The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-29
The Damage to Property Will
Run Away Up Into the
Millions.
FLORIDA is STORM SWEPT.
The City Of Jacksonville Cut On from
the World for Forty
eight Hours.
Vessels Are Carried by the Waves Far In
land and Become Total wrscHKs-A
Tidal Wave Breaks Over the Sea
Wall at st. Augustine.

! ST. LOUIS, Aug. ga 50. Louis Re-
public special from Savannah, Ga, says:
A cyclone swept Tybee island, that sec
ton OF this city lying at the mouth Of the
Savannah river, tonight, which was
struck by the most terrific cyclone that
ever visited this section of the country.
The quarantine station, one of the finest
in the South Atlantic states twenty-four
hours ago is now total ruin with the
exception OF the doctor residence. The
wharves are gone, the new fumigatiug
plant which cost the city SO much money,
| ls in the bottom OF the sea, and nine Fes-
sells which were waiting there for release
to come to this city are high and dry on
the marsh and no doubt will be a total
wreck. The Cushine is the only vessel
which managed to keep afloat.
The tug Paulson arrived in this city at
3 clock this afternoon. She brought up
about sixty passengers from the Tybee
river. One of them stated that four ne
groes engaged in clearing the railroad
tracks were drowned, as were also a
sailor and cabin boy on the schooner
near the beach. 1t is reported
that eight of the crew of the Terrapin
sloOp which went ashore on the south end
were drowned. 1t is impossible to yet
learn all the details of the disaster. There
are many stories ahoat of numerous other
dead, but while there is no doubt that
many of them are true, yet they can not
be verified tonight. The property dam
age on the island is enormous.
The Hotel Tybee wac considerably
damaged, bath houses destroyed, Knights
of Pythias club house and two cottages
washed away, the Ranch and Rambler
club houses wrecked, the Butler house
completely destroyed and the Mailer
| house slightly damaged, Henry Green
house was burned, George BoswelI's cot
tage swept out to sea, and the residence
of MIR. Star washed into the woods and
the railroad track cleaned out.
| The storm swept with tremendous force
over the north part Of the island. The
railroad track was carried 300 to 500 feet
by the force of water. Chatham club
house is practically ruined, the pavillions
on the back are gone, ana an empty train
is lying in the woods. Trains on all the
roads are coming in irreQularIy, and some
of them are entirely stopped to repair
washouts. Church steeples were demol-
ished, and at least 500 large trees were
blown down all over the city.
The Tybee road is under water for the
entire distance, and in many places en-
tirely washed out. There is no commu-
nication whatever with Tybee except by
boat, and nothing definite can be learned
from Tybee island till in the morning, as
all wire and rail communication is inter-
rupted.
1t is believed that the first bulletin of
the cyclones destructiveness has not
been exaggerated. While thus far only
sixteen lives are known to have been lost,
yet the loss of life must have certainly
been twice that. The property loss al
ready known will exceed a million dollars.
There is no telling where the figures will
end when the full details of the damage
are known.
The only list OF dead obtainable up to
this hour is as follows:
JOHN HOLMES colored, crushed in
house.
Four UNKNOWN NEGROES drowned on
BramptOn plantation.
LEWIS GAGNETT coiored, ran into a.
live trolly wire and killed.
Taller SQUIRE, year old colored boy,
drowned on Hutchison's island.
JOHN WILLIAMS, MARY BUTLER and
SARAH GREEN all drowned on Rice plan
tation south Of the city.
Two UNKNOWN SAILORS drowned on
Tybee island.