Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-05
ISLAND SWEPT AWAY
ONLY THREE OF ITS FORTY OH
FIFTY INHABITANTS SAVED.
FOUR DEATHS at BRUNSWICK.
Damage to Property There Esti-
mated Mt a Half a Million Dollars
No Docks Left ut Darien-Fernan-
dina Flooded.

SAVANNAH GA, October 4.-Complete
details from Brunswick and the surround
ing country are impossible. because of
the prostration Of the telegraph and tele-
phone systems. Campbell Island. twelve
miles from Darien, on the Altamaha river,
is said to have been completely swept
away, and only three persons are said
TO have succeeded in getting off the is
land. There 10 no definite information as
to the population of the island, and esti-
mates of the number supposed 10 have
persisted there range from twenty TO fifty.
The population was wholly of colcred
uck-growers.
-Four deaths are now reported from
Brunswick. The damage 10 property there
is estimated at half a million dollars.
News from outlying islands is not OBJ
tainable. The Norwegian bark Louise.
schooner Blanche Hopkins, schooner
Aaron Reppard schooner Helen l.. Mar
tin, and pilot-boats L. B. Jordan and
Oracle are ashore. The pilot-boat Pride
sank at her dock. The steamer Eugemont
went across the marsh 10 Crispin Island,
and her bow is sticking up in a tree.
Associated Press dispatch-boat is said 10
have sunk.
FATALITIES AT FERNANDINA.
SAVANNAH GA, October A dis
patch by the tug II. NJ C. Smith 70 the
Morning News states that two persons
were drowned at Fernandina, Fla Water
flooded a big portion OF the city, and sent
many vessels high and dry on the beach.
The telegraph systems are Frustrated.
and the railroads have suspended opera
lions.
The two fatalities were OF children. The
family. Of mother, father, and three chill
dren. were in their house when the tide
carried IL away. One of the boys under
took 10 save his baby brother, but was
unable 10 reach shore being forced to
drop the child The father was rescued
from a tree and the mother drifted
ashore.
The crew at the quarantine staten
were rescued from ufe-raft, the sta
ton being entirely destroyed
The Smith brings the first news CT
Fernandina's experience 10 the outside
world. No estimate OF the damage done
has been attempted.
FLOOD AT FERNANDINA.
FERNANDINA, FLA, October 4.-As
during the hurricane OF sunday the water
was never known TO rise so high in the
history OF this city. II was six and eight
feet deep over some OF the docks, and a
tug lying by the side Of a wharf was
lifted on II, and. settling down, smashed
II. The water at the rt-house was a
foot deep, and several feet in the stores
in Centre street Every dry-goods and
grocery stock on that street was dam
aged by the high water or by rain coming
through the roofs.
Every building al the quarantine station
was completely swept out OF existence,
and not a vestige OF any OF them rs re-
ported TO remain. The damage and ruin
at Amelia Beach was almost as complete
All the cottages but two are said TO have
been carried out 10 sea, besides the entire
south end OF the Beach Hotel, which is
O w-ecss
RESCUES AT AMELIA
The rescung Of the families and a few
sick soldiers at Amelia Beach was one
OF the distinctive features OF the day at
Fernandina. Realizing that these per-
sons at the beach. about thirty-five In
number, would be helpless, Mr.. Beckhafn.
yardmaster Of the r. c. and r. railroad
took an. engine and two freight-cars. and.
calling for volunteers, pulled out for the
beach soon after 8 O'Clock In the morning.
Before reaching the beach the fires In the =,
engine were extinguished by the high
water on the track. There was pressure
OF steam sufficient 10 continue 10 the |
beach. however. and. after taking on
load OF passengers, who had begun 10
think the last day had come. 10 get back |
to high place on the line, where the