Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-30
news BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters,
MANY LIVES we're LOST
Terrible Work of the Far
Reaching Cyclone.
DOMINO WeH'THE FuTURIfY RACE.
Pulled the Big Stake From
Nineteen Starters.
SPEAKER CRISP LEAVES TIE CHAIR.
Replies to the Remarks of
Congressman Reed.
SPEAKER CRISP LEAVES TIE CHAIR.
MANY LIVES sACRlFICEB.

Savannah Was Devastated by q
Kfnsly Cyclone-Wires Are Down
and 1t Is Believed That Numbers
OF Persons Perished - Baltimor
Gets the Most Severe Gale of Many
Years, In W hich Debris Is Strevyn
About-Vessels Are Washed In the
Street Beds-Seas Kun Mountain
ousiy Hfgh-Charleston Does Not
Escape the Hurricane's Fury and
There Are Many Lives Lost on
SulIfvan,s Island which is OFF the
Mouth of the Harbor-Crops of All
Kinds In the Southern states
Which Were in the Path of the
Storm are Ruined.
SAVANNAH. Ga, Aug. 2O.-Nearly forty
persons were killed and several millions
of dollars worth of property destroyed
by the cyclone which struck this city
yesterday afternoon. The confusion in
the city is so great that 1T is impossible at
present to estimate the amount of damage
done.
The streets are impossible from the
debris. Fallen trees, twisted roofs,
masses of brick, fences and broken tim
bers and branches of trees are piled
ACIOsS tuo sluoWRlh6 au9S III equdTt,
and broken wires are swinging in every
direction. All the wharves along the river
front are under water and the city and
surrounding country present scene of
wreck and ruin.
1t began raining early in the morning,
but only in ftful gusts. Il did not start
In earnest until afternoon. Then the work
of destruction began, and lasted until the
storm had spent Its fury at midnight.
Nearly all the property owners in the city
have lost heavily. The list of fatalitiee is
gradually growing. Several bodies of
drowned persons were picked up during the
night, and search is now being made for
others who are missing. The storm has
been as destructive as that of 1881.
Reports from Ty bee Island are anxiously
for the storm WAS worst at that
point. 1t is known that every thing at the
is destroyed. Nine vessels held for ex
animation were blown high and dry on ths
shore. Only one vessel, the Cosnine, was
able to keep sfost.
Among the fatalities reported Ia the
drowning of A. G. Ulmer, assistant cashier
of the Central Railroad bank.
Tony Holmes, colored, was Tu4hed in a
house on Hutcbinson's Island.
Four unknown negroes were drowned on
the Brsmpton plantation, four miles from
the city.
Lewis G.. Ga2gnet, colo1ed, ran into a
live trolley wire and was killed.
Eight of the crew of a terrapin sloop
which went ashore on the south end of the
island are reported drowned.
Four negroes were killed while at work
clearing the railroad track.
A sailor and the cabin boy on the
schooner Harold, which is on her side off
North Beach, are drowned.
The Hotel Tyne Is considerably damaged
in front. Its verandas are gone. All the
bath houses are gone. The K. of P. pub
lie house was washed away. Two of the
cottages of the Cottage club are gone. The
railroad pavilion is all right, so is Captain
Blun's house. The Naylor house is dam
aged slightly.
The Butler house is gone Mr.. Starts
house was washed into the woods. The At
lantic club house Is all right. The Ranch
and Rambler club houses were wrecked.
The railroad track is cleaned out. Henry
Green's house was burned. George Bos-
sells cottage was swept out to sea.
The Chatham club house Is badly dam
aged.
Forty or fifty other persons are reported
missing, and it is supposed their bodies
will be found later.