Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-02
THE SOUTHERN STORM.

The Destruction Mt Savannah Even Worse
Than mt First Repostsd-Awful Reports
from the south Carolina Coast-New
York Caught IL.
SAVANNAH, Ca, Aug. 30.-The list OF
fatalities is gradually increasing and it
u impossible to tell to what extent 1t
will grow. Several bodies of drowned
people have been picked up and search
is now being made for others who are
missing. Every hour seems to bring
some new story Of death as result
of the storm. Tho drowning of A. c.
Ullmer. assistant cashier. OF
the Central Railroad bank was
one of the most unfortunate
fatalities of the storm. Mr.. Ullmer
owns farm on Hutchinson island, OPP
posite the city, and had gone over to
pny off his hands and. attend to other
duties. There were bruises on the face
and it is supposed he struck against an
out-shed when he jumped from his
barn as it was about to blow down.
Miller. his dairy man, has not been
found, and it is supposed that he was
also drowned. The other fatalities SO
far as reported are:
Tony Holmes. colored. crushed In house on
Hutchinson island.
Four unknown negroes. drowned on Bramp.
toms plantation, four miles from the city.
Lewis Sagnott, coored. ran into live trolley
wire
Colored boy, drowned ut Hutchinson island
John Williams.
Mary Butler and Sarah Grsen, drowned on o
ric ,l,n ,ior south Of the CITY
Two unknown sailors, drowned ut Tybee
island
Forty to fifty other persons are re-
ported missing and it is supposed, as
nothing has been heard from them,
that their bodies will be found later.
Twelve banks and barkentines which
were anchored at quarantine were
blown high and dry upon the marsh,
and some of them were carried by the
storm across the marshes on an island
two miles distant from the station.
One of the vessels was completely cap
sized and three club houses on the
island were blown entirely down.
Others were flooded and the people
sought shelterever they could find it.
The wires are all down and Savan-
nah is almost entirely shut off from
Geographic communication.
More than thirty wrecks have been
reported so far. Fifteen vessels in the
harbor and off Tybee were wrecked or
badly damaged. More than that num-
Der of smaller craft are missing and
are believed to have been lost The
| I prt I'D c
lies high upon Tybee beach just west OF
the city.
STARTLING REPORT FROM PORT ROYAL.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Aug. 3O.-A special
from Port Royal, 5. c, brings the
startling information that fully 100
lives have been lost at Port Royal,
Beaufort and neighboring points by
drowning during the storm. Over
twenty-five of these we're seen by the
correspondent, and his information re-
garding the others was received from
reliable sources. Of the 100 killed and
drowned only siS were white the others
being negroes. The negroes were so
frightened and terror stricken that
MANY were killed and drowned by not
leaving their cabins to seek places OF
safety. Twenty persons were drowned
on Paris island. No news has been re-
ceiyed from St Helena, four miles from
Beaufort. 1t 10 believed fully twenty
lives were lost between Port Royal and
seabrook, all negroes Every house in
beaufort and Port Royal was damaged
to some extent, and number of barges
and crafts were wrecked. Total losses
are estimated in the neighborhood OF
half "a million.
WRECK AT NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Aug. 3o.-The hurricane
from the south did much damage here.
An electric wire that had been loosened
bv the storm fell in the street Two
monster horses owned by brewing
company were standing directly under
the wire and it fell fairly across their
backs. Both animals were instantly
killed. At G:15 the wind lifted part
of the roof off the second-story brick
house of John Buckner, in Brooklyn
At $3.50 the wind swept away nine
houses that stood in row on Bleecker
street. These houses, not being quite
finished, were not occupied. At Graf
tan street four four-story houses that
were going up were lifted from Their
foundations
Along Coney Island beach everything
has been completely wiped away and
the roofs of many buildings have beer
lifted off and carried blocks away.