The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-01

Struck Land at Tampa.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Sept. 2o.-The fatali-
ties by yesterdays storm so far foot up
eleven.
The body of Captain Charles E. Murray,
Of the Inflated lug Robert Turner, which
was blown ashore in the Savannah river,
was found today. It was brought to the
city by a rescue tug. Later, the body OF
one of the deck hands was picked up the
United States revenue steamer Tybee,
which has been on relief duty since the
storm subsidized.
James Mcclure, a passenger on the
Turner, and TWO deck hands are sull miss
ing.
jured by a falling roof in Southville, died
today.
Riley Williams, (coloreO, crushed I'M
der a roof, died tonight.
The injured have All been removed TO
the hospitals or their homes. Three Will
die.
The fatalities are likely to be much
greater when reports have been received
from the Islands.
THE DAMAGE TO SHIPPING
is heavy The steamer Governor Stafford,
which left Beaufort, S. c., yesterday
morning, went ashore on Daufiskey island,
and is lying 100 yards high and dry in
land. The steamer Star went to her as
sistance this morning, but has not re-
turned. Much anxiety is felt for the tug
Cynthia, which left here before the storm
with barge for Brunswick.
The banks Cuba and Rosenious, which
drifted from their anchorage and went
ashore, may be saved.
The schooners Island City and D. B.
Metcalf, which went ashore on their way
TO sea. are not damaged. The bark
Kylemore broke away from her a lcbor-
age at Quarantine and is lying against
a retaining wall half a mile away. The
loss of small sailing vessels is heavy. Up
wards of twenty are reported ashore IN
the marshes and creeks, and on the
beach at the mouth OF the river Most
of these were coastlng vessels, plying
between Savannah and neignboring
ports.
THE FULL EXTENT.
of the damage and loss of life will not
be known for several days
The center OF the storm passed east of
Savannah and struck inland north OF
here. The damage on the South Carolina
coast is believed to be heavy, but so far
no loss OF life is reported. The rice
plantations on the Carolina side OF the
Savannah river and along The river west
of here, suffered heavily The rice in the
fields was little injured, being covered
with water, but the storehouses ana mtlis
are wrecked and the rice stored is a total
loss. The plantations on the Ogeechee
and AItamaha rivers on the Georgia side,
were heavily damaged.
The damage in the city viii probably
EXCEED s1.OOQ,OOO
Hardly a building escaped, and thousands
Of houses are rooflesS. The work of
clearing away the wreckage from the
street went on all night, ana today most
OF the streets are passable. The parks
n 20 II 7
Dy tnelr roots or broken in two, lie in
sWathS across shrubbery and flowers. The
ruin is compete. The famous Bonaven-
ture cemetery, four miles from Savannah
ruin. There, and in picturesque Laurel
Grove cemetery, great damage was done.
At the suburban villages and resorts,
summer residences were blown away
and yachts and pleasure steamers were
driven ashore, in some instances high
and dry on the low bluffs. The historic
Bethesda Orphans home founded by
George Whitetleld, century and half
ago, seven miles in the country from
Savannah. was heavily damaged, but no
loss of life occurred.
Three street car lines started opera
tons at noon today. The
OTHERS ARE STILL TIED UP
and the cars are standing on tracks all
over the city. The loss to the electric
lines is estimat ted a S100, 900. The electric
light, telephone and police and fire alarm
systems are all down. The Western
Union Telegraph company has forces OF
men all along It's lines.
The damage to the railroads will foot
up over $4,000 The wreckage of the
Plant system passenger depot and the
Georgia q Alabama railroad freight ware
houses has been partially cleared away,
so that the yards and tracks are passabie
and trains are running on time.
Lighthouse Keeper Evans reached the
city on a boat late this afternoon with
A.
mouth of the Savannah river. The storm
there was severe. All of the hotels are
damaged and the payilions of the Hotel
fybee and South hotel, both large struc-
lures were carried away. The Chatham
Artillery Club house, at the south end of
the beach, was unroofed. The cottages
fronting the beach for distance of four
miles are all damaged. The sea was
DRIVEN OVER THE LOW ISLANDS
between Tybee and the city, and it is be-
lieved the Tybee railroad is washed away
on Acquenes island distance of several
miles. The road was constructed on the
marsh and the loss will be heavy. There
is believed to have been no loss OF life
on Tybee.
A special to the Morning News from
Burroughs, Ga, says
The storm here yesterday started at 10
o'clock and lasted until Ills o'clock.
Trees were blown in the woods and roads.
About fifteen houses in different places
are blown down.
All the stacks in the rice fields are
blown down. The new Ogechee Baptist
church at Shiloh and the new Episcopal
church are blown to the ground. Three
lives were lost and several persons Grip
pied The loss is estimated at 5000.
Every person had to leave his house and
go out into the open field to save his life.
Nearly
EVERY TELEGRAPH WIRE
out of Savannah is still Frustrated. Storm
news reached the News this morning from
many points in Georgia and Florida by
mail. The storm appears to have struck
land at Tampa and swept northward to
Savannah. thence jumping on to the
north. All the correspondents agree that
the velocity of the wind was unusually
high even for a tornado. but its duration
at each place was short-about an hour.
Had the storm been long continued, ev-
erything in its path would have been
leveled to the g ound and the loss of life