The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-29
mCLONEDOWNSOUTH
nseb Damage by Storr. in
Georgia and Florida
sfavY LOSS AT SAVANNAH.
r.saaA Hss Hard and sixteSn
rsves Lost = Ruin All Along
the Florida Coast

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- savannah. Ga. says: Tybee island.
/ 80 .ection Of this city lying ~ the mouth
q she esYannah river, was tonight struck
d. - moss terrific cyclone that ever Wis
- this section Of the country. The
eaarsntins station. one OF the fnest IN
~ south Atlantic states twenty-four
kours ago In now total ruin with the
sreeption OF the doctors residence. the
~harves are gone, the new fnmigating
.iens xhich cost the city 30 much money
q n the bottom Of the ses. and nine yes
- which were waiting there for release
I. eorns to the city are high and dry on
q. marsh and no doubt will be total
& ~.<rk. The Consume was the only vessel
vhirh managed TO keep adoat The tug
psufson arrived in the city 81
s,e.ock this afternoon. She brought
- about sixty passengers from
4vbee. Revers, one Of them, stated that
four negroes engaged in clearing the rail-
,osd tracks were drowned, as were also
sniior and cabin boy on the schooner
Harold, which Is on her side near the beach.
II Il reported that eight OF the crew OF the
IerYapin. a sioop which went ashore on the
south end are drowned. Il Is impossible
toyet learn all the details OF the disaster.
There are many stories aiioat OF numerous
ether dead, but, while no doubt many OF
them are true. yet they cannot be verified
Knight The property damage on the
Inland Is enormous.
The hotel Tybes was considerably dam
srsd. The bath houses were destroyed;
tbs Knights of Pythiss clubhouse and two
cottages were washed away; the Ranch
and Rambler cinbhouses were wrecked:
the Batter house was completely de-
srroyed and the Naylor house slightly
damaged, and Henry Green's house
burned. George BosweIl's cottage was
swept ont 20 sea. and the residence OF Mr..
Star washed into the woods. The railroad
track was cleaned out.
The storm swept with tremendous force
over the north part Of the island. The
railroad tracks were carried 300 to 500 feet
BIZ the force OF the water. The Chatham
clubhouse is practically ruined. The
payiiions on the beach are gone, and an
sinpty train is lying In the woods.
Trains on all the roads are COM
Ing In irregniarly. and some
Of them are entirely stopped 10
repair washouts Church steeples were
demolished and at least 500 large trees
blown down all over the city. The Typee
road u under water for the entire distance
and In many places is entirely washed out.
There Ia no communication whatever with
Tybee except by boat Nothing definite
can be learned from Tybee island till
morning, as all wire and rail communities
ton IL interrupted.
1t 10 believed the first bulletins of the
cyclones destructiveness have not been
exaggerated. While thus far only sixteen
iives srs known TO have been lost, yet the
loss Of life must have certainly been twice
that The property loss already known
will exceed 81 ,0o0, 600. and there Is no tell
Ing where the figures will end when the
full details of the damage are known.
The only list of dead obtainable up TO
5hss hour follows:
IoHs HeTAEs, oolored, crushed In a
house on Hutchinson's island.
Four UNKNOWN negroes, drowned on
hampton plantation, four miles from the
eity.
LKwfs GsGSErr. colored. ran into live
trolley wire aud was killed.
TALLER SQuIsK. 6-year-old coiored boy,
drowned on Hutehipson's island.
JeHN WILLIAMS, MARY BUTLER, SARAH
6nEEs, all drowned ON a rice plantation
south of the city.
Two usksows SAILORS. drowned on
Tybee island.
NEw YoRK, Aug. ga special from
Raleigh, n. c., says Kernesvilie was
struck by a frightfui cyclone today, 100
houses being blown down. four persons
killed outright aud many injured.
CHARLESTON. 8. c., Aug. 2s.-This city
was awakened this morning to the fact
that q cyclone had caused widespread de.
siruction the night before Much damage
TO property Is reported from all sections
OF the city. trees, signs aud CHM
neys being blown down. houses
unroofed and demolished la some instances
and considerable loss resulting from rain.
TIE entire damage is estimated at s., 0eo.-
Coz Several casualties are reported. The
city Ii wrapped in darkness to-
nght, and the streets are COW
cred with debris. Electric light and
ether wires are down, and il is impossible
10 keep gas burning. None of the business
houses we're opened this morning. Half
hs streets were impassahle on account of
iaien trees, telegraph poles aud timhers.
FERROUS fears are entertained for the in
habliants OF Sullivan island and the coast.
Tbs former place was last heard from az 3
y m. Sunday. Communication is sus-
pended.