The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-08-30
RUIN AND DEATH.
Another Terrible Gale Sweeps
Along the Coast.
OVER A HUNDRED DEAD.
Savannah and Charleston Suffer
Very Severely,
DESTRUCTION AT OTHER POINTS.

Traffic Suspended aud TeIegrnphio Com
munioatlon Badly Intsrferod with.
Vessels Wrecked Along the Coust-DIany
Buildings Demolished, Trees Uprootcd
and Crops Destroyed
SAVANNAH, Aug 30-Almost on the an
niversary of the great hurricane of 1881
Savannah was swept Sunday night by one
OF the severest storms it has ever known.
The storm, which had been predicted by
the weather burean for several days, be-
gan early in the afternoon, and increased
from then until it reached the climax be-
tween II and ~ o'clock Monday night,
having blown for eight hours in terrific
hurricane.
1t began raining early in the morning,
but only ia gusts. After the first fall it
ceased entirely for several hours and did
not begin again until after noon Then
the work of destruction began, and lasted
until the storm had spent its force at mid
night All the wharves along the river
front, and the Ocean Steamship company
and Savannah, Florida and Western rail
road wharves were under water and the
tide was still rising rapidly. A view of
the city at daylight reveals a scene of
wreck and ruin tnat surpassed that of the
great hurricane of 1881.
The ruin at Quarantine is immeasurable
Nothing is standing where one of the
finest stations on the South Atlantic was
twenty-four hours ago except the Doctors
house, and how this weathered the fear-
ful gale is miraculous. The wharves are
gone, the new fumigation plant, which
has cost the city so much money, is in the
bottom of the sea, and nine vessels, which
were waiting for release to come to the
city, are high and dry in the marsh and no
doubt will be totally wrecked. The Cos
nine was the only vessel which managed
to keep ahoat.
The tug Paulsen brought up about sixty
passengers from Tybee Mr. Revers, one
of them stated that four negroes engaged
in clearing the railroad tr k were
drowned. A sailor and the cabin boy on
the schooner Harsl, which is on her side on
North Beach, are drowned. 1t is reported
! that eight of the crew of the terrapin sloop
which went ashore on South Beach were
! drowned The water swept with tremen-
! dous force over this part Of the island,
railroad tracks being carried from 200 to
800 feet. The Chatham club house is badly
damaged. The pavilions on the beach are
| gone; so is the switchback. An empty
train is in the woods, Trains on all roads
are Coming In irregularly, and some have
entirely stopped to repair washouts The
church steeples are depolished, and at
least 800 large tr~ IS are blown down.
The list of fatalities is growing and 1t
is impossible to tell to what extent it will
grow. Several bodies Of drowned persons
have been picked up, and search is now
being made for others who are missing.
Every hour seems to bring some new
story Of a death as result of the storm
The drowning of Mr. A. G. Ulmer, as
sistsnt cashier of the Central Railroad
bank, was very sad occurrence. Mr..
Ulmer owns farm on Hutchinson Island
opposite the city, and had gone over to
pay off his hands and attend to other du-
ties. There were bruises on his face and
1t is supposed that he struck against al
outshed when he jumped from his barn as
1t was about to blow down. Miller, his
dairyman, has not been found, and it is
supposed that he was also drowned
The other fatalities so far reported are
as follows: Tony Holmes, colored, crushed
in house on Hutchinson's Island. Foul
unknown negroes drowned on Brampton',
plantation, four miles from the city. Loui,
Garnet colored, ran into live trolly wire
A 6-year-old colored boy, drowned Oh
Hutchinson's Island John Williams
Mary Butler and Sarah Green, drowned OF
a rice plantation south of the city. Two
unknown sailors were drowned at Tybet
island Forty to fifty other persons ar,
reported missing, and it is supposed, a!
nothing has been heard Of them, that thei
bodies will be found later
, AUGUSTA, Ca, Aug. 30.-A special from
Port Royal, S. c., brings information tina
fully lOOliyes have been lost at Port Royal
/. Beaufort and neghboring points b,
drowning during the storm. OF the 1Ol
persons killed and drowned only six wer
white, the others being negroes. Twenty
were drown d on Paris Island. No new
has been received from Helena, four mile
from Beaufort. 1t is believed fully twenty
FIVE lives were lost between Port Roya
and Seabrook, all negroes.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 3O.-While tn
record of terror and ruin wrought by tn
great disaster of 1885 remains unbroken
Charleston has again stood in the track o
a cyclone which has shaken the old city t.
her foundation stones. The damage T.
property cannot be told and the loss of IF
is unknown. The citizens awoke Monda
morning and Razed upon innumerabl
evidences Of the hurricane which swep
over the city Sunday afternoon and night
Uprooted trees, fallen roofs, broken fence
and in the less substantial parts Of tn
town wrecked sheds and shanties wer
found everywhere. The cyclone, with al
the terrors which the word has for tn
people Of this section, swept up the coas
and across Charleston Early Saturda
morning the dreaded signal was run u
: and the city held it's breath, hoping tina
the storm might pass us by.
RICHMOND, Aug. 30-Passenger trail
No. 7S, of the Atlantic Coast line, wit
Pullman sleeper attached reached her