13.-At dark
to-day the Savannah river had receded to
20 feet, fall of 10 feet from the high
water point.
AS each inch drop is recorded new dam
ages are revealed, injuries discovered or
horror laid bare. The story of the
flood and its effects is continued
to-day, and the record shows serious
losses and damage in special places,
like the canal, which will amount to an en-
tire loss in the city. The damage up the
canal will not only be difficult and expen-
sive to repair, but it will involve stoppage
of all the factories. and the cutting short Of
the city's water supply. This makes the
situation very serious, and it calls for prompt
and united work.
THE WORST BREAK.
The worst break in the canal is near the
Augusta and Knoxville crossing, where the
bank is washed away down to the very bot
the heavy riprapping.
Already the streets are filed with work
men up to their knees in the mud, shoveling
at the debris and opening drains to carry
off the standing water.
The union ticket Office is a total wreck,
and Agent Gibbes has notified all ticket
agencies that he will DESTROY the contents
of his office, and ask for a new supply.
Two called meetings of the council were
held to-day and conference had with
committee from the citizens.
THE CANAL HURT $3.50, 200.
The approximate damage TO the canal is
$3.50, 900, and the stopping of the factories
throws out OF employment some 5000
operators.
The damage to bridges is $4,000, and to
streets about $3.50 900. The damage to
stores and residences will foot up about
$500, 900.
The sense of the council meeting was to
levy a special tax of l per cent, payable
immediately, in four installments. The I'M
spectors are making thorough canvass of
distressing cases of suffering. A committees
is making tours through the lately inun-
dated section with wagonloads OF sand
witches and jugs of fresh water.
For the next few weeks Augusta will be
very busy. Tomorrow will see a large
addition to the already large number OF
men cleaning the streets.
GETTING READY FOR THE EXPOSITION.
The efforts of all are concentrated in se-
curing presentable appearance by Oot 10,
when the exposition opens.
Surprising cheerfulness is exhibited on
all sides.
Cellars are filed with water, and the en-
gines Of the fire department are employed
In cleaning them.
Broad street looked like one large bazaar
~. .laxy unit .Lo f.f pda ~ had in
every direction, sight-seers strolling about.
clerks cleaning up goods, and every one
brisk and happy over the falling OF tha
water.
A shipment of bread was received from
Atlanta to-day, which was transported over
two miles In boats.
FINDING A CORPSE.
The body of white man named Kennedy
found to-day in the sanddrift near the gov.
ernment building was horrible spectacle.
A hand was found sticking through the
ground, and workmen dug down and found
the decomposed corpse
II. +. Farmers body, the drowned super
visor Of the Port Royal road, was found in
kiln Of the brick yard, badly bruised and
battered.
The body Of Williams, a boatman, was
found floating In an eddy, the figure being
upright.
lJuuR IlEHluS Wcfo louuu Ii
the freight yard of the Georgia road.
THE DEAD.
The deaths to date are:
H. F. FARMER, supervisor of the Port
Royal railroad.
A WHITE WATcHMAN.
A NEGRO at the Port Royal bridge whose
name is unknown.
DAN HIo0INs, young white man.
WALTER BLAND, negro boy 10 years
old.
REBECCA COOPER, an old negro woman.
WILLIAM NORRIS, q small white boy.
JAMES CoNLHY, a negro 10 years old.
BOLIVAR WILLIAMS, a white boatInan.
HENRY KENNEDY (white), who was found
in the sand
Several buildings have been threatened
by fire from lime barrels flooded by water.
Two bodies remained In Platt's undertake
ing establishment four days, and were
buried this morning, being the earliest mo-
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