The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-09-10

Water.
Of only one house suecumbing with fatal
results though he heard Of many resi-
denees being carried away with inmates.
The house THAI he saw destroyed was RIt-
ter's saloon and restaurant a, aos Strand
street, a principal business street OF the
city. This three-story building was
blown down and nine men. prominens cit
izens were killed. Among the dead are:
Charles Kelner. ST.. a cotton buyer for
an English firm.
Stanley c. Spencer. general manager OF
the Elder-Dempster steamship Line. and
Richard Lord. manager Of McFadden's
Cotton Company. whose body is s,il in
the ruins.
Secretary Bailey OF the Wharf Company
and several walters and customers saved
themselves by jumping from the upper
story just before the crash came.
Ii was reported that the Orphan Asy-
ium and both hospitals were destroyed.
and II this proves true the loss Of life will
be great, as these institutions were gen
orally crowded. and as they we're sub
stan,ial buildings. the chances are that
many had taken refuge in them.
salt water over Everything.
The water extended across the island
Mr. Timmins said II was three feet deep
in the rotunda of the fremont Hotel and
was six feet deep in Markt street.
Along the water front the damage was
very great. The roofs had been blown
from su the elevators, and the sheds along
che wharves were either wrecked or had
lost their sides and were of no protection
to the contents.
Most OF the small sailing craft were
wrecked and were either piled up on the
wharves or floating bottom side up in the
bay There Is small steamship ashore
three miles north of Pelican Island, but
Mr.. Timmins could not distinguish her
name She was flying British nag.
Another big vessel has been driven
ashore a, Virginia Point and still another
Is aground at Texas City. At the south
point Of Houston Island an unknown ship
lies in a helpless condition.
The nghtship ,has marks Galveston bar
is hard and fast aground at Bolivar
Point
NIr Timmins and the men with him on
the schooner rescued two sailors from tho
middle bay. who had been many hours In
the water. These men were foreigners,
and he could gain no information from
them.
A wreck OF a vessel which looked like
a large steam tug was observed just BE-
fore the party landed In the bay the
carcasses Of nearly 200 horses and mules
were seen. but no human body was visit
bic. The scenes during the storm. Mr..
Timmins said. could not be described.
Women and children were crowded into
the fremont Hotel. where he was seek
Ing shelter and all night these unfopu-
mates we're bemoaning their losses OF kin
dred and fortune. They were grouped
about the stalrways and In the galleries
and rooms OF the hotel. what was oc-
curing in the other parts of the osty he
could only conjecture
People I'm Distress.
The city Of Galveston. he says. is now
entirely submerged and cut on from com
munlcatlon. The boats are gone: the rail-
roads cannot be operated and the water
is 80 high people cannot walk out by
way OF the bridge across the bay even
should that bridge BE- standing
Provisions will be badly needed as
great majority Of the people lost all they
had. The waterworks power-house was
wrecked and a water famine Is threaten
ed. as the sterns were all ruined by the
overflow OF salt water. This Mr.. Tim
Minis regards as the most serious problem
10 be faced now. The city is in darkness.
.ha electric plant having been ruined
There is no way OF estimating the prop
erty damage at present
SO far as he could see or hear, Mr. Tim