The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-01
A GREAT GALE
Strikes the South Atlantic CoaEs-saVHn
nah and Other CItlsS Storm Swept.

strike, the South Atlantic OoaTt-saVHn
nah and other CItIss Storm swept.
ATLANTA, Ga.,August Sl.-The Jour
nal has the following dispatch from
Savannah, Ca, sent from that city al
$50 O'Clock this morning by train and
nut on the wires at Mlllen.
Since il o'clock last night until
o'clock this morning Savannah has
been in the teeth Of seething gale
The wind has bicS-n from forty 70
seyentV-five miles an hour and there
have been gusts when even the maxi
mum noted was exceeded.
So far as can be learned no lives were
lost In the gale; that Is, directly In the
city. The adjoining Islands are to be
heard from. Communication with IT,
bee, Georgla's seaside resort, cannot be
had at this hour. There are about bOt
people at Tybee, many OF whom are
United States troops, both volunteers
and regulars. The North Carolina
troops are there.
savannah presents terrible appear
ance. Roofs Of houses are scattered
through the streets and In our public
squares wires OF the telephone, tele-
graph, electric light and street car sys'
tens make the streets impossible for
vehicles, The loss TO property owners
will be fully 100000. The crops ada
cent to the city are badly damaged.
| The rice crop Will suffer especially. So
far as can be learned the shipping In
port got through the gale with but few
There must be much suffering on the
Islands near Savannah. These are In
hablted by negroes. Their habitatlons
are rude huts. These cannot have stood
against last nights wind, and when an
investigation comes It will be found no
doubt that many Of these planters are
dead.
SAVANNAH, Ga, August 3i.-whIle
there was no loss OF life from last
nights storm which swept Savannah,
the damage to property will foot up
close to half million dollars,
The storm began early Tuesday night
and ragged with increasing violence un-
| I'll s O'Clock this morning, II was at Its
height between and O'Clock, when
| the wind reached n velocity OF eighty
miles an hour. When daylight came
the streets were impassAble from de-
brlS. Probably 100 buildings were who'll
lv or partially unrooGed and as many
more were otherwise damaged.
There was no telegraphlo communlca-
ton during the day until late In the
evening. Street car travel Is suspended
and tonight the city Is in darkness.
The streets are net work Of tangled
wires.
In the hnrbor and at quarantine at
Tybee, the damage TO shipping Is heavy.
Between fifteen and twenty launches In
the river and at the Savannah yacht
club anchorage AZ Thunderbolt and rs
many more small sloops and schooners
doing a coasting trade with the Islands
were sunk or lost.
At TVbes island, the hotels and cot-
tnRcs were badly damaged. The North
| Carolina troops passed n terrible night
there, but were oil brought safely 60
the city to-day.
All OF the railroads suffered severely
by washOuts and trains have today
been run with difficulty.
The rice and cotton crops have been
seriously damaged. II win be impossl-
BILE. however, to estimate the losses for
several dnVs,
The storm covered q comparatively
AmRll territory. II extended In the In
terror not more than thirty milcs and
hardly that distance north and south. II
Ia believed TO have been severe at sea
and fears are felt for vessels op the
coast