New-York tribune., 1896-10-01
THE DEATH LIST INCREASING.

! Robert Turner, which was blown ashore In the
| Savannah River. found to-day. wedged IN a
| wall 1t was brought to the city by a rescue tug.
Later the body Of one Of the deokhands was
picked up by the United States revenue steamer
| Tybee which has been on relief duty since the
storm subsidized James Mcclure. passenger on
! the Turner and two deckhands are still4nissing.
| Fanny Jackson, colored. who was injured py a
falling roof in Southville, died to-day. Riley
! Williams colored crushed under roof died to-
night.
The injured have all been removed to the hos
| pitfalls or their homes. Three of them will die
The fatalities are likely to be much greater when
reports have been received from the Sea Islands.
The damage to shipping is heavy. The
steamer Governor Stafford, which left Beaufort
| S. c.. yesterday morning went ashore on Dau'
fuskie Island and is lying 100 yards high ana
dry inland The steamer Star went to her as
sstance this morning, but has not returned.
Much anxiety is felt for the tug Cynthia, whlch
| left here before the storm with a barge In low
for Brunswick The barks Cuba and Rosenus.
which drifted from their moorngs and went
ashore, it is believed may be saved
The schooners Island City and d. II. Metcalf.
| which also went ashore their way to sea- are
not damaged. The bark Kylemore broke away
from her anchorage at Quarantine and is lying
| against q wall nal1 Il Iiiiie away ihc i'SS VI
small sailing vessels is heavy. Upward Of
| twenty are reported ashore in the marshes and
creeks and on the beach at the mouth OF the
| river. Most of these coasting vessels ply
| ing between Savannah and neighboring ports.
! The full extent OF the damage and loss of life
| will not he knor'n for several days
The centre of the storm passed east OK Sa-
| vannah and struck inland north OF here The
damage on the South Carolina coast Is be-
lieved to he heavy. but 80 far little loss OF life
| is reported. The rice plantations on the Caro-
| lima side of the Savannah River and along
| the river west OF here suffered heavily The
! rice in the fields little injured. being COW
| cred with water but the storehouses and mills
! are wrecked. and the rice stored is a total loss
! The plantations on the Ogeechee and Altamaha
Rivers on the Georgia side, also were heavily
| damaged.
WRECK AND RUIN IN SAVANNAH.
The damage iu the city will probably exceed
| 81 100000. Hardly a building escaped. and
| thousands of houses are roofess. The work OF
/ clearing away the wreckage from the streets
went on at night and to-day most OF the
: streets are passable The parks are pitiab:
| sights Tall trees torn up by their roots or
! broken in two lie in swaths across shrubbery
and flowers. The ruin Is complete. The famous
! Bonayenture Cemetery, four miles from Sa-
vannah on the Thunderbot road, is a scene of
| ruin There and in picturesque Laurel Grove
| Cemetery monuments and gravestones are over
| turned and in some instances the vaults are
! broken in At the suburban villages and re-
sorts summer residences were blown away ana
| ,ocbts and pleasure steamers were driven
ashore The historic Bethesda Orphan Home,
founded by George Whitfield a century and
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vannah. was heavily damaged. but no loss of
| life occurred.
! Three streetcar lines started operations at noon
| ,odav The others are still tied up and the
| are standing on the tracks all over the city The
loss to the electric lines is estimated at SlOO.OOo
| The elcctric-ght telephone and police and fire.
| alarm systems all down. The Western Union
! Telegraph Company has forces Of men all along
| its lines
TIE RAILROADS HEAVY LOSERS.
! The damage to the railroads will foot up over
S25O0OO The wreckage Of the Plant system pas
senger station and the Georgia and Alabama
| Railroad freight warehouses has been partially
| cleared away so that the yards and tracks are
| passable and trains running on time.
| Lighthouse Keeper Evans reached the city on
| boat late this afternoon with the first news from
| Twice Island at the mouth Of the Savannah
|
| River The storm there was severe All OF the
| hotels are damaged. and the pavons Of the
| Hotel Tybee and South End Hotel both large
! structures were washed away The Chatham
! Artillery Club house. at the south end or the
beach was unroofed The cottages fronting the
beach for distance Of four miles are all dam
| aged. The sea driven over the low islands
| between Tybee and the city. and II Is believed
| that the Tybee Railroad is washed away on Nc
| Queens Island distance Of several miles The
road was constructed the marshes and the
loss viii be heavy There is believed to have been
| no loss OF life on the Tybee.
FOUR FATALITIES IN BRUNSWICK.
| Atlanta Ga Sept 30.--H. NJ. Merrill. OF the
! Atlanta Telephone Company. reached Atlanta
late last night from Brunswick. He says that
the city was badly damaged and that three
| big YES, els sunk In the harbor Four per-
| sons were Filled Outright. careful estimate
! places the damage at 100000. Many persons
were dangerously injured. one woman was
| killed at Everett. a small station few miles
| from Brunswick The railroad tracks were OBJ
| structed by fallen trees and poles
| Charleston. S. c.. Sept. 3O-Sixty-two miles
| an hour was the velocity reached here last
| night by the hurricane, About ii o'clock the
| sky filled up with sw fly moving clouds and
| the wind became more bolsterOus. From noon
until about = O'Clock the wind rose rapidly and
the official record showed that sixty-two miles
an hour was reached. Trees fences. shutters
and loose signs came down. Almost before the
| storm had reached a serious point here the city
was practically shut of from teegraphic COM
municatoE with the remainder OF the world.
and II was net restored until late last night.
Fortunately In spite OF the fury OF the wind.
comparatively little damage was done here.
| ia M sari
| ously Injured.
| Washington. Sept 30.-The West Indian tor
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