The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-10-08

has hardly been cquallcd for intensity
and destruction within the memory ol
those now living. The wind reached
its highest shortly after II o'clock,
but its exact velocity may never be
known. The instrument at the weather
bureau registered 66 miles an hour
and then went TO pieces. The baromo-
ter went To $3.50. it would have gone
lower and even below the 2S.3l OF lS93
had the storm continued longer. The
blow was practically over within two
and one-half hours, but for that time
it ragged with an intensity heretofore
unknown.
Tin roofs were the special playthings
OF the wind, and they were rolled up
everywhere as if Of tissue paper and
with the nicely observed by the timer
in economizing space. There must
have been one hundred tons Of tin
rolled of Of roofs in Savannah. Bricks
and wires fell everywhere, and hun
dreds of roofs were totally demolished.
It is impossible even to enumc"ato the
buildings unroofcd or partly destroyed.
Shattered trees covered every street,
and these with hundreds Of fallen
wires uadc the streets impassab,c for
several hours.
The total damage is estimated from
5000 to 81, 900 900 in Savannah and
in Chatham county.
The loss OF life and damage to pro-
perty are yet mere estimates and both
may be greater when the full extent OF
the storm is known. The storm which
had been lurking in the eastern gulf
for the last two O" three days swept
rapidly across Florida on Nor day
night. At o'clock Tuesday morning
it WAS at ,laCkS0nviiic and three hour,
lat,r it burst upon Savannah. In hAlf
an hour it had done its work. The
streets were tilted with WreckaIr.
Hardly building in the city escaped
its fury. The storm was terrific in It's
intensity exceeding that Of the great
cyclone of 1893, which devastated the
South Carolina coast.
The shortness Of its duration was all
that saved u complete HnnihjlatiUn Of
everything in It's path.
Many OF tho most prominent bui!d-
ings in the city were damaged 10y the
severe winds The work Of tho storm
WAS felt in every direction. Churches,
school houses, pubic buildings. rail
way passenger dcpots and warehouses,
and private re licences suffered alike.
Among the principal buildings wreck
ed or seriously damaged are the Dutfy
street Baptist church, ST. Phillips,
African Methodist Episcopol church,
the lsla, Plant system depot ana ware.
houses, Central rui!road warehouses,
st. Patrick school, Georgia Iussnrs
CLUB, city market, electric railway,
power house and sheds. Vale Rovu
mills, Conner Hull i CO.'S and Com
mercial GuaOO Co.'s factories. Sayan-
nan GuHno company. Jones Marine
railway on Hutchinson is sand. Fawgclt
building, occupied by ~. Is. Hull &
Co., Henry Solomon < Sous, whole
sale grocery, N. J. Doylc's property
at Bryan and Barnard streets, the
brick building al the southwest corner
OF Broughton ana Montgomery streets.
SUBURBAN resorts and Savannuh's
beautiful cemeteries suffered lo..rs
them TO replace. Many of i}opayrn-
lures cemetery oaks frl! before the
WIND like sapIngs. Tombstoncs were
blown over at Laurel Grove cemetery
and trees were uproUtcd.
TyDce railroad is badly damaond
Bridges are out OF plumb. II, will
require much labor and considcrabIc
capital to put The road in condition
again.
Ihundcr1olt, the Isle of Hone ana
Montgomery all prominent resorts
suffered. Bath houses were birwn
away. Small boats were swept ou1 tn
sea and uauy beautiful res siucnccs yynr..
damaged.
Captain {. f. Murray and Mr.. J, G..
McCiurc were drowned by the wreck
ing OF the tug Robert Turner, in whicn
they we're going TO Beaufort. Tnc
sessel ran upon training wall and
.le waves swept over it CARRYING away
the pilot house and all on ooard.
searching party left port as early
as possiole and at day break ncy,
morning found the BODY OF Can,,IN
Murray next to the training wall, H..
remains were taken lnto Il small hn.,
an taken at once to the CITY wtnrn
thoy were turned over to Cnrnnr,.
Hoettc. The body Of Mr.. NcC,mro
couiu not be fo0nd. but thcrc il M
doubt OF his being lost. a friend wnn,
10 the home Of the young man and IN.
formed his wife Of the death nf hn,
husband. MIR. Mcclure was a pcrnsvi
Vanlan, having come to Savannah
several years ago. lie leaves VII,
and four children. "'''
Inc loss to shipping interests is i'm.
mcnse, cstimatcd at over SloW nrn
Nearly every vessel in port was ,nnrr
or less damaged. '''''
!, Inc most serious casuHltics wore
Ihe capsizing OF the Norwoginn h.rl
hosehlns, IN the middle Of the rivnr
me grounding Of the German hnrL
ouoa, loaded with cargo of naval
ssorsS, Ter Hamburg, the drifti,g ~ ~
tne Norwegian bark b. ID. Mctcalf ",
tne Sraining wall and the los of th'
Tug Robert Turner " 'i''
Inc bark Roscnius was moo,o,
aslong the wharf where she had 'e, boo,
oo"eo preparatory to taking q c.ro
VI naval stores. She was Iiyht ~
ballast having been discharoad" "0' ,n ne
sa,1 trnn, WAS va 80 Leavy that the vessel broli
> r,unn un her moorings and driltcd into th
rWer. she went up the rivar on VII
when Just opposite east Broad stnna "n
her keel struck a shoal iuat ,,qf e''He tS
channel, on the opposite tsido vi 30 "a "a
river and the force OF the wind ca,n;a =" Sn
her over on her beam, The orc Sarrle
thrown into the wotov htE VIC" WeT