The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-10-07
coast Of Georgia Again Devastated
and Many Lives are
Lost.
SAVANNAH SUFFERS THE MOST
The District Around That City is
Flooded and Loss viii
Be Heavy.
REPETITION OF TIDAL WAVE OF 'ss
Wires Arc Down aud as Yet the
Full Damage 10 Property and
Loss of Ltre IL Not
Known.

savannah, ga, Oct. 4.-tOr eighteen
hours, from 3 o'clock yesterday norm
ing until 8 o'clock last night, Sayan-
nah wns in the grasp of a West Indian
cyclone. During that time the wind
blew steadily from fifty to seventy
miles an hour. While the city escaped
with comparatively little damage tho
loss OF property among the sea islands
of the Georgia and South Carolina
coasts is believed to be heavy. For
miles in every direction around Sa-
vannah the lowlal $ along the rivers
nre submerged. Only one fatality has
80 far been reported, the drowning OF
q negro while attempting to reach the
mainland from a small island near
Thunderbolt, but heavy loss of life 10
feared on the South Carolina sen
islands, where such fearful loss Of life
occurred during the great tidal stirm
of 1893. The conditions now are sim
liar to those during that storm. Ow-
ing to the submerged country and iso-
lated 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 o lake
with only the hills visible. AT noon the
water wa eight feet above the highest
tide. Driven ON shore by the north
east storm it piled upon the islands,
swept over banks and dams, carrying
away the remnant of the rice crop
that was left by the August storm, that
had not been gathered, and wiping out
farm crops. The loss to growers alone
will be about $4,000 to $4,000. OF
the entire river rice crop along the sa-
vannah river, valued at $250,000, all
but Is per cent was lost in this and
preceding storms. The damage to
shipping is considerable. The wharves
Mt the quarantine station at the en-
trance to the river here were partially
carried away. The quarantine officer
and his family and servants were res
cued early in the day by a tug. -Four
vessels which were at anchor at the
station were torn from their moo
ings and driven onto the marshes, but
how badly damaged is unknown. No
news has been received from Tybee
since early in the morning and moth
ing is known of the damage there.
At Thunderbolt and Isle. of Hope,
suburbs Of Savannah, all the boat
houses on the banks and hundreds 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 railroad of
Georgia and the Georgia and Alabama
railrond around the city are covered.
nh rr,,r%A hound nvvrooc an tho Flor.
ida Central and Peninsula railway due
here from Florida at noon has not yet
arrived. Telegraph wires, except one
wire, r down and the condition OF
the railroad tracks is not known. A
special train will be sen out at day
light over the Florida Central and
Peninsula road south. All other roads
are operating and the Florida Central
and Peninsula is running north of At
lanta.
The telephone, police, light and fire
alarm wires are down and the city is
in darkness. On Hutchinson's island.
opposite Savannah and separating the
city from the South Carolina shore,
there were many negro families res
cued by boats from the revenue steam
ers Tybee and Boutwell,.
All day rescuing parties were at
work. Last night the wind subsidized,
but the water, which receded with the
ebb of the tide during the afternoon,
has again risen. Considerable anxiety
Is felt for shipping at sea.
The extent of the storm is un-
known, and until telegraphic COM
munication is restored news received
from the country between Savannah
and Jacksonville, over which the
heaviest part of the storm passed, the
full extent of the damage cannot be
told.
Charleston, S. c., Oct. 4.-Much
alarm was o%ccasioned here yesterday
by the hosting of cyclone signals by
the weather bureau. It was feared at
one time that much damage would be
done, but such was not the cas- Dur
ing the day the wind reached a yeloc-
ity of sixty miles an hour, and. the tide
rose 2h feet above normal. 1t is feared
that much damage to rice and other
crops on the sea islands have been
done. A dispatch to the News and
Courier from Georgetown says the
storm in that section was very severe,
the lowlands being under water and
the destruction in the rice fields
widespread. No casualties have been
reported here.