The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-03
FOUR VESSELS ASHORE.
Rice Crop a Total Loss.
FEARS FOR SHIPPING.
But One Fatality Reported.

Savannah has again been storm tossed.
For twenty hours, TO midnight last night,
a cyclone, blowing forty TO sixty miles an
hour swept over the city, causing great
apprehension, but doing comparatively
small damage in the city proper A few
trees down, some roofs damaged and some
glass broken, represent the losses sus-
tanned among residences and wholesale
and retail businesses.
On the great wharf properties TO the
east and west of the city, though, con-
siderable loss may have been sustained
from the high water which flooded them.
Cotton warehouses had one to two feet Of
water in them, naval stores yards were
covered to some depth, and general mer-
chandise stored under sheds was injured
by the heavy beating rains.
What was left of the rice crop was de-
stroyed, truck came in for Its share of
damage, and consider able live stock on
Hutchinson's island and In the surround
ing country is believed to have been lost.
Shipping on the river escaped without
damage, but at quarantine four vessels
were driven ashore by the storm, and
may prove total loss. Only one fatality
has yet been reported, the drowning of a
negro at Thunderbolt
The storm resembled that of 1893 in the
direction Of the wind and its steady contin-
uance to the northeast, driving the sea
water into the river and forcing the river
water back. Fortunately there was not
the same velocity Of the wind as In that
year, or the results would probably have
been exactly the same. AS 1t was. Hutch
inson's island was completely flooded. as
was the entire section east of Randolph
street along the river front, the Central
Railroad yards west and south of the New
York dock, and probably many islands
between Fernandina and Charleston.
In the storm Of five years ago the great
velocity of the wind drove vast volumes of
sea water over the islands along the coast
resulting in the drowning of hundreds Of
negroes living on them. While 1t is the
belief that these islands have largely suf-
fcred in the same way this time. It Is
thought that the loss of life will be less
as the water would hardly have reached
the same depth on them as at that time.
The storm being on shore during Its great
est fury, there is reason to fear that there
will be another list of wrecked schooners
to report during the next few DAYS. with
gale of sixty miles an hour at Savan-
NAH the winds velocity on the coast may
have been much more and the wrecks are
apt to have been numerous. It is not
known how far inland the storm went.
but if 1t extended far the cotton crop. es-
pecially as to the long staple, must have
suffered considerably again.
Estimates as to the probable damage
done by the storm are as yet based on
local reports. and may be vastly swollen
Then fun advices are received. There is
no hope now of saving any Of
what was left of the rice crop
on the Savannah river and the
additional loss sustained by the
planters can hardly be less than 100000
A few hundred dollars may cover the
small losses in the city but the damage
at the Central and Plant wharf properties
is entirely problematieal.
Until to.cay, when the waters will have
receded and careful examination can
be made, no one will give an estimate.
When the fun intelligence of the destruc-
ton wrought by the storm on sea and land
comes 1t would not be surprising il it is
found that it has wiped out property of
all classes running up to hundreds of thou
sands of dollars or more. with some scores
OF lives added to the long list that past
storms have rolled up.
rsW