Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-01
STORM ALONG The ATLANTIC
Coast and Interior Severely Stricken by
the Fury of the Element
SAVANNAH CITY SWEPT BY A HURRICANE
Country from the Gulf of Mexico to
Lake Michigan Feels the Eff
fccts of West Indian
,l..t, Disturbance.

SAVANNAH, Ca, Sept. 30.-The hurri-
cane which swept over Savannah yesterday
at noon cost nearly a dozen lives and en-
| tailed financial loss of-nearly $1,000, 900.
Each report that is received is worse than at
| first. 1t was thought that only one death
would be the result of the hurricane. but the
number has increased until there are eleven
persons reported dead. The following is
list of them. all but Johnston and Captain
Murray being colored persons:
]. WALLACE JOHNSTON.
CAPTAIN C. e. MURRAY of the tug
Robert Turner
MARY WARING.
ELIZA BEATTY.
FANNIE M'FALL.
RUBY WILLIAMS.
JULIE JACKSON.
TWO DECK HANDS of the Robert Turner.
UNKNOWN INFANT.
A great many persons were injured. The
most serious are:
Fannie Jackson, back broken.
w. f. Thomson, leg fractured.
A. b. Farnham, leg broken.
James Smith, seriously hurt by falling
timbers.
John Stephan, struck by falling timbers
S. Roddy Pritchard hurt by falling bricks
Ben West, colored, struck by falling barn.
Joseph Hamilton, colored, struck by fall
ing barn.
John wilson, hit by falling chimney.
Among prominent buildings damaged by
the storm are:
City exchange, Duffy Street Baptist
church, st. Philips African Methodist
church, Central Railway warehouse, St. Pat
rick school, Georgia Hussars' armory,
Henley hall, city market, electric railway
power house, Yale Royal mills, CONNER
Hull & Co.'S guano factory, Commercial
Guano company's factory, Jones Marine
railway Fawcett Brothers wholesale gro
cery building. Henry Solomon & Sons
wholesale grocery, H. j. Doyle's retail
grocery.
Hundreds of residences are injured and
the most beautiful trees in the city are
down The loss to shipping will amount to
over 100000. The most disastrous casualty
was the capsizing in midstream of the Sa-
vannah river of the Norwegian bark Ro-
senius, the grounding Of Morgan bark Cab,
the drifting of the Norwegian bark Metcalf
and the total loss of the tug Robert Turner.
The steamer Governor Stafford of the Beach
Miller line is aground in Copper river
and small craft has suffered much many
naphtha launches and small sailing vessels
having gone out to sea-. The Tybee rail-
road is badly damaged, many bridges being
out of plumb. Tybee, ThunderbOlt Mont
gomery and Isle of Hope, all prominent re-
sorts near this city, were hurt by the blow
There was no indication at 8 o'clock of
severe winds. At that hour the observer
said that there would be a wind OF over
thirty miles an hour. The wind began to
rise at and q. ~
a velocity of sixty-six miles had been reached
and the air was literally filled with flying
debris. AT that time the instrupents at the
Observers otfice were blown out of working
order. few minutes afterwards the wind
had reached a velocity Of eighty miles an
hour or over. At noon the barometer had
dropped to 1920, and at 1890 1t was 2S95.
After that further reports from 1t could not
be secured.
from Tybe was at 1l:30. The wind was
then blowing forty miles an hour there.
Since then it has been impossible to secure
connection with the island
There are numerous islands about the
city inhabited by negroes, and the loss of
life, it is believed, will be heavy among
.hem.
Within two hours and a half after the
storm began the sun was shining and the
rain had ceased. The city was in total
darkness last night owing to the blowing
down Of electric wires.
BRUNSWICK, Ga, Sept. 30.-Tweve YES
sells in the harbor here were more or less
severely damaged by yesterdays hurricane.
The dynamite boat Herald, with 500 pounds
OF that explosive on board Is sunk. The
schot ner Sarah A. Fuller, partly loaded with
lumber for New York, carried away
from her moorings and blown ashore. The
schooner Sylvia Schall, also partly loaded
with lumber for New Haven, was run into
by the Fuller and damaged. The Spanish
bark Eucarncion, loaded with lumber for
Valencia, went ashore and now lies on her
side full of water. The bark H. l.. Routh,
loaded with railroad ties, is ashore. She lies
easy. Norwegian barks Longfelow and Posie
don, with cargoes Of naval stores, were both
damaged, the former being ashore. Other
vessels ashore are the Spanish brig Anton,
the schooner Lizzie Il. Dennison and the
niIot bnatG GracilIn and prda