People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — A STORM'S WORK. [ARTICLE]

A STORM'S WORK.

It Causes Great Damage to Property la Georgia, Sooth Carolina and FloridaSeveral Lives Lost—Many Persons Mlsnlng. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 29.—This city presents a scene of desolation. Death . and disaster have marked the path j of the terrible cyclone which raged 1 along the coast Sunday night. The ! rain at quarantine is immeasurable. | Nothing is standing where one ;of the finest stations on the j South Atlantic was twenty - four j hours ago except the doctor’s house, and how this weathered the ; fearful gale is miraculous. The ( wharves are gone, the new fumigating plant which has cost the city so much money is in the bottom of the sea, and nine vessels which were waiting there for release to come to the city are high and dry in the marsh and no doubt will be total wrecks. The Cosnine was the only vessel which managed to keep afloat The tug Paulson arrived in the city at 5 o’clock Monday afternoon. It brought up sixty passengers from Tybee. Mr. Revers, one of them, said four negroes engaged in clearing the railroad tracks were drowned. A sailor and the cabin boy on the schooner Harold, which is on its side on North beach, drowned. It is reported that l eight of the crew of a terrapin sloop’ j which went ashore on the South end were drowned. A view of this city at daylight Mon-‘ day morning revealed a scene of wreck and ruin that surpassed that after the great hurricane of 1881. The streets j were impassable from the debris, fallen ; trees, twisted roots, masses of brick j fences and broken branches of \ trees were piled across the sidewalks and in the square and broken wire strewn in every direction. The list of fatalities is gradually growing and it is impossible to tell Ito what extent it will go. Several J bodies of drowned persons were picked I up during the morning and searches I are now being made for others which are missing. Hvery hour seems to | bring some new story of a death as a | result of the storm. The drowni ing of A. C. Ulmer, assistant cashier of the Central railroad bank on Hutchinson’s island, was one of the most unfortunate fatalities of the storm. The other fatalities so far reported are as follows: Tony Holmes (colored) crushed In a house on Hutchinson's Island; four unknown negroes drowned on the Bramptons plantation 4 miles from the city; Lewis Garnett (colored) ran into a live trolley wire; Tattler Squire, a - year-old colored boy, drowned on Hutchinson’s Island; John Williams, Mary Butler and Sarah Greene, drowned on a rice plantation south of the city. There are forty to fifty other persons who are reported missing, and it is supposed, as nothing has been heard from them, that their bodies will be found later. Twelve barks and barkentiues which were anchored at quarantine station were blown high and dry upon the marsh and some of them were carried by the storm across the marshes bn to an island 2 miles distant from the station. Jlaleigh, N. C., Aug. 2».—The town i of Kernsville was struck by a terrific | windstorm Monday. One hundred : houses were blown down and four persons killed. Columbia, S. Gi., Aug. 29.—A1l the South Atlantic coast as far as can be ascertained from- this wrecked point, with much of the interior, has been swept by the* West India hurricane which has been playing such havoc for several days. The wires- are down everywhere, buried beneath. ruins,. and information is meager. The- fumy of the hurricane is unexampled in interior Carolina. For eight or ten hours the hurricane held the country relentlessly in its clutches, and mem and beasts alike were powerless to contend against, the surging war of the elements. Hundreds of lofty trees were ruthlessly torn from their roots. Houses and other property went the same way. , All were just beginning to hope for better times in the- fall, notwithstanding the- financial crisis, when this storm came. Now the crops are wiped away and with them the hopes of the farmers. The crops have been mowed in the fields and the poor people, with money scarce, are going to have great difficulty in recovering from the shock. The loss is over 40 per oent of the entire crops. Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 29i—This city has been cut offi from communication with the outside world since 3 o’clock Sunday morning. In this city the velocity of the- wind was 38 miles per hour. Hundreds of trees were blown: down and signs disapeared before the Scores of dwellings and public buildings were entirely or partly unroofed, causing great damage from the rain, which fell in torrents. St. Augustine reports the water coming in over the sea wall and damaging business blocks. Linn hotel was unroofed and badly drenched. About thirty or forty yacht# and small craft were badly damaged or completely destroyed. The fate of other localities in • Florida as well as of the south side territory invaded by the storm is still a sealed book. The wires are down in every direction from Jacksonville, i Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 29.—A local i cyclonic storm Sunday blew down a small church on Stratton’s ranch, 4 miles from Cleburne, and wounded twenty-one persons, broken limbs being the most serious injuries.