The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-30


lost Nothing has been heard from
steamer City of Savannah, now many
hours overdue.
SAVANNAH DEVASTATED.
A Kentucky Account of the City's Mis-
rBy Long Distance Telephone to the New Eng
land Associated Press.
Louisville, KY, August pa special
to the Courier-J ournal from Savannah,
Ca, says: Savannah was swept yester-
day by one of the severest storms it has
ever known. The storm began Monday
afternoon and continued until the climax
was reached at midnight. A terrific
hurricane ragged for eight hours. 1T be-
gan raining early Monday morning, but
mainly in guests After the first fall
it ceased entirely for several hours, and
did not begin until after noon Then the
work of destruction began and lasted
until the storm was over at midnight.
All the wharves along the river front
were under water, and the ocean steam
ship companies property and the Sayan-
nah, Florida & Western Railroad works
were inundated.
view of the city at daylight this
morning revealed scene of wreck and
ruin that surpassed that following the
great hurricane of 1881. The ruin at
Quarantine is unmeasurable. Nothing
is standing where one of the finest outfits
on the Atlantic coast was "a hours ago.
A fumigating plant, which cost the city
much money, is in the bottom Of the sea.
and nine ships waiting for relief to come
to the city, are high and dry in the
marsh, and no doubt will be totally
wrecked.
Only one vessel managed to keep afoat.
tug arrived in the city yesterday after
noon. 1t brought up sixty passengers
from Tybass. Many We're negroes en-
gagged in clearing the railroad track,
also a sailor and a cabin boy of one
schooner, which lies on her side on North
Beach,
which went ashore on the South Bar,
were drowned.
The Naylor house is damaged slightly.
Ihe Butler house is gone. Mr.. STAIRS s
house was washed into the woods. The
Ranch and Rambler Club houses were
wrecked. The railroad track is cleared
out. Henry GREEN'S house was burned.
George Bossell's cottage was swept ou to
sea.
The north end is practically cleaned
out The water swept with tremendous
force over this part of the island. Rail-
road tracks were carried from 200 to 500
feet. The Chatham club house is badly
damaged. The pavilions on the beach
are gone; SO is the switchback.
An empty train is in the woods. Trains
on all roads are coming in irregularly,
and on some Of them they have entirely
stopped to repair washouts
The church steeples are demolished and
at least 500 large trees are blown down
all over the city. The Tybee road is un-
der water for the entire distance, and in
many places is entirely washed away.
There IS no communication whatever
with Tybee except by water.
The streets were impossible from the
debris, fallen trees, twisted roots and
masses of brick. Fences and broken
limbs and branches of trees were piled
across the sidewalks and in the square,
and broken wires swinging in every
direction.
1t is impossible as yet to estimate the
damage done by the storm, but it was
very general and it is safe to say that it
will go up into the hundreds of thou
sands.
The list of fatalities is gradually grow
ing, and it is impossible to tell to what
extent it will go. Several bodies of
drowned people were picked up during
made for others who are missingss Every
hour seems to bring a new story of
death as a result of the storm
The drowning of MI. "A. G. Ulmer, assist
ant cashier of the Cenral Railroad bank,
on Hutchinson's island, was one of the
most sad fatalities of the storm.
John Stewart was bruised in the back,
and Miller, his dairyman, has not been
found, and it is presumed that he was
drowned.
The other fatalities so far reported are
as follows: Tony Holmes, colored,
crushed in a house on Hutchinson's
island: four unknown negroes drowned
on the Brampton plantation four miles
from the city. Lewis Caggriett, colored,
ran into the trolley wire and was killed,
at City island, August 28.