Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-08-31

nave been lOSt ana mliiiOnS Oh uOllarS
worth of property destroyed in this
neighborhood by the storm. Nine barks
have been blown ashore.
The people here and at Brunswick
had warning of the coming storm and
took TO flight. But for this the loss of
life would have been terrible. Whole
rows of houses are wrecked and every
thing in path of the wind went down.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. ga special
to the Courier journal from Savannah,
Ga, says:
Almost on the anniversary of the
great hurricane Of 1881, Savannah was
swept Sunday night by one of the
severest stoVms 1t has ever known. The
storm, which had been predicted by the
weather bureau for several days, began
early in the afternoon and increased
until it reached the climax between IL
and 10 o'clock at night, having blown
for eight hours in terrific hurricane. IL
began raining early in the morning, but
only In gusts. After the first fall 1t
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 midnight. All the wharves
along the river front, including the
ocean steamship companies and the
Savannah, Florida q Western railroad
wharves, were under water and the tide
was still rising rapidly. A view of the
city atdaylight revealed scene Of wreck
and ruin that surpassed that OF the great
hurricane OF 1881.
The ruin at quarantine is immeasure-
able. Nothing is standing where on OF
the finest stations on the South Atlantic
ha lat rs
house and how this weathered the fear
full gale is miraculous. The wharves
are gene, the new fumigating plant
which has cost the city so much money
lis 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 Cosnine was the only
vessel which managed to keep afloat.
The tug Paulsen arrived in the city al
s o'clock this afternoon. She brought
up about go passengers from Tybee
Mr. Revers, one of them, stated that
four negroes engaged in clearing the
railroad track were drowned. A sailor
and the cabin boy on the schooner
Harst, which is on her side on North
Beach, are drowned. cit is reported tina
eight Of the crew of the Terripan sloop
which went ashore on the south, wer,
drowned.
The Hotel Tybee is considerably
damaged in front The verandas arr
gone and all the bath houses are alsC
gone. The Knights of Pythias' clul
house was washed away. Two of thu
cottages of the Cottage Club are gone
The railroad pavilion is all right, so !
Captain BUNS house. The Naylo
House is damaged slightly, but tn
Butler House is gone. Mr.. Starr
4 house was washed into the woods. Tn
Ranch and Rambler Club houses wer
81 wrecked.
The railroad track is cleaned out
II Henry Green's house was burned an
n George Bossell's cottage was swept GU
a to sea.
N The North End is practically cleane
out. The water swept with tremendou
force over this part of the island, an
the railroad tracks were earned froi
IA 200 to 500 feet. The Chatham Gu
house is badly damaged. The pavilion
on the beach are gone; so 10 the switch
M back. An empty train lies in the wood
~ The streets are impossible from th
# debris. Fallen trees and twisted roof
Al masses of bricks and broken limbs an
W punches of trees were piled across Il
M sidewalks and in the square, and broke
# wires were swinging in every direction
NY SIX MORE FATALITIES.
M A dairyman named Miller has n
been found, and It Is presumed that |
val was drowned. The other fatalities SO Fl
reported are as follows: Tony Holme
M colored, crushed in house on Hutch
# sons Island; four unknown negro
drowned on the Brampton plantatio
four miles from the city Lewis Gag
nett, colored, ran into a live trolley wi
and was killed.
THE DEATH ROLL GROWING.
M SAVANNAH, GA, Aug. 20.-Seventet
lives were lost on the river, Hutchi
sons Island and Tybee 80 far as hea
M e4om.
There are believed to be more. o
of them is G. A. Ulmer, assistant CASH
of the Central Railroad Bank. L,
others were white men and the othe
M negroes.
The names of the white men a
negroes are not vet known. One m
was killed by trolley wire in Savanna
Eleven vessels are ashore in Savann
harbor, eight being barks, one schoon
one steamboat and one oyster boat
Six vessels were wrecked outside
the harbor, names unknown. I
names of the vessels wrecked in Saws
nah harbor are: Bark Harold, b.
Linden, bark Mexico, bark Royal, BE-
Andaca, bark Elma, schooner Lei
steamboat Abbeyyille and oyster b.
Fred A. Lewis.
DROWNED BODIES BEING FOUND.
The list of fatalities Is gradua
growing and it is impossible to tell
what extent II will continue. SIEVE
bodies Of drowned persons have b.
picked up and search Ia now be
M made for others WING are missi
Every hour seems to bring some n
story of death as o result OF the stoi
The drowning of "A. g. Ulmer, ass
ant cashier of the Central Railr'
Bank, was one of the most unfortun
fatalities OF the storm. Mr.. Ulmer owl
fern on Hutchinson's Island, oppo
the city, and bad gone over to pay
his hands. There were bruises on
face and it is supposed that he STR
M against an outshed whsn he jun
from his barn MS 1t was about to b
m down.
Miller, his dairyman, has not
found, and Il Is supposed that he
also drowned.
Forty to fifty other persons are
ported missing, and it is supposed
G nothing has been heard from them,
W their bodies, will be found later.
M VESSELS BLewN OH A MARSH.