The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-28
LITTLE LOSS By THE BLOW.
Savannah Gets off With Almost No
Damage at All.

The Quarantine Station All Right
and the shipping Uninjured-Three
Steamers Overdue, but no Appre-
hension Felt for Their Safety.
The storm has entirely gotten away
from Savannah. At 5 o'clock last night
it was central near Wilmington, y. c.,
with the. prospect Of curving to the
northeast. Its intensity was greatly de-
creased, its energy having been largely
expended yesterday in producing heavy
rains
Yesterdays rains in South Carolina
and North Carolina were something IN
usual The rainfall at Charleston for the
S6 hours ending at s o'clock last night
was z "a inches. During the same time at
Savannah the rainfall was 3.73 inches.
Lumberton, n. c., had a rainfall yesterday
Oslo inches, Florence, S. c., 4 inches,
Kingston $50, Allendale $40 and st.
Georges BIO
Looking over the field after the passage
of the storm the damage is found to be
very slight indeed. In fact. when the
long continuance of the storm and its
threatened severity are considered the
damage is hardly worth mentioning The
Tybee railroad has suffered some damage,
but it is nothing compared with that of
the August storm of 1898. The rice
planters are iubilant over their fortunate
escape.
The naval stores men were happy when
they found that the water did mol reach
up around their stocks on the lower
wharves. No damage whatever was APP
parent along the river front
THE oITY's ESCAPE.
The city had fortunate escape. In
stead of having 10 eXpend $4,000 for
new quarantine station. il will continue
to operate the present plant with small
outlay for repairs.
The small limbs and branches of trees
that were blown. OF by the storm have
about all been cleared up, and the city
looks as clean as ever. The heavy rain
proved a good sanitary agent and washed
of most all the dirt on the asphalt streets.
The telephone and telegraph wires,
with few exceptions, have about recov-
cred from the damage which they sus-
tanned. The telephone wires in the bust
ness portion of the city were working
all right yesterday afternoon and last
night, and the only trouble was with the
longer lines running to the southern part
of the city, among which there are
still a good many crosses. The wire
TO quarantine was in good working order
yesterday, but the wire TO Tybee was
still grounded for a considerable distance,
though not broken. The Tybee telephone
could not be used yesterday.
The Western Union wires are about all
In shape again, with the exception of
those running toward Charleston The
wires TO the south were badly interfered
with b1Ft
been repaired. The Postal company's
wires TO the north are in working order
again, but the wire TO Charleston is still
down. The lines are being worked north
and east by the way of Augusta II is
probable that all the damage to the wires
will be repaired by tonight.
THE RAILROADS LITTLE DAMAGED.
The railroads got off light The Flor
ida Central and Peninsular train serv-
ice was knocked out somewhat yesterday
by two bad washouts, one near Jackson
vile and the other near Everett There
was regular cloud burst almost along the
coast north of Jacksonville. The wash
outs were soon repaired, however. and
the north-bound passenger trains got in
last night several hours late. There were
no breaks in the line north of Savannah,
and the South Bound trains arrived on
time. No freights were run yesterday,
but 1t is expected that everything will be
moving on time by daylight this morning.
The washout on the Savannah, Flor
Ida and Western railway at the sixty
four mile post has been repaired, and
train No. as got in about 6 o'clock yester-
day morning. Supt. Fleming was aboard.
He reported no other damage on the line
and everything moving in good shane.
There is still very little from Florida in
regard to the cyclone, the wires being
down along the East Florida scoast Re
ports from South Florida state that the
storm was very severe The South
Florida railroad, from Sanford TO Lake
land, is damaged in several places, and
trains for Tampa yesterday went by way
of High Springs.
At Port Tampa on the Goth the water
was driven out of the bay so that there
was but little water in the channel
There was no damage, however, TO any
OF the shipping. The steamship Olivette
dld not sail on schedule time, but proba-
bly, sailed last night, or will this morning.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
railroad had number of washouts 1t
is not probable, however, that there viii
be any interruption in travel after to-
day on any of the Florida railroads.
LITTLE DAMAGE AT THE RESORTS.
The few residents of Tybee who re-
manned on Tybee during the storm did
not SuHer much except from the incon-
venience of being shut up all day. The
wind blew heavy gale on the island
reaching eighty-eight miles an hour and
blowing eighty-four miles for consider.
able length Of time The windmill at the
point was the only thing on the island
that was blown down. Other property
down there is believed, however, to have
been considerably damaged, but to what
extent is not known.
There was comparatively little damage
at any OF the nearby resorts. At the Isle
of HOPE the wind did no harm eXcept
blowing down few fruit trees and somC
fencing. The tide was very high but
nothing like the storm of last year
At Montgomery and White Bluff the
wind blew hard but there was no dam
age. At Wilmington Island and Warsaw
the blow was felt IN its whole force, bu
there was no in ury 10 speak Of All O.
the sea Islands on the Georgia coast es
caped with practically no damage. Every
thing was made fast that was likely tC
blow away, and that sa cd a good zeal OF
property that otherwise would have suf
fered.
THE TYBEE ROADS DAMAGE.
The Tybee railroad is probably tn,
worst damaged OF any of the properties
In the neic hborhood Of the city. NheI
the trip was made to Lazaretto bridge
Wednesday afternoon il could be seer
that between the ten mile post and Tho
bridge the track WAS bainur had ivy MIC "a oy