The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-09-06
DEATH AND RUIN.
Fatal Work of a Terrible Hurri-
cane at Savannah, Ga.
Forty or Firty Persons Dead or Missing,
While the Property Losses are Enor-
mous-A Quarantine station
Ruined Florida Also Suf-
fers from tho Blow.

SAVANNAH, va huB' ~o' Ni"N'' NA'
the anniversary of the great hurricane
of 1881, Savannah was swept Sunday
night by one Of the severest storms II
has ever known. The storm, which
had been predicted by the weather
bureau for several days, began early In
the afternoon and increased from then
on until itreached the climax, between
IL and 10 o'clock at night, having blown
for eight hours In terrific hurricane.
1t began raining early In the morning.
In the afternoon the work OF destruc-
ton began and lasted until the storm
had spent It's force at midnight. All
the wharves along the river front and
Ocean Steamship Company and Savan-
nah, Florida & Western railway
wharves were under water and the
tide was still rising rapidly.
A view of the city at daylight yes
terday morning revealed a scene Of
wreck and ruin that surpassed that of
the great hurricane OF 1881. The ruin
at quarantine is Unreasonable. Moth
ing is standing where one Of the finest
stations on the south Atlantic was
twenty-four hours ago except the doc
tors house, and In this weather the
fearful 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 there
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 afoat. The tug Paulsen arrived
in the city at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
She brought up about sixty 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 Harsl, which Is on her
side on north beach, were drowned.
The fatalities so far as reported are
as follows: A. G. Ulmer, assistant
cashier Central Railroad bank; Tony
Holmes, colored; four unknown per-
sons drowned; Lewis Gaggnett, col
ored; Taller Squire, 6-year-old colored
boy, drowned; John Williams, Mary
Butler, Sarah Green, drowned; two un-
known sailors drowned There are
forty or fifty other persons who are re-
ported missing
Nearly every one, II not quite all the
property owners in this city have been
damaged TO some extent and some to
the amount Of thousands. The list OF
fatalities Is gradually growing and II
is impossible TO tell to what extent 1,
will 60. Several bodies Of drowned
people were picked up during the morn
ing and searchers are now Mt work fol
Others who are missing. The wires are
all down and Savannah is almost en-
ltirely shut off from telegraphic com
munication.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 29.-This
city has been cut off from communica'
tion with the outside world since
O'clock Sunday morning. The cyclone
which the weather bureau forctold last
Saturday struck Jacksonville about
daybreak Sunday morning and rapidly
increased in force and fury up to
o'clock p. m. II travelled in north
westerly direction from the West
Indies. II first struck the Florida
coast at n point south OF Ju-
piter inlet Its course was still
northwesterly and traversed the whole
eastern portion of the peninsula, dam
aging property more or less in path
forty to fifty miles wide from the coast
westward In this city the velocity OF
the wind was thirty-eight miles per
hour Hundreds Of trees were blown
down and signs rapidly disappeared be-
fore the gale. Scores of dwellings and
public baildings were entirely or part
ly unrooied, causing great damage
from the rain, which fell in tor
rents The most serious damage
was TO the Park opera house
and the Ocean Street Presbyterian
church. Al Mayport, mouth of
st. Johns river, all the buildings
suffered more or less, and the old Lynn
hotel was unroofed at ST. Augustine
and badly wrenched. About thirty or
forty yachts and small craft were badly
damaged or completely destroyed. The
fate Of other localities in Florida, as
well as of the south side territory in
vaded by the storm, is still sealed
book. The wires are down in every
direction from Jacksonville. Commu-
nication with the outside world was
absolutely cut of Sunday night, and
up to o'clock Monday night the only
places heard from were St Augustine
and Fernandina.
Predicting Disaster.