The record-union., 1896-09-30
A Destructive Cyclone Passes Over the
Southern City Yesterday.
Seven Lives Lost, and Millions Of Prop
erty in Ruins.
Hardly House in the City Escapes
Without Damage in Storm
Which Lasted But a Few Moments
The Streets Filled With Wreck
age-The Wind Reached a Velocity
of Sixty-Six Miles an Hour.

of Sixty-Six Miles an Hour.
ATLANTA (Ga.), Sept. 29.-The euui-
noctial storm which was reported NOV
ing nOrthward off Cuba two days ago,
reached the southern coast of the
United States this morning and spread
northward with redoubled fury Re-
ports received by the United-Associated
Presses tonight indicate a loss Of eleven
lives and tremendous loss to property.
The storm is believed to have exceeded
days before the full extent of the dam
age is known.
No information has been received
from any point south of Brunswick, and
it is feared that the damage in Southern
Florida has been severe. The storm
struck Brunswick shortly before noon,
but it was midnight before any report
was had from that place and then it
was very meager. Several lives were
lost there, but no names We're known at
the time the information was given. The
Plant Railway system is among the hea-
West sufferers there. Communication
is had only at intervals.
miles an hour at Charleston, and but
for the big seawall the damage to the
city would have been immense. Fears
are entertained for the safety of vessels
outside.
From Savannah comes the worst news
of the night. The storm seems to have
reached it's fullest intensity there, and
the loss Of life is larger than at any
ctI NJ 70 J, ri 70,
as known seven lives were lost. and this
is but an estimate.
The information obtained from the
country below reached this city from
Millen, which seems to be the only point
which the telegraph companies can
reach with reliability.
All railroad traffic is at a standstill.
No trains have passed over the Florida
Central and Peninsular Railroad to-
day, and it is feared that the damage
to the country round about Jackson
Vile, and possibly to that city itself, is
tremendous.
HAVOC PLAYED AT SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH (Ga-), Sept. 29-Seven
lives lost and millions of dollars of
property destroyed is the record of a
cyclone which passed over the city at
been lurking in the Eastern Gulf for the
last few days, swept rapidly across
Florida at O'Clock this morning. and
without warning burst upon Savannah.
In half an hour it had done its work.
The streets We're filled with wreckage
Hardly a house in the city escaped
without more or less damage though
there are few comparatively total
wrecks.
Before the storm was at it's hight the
Weather Observer said it would not be
over forty miles an hour. 1t began to
rise at IL O'Clock. Half an hour later
it was blowing sixty miles an hour, and
the air was filed with flying iebris
When the wind reached a velocity IF
sixtysix miles an hour the instru-
ments of the weather station were
blown away.
The storm was terrific in its intensity,
exceeding the great cyclone of 1898.
which devastated the South Carolina
coast. The shortnes of its duration was
all that saved an annihilation Of
everything within it's range The storm
| came from the southeast, and swept di-
rectly over the city. Hardly a public
building escaped it's fury. The forests
and the city were laid in swaths The
parks are in ruins, and many buildings
were razed to the ground
The immense Plant System passenger
depot was the first building in the path
OF the storm, and was a complete
wreck The magnificent prize train of
the Plant System exhibited at the Cot
ton States Exposition, and stored in
the shed, was wrecked, and the cars are
almost d total loss.
The Central Railroad of Georgia and
Alabama Railroad freight warehouses;
| on the opposite side of the city. were
uhroofed and the walls demolished The
pupllc market was blown in. The the
ater was partially unroofed, and the
second Baptist Church is almost a to-
tai wreck
Ihe savannah Hospital and the Geor-
gia Iniirmary We're unroofed. The city
ana SUBURBAN street railway car sheds
IN winch We're stored twenty cars. were
blown down. The Georgia Hussars'
armory was badly damaged. Nearly
every store in the retail part of the
CITY was more or less damaged.
Inc damage to the shipping was less
than IN 1893. The Norwegian bark Ros-
enlus anchored in the harbor was cap
sized. The German bark Cuba. loaded
with naval stores for Hamburg, went
aground below the city. The bark Mia.
loaded with naval stores and ready for
sea, was blown against the training vail
five miles below the city and is lying on
her side. The tug Robert Turner went to
pieces against the Government iettv.
Three OF her crew and the Captain. c. III.
Murray, are supposed to have been lost.
The others were rescued by a tug.
| Two vessels at quarantine were blown
across the river, and are high and dry.
The United States revenue cutter Tybee
| sustained slight damage
| Small boats We're thrown about in
every direction. The Flora left at 9
a. m. with heavy cargo for Brunswick.
She is in charge of Captain Jenkins. her
! owner.
| The steamer Governor Stafford Can
| tain Strobnar, was to leave Beufort for
Savannah at 10 a. m. Grave fears are
entertained for the safety Of the vessel.
1t is thought she caught the full force of
the storm. The steamboat Star arrived
from Bluffton at II O'Clock. getting in
| just in time. The bark TIilda, owned in
! Savannah, left last night for Bruns-