The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-29

III GuS squares, ana broken wires uuilB
in every direction.
Hundreds of people were out as soon
as day broke viewing the ruins, though
the wind was still blowing in gusts and
the rain was falling Very few had slept
during the night. All through the heart
of the city, in the residence section and
around the park and wherever the trees
were thickest the ground was piled deep
with broken branches.
THE STORM SUBSIDIZED.
The second blow which followed the
lull after the first sweep of the hurricane
and which was almost as severe as the
first, did not subside until day broke and
then the work of ruin could
be seen at it's worst. 1t is
even yet impossible to estimate
the amount of the damage as the result
of the storm, but it was very general and
it is safe to say that it will go up in the
hundred thousands and perhaps higher.
Nearly every one if not quite all of the
property owners in the city have been
damaged to some extent uand some to
the amount of thousands. 1t was com
mon thing to see them standing on the
street yesterday asking one an
other what was the amount
of their loss, and many of them talked in
big figures. The worst part of it all is
that very few of them were ever antici-
pating any damage by cyclones, and they
had no insurance against it. Very few
were fortunate enough to have taken out
cyclone policies.
FATAL HUToHINsoN's ISLAND.
The first thought of loss of life outside
of the city was Huchinson's Island, which
was broad sheet of water. Rescuing
parties were organized and went across to
the island in boats. The fatalities soon
became known. Mr.. A. G. Ulmer was
known to have gone over to the island the
day before and a search was at
once made for him and it was
not long before his body, and that of one of
his farm hands were found. Before that
the killing of cslored child by a falling
roof was reported. The child was the
year old infant of Friday Holmes,
an employe on MIR. Ulmer's place.
The father came over to the
city for a coffin. He had been
warned by Mr.. Ulmer, he said,
to leave his house and go to Mr..
Ulmer's barn, which was on higher
ground. He started to go, but was driven
back by the advancing tide which was
rapidly covering the island and cutting
off all the avenues of escape. He made his
way back to his house with his child and
soon after the roof was blown in by the
storm.
LIFTED UP UNDER THE ROOF.
The child and it's mother and another
child were in the upper part of
the house, where they had
been left by the father to keep
them from being washed away. When
the roof went in they were carried to the
ground. Holmes was stunned and when
he recovered consciousness he found his
littly boy in the water He had been
killed by the fall. The mother and other
child escaped.
TRIED TO SAVE THEM.
Capt H. c. Daggett, of the steamship
City of Augusta, heard the cries for help
from Hutchinson's Island during the
storm and manned life-boat and sent it
to the rescue, but no one could be found
Mr.. Thomas Cooley, who was at Black
River, where he had store, came over to
the city yesterday evening. He had had
tough experience. His entire property on
the island was lost. Mr.. Cooley was
kept busy in protecting the natives from
the storm. He saved the lives of about
ten negroes at the risk of being drowned
himself.
FOUR DROWNED TOGETHER.
-Four negroes were drowned on the
Brampton plantation on the Augusta
road, four miles west of the city.
Taylor Squire, 6-year-old boy, a son of
VIII Squire, farmer on Hutchinson Is
land, was drowned about mid
night. Squire's house was floated
off with the family on the roof. The
house lodged against tree, when the boy
fell off the roof Squire attempted to
save the boy, and caught him, but tried
to save his wife and other children and
lost his boy. Squire lost about $120 of
property.
PLANTATION HANDS DROWNED.
Three colored people were drowned on
Mr.. Henry Taylor's plantation, John
Williams, the wife of Ed Butler and the
wife of Tom Green. They lived on one of
the island rice plantations. The husbands
and children of the women had crossed
over Sunday morning to the mainland to
attend church and could not get back to
their homes because of the storm, and
were saved.
A. Q. ULMER DROWNED.
The drowning of Mr.. A. G. Ulmer, as
sistant cashier of the Central Railroad
Bank, on Hutchinson's Island, was one of
the most unfortunate fatalities of the
storm.
Mr.. Ulmer was one of the best known
and most enterprising of the younger bus
mess men of the city, and possessed the |
confidence of all who knew him in the
fullest degree.
He was elected assistant cashier of the
Central Railroad Bank in August, 1888,
since which he fulfilled the duties of his
Office to the satisfaction of the directors
and officers Of the company and the bust
ness public generally with which he had
dealings.
Mr.. Ulmer was the ow ner of a large
dairy farm on Hutchinson's Island in which
he took great deal of interest. Becom-