Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-09-30
REIGN OF The STORM KING
Savannah Swept by a West India
Cyclone That Wrought Great
Damage.
VIOLENT STORMS AT OTHER POINTS
The Lake Region Suffers Severely
Wind and Rain Spend Their Fury
in Pennsylvania = Immense
Losses Sustained.

Savannah, Ca, Sept. 3O.-The West In
dian cyclone that swept over this city
yesterday has hardly been equaled for
its intensity and destruction within the
memory of those living here.
The wind reached its highest velocity
shortly after 12 O'Clock, but the instru.
ment at the weather bureau registered
sixty-six miles an hour and then went to
pieces. The barometer went to 28 80.
The blow was practically over within
two and half hours, but during that
time itraged with an intensity heretofore
unknown.
Tin roofs we're rolled up everywhere as
if made of tissue paper. There must have
been 100 tons of tin rolled off the roofs
in Savannah. Bricks and wires fell
everywhere. 1t is impossible to enumer-
ate the buildings unroofed or partially
destroyed. Shattered trees covered every
street and these with hundreds OF fallen
wires made the streets impossible for
several hours.
The total damage is estimated at from
100000 to $l,00O,000 in Savannah and
Chatham county.
The list of known fatalities is about
nine in or near the CITY.
There has been no way of reaching the
island near the coast, where, it is likely,
the fatalities may be hundreds.
Wallace Johnson, young white man,
was killed by falling roof.
.J.Thompson was killed in the wreck
of A. s. Bacon's lumber mill.
Four negroes we're killed in house on
Twelfth street.
Another negro was killed by falling
tree.
Capt. G. j. Murphy, OF the tug Turner,
was sunk in the river and drowned.
c. Mcclure, of the Southeastern Plas-
ter company, and negro were drowned
on the tug.
The last report the observer received
from Tybee was at 11:20 a. m. The wind
was then blowing forty miles an hour
there, Since then it has been impossible
to secure connection with the island. The
damage to shipping is great.
Among the prominent buildings dam
aged here are: The City Exchange, Sa-
vannah theater, John Burks d Sons, Sa-
vannah gun factory, Savannah pants fac
tory, CONNER Il Co.'S. guano factory; H.
solomon & Sons, wholesale grocery; A.
3. Brown & Cos. planning mill; Central
railway Georgia shops, Presbyterian
,huoh, Chatham academy, Lutheran
,hurch, car shed of the City d Suburban
company and the Savannah
brewery. Hundreds of dwellings, are either
totally demolished or damaged. Within
;wo hours and half after the storm be-
yan the sun was shining and the rain
,eased.
HIGH WIND AT MILWAUKEE.
Milwaukee, Wis.--The barge Sumatra,
,onsort of B. W. Arnold, bound down
rom Chicago, with load of railroad
ron, foundered off the government pier
lere this morning in storm. Four sail
,rs were drowned.
The captain, mate and cook we're res
,ued by the life saving crew. Those lost
we're:
Arthur Burnsted.
Charles Hemmer.
Patrick Peterson.
Peter Anderson.
Last night the wind reached a velocity
If thirty miles an hour in Milwauke and
vas blowing straight from the north.
HURRICANE AT BALTIMORE.
Baltimore.-A severe hurricane struck
ihis city at midnight. Houses were un-
.oofed, wires prostrated and windows
'mashed. The high wind forced tho water
n tho harbor into the streets and almost |
he entire northern water front was sub |
merged in middle Pratt street. The |
over floors of warehouses we're flooded. |
This was accompanied by heavy rain.
RUINS NEAR READING.
Reading, Pa.-At 2 O'Clock this morn
ing the cast house of the Temple furnace
1t Temple station, five miles above Read
ing, was blown down and nearly dozen
workmen covered in the ruins. The killed
are Edward Rismiller. Samuel Trout; in
jured, William Collar, Joseph Rosenbsr-
ger, Harry Brecker, William Schadlsr,
William Mertz.
THE WIND AT PITTSBURG.
Pittsburg.-A terrible wind and rain
storm broke over this section at O'Clock
This morning and ragged with fierce vio-
lence nearly three hours. The wind at
tained a velocity of fifty miles an hour,
telegraph and telephone
wires and entirely QUITTING of communi-
cation with the east, but otherwise, as far
as known, doing no serious damage.
A MILLION DOLLAR BRIDGE GONE.
Lancaster, Pa.-For over an hour last
night this city and Vicinity were sub
jectsd to the severest wind storm ever
known. It is impossible to. estimate the
number of buildings wholly or partly de.
molished or the monetary damage. The
greatest single loss is that of tho Penn
sylvania railroad bridge across the Sus-
Q uehanna at Columbia, nothing being
left of il but the piers, the span in the
middle and the hrst span at each end.
The bridge was mile aud quarter long
and cost $1,O0O,00O. Columbia appears
to have suffered more than any other sec-
tion of the country. The damage in the
is estimated at 100000. The
straets are filled with portions of wrecked
buildings. The remains of the bridge,
which was lifted bodily from the piers,
lie in the bottom of the river. Two men
are reported to have gone down with che
bridge.
AROUND PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia.-Last nights storm did
great damage In this state and New Jer-