The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-07

Brunswick. Ga, Oct 6.-Two more bodice
we're found in the marsh near Brunswick
to-day. One was white. Capt. Frank Gums
mings and the other colored.
Avery, master of the tug McCauley. from
Savannah. arrived tonight and reports
four vessels ashore at sapelo Island One
Is the Norwegian bark Agnes Campbell.
loaded with lumber; the Darlan tug cress
cent City, and two schooners.
From conhrmatory reports now in, the
loss of life on land and sea around Darien
and Brunswick is 100, nine-tenths of whom
are oolored. These reports are secured
from reliable sources and are verified as
far as possible.
The losses are distributed as followss
Seven at Brunswick, twenty at Campbell
Island, seventy to eighty at Buffers isis
and, five at Doboy. and eight on un-
known vessels wrecked off ST. Andrews
bar.
The property loss at Darien, Brunswick.
sapelo, ST. smons, Jekyl, Cumberland
and Wolfe Islands, consisting of rice fields,
stock cattle and buildings, is conserva-
lively estimated at 100000.
On Egg Island, James Stockley and wife
climbed TO their dwelling roof for safety.
The water rose and drowned Mrs Stocks
ley Stockley held his wifes body until
II grew stiff A wave came and tore the
body from his hands and sent Stocklev
into nearby tree. The body fioated by
him TO sea, and he could not reach 1t. He
spent a night of horror In the tree ana
when the water subsided built a raft and
drifted to ST. simons, being several days
without food.
Az Sapelo Island the people are reported
safe, but the light house ls rendered use
less by the waves. One wave thirty-hva
feet high Is reported by the keeper to have
hit It,
All the Wolf Island clubhouse buildings
were washed away A family living there
have not yet been heard from, and are
supposed TO be drowned.
Pilot Frank Fader, on st. Andrews bar.
arrived to-day and reported his boat.
Maud Helen, on b.uff twenty feet above
high water. His report also enumerates
the following disasters:
One unknown three-masted schooner.
loaded with coal, dashed to pieces on
breakers ten miles from st. Andrews
light. All hands. estimated at eight, are
lost.
Hotel Cumberland property damaged to
the amount of 5000.
The. Macon row is completely ruined.
Fader says the underpinning was washed
away and wrecked the whole row.
The pavilion is washed up on the rall-
road, and Is ruined
The Atlanta row is unroofed and under~
mined.
The main hotel building cupola Is gone.
and the steamboat dock has nothing lefs
but the pling.
The main bluff at High Point, Cumber.
land, Is washed from 100 to $50 feet bacla
Into the mainland
Mrs. Lucy Carnesie's steam yacht Dun~
geness was washed up on the bluff and
badly damaged.
The Carnegie mansion at Dungeness ap~
parently had been under water some feet.
The Jekyl Island fort, on the south end.
washed away and the heavy cannon dis
mounted.
House Of Keeper Charles Moody, on tho
south end of Jeky Island. Is gone, ana
Moody has not been heard from.
The Jekyl dock Is gone, and the waten
apparently had submerged grounds ana
cottages several feet.
The three-masted schooner Edna and
Emma, loaded with coal and railroad iron.
Is up in the marsh abreast of JekyI Club
House
John r. Young OF Ellis Young & Co, sa~
vannah and Brunswick, says to-nights
Our total loss win probably not 60 to
5000. We are saving nearly all the naval
stores that were swept away ana expect to
get back all except about 900 barrels OF
rosln."
Manager Frank slrachan OF William
Johnston Company Steamship line, says
tonight he was up the country when he
read the first account. 1T seemed incred-
ible, and was among the most Incredu-
lous OF several Brunswickians in the par
ty. When we reached Brunswick and
viewed the disastrous effects of the storm
and flood, enclosed my people a copy OF
your report and wrote them that. al
though 1t sounded immensely Improbable.
/ could but say you had really underesti-
mated the damage. Never in my life spent
among coast cities have / seen such wreck
and ruin The chaotic condition we found
things In win always be wildly remem-
bered."
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