Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-29
WIND SEVENTY MILES AN HOUR
Water is the Highest Since the Tidal
Wave Of 1885.
sToRK PASSES SAVANNAH, GA.
Trees Blown Down and Street Car
Service is Suspended.
COTTON CROP Is DAMAGED
No Loss of Life Yet Reported, bat IL
IL Feared NuHBer sf Negroes
An Islands AIsAE Coast
Were Drowned.

COLUMBIA. 8. c., Aus. ss-The severe
storm which struck Charleston and Sa-
vannah last night seems to be centering
In the same locality today. Indications
are that Il is moving northward. Both
cities were completely cut off from COM
munication with the outside world today
and It was therefore impossible to ascer-
tain the extent Of the damage wrought
by the storm.
A message this afternoon from Branch
Vile. seventy miles from Charleston, states
there is three feet Of water In the Charles
ton Union station, partially confirming
earlier reports that Charleston was
menaced by a flood. The message also
says that no trains have left Charleston
since o'clock last night.
At II o'clock Southern railway officials
were advised over a wire from Summer
cile, twenty miles north of Charleston,
that was secured for a few minutes, that
water had floode the Charleston union
station.
The Atlantic Coast line has no tele-
graphic communication with Charleston,
but does not expect a train from there
before five or six hours at the earliest.
storm Passes Savannah.
SAVANNAH, Ga. Aug 8.-via Gessup,
Cattle storm which began early last night
along the south Atlantic coast spent it's
fury soon after daybreak and had passed
about o'clock this morning. Great dam
age was done within the city, but ap-
parently little harm was done to shipping
in Savannah harbor, ample warning of the
storm > approach having been given ship
masters by the weather bureau to make
their vessels safe.
The streets are filled with debris con-
sisting principally Of uprooted trees. Street
car service is tied up.
AS far as known there has been no loss
OF life in this vicinity due to the storm.
Reports are missing from the low lying
islands adjacent to Savannah, which arc
inhabited principally by negroes.
The cotton crop within q radius of fifty
miles of Savannah undoubtedly has suf-
fered severe damage.
Reports from Tybee beach indicate that
everything there is safe.
Wind seventy Miles an Hour.
AUGUSTA, Ca, Aug. IA telephone
message from Ridgeville, thirty -one miles
from Charleston says the wind in Charles
ton at II o'clock this morning was blow
ing between sixty and seventy miles an
hour and considerable damage had been
done along the water front, but no loss
Of life was reported.
Persons on the Isle OF Palms and Sui
nvans island were warned in time yester-
day afternoon to escape. Along the harbor
front In Charleston, the water is the
highest seen there since the tidal wave
in 1886.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2s.-No word has
reached the Navy department today from
Charleston, S. c., and 1t is believed here
that wireless communication has been cut
off The department has instructed the
coast stations to endeavor TO get In touch
with the Charleston navy yard. There are
q number OF naval vessels in Charleston
harbor including collier. four subma-
rines, two destroyers and fourteen reserve
torpedo boats.
No reports were available at the weather
bureau as to the intensity of the direction
of movement OF the storm that broke on
the South Carolina coast yesterday. Up to
noon today the weather bureau officials
had been unable to get in touch either
with Charleston or Savannah.
The most recent reports indicate that
the storm is still central over South Caro-
lima near the coast line.
Storm warnings were ordered displayed
on the Atlantic coast from Fort Monroe,
Va, to Jacksonville, Fla.