Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-04
On the Georgia and South Carolina Coasts the Greatest Destruction
 Is Reported.
SEVERAL VESSELS
 ARE DRIVEN ASHORE.
Others Are Overdue and Fears Are En- tertained as to Their Safety Dam age to the Rice Crop Will
 Be Very Great.

Savannah, Oct 4.-For IS hours from 5 o'clock Sunday morning until g at night, Savannah was in the grasp of a West Indian cyclone. During that time the wind blew steadily from b0 to 70 miles an hour. While the city escaped with comparatively little damage the loss of property among the sea islands off the Georgia and South Carolina coasts is believed to have been heavy. For miles in every direction around Sa- vannah the lowlands along the river are submerged.
 Only one fatality has so far has been reported the drowning of negro while attempting to reach the main land from small island near Thunderbolt-but loss of life is feared on the South Caro- lima sea islands, where such fear ful loss of life occurred during the tidal storm of 1S93 The conditions now are similar to those during that storm. Owing to the submerged country and the isolated location of the islands no news can be had from them until the water subsidies.
 For eight miles north of Savannah the country is 8 lake with only the ham. moeks visible. At noon the water was eight feet above the highest tide. Driy. en on shore by the northeast storm 1t filled up on the islands, swept over banks and dams, carrying away the remnant of the rice crop that was left by the August storm and had not been gath cred and wiping out farm crops The loss to rice growers alone will be from $50, 900 to $75, ,000.
 The damage to shipping is considera- ble. The schooner Governor Ames, which was on her way to soa with 8 cargo of lumber, went adrift in tho har- bor, but was secured safely.
 The wharves at the quarantine station at the entrance to the river were par tially carried away. The quarantine of- ficer and his family and servants were rescued early in the day by tug. Four vessels which were at anchor in the sta tion were torn from their moorings and driven into the marshes How badly these vessels ara damaged is unknown.
 No news has been received from Ty. bee since early Sunday morning, and nothing is known of tho damage there.
 At Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope, sub- urbs of Savannah, all the boat houses on the banks, and hundreds of small boats were carried away
 The extent to which the railroads suf- fered is not fully known.
 The naval stores and cotton and lum. Der yards of the Plant system are sub merged and the tracks of the Central of Georgia and Georgia and Alabama roads around the city are covered
 On Hutchinison's island opposite Sa- vannah md separating tho city from the South Carolina shores, there were many negro families rescued by boats from the revenue steamers Tybee and Bout. well.
 Considerable anxiety is felt for ship ping at sea. The steamer Nacoochee for New York, and the steamer D. H. Miller, for Baltimore wen7 to sea Satur- day night The City of Macon was due here Sunday morning, bu5 has not ar- rived and the City of Augusta which sailed from New York on Friday was due here Sunday night
 The extent of the storm is unknown, until telegraphlc communication is re- stored or news is received from the country between Savannah or Jackson viuo over which the heaviest part of the storm passed, the full extent of its damage cannot be told.