The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-30

when IL is known that many of them may
obtain temporary work in town.
Captain Carter reports that two vessels
were lying in Tybee roads yesterday
morning. The pilot boat Belle was in the
south channel. and seven others were hud-
died in heap, near the quarantine sta
tion. On Sunday afternoon, before the
fury Of the storm broke, the dredges Nos.
. and Z were lying in an apparently secure
place behind the old quarantine station
COL. GAYNoR's PLANT
The plant belonging to Col. Gaynor's
company was anchored between Venus
Point and Long Island crossing. The
dredge Tomochichi was lying in
behind Venus Point. Yesterday morn
ing the Tomochichi was stan d
ing in the marsh between the
railroad track and the shore line, about
fifty yards inland from the latter She
was swept clear across Seba island. Col.
Gaynor's plant was also swept
away, some of the barges being
found up against the woods over on Will
mington Island. A good many of these
barges are even now loaded with brush
and piles, the storm failing to dislodge
them. They were blown clear across the
railroad tracks, over the marshes, to
where they are now. AS Capt. Carter
went further down the river, he found
dredge scows away down near Warsaw
sound, near Wilmington Island.
HALF A MILE INLAND.
The British bark Genesta is away over
on the other side of where the tracks
once were, about half mile from Lazar-
etto creek. Capt. Carter walked up the
roadbed about three miles from Lazaretto
creek bridge. He states that there is
nothing left of the track, but cross tie
here and bent rail there, with an oc-
casional section of track and the cross
ties still clinging to them, standing up on
edge like picket fence. Wreckage is
strewn everywhere and the full force and
fury of the storm is apparent even now
He did not go on Tybee island, but learned
from some of the gentlemen he brought
to the city in his launch that the island is
completely wrecked and its physical
aspect changed.
THE QUARANTINE STATIONS.
The building on the old quarantine sta
ton is gone, and the old structure on
piles, which has been used as quarters for
United States inspectors, has been
totally demolished, but the piles
piles remain undisturbed The wharf
at Fort Pulaski is gone The old
buildings near the wharf have been RACED
level with the ground. The fumigating
shed erected on the reservation by the
United, States marine hospital service
was not spared, it being blown away, as
were also the cowsheds belonging to the
lighthouse keepers, with the cattle in
them. The tide-gauges were blown away
with the wharf. The water was from
four to five feet deep in the parade of the
FORT the water coming in through the
classmates.
STRUCK THE LIGHTHOUSE.
When dredge No. went by the Long
Island light on Sunday night she struck
the lighthouse, knocking corner off it.
AT the same time some barges belonging
to Col Gaynor drifted against the other
side of the lighthouse and demolished the
oil house and some other small structures.
Some of those in the lighthouse got on
board the dredge as she was going by,
and Capt. J. S. Kennard, a United States
inspector took soundings near the light
house and found twelve feet of water
there at that time.
The dredge was dragging in its wake
anchors weighing from one to two tons
each.
STOPPED EN- ROUTE.
The dredge, with Capt Kennard and
the lighthouse contingent aboard,
scudded away over the south chan
mel across the marsh, but was
stopped in her wild career by the spuds
of the anchors catching in the railroad
track. Her conveys, the scows, parted
company here and kept on, finally bring
ing up several miles away. The younger
MIR. johnson, the lighthouse keepers son,
borrowed a bateau from the dredge and
tried to return to the lighthouse to give
aid to the old housel1eeper, who was
left, but he did not succeed, being even
compelled to abandon the bateau.
CAN BE GOT OFF IN TWO WEEKS.
Capt. Carter is of the opinion that the
Tomochichi can be gotten off the marsh in
about two weeks. 1t will take much
longer to get dredges Nos and into
deep water. AS many of the scows are
probably near creeks, it will be q COM
paratively easy matter to rescue them.
The Genesta. on account of the distance
she is inland, may prove total loss.
There is a three-masted schooner away
up on Tybee beach, near the old steam
boat wharf. The bark Harold, after she
struck the beach, worked herself above
the usual high water line, and now lies on
her side near the United States coast
survey gauge, between the lighthouse and
the site of the old wharf. The men in
the Harold dashed themselves to the rig
ging and when the bark was up on the
beach, came ashore, one man being
drowned in the attempt. The captain
came up to town yesterday in the Angler,
after living through the storm, wandering
on the island without shelter and being
without food for As hours.
The bark Cosmos is lying in the stream
apparently uninjured. The bark Mexico
was found lying in between rows of piling
at the upper quarantine wharyes, and
this is the most curious freak of the
storm She was evidently thrown high