The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
THE TYBEE ROAD UNDER WATER.

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telegraph had been cut of
The latest reports received
about 5 o'clock stated that the
wind velocity there had reached 20 miles
per hour. When the storm reached its
heigth, about IL o'clock the wind must
have attained the velocity of something
over so miles.
The Tybee road between Lazaretto
| creek and Bilbo canal near the city was
under water over the entire distance ex-
cept beyond LePaigeville and the bluff.
When the last train came up at 5 O'Clock.
the bridge over Laxaretto creek was only
three feet from the tide and the tide was
rising then at the rate of three feet per
hour.
NEARLY EVERYONE SAFE.
No trains left the city for Tybee after
2;30 o'clock, and none of the trains during
the day could go any further than the
Point house, on account of the immense
quantities of sand which were blown
across the track. 1t would have required
more than hundred hands to have kept
the track clear. The $3.50 train brought
the passengers who would have taken
the 2:55 train, back to the city.
Among them were large num-
Der of Augusta excursionists who
had come down to take in Tybee
and they were all brought back safely.
This train was about an hour or more
late, arriving shortly before 5 o'clock, and
was the last train which came up from
the island. 1t made its way up slowly,
being on the lookout all the time for
washouts. The track, however, was
found to be in a fair condition with the
exception of the bridge, which was across
the Bilbo canal and that was in a very
shaky condition, and expected to go down
at any time. The 5:15 train from Tybee
did not reach the city last night.
TO LOOK AFTER THE ROAD.
Mr.. T. G. McNeely, superintendent,
went down the road about o'clock last
night to look out for any washouts or ac-
cidents that might have occurred, but up
to 2oclock this morning he had not re-
turned and nothing had been heard from
him. In fact the only way in which he
could have gotten back would have been
by swimming as the entire marsh from the
Lazaretto creek clear up to the Tybee
depot was submerged When
the height of the storm was
reached the water blew up into the
Tybee depot, and was way up over the
platform. Below the depot the water
was almost deep enough to have sailed a
small boat clear across to the river.
Early in the afternoon all the people
who had gone up to the Hotel Tybee,
walked down to the Point house to get
shelter for the night. 1t was reported
that the water came up within ten feet of
the hotel Saturday afternoon, and if this
was the case it is probable that every
thing was flooded when the storm came
on.
The last report from Tybee stated that
there were two vessels anchored off the
island, and they were in deep water and
apparently safe. What became of them
when the heavy blow came on however is
unknown.
A late report from quarantine stated
that one of the barks anchored in the
channel there had turned completely over
and sunk
ANxIETM FOR THE BELLEVUE.
Much anxiety is felt on account of the
steamer Bellevue, which left the city
yesterday morning at II o'clock for War
saw with party of excursionists aboard.
There We're a number of women and
children aboard, and many anxious in
curriers' were being made lastnight.
1t was impossible for the steamer to
have returned from Warsaw yesterday or
last night. 1t was not believed that Capt
Garnett would have made the at
tempt to return in the face of
the storm, the passage across
Warsaw sound being known to be very
dangerous in such weather. The ex-
cursionists were probably left at Warsaw,
while the steamer took refuge behind
St GATHERINGS island or some of the
islands in that vincinity.
IN THE TEETH OF THE STORM.
In the city the storm was the most Sc
we're along the river and in the business
portion of the city. Hardly warehouse
on the Bay was left with roof after the
storm was over
A view of the city at midnight revealed
the effects of the storm in every quarter
Buildings deroofed, the doors of business
houses blown in, electric wires of all de-
scriptions down at every point, and brok-
en- and uprooted trees littering the streets
in every direction
The tin roofing Of the large building of
the Savannah Grocery Co, and M. Ferst's
Sons & Co, on Bay street, was entirely
torn off and piled up in the street
THE CITY EXCHANGE DAMAGED.
The windows on the northeast side OF
the city exchange were smashed in and