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LOST IN’ THE BREAKERS.
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and barkenline* Mand. erect and near to
•no nno’ht r. high and dr\. w ith the per
•pex tivc of an eighth a full mile away, in
land. to the right...mi of a ninth, totally
wrecked on Tj lwe beach. to the left —to
have devised this or. ior of dismantlement,
•addcning and thrilling to see. it would
seem the s home of the yule must have
possessed precone. ption and motive not
less than might ana fury.
At the quarantine landing are two lone,
parallel w harves, at right angles with
the river They are several hundx-ed feet
apart, possibly twenty feet high at the
abutment, and between them, along the
river front, are groups of driven piles at
short intervals. Three sides of a great
quadrangle are thus barricaded, and the
Spaee within is a deep basin or bed of
ballast rock.
VESSELS LIFTED LIKE TOTS.
One might have a wonderful ideal of
the maximum [ feasibilitiesof a full-swing
ing hurricane, and still never dream it
could have had the tact and power to put
a ponderous vessel within this corral.
Yet the storm of Sunday smiled as it
grassed two massive barks, and, lifting
them clear of the high and strong tim
bers, set them squarely upon their bottoms.
In contactwith each other, upon the dry
and hard interior.
A noticeable spectacle just beyond the
Quaraniine landing is that of
two barks, similar in size and
general appearance, near to each
other and about an equal distance inland,
which are also identical as to the charac
ter of the damage inflicted by the pale.
Both are stripped of masts and spars,
save only as to their lower mizzen masts.
So alike are they that one may be said to
be the mirage of the other.
The Cosmo, the barkentine which alone
rode out the storm of that fearful night,
now bows at anchor, saucy in aspect, as
though conscious of her unequaled feat. _
PECULIARITY OP THEIR POSTURE.
With the exception of the Harold,
beached broadside on Tybee point, all the
disabled vessels ef the quarantine group
sit solidly upon their bilges, their top
masts straight toward the sky. While it
is likely that gravity would have much to
do with the settling of a vessel ui>on her
straightest angle, it must be considered
that gravity was not very much con
cerned with matters on Sunday night.
The theory is that these vessels were
generally on their beam ends during the
first storm, but were righted by the sec
ond, which, at the same time, blow back
the water from under them, having come
from an exactly opposite direction.
It is claimed that but for this, nearly all
the vessels would have been drawn off
into deep water soon after the lull
and with no great effort. Be this as it
may, while the unique assembly of
stranded and dismantled vessels, or any
of them, remain in their extremity they
will be curious objects to observers and
are worthy some cost and trouble to see.
MAT 11E ALL SAVED.
While the devices and characteristics
of storms maj have undergone improve
ment, the strides of human wisdom and
contrivance have outrun the progress of
the elements! The Korean liana which
held those two ships high in air and then
pompously lowered them into an appar
ently inextricable pen may some day
find its equal in power in
the different methods of application of
mechanical strength by which to-day a
man standing upon a substance of twenty
times greater weight than his own can
lift in air the entire mass, himself in
cluded, by simply hooking his smallest
finger into a loop and drawing the tensor
sinews of his hand. Thus these ships—
one of which is six thousand feot from
the sea—may some fine morning awake to
find their monster hulls being wafted
hack toward the deep by agencies aslave
to the yet undeveloped fullness of ttie
genius of man.
TRAINS ALL RIGHT NOW.
Travel Resumed Between Savannah
and Charleston.
The Charleston and Savannah railroad
is again open and trains are running
through direct between Savannah and
Charleston.
Four trains came in on this road from
Charleston yesterday, besides the first
train from Charleston, which arrived at 1
o'clock yesterday morning via. the South
Carolina, Carolina Midland, Port Royal
and Augusta, and Charleston and Savan
nah railroads.
Train No. 23 from Charleston with
the Atlantic Coast Line connections
■was the first train to come through from
Charleston direct, and reached Savan
nah at 11:44 o'clock yesterday raornlnia.
Two of their train running as sections
of No. 28 arrived shortly afterwards with
intervals of about 20 minutes between
the sections. Train No. 35. with the
northern mail connections, arrived dur
ing the afternoon. These trains brought
in all thedelayed mail and express matter.
The northbound trains on the Charles
ton and Savannah left on schedule time.
No. 36 left at 0:40, No. Hat 12:29, No. 16
at 3:20 and No. 78 at 8:47. Freight train
No. 308. the first train to leave the city for
Charleston, left at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Train No. 33 from Charleston
came in at 8:47 o'clock lust night.
THE STOHM FROM A PULLMAN.
Mr. C. D. Baldwin, of the firm of Pea
cock, Hunt 2c Cos., arrived yesterday
morning from North Carolina via Charles
ton. He was on the train bound from
Wilmington Sunday night, and had his
storm experience in a Pullman. There
were no mishaps, excepting the tearing
out of the windows on one side of the
cars by a fallen tree, but as Mr. Baldwin
was on the other side, he was not inter
ested in it. On the arrival of the train
at Charleston, it vras discovered that
there was no way to get farther south,
and Mr. Baldwin accepted the situation,
and spent two days in Charleston viewing
the damage by the storm. He confirms
the reports of the destruction of the
wharves, and the high tide over parts of
the city.
HAD A BOUOII TIME.
’Hie excursionists who came over to
this city and spent Sundav here, had a
rough time getting back to Charleston, and
did not reach t here until day bofore yester
day. The train was brought to a standstill
at RarHowle's. and the passengers had to
depend upon their Savannah dinners and
a tew potatoes, etc., that could be gath
ered in the neighborhood to satisfy their
hunger. There were a number of ladies
and children on the traiu. On Tuesday
the steamer Planter was sent to their re
lief by way of Wappoo cut, and the un
fortunates taken to C harleston.
Mr. Baldwin says he saw a train of
fourteen cars which was blown off the
track. He came back by way of the
Houth Carolina, Carolina Midland. Port
Ko.val and Charleston and Savannah
railroads, it was a roundabout way, but
he was glad to get home by any route.
THE FIRST PASSENGERS THROUGH.
Mr. Isaac Meinhard of New York, of
Mr-inhard Bros. 2c Cos., of Savannah, Mr.
J. M. Dixon. Mr. Lewis Alexander and
Mr. A. Buclienholz were fellow-passen
gers with Mr. Baldwin on the train
which arrived at 1 o'clock yesterday
morning. They confirmed the reports of
the general destructiveness of the storm
at Charleston.
"I have never seen such destruction be
fore in my life.” said Mr. Meinhard.
• 1 he finest buildings look as if they were
a.most ruined. Their roofs are torn
off and the fronts of many of them
biown out. The beautiful battcrv is a
complete wreck. It is literally torn all
Vo pieces. The wharves are utterly
wrecked. I don't believe there is a
wharf left in Charleston. 1 was very
anxious to get to Savannah and took the
first train that offered
Mr .1 M Dixon was a fellow passenger
of Mr. Meinbnrd's from New York Both
Mr. Dixon and Mr Meinhard intended
taking thp City of Birmingham to Savan
nah, but when they saw the prediction of
the storm in New York they decided that
it would be better to come by rail.
GLAD TO GET TO SAVANNAH.
“I was certainly delighted to get back
to Suvanuah this morning,” said Mr.
Dixon.
••There were all kinds of rumors afloat
in Charleston of the damage done in Sa
vannah. I placed no faith in them, of
course, but still I was exceedingly anx
ious We were entirely cut off, and it was
impossible to get telegraphic communica
tion of any kind. 1 was on the lookout all
the time to pet a copy of the Morning
News, hut did not succeed in getting one
until we were on our way here Tuesday
night, when I found a passenger with a
copy of Monday's pa per. The account of the
storm was eagerly read by the Savannah
passengers. When I saw where the door
of my store had been blown in early in the
night I wondered how much damage had
followed later. I was very much delighted
on arriving here to find that this was al
most the only damage.”
a great wreck.
Mr. Dixon confirms the reports of Mr.
Meinhard and Mr. Baldwin as to the
wreck of the battery and wharves at
Charleston. The telegraph and telephone
poles, he said looked as if they had been
mowed down by scythes and lay
across the streets in every direction.
In some places the streets were
a perfect tangle of wires. The plank
paving on the lower streets, Mr. Dixon
said, was torn up and thrown up against
the houses in oblique angles. Barrels of
naval stores and other commodities wore
washed under the inclined pavements and
were supporting the planks in their queer
liositions. Mr Dixon says it is a heavy
blow to Charleston, and it will be some
months, he thinks, before all the repairs
are completed.
The South Bound railroad ran its reg
ular schedules yesterday. The first train
to arrive from Columbia brought down
about twenty of the Asheville excursion
ists, who had been waiting since Sunday
for a chance to get home.
Train No. 33, due at 7:20 last night,
arrived at 10 o’clock and brought the
northern mail. Capt. W. M. Davidson,
general passenger agent of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway, was on
board.
CAPT. CRAIG'S STATEMENT.
Capt. J. W. Craig, roadinaster of the
Charleston and Savannah Railway, in a
letter to Charleston gives an itemized
account of the damage which the track of
the road has sustained. He was at Kan
tovvles bridge, about eighteen miles from
Charleston, where he had several hun
dred workmen employed. He says the
damage done to the Charleston and Sa
vannah Company is much more severe
than was at first, supposed. Near Ran
towles Soo feet of the track of the road
had been floated totally away. It was
then resting about 1(K) feet from its orig
inal position. Two small trestles, one ten
and the other twenty feet wide, had be
come yawning chasms, in which a deep
and swift current of water was running.
The opening of the smaller trestle had
been extended to twenty-five feet in
width, and that of the larger to at least
three times that space. In many places
the track of the road still remained two
feet under water, rendering work ex
tremely difficult.
Rantowles trestle itself has been injured,
but the neighboring "fill” has been badly
washed out for a considerale distance.
Meyer's trestle, at the 47 mile
post, has been swept out of existence and
will be a total loss. Capt. Craig said that
he himself had not been down to Young’s
island, hut he had learned that practic
ally all the company's property at that
place had been totally destroyed, includ
ing the 100 foot trestle at Meg
gett's. It would be hopeless under these
circumstances to attempt to estimate the
losses which the road has sustained.
MANY WRECKS SIGHTED.
Capt. Berg Gives an Account of the
Dismantled Vessels.
Capt. Berg, of the City of Birmingham,
gives the following summary of the
wrecked vessels he has seeu on ilia route
since the storm:
Aug. 29th, Ga. m, latitude 33" 5’ lon
gitude 78° 6' sighted vessel with signals
of distress flying; bore down and found
her to be schooner Joseph Souther,
dismasted and leaking; sent a boat
and took off crew, consisting of
captain, mate and five men.
For the next four hours passed through
quantities of wreckage, lumber, railroad
ties and also passed vessel bottom up.
On the same date passed schooner
James Boyce, Jr., dismasted and anchored
twenty-one miles east of Cape Romaine,
Saw several other vessels in
that vicinity with loss of spars.
At 6 p. in., (same day) sighted
six miles south of St. Helena’s
lighthouse in the breakers three
miles off shore the Steamship City
of Savannah. Anchored until morning,
took off passengers and crow. The ship
is going to pieces.
NO END OF RUIN.
The Wreck on South May River Neck
Complete. 4
Mr. Snyder of this city, who has been
erecting a building on Col. Estili’s place
on May river, South Carolina, came to
the city last night in a sail boat and
brought the first news from South May
river neck received since the storm. He
confirms the reports brought by boats
passing by of the destruction' of the
wharf and bridge at Halsey.
At Snyder 5c Mettle's saw mill at
“Moreland” plantation, the work of the
storm was complete. The mill manufac
tures vegetablcwcrates and , boxes for
farmers in Georgia and Florida. The
mill was blown down and the lumber and
timber washed away, and the mules and
horses drowned. Not a house was left.
At Pettigrew plantation all the negro
houses were swept away, hut no lives
lost.
At No. 8 plantation the rice and corn
crops arc a total loss.
The same story is told of all the planta
tions on the neek. One-half of the
fences are down and thousands of trees
have fallen, ille roads are impassable.
Floods fill all the rivers and the swamps
are filled w ith water. The destruction of
the bridges and boats made communica
tion with the country beyond impossible.
The only bout on May river neek that
escaped destruction was a small sail-boat
belonging to Col. Estill, and that was at
last brought into requisition to reach the
city.
BEAUFORT AND PORT ROYAL.
' Wrecks Everywhere and the Loss of
Life Cannot be Approximately Es
timated.
The shipping at Beaufort and Port
Royal suffered almost total destruction
from Sunday’s storm. The following ves
vels are either sunk or ashore: Clara
McGilvey, Regate, Alma Cummings, W.
H. Sumner; tugs Reliance, Juno, Wey
mouth. Kinkora, Kent, Stono. Dow. Ida
and Ivanhoe. and steamer Pilot Boy.
The tugs Bessie, Bristol, and Cecelia,
steamer Rydal Water, and schooners
IC. H Schnel and Florence bhay
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. AUGUST3I, 1893.
are safe The schooner Messenger
was blown up Broad river, but sustained
no damage but loss of anchor and cable.
An unknown schooner is ashore and an
other bottom up in I*ort Royal sound.
BEAUFORT.
The town of Beaufort suffered a great
deal. The water front and wharves are
washed away.
The Sea Island Chemical Company’s
works are damaged considerably. Its
three dredges are ashore and the inclines
at the works were carried away.
The Baldwin Fertilizer Company’s
wharves and sheds and houses are dam
aged considerably.
At Port Royal the railroad sheds are
unroofed and their contents ruined by
water. The wharf front is torn away.
There is not much other injury done to
the town.
y PARIS ISLAND.
The United States dry dock Is about in
the same condition as before. The coffer
dam stood the storm, but the island was
submerged and the water filled the
dock.
Dr. Hazel, of the United States marine
hospital service, and about twonty-six
colored people were drowned at the naval
station.
DAMAGE AT COOSAW.
At Coosaw, as heretofore stated, there
was a total destruction of all dredges and
tug boats, with one exception, the tug
Cecelia, Capt. Godwin.
Martin Ham, Engineer of the dredge
John Kennedy, and his firemen and two
others were drowned. A sailor was
drowned off the schooner Alma Cummings.
Capt. Finney estimates that on the
islands in the vicinity of Beaufort one
third of the population was swept away
on Sunday night.
The rivers and sounds are full of sunk
en wrecks, and the buoys are as a rule,
far away from their proper anchorages.
'Hie light-house board will doubtless give
this matter its prompt attention.
The steamer Bessie received no damage
during the gale ana will leave to-day at
11 o’clock for Beaufort.
REPAIRING THE WIRES.
The Telegraph and Telephone Wires
Being Put in Shape as Rapidly as
Possible.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
is getting its wires in shape as rapidly as
possible. Yesterday it had two wires to
New York and connections direct to Au
gusta. Atlanta, Macon, and in fact almost
everywhere but to Charleston. The
wires to Charleston are in such a bad
shape that it may be several days before
they are straightened out.
Yesterday afternoon the Postal Tele
graph Company had no connections what
ever, but were using every effort to patch
up their wires. They will probably have
some of their principal connections made
by to-day.
The Western Union was busy all day
yesterday receiving and sending personal
messages to relatives and friends who
were anxiously inquiring about one
another. Mauager Maxwell estimated
that he had sent and received somewhere
between 600 and 800 of these messages.
A few more telephone connections were
made yesterday, but the system is as yet
badly out of order. Manager Polk went
down to Tybee and quarantine yesterday
to see about patching up the wires to
those points. Ho expects to have the
work completed by to-night.
IS A TOTAL WRECK.
The Tybee Road Inspected by Supt.
Kline.
Superintendent Kline and T.
C. McNeeley, superintendent of the
main stem of the Central Railroad, went
to Tybee yesterday on a tug to find out
the extent of the damage to the Savan
nah and Atlantic Railroad.
They found the track and bridges al
most wholly washed away, and that they
are almost a total loss. It would be use
less to undertake to repair the road, as a
large portion of the track was carried
about 200 or 300 yards from where it
originally lay. and tho balance is
in such a condition that it would be of
little use. The superintendents investi
gated the advisability of attempting to
remove the engine and cars which are at
Tybee, on lighters to this city, but no re
port of their decision has yet been made.
Receiver Comer was asked yesterday
what would be done with regard to the
Tybee railroad. He replied:
“The present of the Tybee road is un
certain, and its future is more so. I have
no idea what action will be taken.”
The road is in the hands of a receiver,
and the Central is not, under its contract,
responsible for such damages to it. This
probably means that the bondholders will
have to suffer the loss.
ISLE OF HOPE’S CAUSEWAY.
A General Complaint Because of the
Delay in Replacing It.
The people of Isie of Hope are complain
ing of the delay in replacing the bridge at
the Isle of Hope causeway. Even a tem
porary structure would be better than
none, as there is now no means of access
to the island except by the railroad, and
that is not able to carry freight
because of the damage to its trostle
across Herb river.
There is no place in the county more
inaccessible than across Herb river.
There is no place in the county more in
accessible than the Isle of Hope without
its causeway and bridge. A long stretch
of soft marsh extends,on both sidesof the
narrow river or creek, and no possible
landing on it for a boat.
If there is any work that should re
ceive prompt attention it is the replacing
of the bridge at the causeway.
NOT HEARD FROM YET.
No News Reoeived of Dr. Duncan and
Mr. Cunningham.
Nothing was heard from Dr. Duncan
and Mr. C. M. Cunningham yesterday or
the party who left Tuesday for Wolf
Island to hunt for them. There were two
or three rumors. One of them was to the
effect that Dr. Duncan had been seen at
Ravenel’s, S. C. There was no foundation
for that. Another was that word had
been received from Dr. Owens, one of the
rescuing party, that Dr. Duncan and Mr.
Cunningham were ail right. The latter
rumor started iu this way: In passing
Wiinwngtou Island, Dr. Owens called to
a gentleman on the island whom he knew
to tell his father that they were all right,
meaning, of course, the party in the tug!
Tho gentleman, however, understood him
to mean Dr. • Duncan and Mr. Cunning
ham, and so reported when he came to the
city. In that way It got abroad that Dr.
Duncan and Mr. Cunningham were safe.
What Do You Take
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want to get well, or because you wish to
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caused by impure blood aud debility of
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A Paradox.
It's saving money whilst spending it, in
buying these socks and stockings which
the Falk Clothing Company are now sell
ing so cheap.—ad.
PORT TAMPA SHUT OUT.
The Quarantine Again on Against
That Vicinity.
There is another case of yellow fever at
Port Tampa. The following telegram
from Dr. Porter, Florida state health of
ficer. conveying the information, was re
ceived by I>r. Brunner late Tuesday
night.
■‘Case yellow fever on dock at Port
Tampa. Ten days from possible expo,
sure. Have a cordon around Port Tampa.
Will let out well i>eople. nou-exposed,
going north of Philadelphia.”
Dr. Brunner at once ordered the sani
tary inspectors to enforce quarantine
against Port Tampa, Tampa and Ybor
City.
The sanitary board mot yesterday
morning and confirmed Dr. Brunner's
action, and quarantine was officially re
established against, Tampa and vicinity.
Dr. Brunner's action in ordering the
the master of the bark Harold back to
quarantine was also officially continue 1.
Dr. Brunner’s position that the health
regulations must bo enforced strictly
according to the letter of the law was in
dorsed by the board.
IN THE COURTS.
Judge MacDonell Disposes of a Large
Amount of Business.
In the case of John Flannery & Cos. vs.
Charles D. Baldwin & Cos., judgment by
default was taken in the city court yes
terday for the sum of $193.89 and interest,
value of four bales of cotton, in favor of
the plaintiff.
Judgment by default was taken in the
Chatham Reasl Estate and Improvement
company vs. A. W. Harmon for the sum
of $5,139.85. This was a suit for money
advanced on A. W. Harmon's stables and
which the payments.were defaulted on.
In the case of Ben Ficklin vs. the Sa
vannah Street railway, the court over
ruled a motion for new trial. He got a
verdict for SSOO for being run into by one
of the cars.
Messrs. O’Connor and O’Byrne, attor
neys for William Kchoe, garnishee in
case of A Hanley vs. Scott, and Hawley
filled a motion for anew trial. In this
case a verdict was rendered against Mr.
Kehoe for $2,690.
The following cases in the city court
were dismissed by the plaintiff's attor
neys: Falk Clothing Cos. vs. Elliott Ac Cos.;
1. Epstein & Bro. vs. Elliott & Cos.; M.
Ferst's Sons vs. Elliott A Cos.; Eckman
& Vetsburg vs. Atkinson & Cos.;
Atlanta National Bank vs. Atkin
son & Cos.; J. R. Einstein vs.
Atkinson & Cos., Robert L. Foreman vs.
Atkinson Cos., Meinhard Bros., vs. At
kinson & Cos., McDonough & Bullantyne
vs. Atkinson & Cos., and C. G. Cooper &
Cos., vs. Atkinson & Cos.
An order was granted in the superior
court directing that bids be advertised
for the stock of tho A. J. Miller
Furniture Company, which is now in the
hands of Receiver C. P. Miller. The bids
are to be opened September 11.
NO AGREEMENT REACHED.
The Naval Stores Men and Railroads
Still Apart.
The committee appointed from the
naval stores men to confer with the rail
roads concerning the disposition of the
stock of spirits turpentine and rosin,
which is scattered about the wharves of
the Central and Savannah, Florida and
Western railways, met again at the board
yesterday. Receiver Comer, of tho Cen
tral railroad, was present, and the sit
uation was discussed. No definite action
was taken, however, and the meeting ad
journed until to-day, when tllfe matter
will be brought up again and a full report
made.
Business in the naval stores market
was suspended yesterday on account of
the confusion at the wharves. There
were no reports of receipts or exports,
and no quotations made at tho board of
trade.
It is expected that the stock will be
straigthened out by to-day, and the reg
ular business will be resumed.
AT HIS FINAL REST.
The Body of A. C. Ulmer Laid Away
in Laurel Grove.
The mortal remains of Mr. A. C. Ulmer
were yesterday morning laid to rest in
Laurel Grove cemetery. The funeral
services were hold at the Christian
church on Bolton street.
The church was fi,'led with a sympa
thetic audience of some of Savannah's best
citizens. A detachment of Cadets under
the command of Capt. Brooks, and a num
ber of Elks were present. The floral offer
ings were beautiful and numerous.
Rev. Dr. T. H. Blenus delivered a
deeply impressive, very feeling and touch
ingly eloquent address, after which a long
line of carriages followed the body to the
grave.
CITY BREVITIE3.
The body of an unknown negro woman
lashed to a scantling by means of a clothes
line was picked up in the river yesterday
opposite Harmon's wharf and was taken
down to the wharf near the gas house.
It Is supposed that she was drowned on
some of the islands up the river, during
the storm on Sunday night, and that her
body floated down to the point where it
was found.
The body of W. J. Miller, who was
with Mr. Ulmer on Hutchinson's Island
at the time of his death, and who was
drowned, or killed, by the failing in of
the barn at the same time, was found
yesterday under the debris and the coro
ner notified. Miller was a hand on Mr.
Ulmer’s place. The body was buried
without an inquest.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
Capt. Henry Blun received a letter yes
terday from his daughter, Mrs. M. F.
Dunn, announcing her and Dr. Dunn's
safe arrival on the other side, after a
pleasant voyago.
Alderman W. I. O’Brien lias returned
from Greenville, Tenn., where he has
been spending some time.
J. E. Gutman returned to the city yes
terday from New York via Waynesville,
N C. Mrs. Gutman is spending the
summer at Waynesville.
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Official Record for the Morning News.
Local forecast for Savannah and vicinity
till midnight. Aug. 31, 1883: Threatening
Heather aud rain, probably heavy, south: ast
winds, increasing to gales, veering to south
west
Otttcial forecast for Georgia: Southeast
winds and rain, preceding a Etorm center,
aiorai! uoitheast towards Georgia.
The height of the Savannah river at Au
gusta at 8 a. m. (75th Meridian time) yester
day was 12.8 feet.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah. Gii., on Aug. 29, 1893, with the normal
for the day:
Departure I Total
Temperature. from the departure
— normal. I since
Normal. | Mean. -|- or— jJan. 1,1893.
78 j 91 -I-.3 i -170
Comparative rainfall statement:
Departure Total
Amount from the departure
niormai. j or normal since
Aug. 8), ‘93 -|- or Jan. 1,1893.
.21 .08 | —.lB | -i-4.16
Maximum temperature. 87°; minimum tem
perature. 75°.
The Cotton Bulletin for 24 hours ending 6
1). m„ Aug 30, 1893, 75th Meridian time.
Observations taken at the same moment of
time at all stations:
Districts. average,
names. N S 0 ta of Mfx. Min. Bain
tion. lem Tem ' tan-
Atlanta 8 88 88 .14
Augusta 10 88 70 .14
Charleston,
Galveston 17 e 6 58 .00
Little Rock, 13 82 80 . 00
Memphis 14 84 60 .00H
Mobile 10 90 60 ,00j
Montgomery 7 92 68 . 08
New Orleans 11 88 62 .00
Savannah 11 92 74 . 54
Vickourg 8 88 82 . 00
Wilmington 10 82 70 . 40
.Max. Min. Rain
savannah di.striot Tem. Tem. fall.
Albany 92 78 .12
Alapaha
Americus 94 72 . 47
Brito bridge 94 74 .70
Cordole 92 72 1.69
Eastman
Port Gaines 62 72 T
Gainesville, Fla 94 72 . 27
Millen 92 72 .15
Quitman 90 74 230
Savannah 87 *6 .08
Thomusville 92 74 .12
Way cross 90 76 T
Observations taken at the same moment ol
time at all stations for the Morning News:
Savannah. Auk. 30, 8 p. m., city time.
Rainfall
-d Velocity...
a
Direction..
Temperatnre..
Name
of
Stations.
Boston 66 NW 6 OjClear
New York city ... 78 NW 8 OiClear
Philadelphia 72 NW L OjClear
Washington city 66 W L OjClear
Norfolk 72 N E L OPtly cloudy
Hatteras
Wilmington 76Cim .. 1.12 Clear
Charlotte 72 E 8 0 Cloudy
Charleston
Atlanta 70 S E 8 1.14 Raining
Augusta 72 S E 8 .52iRaining
SAVANNAH 7j S 6 .8 Cloudy
Jacksonville 76 SE L .ItPt ly cloudy
Titusville 82 SE 18 OjClear
Jupiter 82 SE 12 OjClear
Key West 84 S E 8 OlCloudy
Tampa 78SEIL .lHlPt’ly cloudy
Pensacola 78 N ! 6 Oj Cloudy
Montgomery 78 E 24 O'Cloudy
Mobile 74 S E 12 .16' Raining
Meridian 80; N is OPtly cloudy
Vicksburg 76! NIL OjClear
New Orleans 82iN E 6 OjCloudy
Fort Smith 74j N I 6 0 Clear
Galveston 82NE'8 0 Clear
Corpus Cnrisii... 80 E 12 OjClear
Palestine 78 NEIL (MClear
Memphis 76 N L OPt ly cloudy
Nashville 76|N E L OiPt'ly cloudy
Knoxville 78j N 110 OjPt’lycloudy
Indianapolis 72 NE L OjClear
Cincinnati 72,NE|L OjClear
Pittsburg nil NIL oClear
Buffalo 66'SWjlO OjClear
Cleveland 66!NE|l 0 Clear
Detroit 68 S E L O'Clear
Chicago 68 E 10 OiClear
Marquette 62!N E L o'Clear
St. Paul 701 NW L OiClear
Davenport 72 NW 6 0 Clear
St. Louis 76j N 8 OjClear
Kansas City 72 NE L OjClear
Omaha 79! S L OjClear
North Platte 72 SE 12 0 Clear
Dodge City 721S El 2 OiClear
Bismarck 71,S El 0 OjClear
P. H. Smyth,
Observer Weather Bureau.
U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1
Weather Bureau, x
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 30, 10 p. m. j
weather synopsis.
The storm noted in the synopsis on this
morning’s weather map, as central in the
gulf south of Louisiana, has advanced
northeastward, and now centers about
two hundred miles southeast of Port
Eads, La., with a slight increase in en
ergy. As the storm’s course is northeast
ward, mariners and persons interested
would do well to keep advised relative to
its progress.
Cloudiness and rain prevails along the
central gulf coast, throughout the east
gulf states.in Middle and Eastern Tennes
see, in Middle North Carolina, and
throughout Georgia and South Carolina.
During the twelve hours ending at 8
o’clock to-night 1.14 inches of rain fell at
Atlanta, and 1.12 inches at Wilmington.
Generally clear weather prevails west
of the Mississippi, throughout the Mis
sissippi valley and east of the Mississippi,
north of Tennessee and North Carolina.
During the twenty-four hours ending at
6 o'clock p. m. to-day rain fell in the Sa
vannah. Atlanta. Augusta, Montgomery
and Wilmington cotton region districts,
being heaviest in the Savannah district,
Quitman reporting 2.30 inches and Cor
dele 1.69 inches. Elsewhere in the cotton
belt generally fair weather prevailed.
The maximum temperature at Savannah
to-day was 87“ and the minimum 75°, the
mean temperature being 81°, or 3° above
the normal.
The local rainfall amounted to .08 of an
inch. The average relative humidity for
the day was 91 per cent of thorough sat
uration. P. H. Smyth.
Observer Weather Bureau.
later.
The following telegram has been re
ceived from the chief of the weather bu
reau :
•■Observer. Savannah. Ga.: Hoist storm
signal at 10:50 p. m. Storm central in the
gulf about 200 miles southeast of Port
Eads, moving northeast. Expect south
east gales veering to southwest; also or
dered in Jacksonville and Jacksonville
section.”
Time Is Money.—“ Hush." said Uncle Sam
to the poet, Don t use that phrase -golden
momeuts.’ again where Europe will hear
you.”
Why not?”
"Because, if it ever happens to strike
her. she ll be trying to get all of our
clocks over on her side of the pool.”—Wash
ington iktar.
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Items Gathered Here and There
Among the Shipping.
The cargo of cotton shipped yesterday
on the British steamship Maude, for
Genoa, completes a feature in the exports
at this port which have never occurred be
fore in the history of Savannah. For
the first time there has been foreign
shipments made every month during the
cotton tear. Usually the trade with for
eign ports ends about May or June and
commences again during the latter part
of September.
The steamer Katie, Capt. Bevill, arrived
yesterday afternoon at 6:30 o’clock
from Augusta and way landings,
She was at Augusta during Sun
day’s storm and received no damage,
as the hurricane was not particu
larly severe at that place. The captain
reports that the storm played havoc along
the Savannah river. A great many of the
farms are completely ruined. The loss
cannot be estimated, it is so great. In the
cotton fields the entire crop which was
open was torn from the bolls, and that
not open was more or less damaged
by the heavy beating of the
storm. The corn crop is a total loss and
every field has suffered greatly from the
terrific storm. Housesjare blown away
and there is a complete wreck all along
the river. The following passengers
came down on the steamer yesterday: Dr.
B. S. Kettles, of Stokes’ Bluff: M. A.
Clark, of Steel Creek; B. F. Powell at
Cohen's Bluff; Mrs. R. E. Davis and Mrs.
E. S. Patterson, of Porter's Landing.
The steamer Alpha was not hauled out
of the mud yesterday where the storm
put her Sunday night, and consequently
will not be ready to make the trip pre
viously advertised for Friday. It was ex
pected that she would come off the bank
last night and be brought at once to the
city, where she will be hauled upon a ma
rine railway to undergo any necessary
repairs.
The steamship Maude, Capt. Horner,
was clcaaod yesterday by Strachau & Cos.
Her cargo consists of 1,000 bales of upland
cotton, weighing 513,921 pounds, valued at
$89,500, shipped by Wilder & Cos. to Ge
noa; 250 bales upland cotton, weighing
123,101 pounds, valued at $8,295, shipped
by Strauss to Genoa; 250 bales cotton,
weighing 121,992 pounds, valued at $9,150,
shipped byT. B. Holst & Cos., of Colum
bus, Ga., to Genoa; 4,000 barrels rosin,
valued at SIO,OBO, shipped to Tagnonrog,
and 2,000 barrels rosin, valued at $5,215,
shipped to Odessa by the S. P. Shotter
Company.
The sloop Mercidez, Gapt. Henry Jones,
arrived at Harmon’s wharf yesterday
from Satilla river. The captain reports
that he was anchored up a creek during
the storm and was not damaged at all.
He saw numbers of small crafts scat
tered all along the beach and marsh, on
his way up.
C Tho British steamships Mara and Pe
layo, arrived at the Savannah Florida
and Western wharves yesterday from
Sapelo. They did not sustain any dam
age from the storm of Sunday night,
as the vessels were anchored around tho
point of the island. There were a num
ber of vessels ot Sapelo, none of which
were seriously damaged during the
hurricane.
No reports have been received from the
schooners Ida Lawrence, Jennie Thomas,
Island City and the Norwegian bark,
Mod, which sailed from this port during
the past ton days. Great anxiety is felt
for their safety, as they were probably
in the midst of tho storm.
A. survey of the schooner Lelia Smith,
which lies on Tybee beach, was made yes
terday by Port Warden Capt. Wiggins,
Capt. It C. Smith of the schooner Edwin
A. Gaskill, and Mr. A. L. Farie, the un
derwriters’ agent. They decided that the
cargo of lumber must be discharged and
the vessel towed to Savannah for repairs.
The schooner is buried in the sand on the
beach. She is in about 2% feet of water
at low tide. The tide rises and falls in
her, aud it is supposed there are large
holes in her bottom or that her keel is
knocked out. Nothing, however, can be
definitely ascertained as to her actual
damage until she is unloaded aud an at
tempt is made to float her. She is in a
very dangerous position now, and if struck
by another storm before she is gotten off
the beach she would in all probability go
to pieces.
TO MEET HER INTENDED HUS
BAND.
Experience of Mrs. Mary Shacklett, of
Virginia, in Chicago.
Mrs. Mary Shacklett, a richly dressed old
lady of refined appearance, from Hern
don, Va., is at the Harrison street police
station, says a Friday special from Chi
cago. From her story it appears that her
husband, who died five years ago, was a
nephew of Edward Stanton, Secretary of
War under President Lincoln, and a rela
tive also of Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina.
The old lady says that she arrived in
Chicago yesterday from New Orleans,
having come to this city to see the fair
and meet her intended husband, J. K.
Landers of San Francisco. She engaged
a room, but has no recollection of the ad
dress, and has lost track also of her bag
gage. She wandered through the streets
all day searching for “Mr. Landers.” and
when night came on she drifted into the
station. She says she met Mr. Landers
in New Orleans, and has been in corre
spondence with him. They were to meet
at No. 38 West Madison street and be
married.
At this number there is a cheap lodging
house. She says that for many years she
lived in Pennsylvania and Virginia, and
that she is possessed of an estate worth
140,000, which is managed for her by a
lawyer named Aaron Thompson, of 506
Walnut street, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Shacklett is undoubtedly sane, but
of poor memory. When she Inis seen the
fair an attempt will be mado to send her
on to her friends in the east.
Storm Insurance.
Sunday's experience demonstrates
that storm insurance in this vicinity is
just as necessary as fire Insurance.
Messrs. M. Ferst’s Sons & Cos. are
rewarded for their prudent foresight in
carrying storm policies on their valuable
stock, while many owners of dwellings
aud other property are congratulating
themselves upon the exercise of like sa
gacity. For ten years past insurance
against damage by storms has been an
important feature in the business of Mr.
Charles F. Prondergast, whose advertise
ment appears elsewhere in this issue, —ad.
State
of
Weather.
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Hut. by George, just think of ft!
They took off $250 for you.—Boston
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