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8 1111 All Ttis Loss by the Hurricane Beyond Telling. IllllSllfflG Ten Negroes Reported Killed. FEARS FOR THE SHIPS. The City of Savannah 50 Hours Overdue. Dr. Duncan and C. M. Cunningham Feared Lost. THE RUIN OS IRE SEA ISESSOS. Searching for the Dead. The hurricane of Sunday night swept the entire Georgia and South Carolina coast. The list of fatalities was not in creased yesterday, but many are yet missing, and the search for bodies is kept up. The loss of life, it is believed, will prove great. A report was received by the .Charles ton and Savannah railway officials yes terday that ten negroes were killed at Ridgeway, forty-two miles north of Sa vannah, during the storm by a house, in which they had taken refuge, falling on them. The reported loss of life appeared almost too great to believe from such an accident, but the telegraph operator at Ridgeway repeated his statement and as aerted its truth. No particulars were obtainable. SEARCHING FOK THE MISSING. The loss of life on the sea islands along the coast is believed to be greater than it was in the interior. Searching parties are at work everywhere. Hutchinson's Is land was gone over yesterday. The body of the Swede, Miller, who it is believed was drowned with Mr. Ulmer, has not yet been recovered, though a careful search was made for it. Henry Woeltjen and J. C. Kluney, who were reported missing, are safe. They left Screven's plantation for Hardceville, S. C., yesterday morning. Kluney was quite seriously hurt in the bark by falling timber, but Woeltjen is all right. The party consisting of Charles A. Gradot, George Schwarz, \V. Robider and H. Fender, an account of the disappear ance of whom was given in yesterday’s Morning News, arrived in the city via Thunderbolt yesterday forenoon, relieving the fears that had been entertained that they had been lost. Their friends had organized a party to go out to huut them aud had engaged the tugJ. C. Mallonnee for that pur|>ose. It was preparing to leave when the news of the party’s arrival in safety reached here. A ROUGH EXPERIENCE. The party report a pretty rough exper ience. They were anchored at the end of Wilmington Island in an exposed position, where they got the full benefit of the storm. Their anchors proved of practi cally no service whatever, and the marsh having become covered, they could see nothing but water on any side. They were out in the Annie Lucile, and it was only by careful manage ment that the sloop was saved from wrecking. They reached Little Warsaw in safety, aud Messrs. Robider and Gra dot took a small boat and went over to Big Warsaw, from where they sent as sistance to the others. They all left there on the sloop and reached Thun derbolt in safety, having been without food for twenty-four hours. THE LOSS OVER $1,000,000. Anything like an accurate estimate of the loss of property is yet impossible. Tliose who give estimates of damages necessarily differ widely. It is prettv safe to say the whole damage done to all kinds of property in Savannah, along the river and in territory tributary to the city, amounts to much more than $1,000,- 000. No estimate can be made of the dam age to the cotton crop in the counties visited by the storm, nor of the damage done to the pine trees in the turpentine districts. The cotton has been hurt badly, and from some reports received, it is pretty safe to say that 25 per cent, of the virgin pine trees in the naval stores districts have been blown down. The damage to shipping is far greater than was first believed. That alone will go into the hundreds of thousands. The entire coast is covered with wrecks GRAVE REARS FOR THE SAVANNAH. As the hours glide by and no tidings are I received from the City of Savannah, | which will be more than fifty hours over ! due this morning, the anxiety increases ! and fears that she will come to port no more are gaining ground. Capt. Savage left Boston with the City of Savaunah last Thursday after afternoon, and with fair weather was ex pected to arrive here late Sunday night. ! With stormy weather, however, the ships | from Boston usually take a few hours i longer, coming in about 5 o'clock on Mon day morning. But it is now Wednesday, and where the Savannah is no one knows. ONLY ONE DAT LATE IN 1885. Mr. IV. P. Bailey, clerk of the city court, was aboard the City of Savannah in 1865, coming from New York when she struck the terrific gale off the South Car olina coast. Capt. Daggett was then in command of her, and he steered her direct ly out to sea. At that time the Savannah came in the next day after she was due, being only twelve or fourteen hours behind. The trip of the Tallahassee in 1889, how ever. is an instance which gives a hopeful side to the voyage of the Savannah. The Tallahassee struck a gale off Hattcras, went to sea and was six days out from Sa vannah before she reached New York. HE HAP GIVEN UP HOPE. An old sea captain, who knows some thing about the City of Savannah, in speaking of her last night, said if she did not come in on that tide ho feared that she had gone down. Last night’s tide carne and went but still she did not ap pear. Capt. Foster of the William Crain said he was of the opinion that the Savannah had either gone down or was disabled as a result of her contact with the storm. The Savannah, although a staun h vessel. Is not the strongest on the line, being one of the older ships, and on this account there seems to be some rea son for the fears with regard to her safety. It is possible, however, that she put out to sea and wont a considerable dis tance, in which case if she were only disabled it would be some time before any tidings of her were received. But these steamers aro provisioned for only a few days,'and if she cannot signal some other vessel or get into port in some way there might be serious trouble on this ac count. AGENT AXPF.RSOX NOT UNEAST. Mr. C. G. Anderson, agent of the Ocean Steamship Company, said yesterday that he felt no uneasiness whatever with re gard to the safety of the ship, and he fully expected both her and the Birming ham to come up the river either last night or this morning towing in some wreck that they had picked up at sea. He said they were both staunch ships and fully able to weather the storm. The severity of the storm made it hard for any vessel to live, for if any of them showed a weak spot the wind and waves were sure to find it and break through. People who were talking about the Savan nah last night said they had almost given up hope of ever seeing her again. NO FEARS FOR THE BIRMINGHAM. No fears, however, are entertained for the Birmingham, which left New York Saturday afternoon at 8 o'clock, although she, too, is overdue by about twenty hours. She should havo been in port on yester day morning's tide. The Birmingham, however, is one of the strongest and staunchest ships on the line, aud it is probable that she is the strongest of them all. On this account and further, be cause she Is not much behind time, under the circumstances, very little anxiety is entertained for her Mr. Anderson does not think that the Birmingham struck the storm at all, as she was not due at Ilatteras until Monday morning, and he thinks the gale had passed by that time. He accounts fdr the delay of the ship by the fact that she stopped to pick up or render aid to some of the many wrecks which the storm left behind it. These two steamships represent about $900,000 worth of property. * Who were on board of them is unknown, as it was impossible to obtain the passenger list of either last night. The steamer Edith which came over from Bluffton at 1 o'clock last night re ports that there was no sign whatever of either the City of Savannah or the Bir mingham at Tybee or outside so far as they could see. THE CRANE'B EXPERIENCE. She Weathers the Worst Storm That Capt. Foster Has Ever Seen. The steamship William Crane,from Bal timore, Captain Foster, arrived yesterday morning about half past 7 o’clock. The experiences of the captain, passengers and crew during the storm were something terrible. There was a glad welcoming of friends and relatives when the Crane reached her dock. The ship was over twenty four hours overdue. No tidings whatever had been received from her, and much anxiety was expressed as to whether she had succeeded in weathering the storm. It was believed and hoped that she was safe, but after such a terrible night at sea as Sunday night was, nothing could be known with certainty. CAME THROUGH ALL RIGHT. The Crane seems to have weathered the storm well, and under the circumstances the damages she sustained may be con sidered very slight. Water dashed over her when she was struck by mountainous waves, and poured into every conceivable crack and crevice. The cabin was soaked and there was not a dry state room aboard the vessel. The bedding and carpets were drench'd. The worst damage, however, was on the port side, which was struck by a mountainous wave. One of the state rooms was mashed in and the contents of the berths scooped out. Railings all along the side of the vessel were torn eutirely off, and the captain's bridge above the t pilot house was carried away by a big wave. Capt. Foster says he thinks SSOO will repair all the damare to the ship. The cargo was damaged considerably, however, as much by the boxes and bar rels rolling around and against one an other as from the water which poured in uj>on them. The cargo, which was about 400 tons, suffered to the extent of about SI,OOO. FACED THE STORM. The Crane left Baltimore Friday, Aug. 25, at 3 o'clock. “When we passed Cape Henry on Aug. 26,” said Capt. Foster THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. AUGUST3O, 1893. yesterday, "there was a light east north east wind and a heavy southeast sea. We rounded Cape Hattcras about 6 o'clock that evening and struck a very heavy southeast sea vrith an increase in the I wind from the same direction. ‘‘On Sunday morning I was off Cape Fear, aud then it was that the wind be gan to increase to a hurricane. I knew then that we had struck a storm, but I determined to weather it until it became so heavy that the ship would have to turn to and face the sea. PUT OUT TO SEA. "I ran the ship on her regular coarse as nearly as possible all day, but at six o'clock Sunday afternoon the sea became so heavy that I could do so no longer. I then headed out to sea, heading the ship to the storm and went out about fifty miles. The vessel heaved and rolled fearfully, but I was confident that she could weather the storm all right. We hove to from 6 o’clock Sunday evening until 12 o’clock on Monday morning, after which time wo ran in to make Charlee ton, hut the weather was so heavy that I decided not try it and made for the Martin’s Industry light ship. That was gone, too, and I found later that it had drifted some twelve or more miles from where it had been an chored and was located down somewhere near the outer sea buoy. The first light 1 saw was the Hunting’s Island light, which was yesterday afternoon. I then came on towards Tybee and reached there some time before midnight last night. I would have come up the river then but the range light at Tybee was gone, and I didn’t know what other damage might be done to the other lights and channel indi cators up the river. On this account I went back out a little distance and wait ed for daybreak before coming up to the city.” never lost hope. Capt. Foster says it is a mistake about him ever losiug hope or giving up the ship as lost. ‘‘Even when the gale was at its high est,’’ ho said, “I was still confident that the ship was all right and that she would pull through. I was not once scared or afraid as to the outcome, for if I had been I don’t know what might have been the result.” Capt. Foster was in the pilot house for forty hours without leaving it. It was all be could do to stay there. The water beat in on all sides and he was thoroughly drenched. Sometimes the vessel would roll so far over that the floor of the pilot house was almost perpendicular, and the only way that he and the quartermaster could keep from being bruised was to hold on to the railing for dear life. During all that time while the captain was in the pilot house he had nothing to eat but a piece of hard tack. experiences or the passengers. Capt. Foster said that there were no meals at all cooked on board during the storm, and in fact there was no necessity for it. The passengers were Alisa Julia Carolan, Miss Mary Carolan, Mrs. ,1. J. Carolan, Master James Carolan, Miss Marie Carolan, Miss K. Lawler, P. H. Newell, J. 11. Bond and T. H. Brown. All the passengers were driven from their staterooms by the water, which was constantly pouring in and which it was im|X)ssiblo to keep out. They collected In the cabin when the storm first came on and they remained there until it ended. It was impossible for them to sit down or stand up, as every heave of the ship would throw them down. They gathered upon the cabin floor, and there they re mained in fear and waiting, as they thought, for tha end to come. Capt. Foster did not see any of the pas sengers until the next morning, and he says every one of them told him that they thought their time had come. When the storm was at its bight they were momen tarily expecting the ship to go to the bot tom. They were all ready and glad to be able to thank Capt. Fos ter for having brought them safely through the terrible battle with the ele ments. There were hearty welcomes when the ship arrived at her wharf yes terday morning. The sisters and family of Mr. J. J. Carolan, agent of the Balti more line were aboard, and nothing was too good for Capt. Foster when ho brought them all up safely. WORST HE nAS EVER SEEN. “That storm is the worst I have ever seen or ever expect to see,” said Capt. Foster. “It is the worst storm that has blown off this coast in fifty years. I have never heard of a tvorse gale on the coast than this one within that time, and during the ' twenty-six years that I have been going to sea I know I have never seen a worse one. "The barometer went down below 29 and the wind must have blown at least 85 or 90 miles an hour. Gusts crossed our bow so heavy that it seemed as if they would almost carry the ship away. The wind succeeded at least in wrenching the iron doors on the lower deck entirely away. “You may talk about the storm of 1881, but I saw that and it was not a circum stance as compared with this one. I be lieve this one has done just twice as much damage as did that one, and I know that the gale was the worst I have ever seen In all my 20 year's experience. SIGNS or WRECKS IN THE SEA. “I saw no signs of any wrecks until I reached a point off Charleston. There the water for some distance was literally strewn with wreckage of all kinds.-There were a cabin door, spars, broken masts, and all sorts of pieces of vessels floating around, evidently the remains of some vessels that had been unable to weather the gale.” Captain Foster thought of the City of Savannah when he saw this mass of wreckage. He thinks the steamer is either disabled or lost. It was all the Crane could do to weather the gale, he said, and the fact that the Boston ship has not shown up yet makes him believe that she did not live through it. “I love the old ship," said ne, as he was speaking of the Crane, “and I am proud of the fact, that I brought her tnrough all right. The Craue is one of the best vessels on the coast, and I am confident now of her ability to weather almost any gale that comes along." A GULL ON THE FORECASTLE. Sunday afternoon just as Capt. Foster had ordered that the Crane be hove to, a seagull lighted on the forecastle and a sailor went out and caught it. Capt. Fos ter says that is the first time he has ever seen such an occurrence. He is not a bit superstitious, and the incident did not ! affect him at all. but he was afraid it ! would have a bad effect on some of the men. Such was not the ease, however, as none of them took any notice of it. THOUGHT or HIS BOT. Just before Capt. Foster left his home in Baltimore his little boy Allen asked him where he was going. “I am going down to Savannah,” ho re plied. “And are you coming back again?” asked his son. “Oh yes,” replied Capt. Foster, “I will be back in a few days." Capt. Foster said he didn’t know why it was. but he thought of w hat his little boy had asked him at least a hundred times while he was standing there in the pilot house during the gale. He was somewhat worried yesterday afternoon, and no wonder, for now that he is safe in port and knows that his wife and family have heard of the terrible storm in which he was caught,he was unable to telegraph them on account of the broken condition of the wires and had no way to let them know of his safety. MAY BE HIS LAST TRIP TO SAVANNAH. This may be Capt. Foster’s last trip to Savannah. It is probable that the William Crane will be put on the line from Balti more to Providence, in which case he w ill run her on that route for a while, but he says he is tired of the sea and will not run many years longer. Capt. Foster’s friends are making an effort to have the Crane retained on the Savannah line, and it may be that the D. H. Miller will be put on the line to Provi dence. but that has not been definitely settled as yet. Capt. Foster is one of the most genial and whole-souled gentlemen on the coast, and it is hoped that he will be retained on the Savannah line. He has been with the Crane for eight years and has always handled her well, bringing her out of e.very gale she has struck with as little damage as pos sible. WEATHERED THE STORM. The Norwegian Steamer Banan at Tybee in Distress. The Norwegian steamship Banan, Capt. Hansen, bound from New York to Car denas. Cuba, arrived off Tybee bar yes terday in distress. She was boarded by Pilot J. M. King and was taken to the quarantine station. The Banan was in the storm Sunday night and was badly damaged, and will have to go into a dry dock for repairs. She is leaking, and her machinery is out of order. The story of the storm as told by Capt. Ilansen is as follows: “We started from Now York last Wed nesday and were struck by a hurricane near Sandy Hook. I went back and an chored in the harbor and waited until the storm passed over. We made steam and proceeded on Thursday morning and were about forty miles east of Tybee when the fearful gale struck us Sunday. It was the worst storm I have ever ex perienced.” The vessel was loaded with a general cargo of merchandise including two 12- tou boilers which were lashed to the deck. The steamer's stanchions, on the starboard side are all stove in, the ventilators were all broken and the boats, davits, skylights doors, compasses and every movable ob ject were either smashed to smithereens or cast overboard. One of the large boilers, which was for a sugar refinery, was washed overboard. The steamer was built at Christiania. Norway, and is owned by the captain and others, aud is specially adapted for the fruit trade. She is a regular trader be tween New York and the West Indies. “When the ventilators broke in,” said Capt. Hansen, “the sea began to pour into her hold. We attempted to cover them over with canvas, and the job was not an easy one. The suction was so great that it was with difficulty that the seamen kept from being carried through the holes and drowned. None of my men are se riously injured, though several are con siderably scratched and bruised.” Capt. Ilansen telegraphed immediately upon arriving here to his agent in New York, and will await orders to have the steamer overhauled and repaired. THE CAKtTSI’S PERIL. Her Passengers Carried Ashore by the Officers. Captain George W. Rossignol, the pilot of the steamer Camusi,gives the Morning News a graphic description of the scenes at Warsaw on the night of the storm. The Cornusi left Thunderbolt Sunday at 10 o’clock on her usual trip and, after a stormy passage in which she had great difficulty in getting to her landing at Warsaw creek, she arrived at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. The wind was then blowing a gale and Capt. Oemler, master of the steamer, put out all his lines, and his anchor chain. Abo.it an hour afterwards the steamer Bellevue arrived from Savannah with an excursion, and ran out two lines and fastened them to trees on the bank, and made her anchor chain fast to the Camusi. At 8 o'clock all tha lines parted except one liauser and the anchor chain of the Camusi, leaving only the Bel levue's chain to hold that steamer, which was fast to the Camusi. The water at this time had risen to a depth of nearly two feet over the wharf which apparently begun to break up. The officers of the two boats held a con sultation, and in view of the fact that the remaining line’s were liable to part at any moment and the boats driven ashore and proba . wrecked, decided to laud the women aud children. The water on the deck in the meanwhile had risen to about three feet. Capt. Oemler, Purser Kid well. Pilot Itossignol, and the crew of the Cnmusi, assisted by a few passengers, took the women in their arms and carried them safely ashore through the pitiless storm to the woods, and thence they went over to the Pavilion, where they remained until the first storm abated. The steamer's lines having been spliced and theCamusi safely moored, the passen gers went aboard of tho steamer, where they remained until they were landed at Thunderbolt Monday at 1 o’clock. Capt. Rossignol says the Camusi was badly damaged by tho Bellevue riding against it. FEARS FOR DR. DUNCAN. A Rescuing Party Gone After Him and Mr. C. M. Cunning-ham. Alarming reports were in circulation yesterday that Dr. William Duncan and Mr. C. M. Cunningham had been drowned. Investigation showed that it was impossi- BAKING POWDER. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report smso Powder A&soo/m# pirns ble for any one to know what had hap pened to them. Dr. Duncan and Mr. Cunningham left Savannah about two weeks ago on a fishing and hunting trip. Nothing was known of their whereabouts until Mr. Isaac Beckett and party, of the yacht Glance, which had been on a cruise with a party in the waters below Savan nah,arrived on the revenue cutter at Mont gomery night before last, and reported that they had found Dr. Duncan and Mr. Cunningham at the Wolf Island club house, where they were enjoying them selves very pleasantly. They stated their intention of returning home Sunday. Nothing has been hoard from them since, and it was feared they were lost in the storm. If they put out in their boat for Savannah on Sunday, as they stated their intention of doing, they are almost certain to have perished. If they re mained on Wolf Island, their chances of surviving the storm were little hotter. EXPOSED TO THE SEA. Wolf Island is a low, flat Island, open to the sea and without any protection what ever. Those acquainted with tne loca tion said yesterday that the water must have swept over the island several feet deep and that it was impossible that any thing should have lived there during the storm. Mr. T. M. Cunningham, Capt. A. McC. Duncan and Dr W. W. Owens left yester day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock on the city tug Theckla for Wolf Island, to make a search tor the missing men. TheTheekla was furnished through the kindness of Mayor McDonough, who was anxious to assist in solving the doubts as to the safety of the two gentlemen and to hasten their rescue. HOPING TO FIND THEM ALL RIGHT. The party was in hopes of finding the gentlemen alive, believing that they saw the danger and took refuge in time. Their idea was that Dr. Duncan and Mr. Cunningham are wrecked somewhere in the neighborhood of Wolf Island aud are in need of assistance, be ing doubtless without food, and perhaps suffering from injuries received in the storm. The party did not expect to reach Wolf Island before midnight, the distance by the outside route being about sixty miles and by the inside, which was probably taken, about 100 miles. The island is about sixten miles from Darien, and tho Theckla will probably put in there to-night and wire informa tion to Savannah of the result of its seardti if the telegraph wires are working frein that point. The Theckla will hardly return to Savannah at the earliost before to-morrow night. If the rescuing party doesn’t succeen in finding Dr. Duncan and Mr. Cunningham to-day it may not return before Friday or Sat urday. SAW THEM THURSDAY. The yacht Glance, with Mr. Beckett and his party, sailed over to Wolf Island last Thursday morning, and anchored in front of the club house. They found Dr. Duncan and Mr. Cunningham the only members of the club on the island, Mr. James T. Dent who was with them, having left a few days before. The Glance’s party visited tho club house and remained until noon. Both the doctor and Mr. Cunningham were in excellent health. Wolf Island is very low, but Mr. Beckett feels confident that the two gentlemen, who are both pos sessed of great intelligence and prudence, would take warning and seek a place of safety in time. Up to Sunday noon they could easily have reached Wolf Island lighthouse, which is only a couple of miles from the club house. They have com petent boatmen with them, besides the keeper of the club house, Mr. Stokes, who lost his family on Hutchinson's Island in the gale of 1881, and was doubt less not forgetful of his experiences of that year. BELIEVES THEY MAY BE SAFE. While Mr. Beckett is somewhat appre hensive as to their safety, he expresses great faith in their prudence, and is con fident that they took timely precautions. At the very worst they might have boarded one of the larger vessels there, the old Claude, belonging to Mr. T. P. Bond, and be blown over to the woods of Little St. Simons, just opposite the club house. Of course they could not carry sail, but the direction of the wind on Sun day afternoon would naturally bring the vessel up on the shore of the latter island. STARTING OUT THE TRAINS. The South Bound Running But No Trains to Charleston. The Charleston and Savannah railway still remains cut in two, and the disturb ing of telegraphic communication with Charleston, has left tho offices at this end of the line without any information. All that is known is that the road is im passible beyond Whitehall, S. C., and that the break is so wide that it is im possible for the railroad people beyond that point to even open communication by a foot service. Apparently the storm and tides made a clear sweep through the valleys of the Ashley, Edisto, Ashepoo, and Combahee rivers, Rantowle’s creek and other estua ries. The Charleston and Savanna h railway runs over miles of trestles and embank ments in the vicinity of these rivers, and with such a storm as that of Sunday the whole country would be inundated. Trains from this city went out as usual on Mon day and yesterday in hopes that connection would be open, or that transfer might be made, but they returned with the same story, that there was no tidings from beyond the breaks. The first news from After a night with the boys, Yours for a clear head, Brorno-Seltzer.—ad. Charleston since Sunday was received yesterday afternoon about 5 o’clock by Capt. R. G. Fleming, superintendent of theS.,F. &W. railway. The dispatch was from Augusta, annoncing that the wires were working from Savannah to Augusta, and that the Charleston News and Courier of yesterday had been re ceived, which stated that Charleston had suffered severely and the city was six feet under water. THE SOUTH BOUND TRAINS. The South Bound railroad will resume the operation of its regular schedulo to day. The track was cleared yesterday and a train from Columbia was run out at 5 o'clock. The local train from Denmark came in last night. The South Bound’s wire to Columbia was also working yes terday, and by the courtesy of Mr. Virgil Walker, master of transportation, the Morning News was given free use of the wire last night. By this means much news was obtained from the storm dis trict last night that would not otherwise have been received. The chief damage on the South Bound railroad was from small washouts on the track between this city and the Savan nah river, the damage on the South Caro lina side being slight. The operators at Denmark and Columbia reported that the storm was not very heavy at those points. THE CENTRAL ALL RIOHT. The Central railroad trains were run ning regularly yesterday. The schedule had not quite been restored and most of the trains were late. The 6:20 train from Atlanta arrived promptly on time to the minute, last night. There were no washouts of any conse quence along the Central, the damage be ing chiefly from the great number of trees thrown across the track and the destruction of telographic communica tion. The Savannah, Florida and Western railway suffered less from the storm along its line than any other road leading into the city. All of its trains were run ning as usual yesterday. The through fast mail on the Atlantic Coast Line being -cut off, trains were made up at Savannah yesterday and the day before aud run southward on the fast mail’s schedule. THE MAILS HELD UP. The northern mails are all held up above Charleston and no New York mail has been received since Sunday. The northbound mail from Savannah is accumulating in the Savannah postofflee. It will probably be sent north via the South Bound railroad to-day. It was reported last night that a special train had left Charleston for Savannah yesterday via tho South Carolina railway. It was to take the South Bound railroad at Denmark, but telegraphic communica tion being interrupted, the trainmaster of the latter road was unable to give any instructions and the train is supposed to have gone on to Augusta. It is expected to reach hero via the Central railroad this morning. WRECKS ALONG TRE ROAD. The train on the Charleston and Sa vannah railway went out yesterday as far as Whitehall and returned to the city during the afternoon. At tho 48>£ mile post beyond Whitehall there is a wash out of more than fifty feet which was still washing yesterday afternoon. Train No. 16 which left here Sunday afternoon with twelve coaches filled, got as far as liavenel, where it now is. The storm took four flat ears from the siding near Raven el and put them on the main track. The engine of No. 16 ran into the flat cars and was considerably damaged. No one aboard the train was hurt. Train No. 78. which left Savannah .Sun day night at 8:47 p. m. is at Jacksonboro. Train No. 14 from Savannah at 12:29 Monday ran only to Whitehall. The pas sengers were brought back to the city Monday night. All of the detained passengers and sleepers for points north were sent over the East Tennessee from Jesup last night, and will go from Atlanta via the Richmond and Danville. On the Walterboro branch of the Charleston and Savannah Railway yes terday it required nine hours to run the schedule usually made in one hour. The trainmen were kept busy clearing off the trees which had fallen over the track. The Western Union linemen repaired 102 breaks in the telegraph line between Continued on Third Page. 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