The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-08-31
RUIN IN IT'S WAKE
-. .'..s-osy lars q Terrible Tornado
Ragged Along the Atlantic
Coast.
It Was Most Severe at Savannah, Ga,
Where Inestimable Damage Was
Done.
Over Dozen Persons Known to Have
Been Killed and Many Are
Missing.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 30.-The great
storm which had been predicted by the
weather bureau for several days, began
early in the afternoon and increased
from then until it reached the climax
at about midnight. having blown for
eight hours in terrific hurricane. IT.
began raining early in the morning,
but only in gusts. After the first fall
1t ceased entirely for several hours and
did not begin until afternoon. Then
the work of destruction began and last.
ed until the storm had spent its fury at
midnight.
All the wharves along the river front
and the warehouses of the Ocean Steam
ship company and Savannah, Florida
and Western railway are under water.
and the tide is still rising rapidly. A
view of the city in the morning
Revealed Scene of Wreck
surprising that of the great hurricane
of 1881. The streets are impossible
from the fallen trees, twisted roofs.
masses of brick, fences, broken timber
and branches of trees lying across them.
Trees are piled across the sidewalks
and in the square and broken limbs are
swinging in every direction.
The List of Fatalities
is gradually growing and it is impossi-
BILE to tell to what extent it will go.
Several bodies of drowned people were
picked up during the morning and
searches are now being made for others
who are missing. Every hour seems to
bring some new story of death as a
Mr.. A. G. Ulmer, assistant cashier of
the Central Railroad bank, on Hutchin-
sons Island, was one of the most I'M
fortunate fatalities of the storm. Mr..
Ulmer owns farm on the island and
had gone over to pay off his hands and
attend to other duties. Miller, his
dairyman, has not been found and
it is presumed he was drowned. The
other fatalities so far as reported are as
follows: Tony Halmes, colored; four
unknown negroes, drowned on the
Brampton plantation four miles from
the city: Lewis Gaggnett, colored; The
Squire, 6-year-old scolored boy,
drowned on Hutchinson's Island; John
Williams, Mary Butler and Sarah
Green, drowned on a rice plantation
south of the city; two unknown sailors,
drowned at Tybee island.
Fifty Persons Missing.
There are 40 or 30 other persons who
are reported missing and, as nothing
has been heard from them, it is sup
that their bodies will be found later.
The ruin at quarantine is immeasur-
able. The wharves are gone, the new
fumigation plant, which has cost the
city SO much, is at the bottom Of the
sea, and nine vessels which were wait
ing for release to come to the city are
high and dry on the marsh, and no
doubt will be totally wrecked. The
tug Paulsen arrived in the city at p.
m. She brought up about 80 passen-
gers from Tybee. Mr.. Revers, one of
them, stated that four negroes engaged
in clearing the railroad track were
drowned. A sailor and cabin boy on
the schooner Harsl, which is on her
side on North beach, are drowned. It
is reported that eight of the crew of
terrapin sloop which went ashore on
the South beach were drowned.
Destruction on the Island.
The Hotel Tybee is considerably dam
aged in front and the verandas are
gone. ALI the bath houses are gone.
The knights of Pythias clubhouse is
washed away, and two of the cottages
of the Cottage club are gone. The
Butler house is gone. Mr.. Starts house
was washed into the woods. The At
lantic clubhouse is all right. The
Rancho and Rambler club houses were
wrecked. The railroad track is cleaned
out. Henry Green's house was burned.
George Bosseps cottage was swept out
to sea.
The north end is practically cleaned
out. The water swept with tremendous
force over this part of the island, rail-
road tracks being carried from 300, to
500 feet. The Chatham Club house is
badly damaged. The pavilions on the
beach are gone. So is the Switchback.
An empty train stands in the woods.
Trains on all roads are coming in ir-
regularly, and some of them have
stopped to repair washouts. The church
steeples are demolished, and at least
500 large trees are blown down all over
the city. The Tybee road is all under
water for the entire distance, and in
many places is entirely washed away.
There is no communication whatever
with Tybee, except by boat.