The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30
LIVES LOST IN RAGING
CYCLONES.
Great Havoc Caused by Mad
Winds in the Fair City
Of Savannah.
DEPOT OF The PLANT SYSTEM
DEMOLISHED.
Felegraphic Communication Cut Of in
Many Localities-Damage Only
Partly Known.


Partly Known.
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ATLANTA, GA, Sept. 29.-The equi-
iQctial storm which was reported moving
lorthward off Cuba two days ago reached
The southern coast OF the United States
his morning and spread northward with
'edoubled fury. Reports received by the
United Associated Presses tonight indicate
Floss of eleven lives and tremendous dam
lge 10 Property The storm is believed tc
aave exceeded in fury that of 1898. It will
be seyeraf days before the full extent o1
the damage is Known.
No information has been received from
.. lny'point south of Brunswick, and it is
cared that the damage in Southern Flor
da has been immense. The storm struck
brunswick shortly before noon, but it was
.. midnight before,any report was. had from
ahatplace, and then only meager informa-
ion could be learned. Several lives were
Ost there. but no names were Known. as
..omm unicaIion' was not established. The
oss there will reach nearly $780, 900, the
Plant railway system being among the
heaviest sufferers. The storm is still rag
ng, and communication is had only at in
ervals.o
The wind reached a velocity of sixty
wo miles an hour az Charleston, and but
OF the big seawsll the damage to the city
would have been immense. Fears are en-
ertained for the safety of vessels out
ade.
From Savannah comes the worst news
If the night. The storm seems to have
cached its fullest intensity here and the
ooss of life is larger than at any other
,lace thus far heard from. As far as
Inown seven lives were lost and this is
Iut an estimate. The loss to property
eacnes the 81, 900 900 mark
The information obtained from the
ountry below reached this city from
Hillen, which seems to be the only point
which the telegraph companies can reach
Nth reliability. Ali railroad traffic is at a
tandstill'
No trains have passed over the Florida
Central and Peninsular Railroad to-day
Indo it is feared that, the damage to the
country round about Jacksonv lie, and
possibly to that city itself, has been tre-
nendoGs.
o SAVANNAH, GA, Sept. o29.-Seven
ives lost, million dollars worth OF prop
Irty destroyed-that is the record of a cy-
:lone which swept Savannah from II 80
Q 4, N. until 1915 P. NJ. to-day. The loss OF
ife and damage to property are yet mere
.stlmates and both may be greater than
o low known.
The storm, which had been lurking in
,he0 eastern gu.f for the last few days.
'wept rapidly. across Florida at 8 o. clock
his mQrning and without warning burst
lpon. Savannah. In half an hour it had
lone its work. The streets were filed
yith wreckage. Hardly a house in the
" hty escaped without more or less damage.
ihough there are few comparatively total
wrecks.
Before the storm was at its height the
weather. observer said it would not be over
orty miles an hour. 1t began to rise at
u o'clock. Hall an hour later it was
flowing sixty miles an hour and the air
vas filed with flying debris. When the
Wind reached a'velocity of sixty-six miles
an hour the instruments at the weather
station were blown away.
The storm was terrific in its intensity,
exceeding the great cyclone OF 1893, which
devastated the South Carolina coast. The
lhortness OF its duration was all that
aved an annihilation of everything
githin its range.
The storm came from the southeast and
iwept directly over the city. Hardly q
public building escaped its fury. The
orests and the city were laid in swaths.
The parks are in ruins and many build.
ngs were razed to the ground. The i'm.
hense Plant system passenger depot wa:
he first building in the path of the stprm
md was a complete wreck. The magnif.
Ient prize train of the Plant system ex.
libited at the Cotton States Exposition
ind stored in the shed was wrecked and
{. the cars are almost total loss.
The Central Railroad OF Georgia and
Alabama Railroad freight warehouses on
he opposite side OF the city were unroofed
ind the walls demolished. The public
market was blown in. The. theater was
iaftially unroofed, and the. Second Bap-
ist Church is almost a total wreck.
The Savannah Hospital and the Georgia
tnfrmary were unroofed. The city and
nburbans street railway car sheds, in
which were stored twenty cars, were
lown down. The Georgia Hussars'
rmory was badly dana ed. Nearly every
tore in the retail part of the city was
hore or less damaged.
The damage to the shipping was less
han in 1888. The Norwegian bark
Iosenious. anchored in the harbor, wss
apsized. The German bark Cuba, loaded
Nth naval stores for Hamburg. went
ground below the city. The bark Mia,
oaded with naval stores and ready for sea.
tas blown against the training wall five
hiles below the city and is lying on her
ide.
The tug Robert Turner went to pieces