Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-01
Land and Sea May Not Give Up Their
 Dead for Days.
THE FIRST NEWS FROM TYBEE
The Storm Struck Land at Tampa and Swept Northward to Savannah-Its Velocity Above That of
 Tornado-Tempest of 1854 Recalled
Wires Still Down.

Nearly every telegraph wire out of Sa- vannah is still prostrated. Storm news Is coming to the Morning News 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 it's dura- tion at each place was short-about an hour Had the storm been long contin ued everything in it's path would have been leveled to the ground and the loss of life must of necessity have been heavy.
 At Washington.
 Washington, Sept. 30.-A storm of al- most unprecedented fury broke over this city last night and prostrated telegraph telephone and electric light wires in ev- cry direction. The wall of a building, the erection of which was nearly com pieted, on Pennsylvania avenue. be- tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets collapsed. The west wall was blown in and crashed into the roofs of two adjoin- ing buildings, one a saloon and the other a lunch room. Several persons were for a time buried in the ruins, but with one exception were unhurt.
 On Seventh street much damage to stores and other. structures Is reported. Shade trees in many parks and along the. streets suffered in a lamentable degree, and the streets are practically blocked by the wrecks in many parts of the city.
 In the Vicinity of Pittsburg.
 Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 30.-The heavy rains and high winds which swept over the western part of the state last night aud early this morning played havoc with the running schedules of nearly every rsilroad entering Pittsburg. The heav- .sst damage seems to have been east of Cte Allegheny mountains, and from the meagre reports received great damage has been done. All trains on the Penn sylvania railroad are greatly delayed. The storm practically paralyzed the Bal timore and Ohio system east, west, north and south. Several washouts occurred near Akron, O., on the Pittsburg and Western railroad, and telegraph wires were prostrated. Train No. G. the Chi cago express, Is hemmed in by landslides.
 Charleston, s. C., Sept. 90.-Speclals to the News and Courier from Beaufort say:
 Without premonition from the wea ther bureau, which the people of Beaufort have had reason to expect would apprise them of an approa ching or impending cyclone or hurricane, Beaufort was sud denly visited by almost IS fearful and destructive a cyclone as that of August, 1893. It came in all its fury about 12 o'clock in the morning. During it's con- tinuance for one hour and half it equaled, if not rivaled in intensity, as long as it lasted, it's memorable predeces- sor. Nothing but the lack of the tidal wave, or rather the prevalence of an in- ordnately high tide, caused by the meet ing or piling up of one tide upon another by continued gale of hours. prevented its being quite as disastrous a calamity as that which made 1893 black letter year for this devoted people.
 At about 1:30 o'clock the wind shifted from southeast to southward and les sened it's violence by about 2 o'clock, bot h gale had abated sufficiently for persons to emerge into the streets to catalogue the disasters.
 Along Bay street a great many of the brick chlmneys of the most exposed houses and stores were snapped off, and had fallen into the streets below and up- on the roofs.
 The ma sorry at the sides of the piazZas of T. W. Schepper's grocery store and that of G. A. Longs residence, over the express office, was blown down, with It's brick and mortar. At Scheppers dock the steam tug Weymouth of the Farmers Phosphate works but belonging to the estate of Col. William Gregg. was wreck ed against the bulkhead and sunk at the head of the wharf.
 The yachts Osprey, owned by MT. Miles; Nellie, by Colonel Verdier, and Julia, by Henry Scheper, that lay at anchor off the sea wall and which with timely warn- ing could have been put in a safe harbor, were
 Capsized and Sunk,
 but have since been recovered, All the pilot boats that lay in front of the town from disuse of the past week, owing to the heavy seas prevailing outside, rode safely through the storm. The only one not of the fleet that stopped down al Port Royal was the Scheper, No A. and she was driven high and dry upon the marsh es of Jericho up Battery creek.
 The handsome residence of the late George Waterhouse, now owned by his estate. formerly the Lewis Sans house, was terribly wrecked, the roof entirely blown off and swept away, and the hand some columns and the upper piazza torn to pieces and other damage to the front of the house and fences.
 The residence of the Messrs Wallace, formerly the Fuller house, on the corner of Bay street had it's roof torn and its veranda destroyed. t--
 Mir. N. Chritensen's hardware store, on the opposite corner, was rudely lacerated by having it's front doors and windows blown in and subjected to floods of rain
 The jewelry store of MT. W. P. Bristol, formerly Roberts, just newly fitted up for jewelry store, vas entirely unroofed, while It's neighbor, the dry goods store of Messrs Wallace & Danner, the leading dry goods store in town
 Suffered Similar Disaster,
 and it. together with the jewelry store of A. M. Greenfield, next door, had their roofing tin hanging in sheets from the wires of the electric light and telephone posts in front. The back. part of the brick house, occu pied as the postoffice. lost a part os it's masonry.
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