Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-07
TORNADO SWEEPS GEORGIA.
Many Persons Killed ana Hundreds
Injured-Property Loss will
Reach s. 100000.

the worst in the memory of those living
here, was at its height at 1870 yesterday.
Business in the city was suspended for
over an hour, the storm being furious
for that length of time. No person dared
appear on the streets. The street cars
halted, elevators stopped running, cleo
trio currents were shut off, through fear
or because Of breakage windows and
shades were blown in everywhere, wires
were hurled down, trees were RACED,
fences blown down, houses unroofed
portions of big buildings were wrecked,
vessels turned over in the river, church
steeples toppled and the streets were lit
orally strewn with debris of every i'm
aginable kind. People lived in dread for
an hour in Savannah. The stoutest
buildings in the city trembled.
There was no Indication at 8 o'clock
of severe winds. At that hour the OBJ
server said there would be wind of
over thirty miles an hour. The wind
began to raise at 11:3O and at II o'clock
was blowing at forty-eight miles an hour.
At 1915 a velocity of siXty-six miles had
been reached and the air was literally
filed with flying debris. Al that time
the instrument at the observers office
was blown out of working order A few
minutes afterward the wind had reached
velocity of eighty miles an hour or
over. At noon the barometer hau
dropped to 1920 and at 1870 it was
2S95. After that further reports from
it could not be secured.
Heavy Loss on Property.
There is the greatest apprehension for
vessels out and for small craft that are
known to have been in the blow. Rela-
tives of persons known to be at sea are
frantic in their endeavors to receive news
from them. Early in the storm, there
were reports that there had been loss of
life in the city. The money loss, it is
estimated, will reach 100000 to $780,
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The lighter Joseph Souther left at
4:30 a. m. with 500 bales of cotton,
bound for Brunswick. She was in tow
of the tug Cinthia. The tug returned
reporting lighter and cargo lost. Among
the prominent buildings damaged are:
Savannah Buildings Wrecked.
City exchange.
Savannah theater. II 4. Ia q.
John Rourke & Sons. II 70 H. ~
Savannah Gun factory. y 7FisfFF
Savannah Pants factory.
Conner Hull & Co., guano factory.
Henry Solomon & Sons, wholesale grocery
building
A. S. Brown Sons, planning mill.
Plant railway system, depot, a total
wreck.
Plant system shops.
Central railway of Georgia shops.
Chatham Academy.
Presbyterian and Lutheran churches
Car sheds of the city and suburban rail
way company, Savannah Brewing company
Hundreds Of dwellings are either totally
demolished damaged and many of the
principal retail stores of the city are suf
ferers.
Loss of Life Feared.
The loss Of life, it is feared, will be
great. Already ten deaths are reported
There are numerous islands about the
city inhabited by negroes and the losi
of life it is believed will be heavy OF
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after the storm began the sun was shin
ing and the rain had ceased.
Jacksonville, Fla, Oct. 1.-The West
Indian hurricane which entered Florida
at Cedar Keys Tuesday morning and
swept through the southern part of the
state in northeasterly direction left
death and destruction in its path.
Owing to the prostration of telegraph
wires and the delay of trains, due to
washouts, only meager reports have
been received, and yet meager as those
reports are they show that over twenty
towns and villages have been wrecked
and that thirty or forty persons have
many more received wounds more or less
serious.
In Nassau county, just north of Jack
sonville, the hurricane seemed to gather
additional force and did awful work. At
Boulogne the schoOlhouse, in which there
were over Thirty was WIeChpu
and five children killed Miss Ada Stew
art, the teacher, escaped with a broken
arm Lila Raines, a 12-year-old girl,
ran from the schoolhouse just before it
collapsed to her home. AS she entered
her home it was wrecked and the child
was killed.
Savannah, Ga, Oct. il. S. Evans,
assistant lighthouse keeper at Tybee,
arrived in the city today and brings the
first definite information of the damage
on the island. The Chatham cluhhouee
is unroofed. All of the improvements
bar, etc.-are blown away. The cleo
trio light plant is safe. The Hotel Ty
bee is damaged but slightly, compare
lively speaking; windows are gone and
other small damage is done. The Zoray
da club is very slightly hurt. The Cath
olic chapel is demolished. All of the
new cottages escaped with slight injury:
Verandas and windows are blown off
the Atlantic club.
The waterworks where the Ocean
house used to be are badly damaged. A
wheel blown from them crashed through
the house of Chief of Police Nail, but
strNck no one. The Nail home is quite
badly hurt. Kehoe's cottage has lost all
it's windows and Sullivans cottage has
lost its roof. The Rambler club is I'M
harmed. The Lacy building is badly
hurt The Bias cottage is wrecked. The
badly undermined. The bridge over st.
Augustine creek is out of gear; trains
cannot pass over.
Near Estils station the track is badly
wrecked All the fshermen's wharves
and all the boats are gone. Grogan's is
all right. The wind blew 108 miles. No
one was hurt on Tybec.
Washington, D. c., Oct 1.-The first
loss of life in Washington city from
the storm was reported today when the
body of James Fitzgerald, white man.
was found in the ruins of the Beatty
building on Pennsylvania avenue. There
were ten persons known to be in this
building when it's walls fell in, but they
escaped without serious injury. Fitzger-
aid was machinist in the navy yard.