The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-10-05
4 HURRICANE
n9es Great Damage en- tbs Sea-
coast of Georgia.
RACED EIGHTEEN HOURS.
Narrow Escape from Drowning as
a Result of the Sudden Floods.
Apprehensions as to the
Shipping at Sea.

Sunday morning till six clock Sunday
night Savannah Ga. was in the grasp
of West Indian cyclone. During
that time the wind blew steadily from
80 to 10 miles an hour, While the city
escaped with comparatively little dam
age, the loss of property among the sea
islands of the Georgia and South Caro-
lima coasts is believed to be heavy.
For miles in every direction around
Savannah the low lands along the rivers
are submerged. Only one fatality has
so far been reported-the drowning Of
negro while attempting to reach the
mainland from small island near
Thunderbolt. But heavy loss Of life is
feared on the South Carolina sea is
lands. where such fearful loss Of life
occurred during the great tidal storm Of
1898. The conditions now are similar
to those during that storm. Owing to
the submerged country and the isolated
location of the islands, no news can be
had from them until the water subsidies.
For eight miles north of Savannah the
entire country is lake, with only the
hummocks visible. At noon the water
was eight feet above the highest tide,
Driven on shore by the northeast storm,
it piled up on the islands, swept over
banks and dams, carrying away the
remnant of the rice crop that was left
by the August storm and had not been
oathereG and Wipine ont farm crops.
The loss to rice growers alone will be
from $50, 900 to S75, 900. Of the entire
rice crop along the Savannah river,
valued at $3.50, ,000 all but Is per cent.
was lost in this and the preceding
storm.
The damage to shipping IS considera-
bic. The schooner Ames, which was
on her way to sea with cargo of l.
500, 900 feet Of lumber, went adrift in
the river, but was finally anchored
safely. The wharves at the quaran-
tine station at the entrance to the river
here were partially carried away. The
quarantine officer and his family and
servants were rescured early in the day
by tug. Four vessels, which were at
anchor at the station, were torn f.om
their moorings and driven into the
marshes. Three Of these were the
British schooner Syanara, bound for st
Johns, n. B., the American schooner
Milleyille, for Milleville, n. j., the
Fannie L, Child, for Boston, all lum-
Der laden, and the Italian bark Frank
lin. How badly these vessels are dam
aged is unknown. No news has been
received from Tybee since early in the
morning, and nothing is known Of the
damage there. At Thunderbolt and
Isle of Hope. suburbs Of Savannah, all
the boat houses on the banks and hun
dreds of small boats were carried away.
The extent to which the railroads
suffered is not fully known. The naval
stores and cotton and lumber yards of
the Plant system are submerged, and
the tracks Of the Central Of Georgia
and Alabama roads around the city
are covered. The northbound express
on the Florida, Central and Peninsular
railroad, due here from Flrorida and at
noon, has not yet arrived. Telegraph
wires except one wire over the West
ern Union lines, are down, and the
condition of the railroad tracks is un-
known. A special train will be sent
out at daylight over the Florida, Cen
trail and Peninsular route. All other
roads are operating; the Florida, Cen
tral and Peninsular is running north
Of Savannah. The telephone, police,
light and fire alarm wires are down,
and the city is in darkness.
Off Hutchinson's plantation, opposite
Savannah, and separating the city from
the South Carolina shore, there were
many negro families rescued by boats
from the revenue steamers Tyhee and
Boutwell,. One man with child in
his arms, holding the little one above
his shoulders started to cross the dams
with the water up to his body. His
wife with another child, stood in the
window of their house, the floor of
which was already covered by the ris
ing food, and watched her husband
feeling his way step by step along the
top of the treacherous dam. one false
step from which or caying bank would
throw him into a swift moving current.
Finally he was sighted from across the
river on the city side. A boat was
put of and after half an hours effort
the family was rescued. Upwards
of hundred people were brought
from the island to the city in boats.
All day rescuing parties were at
work. Tonight the wind has sub
sided, but the water which receded
with the ebb Of the tide during the
afternoon has again risen. Considera-
bic anxiety is felt for.shipping at sea-
The steamer Nacho for New York, and
the Merchants and Miners steamer,
D. H. Miller, for Baltimore, went to
sea Saturday night The City Of Macon
was due Sunday morning from New
York, but has not arrived, and the
City Of Augusta sailed from New York
Friday and was due here Sunday night
The extent of the storm Is unknown.
Until telegraph communication is re-
stored, or until news is received by rail
from the country between Savannah
and Jacksonville over which the storm
passed the full extent of its damage
cannot be told