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THK MOpfHNI? NKWS, i
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I J.H. ESTILL, President. )
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Fifteen Bodies Recov
ered So Far.
TWICE IT NUMBER if PEOPLE
MISSING. .
A Score o[ Vessels Wrecked.
Tybee Almost Wiped
Out.
The Damage to Property Beyond
Estimate.
R. C. ULMER ONE OF THE DROWNED
Thrilling Experiences
in the Storm.
Fifteen people drowned and killed, as
many more missing-, more than a score of
vessels wrecked, and $250,000 worth of
property destroyed tell, in part, the story
of Sunday night’s hurricane.
It is believed now that the loss of life
will far exceed the first estimate. The
terrific force of the storm, the fact
that many people who are missing
were known to have gone on the water
and on the lowlands, where they were
exposed to its fury, lend to the belief that
the fatalities may be more than have
been reported.
THE DEAD SO FAR.
The dead so far are:
A. C. Ulmer, drowned on Hutchinson’s
Island.
Fred Stewart, drowned with Mr. Ul
mer.
Tony Holmes, colored child, crushed by
falling roof on Hutchinson's Island.
Taylor Squire, colored, 6 years old,
thrown from roof of floating house on
Hutchinson and drowned.
Four negroes drowned on Brampton
plantation, four miles west of the city.
John Williams and the wives of Ed.
Butler and Thomas Green, all colored,
drowned on the Taylor plantation.
Scott Bacon and son, colored, drowned
at Tybee.
An unknown sailor from the bark Har
old, drowned at Tybee.
Eewis Gagnett killed by a live wire.
MANY AHE MISBIXG.
Numbers of colored people on Hutchin
son's Island are missing and it is believed
that many more perished.
IV. H. Sharp, foreman at J. D. Wilsey’s
oar factory, about a mile from the city on
the Central railroad, reported last night
that two of his friends, Henry Woeltjen
and ,1. C. Kluney, left Sunday morning
for Back River on a rice bird hunt and
bate not been heard from. Mr. Sharp
organized a searching party yesterday
and went through Back River, but failed
to learn anything of the missing
m en. He said that the island is
alr ost completely covered with water
and that very few houses remain. The
only inhabitants he saw were a few ne
proes who were paddling around at ran
dom in bateaux. There were numbers of
urowned cows and goats floating in the
creeks, and a few cows on the banks were
tue only signs of life he saw on tne island.
A party consisting of C. A. Gradot,
George Schwarz, Harry Fender, Walter
Robider and two others left Thunderbolt
Sunday morning on a maroon and have
oe been heard from. The steamer Belle-
Vue ’ 011 her way up yesterday, sighted an
sbandoned boat, bottom up, which the
fr'emis of those in the marooning party
lear was their boat.
Giver men and others say that the full
' those who were lost in the storm
* 11 ‘ never be known except by the miss
la - of those who fail to return to their
botn es
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UPWARDS OP 30 WRECKS.
Fifteen vessels on the harbor aud oft
Tybee were wrecked or badly damaged.
More than that number of smaller craft
are missing aud are believed to have been
lost]
The schooner Leila Smith, reported
ashore, lies high up on Tybee beach just
west of the wharf. She dragged through
the ig-harf, the pilings of which made
several holes in her.
Six unknown vessels are reported
ashore on Tybee beach from the out
side.
The other disasters which occurred to
the shipping between the quarantine sta
tion and Tybee Roads are:
The Norwegian bark Harold, which is
lying on.Tybee beach.
The Norwegian bark Linden is at the
quarantine station, high and dry in the
marsh with her foremast gone.
The Norwegian bark Elma is also up in
the marsh at quarantine.
The Norwegian bark Loyal, is in the
marsh near the quarantine station, with
all of her masts gone.
The Portugese bark Audacia is high and
dry, and is considered to be a total wreck.
The bark Mexico, which was lying at
the upper quarantine wharves, is now in
between the lateral row of pilings of the
wharf. How she got there is a wonder,
apparently she must have been lifted over
the outside pilings.
The British barkentine Genesta is high
and dry on McQueen’s island, just abreast
of Venus Point. She is apparently in
good shape with everything standing.
The only vessel that rode safely to her
anchors during the storm was the bark
Cosmos, and her masts are all standing.
DREDGES DRIVES ASHORE.
Two of P. Sanford Ross’ dredges, Nos.
5 and 7, are on McQueen's island, about
half way between St. Augustine creek and
Lazaretto creek. The Tybee railroad
embankment saved them from a longer
voyage inland.
The dredge Tommachichi, is over in the
marsh high and dry, having been blown
from Venus Point across Long Island.
The bark Ormus was blow* from her
dock across the river to the Savannah
side and afterwards was blown over the
river again and is now high and dry on a
shoal opposite . Jefferson street.
ASHORK AT SMART’S WHARF.
The stern-wheel steamboat Abbeville
and the oyster boat Fred F. Brown, be
longing to the Oyster Canning and Culti
vation Company of Brunswick, of which
H. G. Lewis of Bridgeport, Conn., is
president, are ashore at Smart’s wharf.
The Abbeville is a complete wreck. She
is broken in twain. One-third lies on the
bank and two-thirds on what was the
wharf. She cannot be saved. The oys
ter boat Fred F. Brown can be gotten
off. She has two holes in her bottom and
one blade of her propeller is broken. Her
smoke stack was blown away and the
starboard side of her house is stove in.
THE CAPTAIN BLOWN OVERBOARD.
Capt. White, who had charge of the
boat, says he and Deckhand William Rob
erts were blown overboard during the
most violent part of the hurricane and
were in the water until the storm abated,
after midnight. Everything on the decks
of the boats was blown away. He says
the water rose with remarkable rapidity.
He estimates that it rose eight feet be
tween 9p. m. and 11:25 p. m. His vessels
were lashed to the wharf with chains
and ropes, but the wind was so violent
that much stronger fastenings would not
have held them.
RESCUED BY THE CUTTER.
The revenue cutter Boutwell arrived
yesterday afternoon in Montgomery, hav
ing ridden out the hurricano.in Waidburg
creek. She brought up the family of Mr.
J. Rauers, their house having been badly
damaged by the storm. Mr. Rauers lost
his bath-house, steamboat wharf and
naphtha launch. He estimates his loss at
several thousand dollars.
Mr. Isaac Beckett and two sons and
Mr. Aveillhe and son were also on board
the Boutwell. having been taken from
their yacht, the Glance, just before
the blow. The yacht was driven
high and dry on tne marsh
during the storm, and her damages could
not be ascertained.
Capt. Wood and one man from the
sloop Fanny 801 l came up in the cutter,
their vessel being on shore at St. Cathe-
rine’s Island.
WRECKED OFF ST. CATHERINE’S.
The three-masted schooner Beatrice
McLean, of St. Johns, N. 8., recently
ordered to Sapelo by the quarantine au
thorities of Savannah, had put into St.
Catherine's for a harbor, and was drawn
high up in the woods on the west side of
St. Catherine's Island. Her crew are still
on board.
Other vessels ashore are the schooner
Loretto on St. Catherine’s island, and the
schooners Mary and Maid of the Mist
near Florida Passage. The last two were
supplied by the cutter with fresh water.
No loss of life was reported.
Nothing has been heard from the
steamship City of Savannah or steam
ship William Crane which were due at
Tybee Sunday. It is believed they met
the storm and put to sea.
THE NACOOCHEE ALL RIGHT.
The steamship Nacoochee weathered
the gale in a safe and secure harbor
around Venus Point and sustained no
damage. She went to sea yesterday
morning.
The schooner Birman, Capt. Simmons,
sailed Friday for Portland, Me., although
the captain was advised by several old
mariners not to go. The presumption is
that he was caught by the storm and that
he fell into the midst of it. His vessel,
which was an old one, was loaded with
lumber, and it was said that it was liable
to become waterlogged.
THE CITT AT DAYLIGHT.
A view of ibe city at daylight yester
day morning revealed a scene of wreck
and ruin that surpassed even that after
the great hurricane of 1881. The streets
were impassable from the debris. Fallen
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 2!), 1898.
trees, twisted roofs, masses of brick,
fences, and broken limbs and branches of
trees were piled across the sidewalks and
in the squares, and broken wires hung
in every direction.
Hundreds of people were out as soon
as day broke viewing the ruins, though
the wind was still blowing in gusts and
the rain was falliug. Very few had slept
during the night. All through the heart
of the city, in the residence section and
around the park and wherever the trees
were thickest tne ground was piled deep
with broken branches.
THE STORM SUBSIDED.
The second blow which followed the
lull after the first sweep of tho hurricane
and which was almost as severe as the
first, did not subside until day broke and
then the work of ruin could
be seen at its worst. It is
even yet impossible to estimate
the amount of the damage as the resuit
of the storm, but it was very general and
it is safe to say that it will go up in the
hundred thousands and perhaps higher.
Nearly every one if not quite all of the
property owners in the city have been
damaged tq some extent sand some to
the amount of thousands. It was a com
mon thine to see them standing on the
street yesterday asking one an
other what was the amount
of their loss, and many of them talked in
big figures. The worst part of it all is
that very few of them were ever antici
pating any damage by cyclones, and they
had no insurance against it. Very few
were fortunate enough to have taken out
cyclone policies.
PATAU HUTCHINSON’S ISLAND.
The first thought of loss of life outside
of the city was Huchinson’slsland, which
was a broad sheet of water. Rescuing
parties were organized aud went across to
the island in boats. The fatalities soon
became known. Mr. A. C. Ulmer was
known to have gone over to the island the
day before and a search was at
once made for him aud it was
not long before his body, and that of one of
his farm hands were found. Before that
the killing of a cslored child by a falling
roof was reported. The child was the
year old infant of Friday Holmes,
an employe on Mr. Ulmer's place.
The father came over to the
city for a coffin. Ho had been
warned by Mr. Ulmer, he said,
to leave his house and go t a Mr.
Ulmer’s barn, which was on higher
ground. Ho started to go, but was driven
back by the advancing tide which was
rapidly covering the island and cutting
off all the avenues of escape. He made his
way back to his house with his child and
soon after the roof was blown in by the
storm.
LIFTED UP UNDER THE ROOP.
Tho child and its mother and another
child were in the upper part of
the house. where they had
been left by the father to keep
them from being washed away. When
the roof went in they were carried to the
ground. Holmes was stunned and when
he recovered consciousness he found his
littly boy in the water. He had been
killed by the fall. The mother and other
child escaped.
TRIED TO SAVE THEM.
Capt. H. C. Daggett, of the steamship
City of Augusta, heard the cries for help
from Hutchinson’s Island during the
storm and manned a life-boat and 'sent it
to the rescue, but no one could be found.
Mr. Thomas Cooley, who was at Black
River, where he had a store, came over to
the city yesterday evening. He had had a
tough experience. His entire property on
the island was lost. Mr. Cooley was
kept busy in protecting the natives from
the storm. He saved tho lives of about
ten negroes at the risk of being drowned
himself.
FOUR DROWNED TOGETHER.
Four negroes were drowned on the
Brampton plantation on the Augusta
road, four miles west of tho city.
Taylor Squire, a 6-year-old boy, a son of
Will Squire, a farmer on Hutchinson Is
land, was drowned about mid
night. Squire's house iVas floated
off with the family on the roof. The
house lodged against a tree, when the boy
fell off the roof. Squire attempted to
save the boy, and caught him, but tried
to save his wife and other children and
lost his boy. Squire lost about $l2O of
property.
PLANTATION HANDS DROWNED.
Three colored people were drowned on
Mr. Henry Taylor's plantation, John
Williams, the wife of Ed Butler and the
wife of Tom Green. They lived on one of
the island rice plantations. The husbands
and children of the women bad crossed
over Sunday morning to the mainland to
attend church and could not get back to
their homes because of the storm, and
were saved.
A. C. ULMER DROWNED.
The drowning of Mr. A. C. Ulmor, as
sistant cashier of the Central Railroad
Bank, on Hutchinson's Island, was one of
the most unfortunate fatalities of the
storm.
Mr. Ulmer was one of the best known
and moot enterprising of the younger bus
iness men of tho city, aud possessed the
confidence of all who knew him in the
fullest degree.
He was elected assistant cashier of the
Central Railroad Bank in August, 1888,
since which he fulfilled the duties of bis
office to the satisfaction of the directors
and officers of the company and tho busi
ness public generally with which he had
dealings.
Mr. Ulmer was the ow ner of a largo
dairy farm on Hutchinson’s Island in which
he took a great deal of interest. Becom
ing anxious about his cattle on the is
land, having a number of fine stock there,
he went over Sunday afternoon to attend
to their removal to higher ground.
TO SAVE HIS STOCK.
Finding his place flooded, with Fred
Stewart, one of his employes on the
farm, he began driving the cattle to
higher ground. He succeeded in remov
ing a number and it is sepposed went
back for another lot about nightfall
when, becoming surrounded by the water,
ho and Stewart aud probably another
man named Miller took refuge in the
barn. They remained there until after
8 o'clock when the barn begun to give
way and they attempted to make their es
cape elsewhere. This supposition is borne
out by two facts. Tho roof of the barn was
found flat upon the water in such a man
ner as would have proved certain death
to anyone remaining in it, and
Mr. Ulmer’s watch, which was found
upon his body, had stopped at 8:20
o’clock, which i9 supposed to indicate
that it stopped shortly after being in tho
water.
SUFFOCATED BT THE RAIN.
Mr. Ulmer was a good swimmer and
the supposition is that he was not over
come by the waves, but that the mist and
rain was driven by the wind into his
face and suffacated him, making his ex
ertions fruitless. This is said by ex
perts to he a frequent cause of drowning.
Mr. Ulmer’s family was at Tybee and it
was not known among his friends that ho
had gone over to the island until yester
day morning, when seurch was at once
instituted. Mr. R. E. Lee, a cousin of
Mr Ulmer, went over to the place early yes
terday morning, and after searching
around the creeks found the bodies of
Mr. Ulmer and Stewart in the marsh,
about fifteen feet from the place where
the barn stood.
STARTED TO SWIM.
Mr. Ulmer and Stewart had taken their
coats off, which were found in the barn.
Miller was not found, and it is presumed
that he was drowned also.
Mr. T. M. Cunningham, cashier of the
Ceutral Railroad Bank, Mr. T. J. Davis
and Mr. Davant went over to the island
about 11 o’clock and had the bodies
brought over to the city. They were
turned over to Undertaker Dixon.
Mr. Ulmer’s body was taken to his
home at No. 191 York street.
HIS FAMILY AT TYBEE.
Mrs. Ulmer and child were at Tybee,
entirely cut off from the city. They
came up on the tug Jacob Paulsen witli a
number of others who were on tho island
in the afternoon. Muyor McDonough,
who went down on the tug, broke the sad
news to Mrs. Ulmer of her husband’s un
fortunate death.
The time of the funeral will not bo de
cided upon until Mrs. Ulmer's relatives
in the country can be communicated with.
Cashier Cunningham of the Central
Railroad Bank spoke very feelingly of
the death of his assistant yesterday. Mr.
Ulmer, though still a young man, had
been .n the employ of he Central railroad
for nearly twenty-five years. He began
as a boy as a collector for the treasurer.
He made such a good record with the
treasurer's department that ho was
taken into the bank as a clerk, and suc
cessively filled every position in the hank
up to that of assistant cashier, to which he
was elected in August, 1888, a little more
than five years before his death. Mr.
Ulmer was spoken of by the bank officials
yesterday as very faithful in all trusts
and very efficient, honorable and honest
in all his dealings. Regrets were ex
pressed on all sides yesterday at his sud
den and tragic death.
TYBEE ALMOST A WRECK.
The Village Nearly Destroyed and
Three People Drowned.
There was great anxiety for the people
at Tybee, and tho first news from there
was learned when tho steam tug Paulsen,
Captain Rogers, which went down in the
morning, arrived with about seventy-five
passengers who had spent the Eight on
the island. Those who remained there
Sunday night experienced the most ter
rific storm and tho greatest fright of
their lives. The first storm commenced
about 4 o’clock and lasted until 11:36,
after which the wind changed and blew
at a fearful rate in an opposite direction.
Nearly every building on the island was
more or less damaged and three lives
were lost.
Had Tybee Island been washed away
the demolition and destruction could not
have been much worse than it was.
Houses there were blown down, burned,
washed away and otherwise demolished.
The railroad track was blown from the
ground and parts of it stood up along the
line like a fence. Kails were twisted,
spikes were pulled from the crossties,
and the Tybee train which stood there
like a monument to tell the story of the
demolished railroad, could be moved
neither forward or backward on account
of washouts both in front and behind.
The railroad track was a complete
wreck, part of it being blown several
hundred feet from where it was lying
over into the woods. To get that train
up from Tybee an entirely new track will
have to be built over almost the entire
distance. W ashouts are not a circum
stance to the wretched condition into
which the tracks were twisted by the
winds as if they were iwisps of straw.
Little is known of the condition of the
track this side of Lazaretto creek but if it
is as bad as it is on the island, the work
of building the Tybee railroad will have
to be done over again.
left just in time.
Beginning with the houses that used to
be on the point where al
most everything was blown
away. Mr. Butler’s house just the oth
er side of the Knights of Pythias club was
carried entirely away by the storm and
was a complete wreck. Mr. Butler and
his family, who were thereat thetimeand
who were greatly aided in their distress
by Messrs. Good and Lane, were peculiarly
fortunate. They left their home Just a
few minutes before it was car
ried down by the storm asd
went over to cub house. They
remained there a short while and that
building becoming shaky they left it for
a small house Just in the rear of the club.
Fortunately they left the club house just
in time to avoid being carried down in the
ruins, for a few minutes after they beard
a crash which announced the fall of the
house, which was undermined aud car
ried away by the storm. The cot
tage to which they went was
fortunately sheltered from tho
storm by the few rafters of the club house
which were left standing and they es
caped unhurt. Yesterday morning Miss
Butler, in viewing the remains, found her
bureau over in the woods half a mile from
where her homo once stood.
The water on the point eamo up to the
bight of three or four feet, and dashod
against all tho buildings with sufficient
force to have carried any of them down
before it.
The station in front of Mr. Henry
Green's house was blown away and no
mark of where it one© stood was left be
hind to tell the story.
A FIRE IN THE STORM.
Mr. Green’s house withstood the storm
well, and had it not been for an unfortu
nate accident would have been left
standing still. The house sprung a leak
and Messrs. Henry and Chas. Green ,who
were the only ones on tho place, the
family being in town, went to look
for it with the intention of stopping it if
they could. They carried a lamp with
them. It was found that tho plastering
in one of the rooms in the upper story
had fallen entirely away and the water
was pouring in rapidly. A sudden gust of
wind through one of the openings caused
Mr. Green to lose his bal
ance and he dropped the lamp,
which fell down between the lath
work and the outer partition. The lamp
at once exploded and there was no way
whatever to quench the flames from the
burning oil. It soon had the house in a
blaze, which with the wind blowing upon
it through every crevice it was impossi
ble to control. The wind fed the flames
and the house was soon a complete ruin.
Mr. Green’s loss was partially covered by
insurance.
AN OLD MAN AND BIS SON DROWNED.
Scott Baker was the next unfortunate
at thfe point. He was an old negro who
with his son lived in a box car at tho
northern end. He was somewhat isolated
from the other inhabitants of the island,
and it seems that he and his son made no
attempt to leave their quarters daring
the storm. His box car habitation
was blown away from Its moorings, and
people who were out yesterday morning
to see what the storm had done for the
island found tho bodies of himselfiand his
son lying about 100 yards farther inland
from his cabin. They had evidently been
drowned. The bodies will be given over
to the coroner as soon as possible.
The Y and switches of the railroad were
taken completely off and carried back
into the woods.
Solomon’s house, a little further up on
the point, was lifted completely off its
foundations aud turned exactly at right
angles to the position in which it form
erly stood. The house was blown off tho
foundation into the sand and lodged tliero
about forty feet back of it.
The switch-back was completely blown
away and not a sign of It was to be found.
The bath houses likewise floated off in
the tide, and for all-those on tho island
knew when they went out to view the re
mains, they had floated out to sea.
MOWED DOWN IN A SWATH.
Along the railroad track tho wind and
water impelled by the wind’s force out
regular swaths in the line of houses and
small buildings that stood in that row.
The police barracks was partially demol
ished, and the pavilion was almost wholly
buried in the sand. So far as could be
learned, however, it remained intact. At
least the roof could be seen and it had not
blown away.
The wind mill was gone and the water
tank was gone, but the Naylor house near
at hand was apparently undisturbed. The
Ranch club was washed entirely off its
foundation and was left standing out in
the sand hills. It was otherwise de
molished and its windows and shutters
were battered to pieces. The Atlantic
club stood the storm well. A few panes
and shutters in tho building
were broken and tho entire damage
to the club house was perhaps $l5O.
It was covered (by storm insurance, as
were a number of the other buildings
which had dealings with the storm.
Mr. Wortham’s house stood intact so
far as physical damage was concerned,
but during a gale the water stood in it to
a depth of two to three feet.
THE HOTEL TYBEE SAFE.
Very little could be heard from the
Hotel Tybee,as there were only a few peo
ple who had seen it. The wind and waves
got in their work there, however, as well
as elsewhere. Tho kitchen and din
ingroom pot the full force of the north
east gale, and they were battered in
from front to rear.
Upon one little house, or what used to
be a house, some real estate agent had
tacked the sign “For Sale.” This house
had been blown away and was found yes
terday morning some distance from where
it formerly stood. The sign was still
there and some wag went over and en
deavored to make it read “For Sail.”
A great deal of anxiety was manifested
before any news was received from Tybee
with regard to the condition of the Cot
tage Club. It is well insured in case of
storm, however, and its owners were not
fearing on that score. Those who
have seen the building say that it is
still standing and that it is ap
parentl.v In good condition. The cottages
around it, however, received the full fury
of the storm and deluge, and two of them
are said to be almost wholly demolished.
The bath houses at the club were washed
away and went the course of the other
bath houses on the beach.
THE CHATHAM*’ PLACE UNINJURED.
The waves cut out the sand hills
up within twenty feet of the
houses along the beach. The Chatham
Club house is in good condition and ap
parently not damaged.
On the northwest side of the island the
light house stands as solidly as it ever
did, the witid failing to shako it from its
foundations.
Mr. Carroll's house, however, looks as
if an earthquake hud struck it. Tho
rooms and the foundations were all torn
apart and tho flooring was bent and
twisted iu various shupes.
Tho Germau bark Harold from Ham
burg, loaded with kainit, was found by
the exploring party blown high and dry
upon tho beach at the north cud of tho is
laud. When the bark struck shore the crew
wadod into the beach, but one poor un
fortunate sailor who was sick aboard and
who tried to come ashoro with the rest,
somehow lost his way and suocutubed to
the elements. His body was found lying
near the bark and will be picked up with
the others thcro when they cun be brought
up.
CAPT. DANIELS’ HOUSE HONE.
Capt. W. T. Daniels’ house, which
stood the storm oflssi, was demolished,
and that of Col. Eatill, which also stood
the test in that year, has been utterly
wiped out, nothing remaining oxeept the
pillars.
Bridge-Tender Rowland's house col
lapsed, and Messrs. Jos. J. Thompson,
Geo. Robbins aud Peter Smith’s houses
were badly damaged.
The railroad bridge over Lazaretto
creek is intact, but the approaches to it
are not. Those who have seen the Savan
nah and Atlantic railway on McQueen’s
island and the western part of Tybee
island say that the track Is turned up on
end and the rails and crossties resemble
a huge picket fence.
Three colored railroad hands who made
headquarters in a box car on Tybee were
drowned during the storm. The car was
turned over by the wind and waves.
Among those who had witnessed the
storm at Tybee and who came up on the
Paulsen were Dr. Gomm. Capt, H. F.
Willink and family, Harry Willink,
Robert Willink. Eugene Luke. Robert
Peffer, Jack McMahone, J. Brennan, M.
J. Kavanaugh.
AN EXPERIENCE IN 1881.
Dr. Gomm, who was at the Atlantic
club during the storm, and who went out
to view tho demolished condition of the
island yesterday morning, was on Tybee
during the famous storm of 1881. He says
that the storm ou Sunday could not com
pare with that of twelve years ago, at
least, so far as the damage on Tybee was
concerned. He says the damage there in
1881 was almost one-half greater than it
is now, that is in comparison with tho
values of the real estate there then and
now. The damage is bad enough, how
ever, he says, and it will take thousands
Of dollars to repair It.
mayor Ulmer’s place gone.
The Ulmer residence toppled over
during the storm, and Mrs. Ulmer and
her children were compelled to take
refuge at the house of Mr. 11. L. Will
ink.
Mr. Willink’s house did not suffer any
damage from the storm. Tho occupants
were comparatively safe from the rav
aging billows and tho terrible blasts
which beat against its walls. Besides
Mr. Willink, his sou Harry, four daugh
ters and nephew, Mr. Fred Willink, there
were about a dozen others who had
sought safety at his home during the
storm.
Capt. Blun’s house stood the storm.
Cutty Russell’s home was washed away
and the proprietor lost his entire i>osses
sions.
Theodore Finckcn and H. P. Driver
were at tho Rambler Club House during
the blow. They have not been heard
from since the building was blown away
Sunday and their friends are anxious
about them.
THE TRACK IMPASSABLE.
The Tybee track between Savannah and
the island was simply impassable from
the island up to the city. The water
which covered it entirely at an early
hour yesterday morning had not subsided
at noon yesterday, and in the fields
near the Tybee depot the water stood
three and four feet deep. About
a hundred yards from the depot a part of
the main stem of the track had blown into
and the end of it was laying across the
side track next to it. From a walk down
the track a short distance from the depot
it could be seen that the damage was
complete and extensive.
bridges washed away.
Tho bridge over tho Bilbo canal had
been entirely washed away and the other
bridges along the road were reported in
the river. The bridge over the Bilbo
canal was in a sheltered position, while
the others were not.
To put the track in condition, repair all
its washouts, broken rails aud sunken
bridges will be the work of several days.
IMPRISONED AT QUARANTINE.
A Terrible Night’s Experience on
the Island.
Dr. Graham and his wife were almost
completely washed out of their little fort
ress at the upper quarantine station, and
yesterday there was nothing left stand
ing but the ramnants of the house in
which they live to tell the story.
Barks, wharves, dredges and all that
were anchored there were washed high
and dry upon the surrounding marshes, or
at least they were high and dry when the
tide subsided yesterday morning. An at
tempt was made at an early hour to
reach the quarantine but it was found
very difficult, and it was afternoon before
the first of the tugs which went down re
turned to the city.
Dr. Graham gives the following ac
count of the work of the storm at the
station:
The wind blew about fifty miles an
hour all day Sunday. The captains of all
the vessels at quarantine were personally
told Saturday afternoon, on receiving the
news from Mrs. Evans, that a north east
gale was expected. Immediately they be
gan to prepare as best they could. Every
thing was put in as good shape as possible
at the station. All employes were or
dered to come to the officer’s house, which
they did. About half past six the gale
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struck heavy from the northeast, the tide
immediately began to rise and In haif
an flour a foot of water covered the
islund.
six feet under water.
At 10:30 o’clock the gale was howling
its worst, and six feet of water covered
the Island. It was a boiling, hissing,
seething sen, and the rain, driven by the
gale in blinding torrents, penetrated
everything and blew against the faces of
those exposed like chilled shot.
The ninsters and crews of all the ves
sels bravely faced the storm and rotnained
on board, none deserting their ships,
many being on deck from 4 o'clock Sun
day afternoon till the sun smiled through
rifts in the storm-laden sky yesterday
morning to bring gladness to the hearts
of those who had passed through tho
trying ordeal, and to invite by its mild
ness, sleep to tho wearied brain.
About 10:30 o’clock tho wharves gave
way and the sea carried them against the
piling sustaining the officer’s quarters
and its human freight that were trusting
implicitly in their strength to hold them
up to seo tho dawn of another day. The
wind and sea dashed them against the
piling in its wild fury, and the little
house shook aud trembled as the sets
lushed under the building.
A DREDGE BOAT ADRIFT.
As the sea and gale were raging at their
highest, one of tho drodgo boats that had
carried away six anchors drifted toward
ono of tho ill fail'd vessels screaming
with its steam whistle, seeming to add
horror of death nnd drowning to the hor
ror of tho weight of it. The dredge
missed the vessel but struck the house of
Light Keeper Johnson. The house
seemed to turn as if on an axis and quiv
er. Mr. Hugo Johnson snatched his
7-year-old sister In Ills arms, went down
from the light into the darkness of the
hallwuy up to his neck in tho water,
and calling others to follow, managed to
reached the drodgo throwing his little
sister sufel; on board, then was jammed
himself between the dredge and tho
house but managed in some way to get on
board, how, he does not know, but ho only
received a scratch.
An old woman was left in the light!
room and someone on the dredge threw a
sledge hammer through the plate glass
calling to her to jump for life, but she re
mained and was sufe.
REACHED THE QUARANTINE.
After drifting a mile or more with the
dredge beyond tho Tybee railroad tho
young man leaped from the dredge into a
little bout saying “I am going to soe if I
can do anything to aid the doctor and his
people,” and iu the teeth of the gale ho
reached the station in safety and climbed
up the piling and was into the house
drenched, cold and shivering to ask if li
could do anything. Capt. Tonnesen of
the burk Elma lowered ills boat in tho
gale and sent his men to give aid to tho
light house as he had seen tho lights go
out.
TnE LOSS MANY THOUSANDS.
The entire wharf of tho upper quaran
tine station was swept away and only a
few pieces of the gangway were left. Tho
engine is down in the water. The bark
Mexico lying at this point jumped over
the piling.
At the lower station the wharves ara
gone, but the gangway remains. The dis
infecting plant, which is now in process
of erection, was slightly damaged, but to
what extent has not yet been determined.
But for this the city is not responsible, as
it is being built under contract, and it has
not yet been turned over to tho city. A
temporary arrangement for carryiug on
tho quarantine against foreign vessels
has been made aud will be perfected
within a day or two.
Dr. Brunner estimates the damage dona
the city’s property at quarantine at $85,-
000, and ho says the total loss of the
wreckage and everything else there will
reach somewhere near $300,000. He had
received a letter from Lieut. Cushing of
the Boutwell stating that the British
schooner Beatrice McLean was lying
high and dry on the west side of St.
Catherine's Island. The crews of these
foreign vessels will be kept at quarantine
for the usual time.
A PILOT BOAT’S EXPERIENCE.
Captain W. T. Daniels, Jr., master of
the pilot boat Belle, came up from Tybee
in the tug Paulsen. The Belle lies very
comfortably on the right-of-way of tho
Tybee railway about two miles west of
I-azaretto creek.
Capt. Daniels reports that his boat was
anchored in South channel under the lee
of Fort Pulaski when the storm began.
Both anchors were put out
and everything male snug. The
vessel rode safely until 9
o’clock, when she began dragging and
went on to McQueen’s island, and stopped
only when she struck the railroad em
bankment about two miles west of Laza
retto brldgo and 600 to 700 feet from south
channel.
Tho wind was terrific, and nothing was
of avail to keep the little vessel from
going ashore. No one could stand on deck,
and those aboard had to wait for her to
fetch up somewhere. They felt no un
easiness about the boat, as she was strong
aud could stand tho dragging over the
marshes with comparative safety. Cap
tain Daniels, as soon as he arrived, saw
Capt. F. M. Jones, the ship-builder and
contractor in regard to getting the Belle
afloat.
The complement of the Belle was W.
T. Daniels, master, Pilots A. F.' Marmel
stein, C. G. Makiu and J. A. Stegin, and
apprentices Joe Daniels and John Daniels
and William Johnson, sailor. Henry Hel
ler, a Morning News apprentice, was also
on the boat spending his vacation.
All of the party came up on the tug
Paulsen except Joe Daniels and Heller,
who remained at Tybee.
The sloop Marv Ellen, with Capt Yews
Sawyer of Thunderbolt, was towed up
the river by the tug Paulsen, on her re
turn from Tybee. Capt. Sawyer was
left in charge of the Undine at the mouth
Continued on Eighth Puce.