The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-03

DOStroyOd-OtheF Points hspoEt VAs
siderable Damage.
SAVANNAH. Ca, Oct. 2-TOr elsh-
teen hours, from 3 o'clock this morning
untIl 6 O'Clock tonight, Savannah has
been n the grasp of a West indian cy-
clone. Durlng that time the wind blew
steadily from nifty to seventy miles an
hour. while the city escaped with COM
parativelV little damage, the loss Of
property among the sen Islands Of the
GeorgIa and South Carolina coasts Is
believed to be heavy. For miles in ey-
ery direction around Savannah the low
lands along the river are submerged.
only one fatality has so far been re-
ported-the drowning OF negro while
attempting TO reach the mainland from
a small island near Thunderbolt-but
heavy loss OF life IS feared on the South
Carolina sea Islands where such fearful
loss Of life occurred during the great
tidal storm Of 1888. 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 entire country Is a
lake with only the hummocks visible.
At noon the water was eight feet above
the highest tide. Driven on shore By
the northeast storm II 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 gathered, and wipins
out farm crops. The lossto river grow
ers alone will be from $4,000 to S75'ooo.
OF the entire rice crop along the sayan-
nah river, valued at 325oooa all but
about Is per cent was lost in this end
the preceding storm.
The damage to shipping is consider
able. The schooner Governor Ames,
which was on her way to sea with o
cargo OF 100000 feet of lumber, went
adrIft in the harbor. but was secured
safely. The Wharves At The Quarantine
station at the entrance 20 the river hero
were partially carried away. The quar-
antine officer and his family and SER
wants were rescued early in the dag bE
a tug. Four vessels which were at an
chor at the station were torn from their
moorings and driven into the marshes.
Three Of these were the British schoon-
er syanara, bound for st. Johns, n. B.,
the American schooner AIillviHe, for
Mnviile, n. j.; the Fannie L. childs, for
Boston, all lumber laden, and the Ital-
ian bark Franklin. How badly these
vessels are damaged is unknown.
No news has been received from Ty-
bee since early in the morning and
nothing is known of the 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 suffered is not
| fully known. The naval stores and
cotton and lumber yards Of the Plant
system are submerged, and the tracks
OF the Central Georgia, and Georgia
ana Alabama roads around the city are
covered. The north-bound express on
the F.. c. & p. railroad, due here from
Florida at noon, has not yet Orrived,
Telegraph wires, except one wire over
the Western Union lines, are down and
the condition OF the railroad tracks Is
unknown. A special train will be sent
out at daylight over the F., c. & P. road
south. All other roads are operating
and the F., C. & p. is running north of
Atlauta. The telephones, police, light
and tlro alarm wires are down and the
city is In darkness.
on Hutchlnson's island, opposite sa-
vannah and separating the city from
the South Carolina shore. there were
many negro families rescued By boats
from the revenue steamers Tybee and
Boutwell,. one man with a child In his
arms. holding the little child above his
shoulders started to cross the dams
with the water up to his body. His
wife with another child stood in the
WINDOW of their house, the floor Of
which was already flooded bF the rising
water and watched her husband feel his
way step by step along the top Of the
treacherous dam, one false step from
which or a cavlng bank would throw
him into a swift moving current Final
ly he was sighted from across the river
on the city side. A boat was put OF
and after half an hours effort the FAM
fly was rescued, Upwards OF a hundred
people were brought from the Island to
the city In boats.
All day resculng parties were at work.
Tonight the wind has subslded. but the
water which receded with the tide dur
Ing the afternoon. has again risen. Con-
siderable anxiety is felt for shipping at
RIes Fields laid Waste.
CHARLESTON. S. c., oct. 2-Much
alarm was occasloned here to-day by
the hoistlng OF cyclone signals by the
weather bureau. 1t was feared at one
time that much damage would be done,
but such was not the case. During tho
day the wind reached a velocity OF slx-
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