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THK MOpfHNI? NKWS, i ’ trs T ABI.TSHEr>IB.VI. INCORPORATED 1888. > I J.H. ESTILL, President. ) 1 U( HI 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 fpje Jitofittrig | Uto§. 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 I DAILY. *lO A YEAR 1 A 5 CENTS A COPY. V I WEEKLY,SI2S A YEAR ) 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.