Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-08
DEVASTATION.
further Details of the Great South
en Storm.
Widespread Destruction Reported from
Many Localities with Great Loss of Life
Mach More to be Learned when
Communication IL Restored.

er, which was blown ashore in the Sa-
zannan river, was found yesterday
wedged in a training wall. It was
brought to the city by a rescue tug.
Later the body of one of the deck
hands was picked up by 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 still missing.
Fanny Jackson, colored, who was in
jured by falling roof in Southville,
died yesterday. Riley Williams, col
ored, IS years of age, crushed under
roof, died last night.
The injured have all been removed
TO the hospitals or their homes Three
are fatally injured and will die. The
fatalities are very likely to be much
greater when reports have been re-
ceived from the sea islands
The damage to shipping is very
great. The steamer Gov. Stafford.
which left Beaufort, S. c., Tuesday
morning, went ashore in Daufskie is
fand and is lying 100 yards high and
dry inland. Much anxiety is felt for
the tug Cynthia. which left here be-
ore the storm with barge in tow for
Brunswick. The banks Cuba and Ros-
6neus, which drifted from their moor
SDgs and went ashore, may be saved.
prhe schooners Island City and D. Il.
&ctcalf which went ashore on their
way to sea are not damaged. The
bark Kylemore broke away from her
anchorage at quarantine and is lying
against a training wall half a mile
away. The loss of small sailing yes
sells is heavy. Upwards of 20 are re-
ported ashore in the marshes, at the
mouth of the river. Most of these
were coasting vessels, plying between
Savannah and neigh boring ports
The full extent of the damage and
loss of life will not be known for sew
-eral days.
The center of the storm passed east
of Savannah, and struck an island
north of here.
The damage on the South Carolina
coast is believed to be heavy. but so
far little 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 in
Jured, being covered with water, but
the storehouses and mills are wrecked
and the rice stored is total loss. The
plantations on the Ogeechee and Ala
bama rivers on the Georgia side also
were heavily damaged.
The damage in the city will prcba-
bly, exceed s1,OOO.OOO. Hardly build
ing escaped, and thousands of houses
are roofess. The work of clearing
away the wreckage went on all night,
and to-day most of the streets are
passabie- The parks are pitiabIe
sights. Tall trees, torn up by their
roots or broken in two, lie in swaths
across shrubbery and flowers. The
<uin is complete.
The famous Bonaventure cemetery,
four miles from Savannah on the
TbunderbolG road, is scene of ruin.
There, and in picturesque Laurel
Grove cemetery, monuments and
grave stones are overturned, and in
some instances. the vaults are broken
an
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 orphan home,
founded by George Whitfielda 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
tion at noon yesterday. The others
are still tied up, and the cars are
standing on the tracks all over the
city. The loss to the electric lines is
estimated at S1OO, 600. The electric
light, telephone and police and fire
alarm systems are all down. The
Western Union Telegraph Co. has
forces of men all along its lines
The damage to the railroads win
foot up over $25O,GO The wreclage
of the Plant System passenger depot
and the Georgia & Alabama railroad
freight warehouses has been partially
cleared away. so that the yards and
tracks are passable and trains are rum
ming on time.
LighthouseKeepe Evans reached the
city on a boat late last evening with
the first reports from Tybee city, at
the mouth of the Savannah river. The
storm there was severe. All the no
tells are damaged, and the pavilions of
the Hotel Tybee and South End hotel,
both large structures, were carried
away. The Chatham Artillery club
house, at the south end of the beach,
was unroofed. The cottages fronting
the beach for a distance of four miles
are all damaged.
The sea was driven over the low is
lands between Tybee and the city, and
&C is believed the Tybee railroad is
washed away on McQueen's island,
distance of several miles The road
was constructed on the marsh and the
loss will be heavy. There is believed
20 have been no loss of life in Tybee.
THE EFFECTS ELSEWHERE.
"A special to the Morning News from
Burroughs, Ga, says:
1.-THE storm started here Tuesday at
20 o'clock and lasted until 1:I5 o'clock.
Trees were blown down 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 Ogeeehee Baptist church
at Shiloh and the new Episcopalian
church are blown down. Three lives
are lost and several persons crippled
The loss Is estimated at S6.Uoo. Every
person had To leave his house and go
out into the open field to save his life.
There has never been such n storm
here since 1894.
Nearly every telegraph wire out of
Savannah is still Frustrated. Storm