The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-07

Lebanon, Pa....................... so 600
SaVannan. Ga......... l,OOQ.0O0
WH sshinafo;n + .,........... sSe eSo
Total Observation-Disclosures. 81 72O Oco
The Storm in Georgia.
Savannah, Ga, Oct. 1.-The fatalities
by TUESDAYS storm, SO far foot up IL.
The body of Capt. Charles +. Murray.
of the Inflated tug Robert Turner. which
was blown ashore in the Savannah river.
was found wedged in training wall. 1t
was brought to the city by a rescue tug.
Later the body of one of the deckhands
was picked up by the United States reve-
nue. steamer Tybee, which has been on
relief duty since the storm subsidized.
James Mcclure, passenger on the
Turner, and two deckhands are still
missing. Fanny Jackson (colored) who
was injured by falling roof in South
vile, died Wednesday. Riley Williams
(colored), 75years of age. crushed under
a roof, died Wednesday night. The in
jured have all been removed to the hos
pital or their homes. Three are fatally
injured and will die.
The fatalities on the sea islands were
numerous. The actual loss of life is not
known, but it is feared it will reach
100. Twenty negroes were killed On
the rice plantations by falling timbers.
The names could not be secured. The
sea island cotton crop is badly dam
aged. the cotton being bea ten down and
off the stalk. A house to house canvass
places the total of destruction to prop
erty here at $267, 900. This is regarded
as low estimate. the general belief of
those who have figured on it being that
100000 is conservative estimate.
Damage in the Capital.
Washington, Oct. 1.-The West In
dian tornado which struck Washington
between IL p. m. and midnight Tuesday
night, respected neither official nor
diplomatic properties. 1t ripped off
some of the coping of the white house
and laid low most of the historic trees
in the white house grounds. including
the elm tree which Lincoln planted.
1t carried away part of the roof of the
state department where the official doc
uments are stored, but fortunately left
them uninjured. The costly roof of the
patent office, constructed after the fire
there some years ago. was rolled up and
distributed all around the neighbour
hood, and skylights half an inch thick
were remorselessly beaten in. The
naval observatory and, in fact. pretty
well every other public building was
more or less damaged.
Diplomatic residences were not
spared. That of the French minister
was left rootiess. and even the SUD-
stantially-built embassy of Great Brit
ain suffered the loss of the portico, un-
der which the British ambassador was
accustomed to sit in the summer even
ings and receive his friends.
The devastation wrought among the
beautiful trees of the capitol was heart
rending.
President Cleveland n Loser.
President Cleveland's suburban home
at Woodley. near the city. which has
been left in charge of servants since
the president and his family went away
to Massachusetts. caught the full fury
of the gale. Root and rafters were car
ried away and landed 500 yards distant,
where they were intermingled with the
ruins of windmill which had supplied
water to the country seat of John r.
Mclean, adjoining the presidents prop
erty. Portions of Mr.. McLean's stables
which stood on slight bluff adjoining
the presidents grounds, and which
from their exposed position, were quite
feature in the landscape, were inter-
mingled in the general mix up.
In the Keystone State.
Huntingdon, Pa, Oct. /. - The
Juniata valley is experiencing destruc-
tive flood, scarcely less in extent than
the great food of 1889. During the past
"a hours the rainfall has been unprece-
dented and the climax was reached at
two o'clock Wednesday morning by y
cloudburst just west of this city. This
volume of water swept through the
western end of the town, washing out
streets, flooding houses, carrying away
out-buildings, and drowning several
head of cattle. Many families were
obliged to flee from their homes. Traffic
on the middle division of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad has been wholly sus-
pended, all through eastern trains going
around by way of Locl1haven, on the
Northern Central. The Pennsylvania
tracks, five miles east of here, have
been washed out, and slide on Jacks
mountain, ten miles east, has covered
the tracks for distance of 200 yards.
Gettysburg Cemetery Suffers.
Gettysburg, Pa, Oct. 1.-The storm
g. Adov,c coupfv did tremendous dam