Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-29
The City of Savannah, Georgia, Struck
by a Cyclone.
LOSS REACHES TEN MILLIONS
Details Cannot Be Secured On
Account of the Wires Being
Down in All Directions-The
Report Authenticated by a
Short Telegram from the City
of Savannah.
sptcid! Bulletin:

louisville, GA, August 29.-1 a. m.
Forty persons reported killed by a
cyclone at Savannah, GA. Ten million
dollars damage done.
New YORK, August 29-2 A. MA
Louisville special to morning paper
saGs: Forty persons are reported killed
by a cyclone at Savannah, Ga. Ten
million dollars damage done. No more
news can be obtained here, The wires
are down and no details have arrived up
to midnight.
New YORK, August 2s.-A special to
a morning paper from Raleigh, N. u,
SAYS: The town OF Kernersville was
struck by a frightful cyclone to-day.
One hundred houses were blown down.
Four persons were killed outright and
many injured.
SAVANNAH, Ga. August 2s.-A hur-
ricane struck Savannah.
The wind blew 81 miles an hour dur
ing the day. =,
Sunday night at o'clock it reached
20 miles an hour.
The barometer fell 1881.
Seventeen lives were lost on the river,
Hutchinson Island and Tybee, so far as
heard from.
1t is believed that there are more
killed.
one of them is G. A. Ulmer, assistant
cashier Of the Central Railroad bank,
and two others were white men and the
rest negroes.
The names Of the white men and
negroes have not been obtained.
One man was killed by trolley wire
in Savannah.
Eleven vessels are ashore in Savan-
nah harbor, eight being oarks, one
schooner, one steamboat and one oyster
boat.
Six vessels were wrecked outside the
harbor.
Their names are unknown.
The names of the vessels wrecked In
Savannah haroor are: Bark Harold,
Linden, Elma, Mexico, Royal, Andai;
schooner Leila, steamboat Abbevllle,
and OYSTER boat Fred Z. Lewis.
ATLANTA, GA, August 2s.-A bulle-
tin from Savannah says that a destruc-
tive cyclone passed over that city to-
day.
Forty persons were killed and upward
Of S1O,OOO,OO worth Of property was
destroyed. The storm was as wide
spread as that Of 1881, when so much
havoc was wrought.
The report says the cyclone was ter
rife at Tybee, much property in that
town was destroyed and several lives
were lost.
The Storm at Jacksonville.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, August 2s.-
This city has been cut oil from commun-
ication with the outside world since 3
o'clock Sunday morning.
The cyclone, which the weather
bureau foretold last Saturday, struck
jacksonville about daybreak on yester-
day morning ana rapidly increased In
force and fury up to o'clock p. m. IL
travelled In a northwesterly direction
from the West Indies.
IL first struck the Florida coast at
point south of Jupiter Inlet. In this
city the velocity Of the wind was SO
miles per hour. Hundreds Of trees were
blown down.
Scores Of dwellings and public build
ings were entirely or partly unroofed,
causing great damage from the rain
5hich fell in torrents,
The most serious damage was to the
Park Opera House and the Ocean Street
Presbyterian Church. AT May Port all
the buildings suffered more or less and
the old Atlantic House was completely
demolished.
AT Pablo Beach the sea encroached
upon the railroad track and the prem
ises OF cottagers and the wind played
havoc among them.
After 10 O'Clock p. m. there were no
trains to or from May Port. Telegraph
and telephone wires were all down. St.
Augustine reports the water coming in
over the sea wall and damaging business
blocks.