The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-05
TYBEE RAILROADS DAMAGE.
WILL TAKE PRETTY NEAR A
MONTH TO REPAIR 1T.

Uood-The Heaviest Damage Near
rstiII Station-The Track FIoated
on on the Ties for Several Miles.
The Roadbed Badly washed and
VIII Have TO BE Built Up-Tybee
Escaped With Comparatively Few
Losses.
II will require little short of a month at
least to put the Tybee Railroad in the
condition it was before the storm. trip
over The line has disclosed considerable
damage. and it will take a large force
of hands to complete the work of repair
Superintendent Clement Saussy went
over the road yesterday, that is. over the
mart that is damaged He left here in the
morning on the government steamer An
eler and reached the wharf at Tybee about
O'Clock After looking about in the vi
ciniry of the fortifications, and noticing
some of the work of the tide at the Point
station, he started back toward the city
afoot.
As far as any real damage is concern
ed, Superintendent Saussy found that the
storm had been rather merciful to Tybee
itself. There were no houses blown down,
though one bath house was floated some
distance away from its place. This be-
Ionged to Mr.. Lowell. The hospital tent
for the sick soldiers that were left on the
island some time ago, when the North
Carolina companies went home, was blown
away The sick were transferred to a
place of safety however.
sand is pretty well piled over everything
on the island. Superintendent Saussy
found several cars that stood on the track
near the point, with banks of sand in and
around them, while one of the flats had
been fioated from one pair of It's trucks
The biggest washout on the road is near
Esul, on the island. This is 1000 feet
Ions The tide got a good strong sweep
al this point, and the bank was swept be-
fore it. A great deal of dirt will have to
so into the washouI This was the only
Washout that is worthy of note, Superin-
tendent Saussy found. The bridge over
Lazaretto, and also that over st. Angus
tine creek, he found TO be in perfect con-
ditiOn.
The principal damage is to the track.
The wafer Heated this away for a dis
lance of four or five miles. In some Dlaces
II is either on or very near the roadbed.
but great lengths of it are lying in most
inconeejYable positions on either side the
roadDed, in places al a distance of 200
yards. Parts of it are twisted. but not In
nearly as bad a way as it might he In
PAGES the track is standing up out in the
march like picket fence, the tide having
sported with it after great fashion The
worst part IS between the nine and the
t"elFe-mIe posts. Il is in that stretch
that the track was foated to the greatest
distance from the roadbed.
Where the tide tore up the traoL ona
iloated the rails off on their ties. the road
oed mas Deen cut down by the sweep of the
water. This, however, is not to any great
extent, and Mr.. Saussy says it win NOT
, -l,oil any great trouble or expense to
tS"guS IT, ABOUT one foot of the TOP OF
tHe Ded has been taken off, but the san5
Is right along the side. 1t can no nitcbaI
tuck INTO place, the superintendent save
WIN Iong-handled shovels, This is not
'eaIIy as pad as 1t would have been ha1
'ue sdnd been swept all over the marsh
az was the case during the storm of 1892
Nhen repairs were made after that etor,o'
" was found eXpedient to dig holes off i,
tue marsh and wheel the dirt in barrovys
" tAe foadbed to build it up. The dirt
was then ballasted with sand. Stunt. Sans
SS noes not think the road is damaged
5' 49, man one-fourth the extent it was
uuflng that storm
Day before YESTERDAY e,,nt e,o,,.- -.
ca at this end of the line on his invest,-
sauhg trip. He did not get anv fnrtbar
ioI 1tlle hlne-mile post, however az bis
EVER car could not go beyond that noint
80 - even tlat Tar was a great deal Of
the - as 1t was necessary to get over
DGSt thew
uHshL While a way had to he c,t ~
49, 80 ga more than once through debris
t tt,ol Hau been swept across the track bv
once ne had taken the trip Of the dav
ditio| eupt Saussy knew what the con-
Ltloh OF the road this side of the nine.
iHue post was. A car was waiting for
- according to his instructions. at thar
T. ~ aHu on his arrival there he boarded
- - came back to the CITY, He had
his +. ou pretty rough trip, having made
Cd 10y from the roadbed out to the wash
togetbaSS rack at several places. He got
ert.Fr data that will enable the enei
aug department to form a correct es-
1'Ie OF what repairs will be needed
ms ms VIII be started at work at once in
t'in the nine-mile post in to the ono
vaeba 49, me track is free from any big
an 2U's Ihere are a number of small
e9 mat can be fixed without great delay
tro,ti oHe-nlie post there is rather A
Ior.t,' some place some forty feet in
M ,l9'l ana five deep. In the wards there
irg 'Srai bad places, one Of them be-
r19fn '1'icH as I5O feet long. Both the
ami lack and siding are washed out
o'I 'le track was taken from he sidino
tba 49, -9e'd by the receding tide on TOP of
b,'iu track. This place and others will
ope 10 70 De "eribbed up" to admit the mass
10 I'm i lars ears until sand can be procured
da, me lever car made its wav down
Io5s pglore Yesterday, two or three bia
lors ba1 70 be cut out of the way. These
stst,o 5'1 III, toated up from the quarantine
las, a. "nere they had been used as bal
taken out io1 H"u thelr ballast
will do TloslIng away of part of the track
on on tby government work that is going
yysr1 one we island. Before the storm there
fo gl@ 300 men at work in ana aromnd i'i te
worls IONS The rock needed for the
down IN. however was then being taken
to Ie line me road. Now, however. it has
acao-,, uohe by lighters, and it cannot he
neCoulpIshed so well It has been 'li'- fopnd
800 f. i!S TO cut down the force from
come W. Ihmen have been accustomed to
noon up r. 70 the city every Saturday after
m 7Dg, They would then 20 back Mon 1(
find IL 7.a no their work. They may now
Il train" c uncut to manage these trips. No
stear1sr ~ C,, we run for month or so. The
trt AuitOn will Cto