Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-31
A TEMPESTS FURY.
Portions of the South Visited by q
Disastrous Hurricane.
An Enormous Amount of Damage Done
to Property and Crops-A Number of
Lives Lost and Many Persons
Are Missing.
SWEPT BY STORM.

SAVANNAH. Ga, Aug. 29.-This city
presents a scene of desolation. Death
and disaster have marked the path
Of the terrible cyclone which ragged
along the coast Sunday night. The
ruin at quarantine is unreasonable.
Nothing is standing where one
Of the finest stations on the
South Atlantic was twenty four
hours ago except the doctors
house, and how this weathered the
fearful gale is miraculous. The
wharves are gone, the new fumigating
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 total wrecks. The Cosuine was
the only vessel which managed TO keep
afloat.
MANY DROWNED.
The tug Paulson arrived in the city
at ) o'clock Monday afternoon 1t
brought up sixty passengers from Ty-
bee Mr.. Revers. one of them, said four
negroes engaged IN clearing the rail-
road tracks were drowned. A sailor
and the cabin boy on the schooner
Harold, which is on its side on North
beach, drowned 1t is reported that
eight Of the crew of terrapin sloop
which went ashore on the South end
were drowned.
OTHER VICTIMS.
The other fatalities SO far reported
are as follows:
Tony Holmes lcolOred) crushed in = house
on Hutehinsons island; four unknown negroes
drowned on the Champions plantation mil0s
from the city: Lewis Garrett (colored) ran
into live trolley wire; Tattler Squire, 8.
yearold colored boy drowned OF Hutchinson's
island: John Williams Mary Butler and Sarah
Greene, drowned on q rice plantation south Of
the city
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
RALEIGH. n. C., Aug 29.-The town
of Kernsville was struck by terrific
windstorm Monday. One hundred
houses were blown down and four per.
sons killed.
IN soUTH CAROLINA.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Aug. 29.-All the
South Atlantic coast as far as can be
ascertained from thS wrecked point.
with much of the interior. has been
swept by the West India hur-
ricane which has been playing
such havoc for several days The
wires are down everywhere, buried
beneath ruins, and information
ismeager. 'fhe fary Of the hurricane
is uneNMnpied in interiei Carolina.
WORST IN MANY YEARS.
An old citizen remarked. mo storm
ever vi sited the state to be con- pared
with this since the storm in September.
1926, sixty-seven years ago. The only
time, too, that we have ever had a rain
fall to approach this in severity was in
March, lS4l when it rained steadily
for sixtr-three hours. That was the
time when Augusta was washed away
and many people were drowned"
FLORIDA SUFFERS.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Aug 29.-This
city mas been cut off from communion
ton with the outside world since 3
o'clock Sunday morning. In this city
the velocity of the wind was IS miles
per hour. Hundreds of trees we're
blown down and signs disappeared
before the gale. Scores of dwell
ings and public buildings were
entirely or partly nnroofed, causing
great damage from the rain, which fell
in torrents.
DOWN IN TEXAS.
Fort WORTH, Tex. Aug ga local
cyclonic storm Sunday b.ew down q
small church on STATIONS ranch.
miles from Cleburne and wounded
twenty-one persons, broken limbs being
the most serious Injuries