The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-07
THE CITY IN A GALE.
FOUR MEN INJURED BY A FALL
ING BUILDING.

The Bag Building at Hammond, Huh
& Co.'S Fertilizer Works Wrecked
Sixteen Men Under the Roof But all
But Four Escaped Unhurt-C Charles
Jones, a Colored Lsborer Caught by
Falling Timber-The Blow in the
City-The Rainfall over 2 1-2 Inches
The Streets Flooded and Washed
in Many Places.
The city was visited by a heavy wind and
rain storm yesterday afternoon, which
wrecked the nearly completed bag house at
Hammond. Hull & Co.'S fertilizer factory.
west of the Vale Royal mills, and seriously
injured Charles Jones, a colored laborer,
and slightly injured three other colored
men.
There were sixteen men in the building at
the time it fell, four white and twelve col
ored men, the white men escaping wholly
uninjured, as they had the presence of mind
to range themselves between the hmbers SO
that when the shed fell they escaped injury.
Mr. Carmichael, superintendent of the
factory, who had left the shed few min
utes before to 60 to dinner, with a full
force of men at once went TO the rescue of
Jones, who was in the debris, an S-inch
piece Of timber pinning him down. He was
taken out with some difficulty. and Mr.
Carmichael sent the injured mau to his
home on Exleyss place in his buggy, and
Immediately summoned Dr. Elicit to at
tend him.
JONES MAY RECOVER.
DR. Elliott said last night that he does
not think Jones' injuries are necessarily
fatal in fact be did not think they are of
serious nature, but he added that he could
give a better diagnosis of the case this
morning.
The building is complete wreck and in
wolves loss of about 200 The con-
TRACTOR, Mr.. Sanford, had nearly completed
the building, which was designed as bag
room for the storage of fertilizers and was
IT'S feet in length By 30 feet in width.
The widest sort Of rumors were current
in the city after the ACCIDENT, and among
other stories it was Sid that from fifteen tO
twenty five colored iaborers had been killed
by the fall of tho shed, but sifted down, it
was found that the colored man Jones was
the only one seriously injured, and three
others received slight bruises. Jones' in
juries are about the head.
Mr. Joseph Hull said last night that the
building will be rebuilt at once. He was at
the Bay street office of the company when
he heard Of the accident, and Immediately
drove out to the works when the news of
the fall of the shed was brought TO his atten-
ton.
THE STORMS SWEEP
The storm was the most violent which
this city has experienced for a long time.
The rain fell at q tremendous rate, the wind
blew gale, and if hail had been present
the damage would have been great indeed.
About noon the clouds began to collect in
the north and northwest and they soon
sumed a very threatening appearance. Be-
tween and , O'Clock low, rumbling thun-
der was heard and an occa-
ioaal vivid flash of lightning shot
from cloud to cloud, or down TO the surface
of the earth. The storm was apparently
coming down the river, and it passed a
little to the west of the city, moving from
north to south, as was shown by the wind
backing from south and southwest-where
1T had been during the forenoon--to south
east, northeast, and finally northwest, as
the storm approached and passed.
The rain started light at first, but at $3.50
O'Clock it began to fall in sheets, and the
wind at the same time suddenly shifted
from northeast TO northwest and blew in
violent gusts. The maximum velocity was
thirty-eight miles an hour, but it soon de-
creased TO about twelve miles an hour
while the rain continued for half an hour to
fall in torrents. The temperature dropped
from So TO &C.
LIKE CLOUD BURST.
Two inches of rain fell in thirty minutes.
which is at the rate of inches an hour.
For a short time the rate was even greater.
During period of five minutes o. As of an
inch Of rain fell, or at the rate Of 5 40 inches
per hour. The total rainfall was 2. 60 inches
Before the commencement OF the rain,
peculiar phenomenon was observed
by the signal officer, which is
storm. The upper layers of dense
threatening clouds were seen to move from
the south and southeast right into the storm,
while the lower nimbus clouds were moving
from the north and northeast out of the
storm. The barometer only fell slightly,
and was above normal all the time
Quite a number of shade trees sabout
town had limbs wrenched off by the
cyclonic action of the wind
THE STREETS FLOODED.
The volume of rainfall was so great that
the sewers could not accommodate the
water and streets were covered and the
Easements of some buildings were flooded.
There were nearly 2 feet of water in the
basement of the Screven house.
Congress and Bull streets. in front of the
Screveu, was for time impossible. The
sewer was unable TO carry off the surface
water and the sidewalks were covered The
street car grades were washed in many
places and big gullieS were made in some of
the streets. The greatest damage by wash.
ing was on the eastern and western sides Of
the city. The lightning played freaks in
many places, but no damage was reported
up to last night.
A few other stations in the state besides
Savannah reported heavy rains. Alapaha
4.S9 inches, Albany los, Jesup rs, and
Live Oak, Fla, l.95. A glance at the
evening weather maps shows that local
barometric depression exists in the southern
states, and consequently showers are proba-
BILE for to-day.
The storm passed around Tybee, and peo-
pie at the beach, although they saw the
black cloud over the city, did not have
drop of rain.
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