The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-31

wrecked. I don't believe there is a
wharf left ia Charleston. ! was very
anxious 90 gel 10 Savannah and took the
first train that offered.
Mr. j. NJ Dixon was fellow passenger
Of Mr. Meiuhurd's from New York. Both
Mr.. Dixon and MIR Meinhard intended
taking the CitN Of Birmingham TO Savan-
nah. but when they saw the prediction OF
the storm ia New York they decided that
10 would be better 10 come by rail.
GLAD TO GET TO SAVANNAH.
81 was certainly delighted 10 get back
10 Savannah this morning, said Mr.
| Dixon.
There were all kinds Of rumors afOat
in Charleston Of the damage done in Sa-
yanuah, placed no faith in them, OF
course, but still ] was exceedingly HnN-
lous We We're entirely cut of, and IL was
impossible 10 get Geographic cOmmunica-
ton Of any kind, was on the lookout all
the time 10 get copy Of the MORNING
News, but did not succeed in getting one
until we were on our way here Tuesday
night, when / found a passenger with
copy of Mondays paper The account Of the
storm was eagerly read by the Savannah
passengers. When l saw where the door
of my store had been blown in early in the
night Wondered how much damage had
followed later. Twas very much delighted
on arriving here to find that this was al
most the only damage"
A GREAT WRECK.
Mr. Dixon confirms the reports Of Mr.
Meinhard and Mr.. Baldwin as to the
wreck of the battery and wharves at
Charleston. The telegraph and telephone
poles, he said looked as il they had been
moved down by scythes and lay
across the streets in every direction.
In some places the streets were
a perfect tangle of wires. The plank
paving on the lower streets, Mr.. Dixon
said, was torn up and thrown up against
the houses in oblique angles Barrels of
naval stores and other commodities were
washed under the inclined pavements and
were supporting the planks in their queer
positions. Mr.. Dixon says il is heavy
blow 10 Charleston, and it will be some
months, he thinks, before all the repairs
are completed.
The South Bound railroad ran it's reg
ular schedules yesterday. The first train
to arrive from Columbia brought down
about twenty Of the Asheville excursion
lists, who had been waiting since Sunday
for chance to get home.
Train No. SO, due at 7:20 last night,
arrived at 10 o'clock and brought the
northern mail. Capt. W. NJ. Davidson,
general passenger agent of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway, was on
board.
CAPT. CRAIG's STATEMENT.
Capt. J. w Craig, roadmaster of the
Charleston and Savannah Railway, in q
letter to Charleston gives an itemized
account of the damage which the track of
the road has sustained. He was at Ran
towles bridge, about eighteen miles from
Charleston, where he had several hun
dred workmen employed. He says the
damage done to the Charleston and Sa-
vannah Company is much more severe
than was at first supposed. Near Ran
tOwles 800 feet of the track of the road
had been Aoated totally away. 1t was
then resting about 100 feet from its orig
inal position. Two small trestles, one ten
and the other twenty feet wide, had be-
come yawning chasms, in which deep
and swift current Of water was running
The opening of the smaller trestle had
been extended to twenty-five feet in
width, and that of the larger to at least
three times that space. In many places
the track of the road still remained two
feet under water, rendering work ex-
tremely difficult.
Rantowles trestle itself has been injured,
but the neighboring I'LL" has been badly
washed out for considerable distance.
Meyers trestle, at the AZ mile
post, has been swept out of existence and
will be total loss. Capt. Craig said that
he himself had not been down to Young's
island, but he had learned that practic-
ally all the company's property at that
place had been totally destroyed includ-
ing the 100 foot trestle at Meg
gett's 1t would be hopeless under these
circumstances to attempt 10 estimate the
losses which the road has sustained.