The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-01
STILL FINDING THE DEAD.
The Fatalities From the Storm Grow
Appalling.

AOAh AnH 9Ea AbAanAE AAuQHL Be
yond Belief 49, The Harbor Filled
With Wrecks and the Entire Coast
Strewn With Wreckage-The Dam
age to Property Growing Greater
Every Day.
The number Of fatalities from the
storm which swept with such terrific and
fatal force the entire Georgia and South
Carolina coast, will probably never be
known The dead are being picked up
every day But the list of missing will
be the only record that will tell the tale
Of the great disaster.
The report that six hundred people
were drowned on the sea islands is al
most too appalling to be believed. The
constantly increasing number of fatali-
ties, however, is accustoming people to
believe almost any report that bears
even the slightest mark of authenticity.
Twenty bodies have been found so far
near Savannah. The last recovered was
that of a little colored girl, which
floated down the river last night and
was picked up opposite the Ocean Steam
ship Company's wharves.
TwBNTY-FoUR BODIES REPORTED FOUND.
A report was brought to the city late
last night from across the river that
twenty-four bodies had been found near
Screven's Ferry. The report lacked con-
frmation, however. While it is not i'm
probable that several bodies have been
found there, the number is believed to
have been greatly exaggerated. The
bOdyof the sailor who was drowned in the
bark Harold on Tybee beach is reported
to be still in the vessel
The loss of life seems to have been
greater north of Tybee, on the South
Carolina coast than to the southwark.
Not a single fatality has been reported
below Tybee. The revenue cutter
Boutwell, and the steamers running be-
tween here and Darien have patrolled
every 'navigable river and inlet Mr.
G. Oemler found coat on Wilmington
Island yesterday morning hanging up IN
a tree, where the water had left it, with
a pistol in the pocket. The coat had
probably been left in a boat by its owner,
and was carried away by the storm.
Whether the owner is lost is unknown.
Searching parties are out on all the
islands looking for the dead, and to rescue
any who may have been cut of from
reach and are still alive.
The coast is strewn with the wreckage
of vessels which tells the story of the
loss Of probably hundreds of lives and
hundreds of thousands of dollars in ship
ping.
THE WRECK OF THE NETTIE MURPHY.
The story of the experience of Captain
Cosmon, Of the British ship Nettie Muir
ply, which was wrecked during the hur-
rlcane, and of the crew
taken of the vessel DO the
Norwegian brig Medea, which arrived at
Tybee Wednesday, is told In his own
words. Captain Cosmon says:
ION Aug. 20, we got an increased wind
from the northeast. About Monday it
had increased to strong gale. While
the ship was on the port tack, about 6
O'Clock in the evening, it was blowing a
living hurricane from the same quarter
On the morning Of the 9th it continued
to blow, with even more force, if such a
thing could be possible. About s O'Clock
the wind started to Yeer to westward and
the deck load on the port side began to
break up and go overheard. There was
no let up in the force Of the storm up to
midnight when it moderated a little.
The starboa I'd deck load was all gone by
this time, and the ship fell down on
her port beam ends, and as there was
such mountainous sea running, in the
short space of about fifteen minutes we
had nothing left on deck.
EVERYTHING CARRIED AWAY.
"The fore house, matches, stanchions and
pits around the miZzen mast the pumps,
water tanks and everything were washed
overheard. The after house was then
Quilted and all the boats were gone. At
O'Clock on Monday, the 2Sth, we were
taken of by the Norwegian brig Medea,
while in latitude 90 90 north and longi-
tude 790 l6' west. When we left the ship
she was lying very low in the water, and
the decks were beginning to break up. The
vessel was head to the west, and she was
listed heavily to starboard."
Capt. Cosmon has telegraphed the
owners of the Nettie Murphy, giving them
a description of the disaster
Mr.. Walter Robertson, the British vice
consul, will take charge of the ship
wrecked seamen until the owners of the
vessel are heard from.
fHE GENEsTA AFLoAF.
Ing bdI n OGACoN6 WHICH was DlOWn
across the railroad track at Tybee from
quarantine got of yesterday and went
down Oyster creek to a more comfortable
resting place. 1t will be remen bered
that she was driven by storm of Sunday
night from the quarantine station across
the marshes and fetched up on McQueen's
Island. No one has had any communica-
ton with the vessel since her mishap, as
she is still under quarantine law, but it is
supposed that she rested near the edge
of Oyster creek, short water
course that juts into McQueen's Island,
and the captain, after getting rid of his
ballast, warped her into the creed She
can be towed from Oyster creek around
through Lazaretto creek into the Savau-
nah river. If the vessel is where she is
stated to be, she not only passed over
Long Island and South ohandel during the
hurricane, but the Tybee railroad track
and McQueen's Island as well, and can
be put down as a lucky ship.
Strachan & Co., the agents of the YES
sci, will send a tug down to her this
morning, and win probably tow her
through the creek safe into the river
THE ISABELLA GILL MISSING.
The schooner Isabella Gill, Capt. Col
lison, is still missing. She was in the
Storm If reports are true that she sailed
last week from Port Royal with a cargo
of phosphate rock. The Isabella Gill is a
regular trader on the coast, and fire.
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