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NO NEWS OF THE SURVIVORS
The Tag Paulsen Sent Alter the Rest
ot the Savannah's Passengers.
Capt. Savage Goes With Her Back to
the Scene of the Wreck—Up to a Late
Hour This Morning no News of Her
Had Been Received—The Other Pas
sengers Waiting Anxiously for Their
Return.
Up to 3 o’clock this morning no news had
been received from the tug Paulsen and
its precious freight.
The Paulsen was ready in waiting be
fore r> o'clock yesterday morning to make
the trip to Coffin Point and bring back
the women and children who were set
afloat on the life boat from the wrecked
Savannah.
At 5 o'clock Capt. Savage of the Sa
vannah. with a rescuing party, among
whom was Capt. Lamar, Dr. Lamar's
father, left the Exchange dock on this
tug to go in search of the passengers who
left the wreck and to bring them up to
the city. The tug was not expected back
until late in the afternoon.
LOOKIXG FOB IDE PASSENGERS.
Sometime in the afternoon a report was
started that the Paulsen had been heard
from, and that she was coming back with
everyone of the passengers safe on board
at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Everybody
was then in great expectation that they
would soon see the party from the Sav
annah that had once been given up for
lost.
Six o'clock came and no tidings were
received. Seven, eight, nine and ten
passed, and the crowds that had gathered
on the wharves to see the Paulsen land
her cargo, began to fear that the
tug had had so many difficulties to con
tend with that she would not be able to
get back until this morning. They began
leaving, nnd by midnight the wharves
looked as deserted as they did during the
storm itself. The conclusion had been
reached that the tug would not come
until morning, as it had perhaps been de
tained through some comfort or some
arrangemnt it had to make for the fa
tigued and womout passengers whom it
went to lind.
WAITING TO SEE THEIB FELLOW FASSEN
GEKS.
Scarcely any of the passengers of the
Savannah, who were brought in by the
Birmingham, have left the city. They
have almost all been wairiug here, pre
ferring first to hear of the arrival in
safety of their fellow passengers who,
perhaps, in the end. had more difficulties
to contend with than they did them
selves. There was a husband waiting
for his wife to return, and a father wait
ing for his daughter. There were scores
of friends waiting to hear that the ladies
and children were all safe. But last
night no tidiugs of them came.
Receiver Comer, Supt. Kline, Capt.
Fleming, Agent Anderson and many
others, together with those of the ship
wrecked passengers who are still here,
were waiting at the De Soto last night un
til a late hour to receive the news of the
return of the party in safety, but they
waited in vain.
WILL PROBABLY COME THIS MORNING.
At one time the report got about in the
city that the Paulsen had arrived. It
seemed authentic, or at least so much so
that the bus from the De Soto was sent
down to bring the party up to the hotel.
But the bus returned empty handed.
Everyone grew weary of waiting, and,
coming to the conclusion that she would
not come until morning, they all went
home.
The survivors are supposed to be where
they were landed on Coffin Point on St.
Helena Island. They are:
Dr. G. VV. Lamar.
Mrs. Lamar and two cnildren.
Miss. Mary L. Hooker.
Mbs. Barrow..
Mrs. John Norman.
Ellin A. Norman.
Annie Love
Mrs. C. Hooper.
Mrs. Ellen Wade.
■ Stewardess Old Jane.
NOT ON OLD JANE'S ACCOUNT.
One of the passengers tells the story on
the stewardess. Old Jane, that she is con
sidered a kind of Jonah among the super
stitious, as shs has been in several wrecks
and misfortunes of one kind and another to
steamers before this one, and
that when she was being lowered
into the life boat preparatory to leav
ing the wreck of the Savannah she held
up her hands and said: "Before God,
captain, I didn't bring this on you.”
The tug will probably be up this morn
ing and will be gladly welcomed by every
one In the city.
PRAISE FOR CAPT. SAVAGE.
Capt. Savage was presented yesterday
the following memorial commending his
bravery and valor in the handling of his
ship and the saving of passengers:
We. the undersigned passengers on board
the steamship City of Savannah on her trip
from Boston to Savannah, August 24, 1893.
take this means to testify to our high appre
ciation of the skill and bravery of Capt.
George C. Savage and his officers and crew,
as displayed during the terrible experience of
the stranding and loss of his ship. We also
wish to give expression to our feeling of
thankfulness for the courtesy and kindness
with which we were treated by all connected
with the ship.
The memorial was signed by E. A. Todd,
M. D.: John MacDonald, B. A.; William
Manning Connell, George Randall. John
Norman. George Darlow, Ashley Hooker,
Nathan Barrows. M. D.; Edward Prion,
John J. Wade, John W. Armstrong, Ed
ward P. Hooker, D. D.; Miss May Hooker,
Ellen Wade, J. W. Armstrong, Mrs. C.
Cooper, Annie Love, Dr. G. W. Lamar.
Mrs. Lamar and two children. Miss Nor
man, Mas ter Norman, Mrs. Barrows.
KIND WORDS FOR CAPT. BURG.
Capt. Burg, of the City of Birmingham,
Is receiving the highest praise for his
bravery and heroism in rescuing the pas
sengers from the ill-fated Savannah. The
following by the rescued passengers hus
bean presented him:
We. the undersigned passengers on the ill
fated steamship City of Savannah, wish in
this leeble way to express our deep and heart
felt gratitude to Capt. Burg, of the City of
Birmingham and his officers for their hu
| inanity and conspicuous bravery in rescuing
us from Impending death- Abandoned a* 4 we
were hy ail others, they heroically came to
j our rescue when all hope seemed to be lost
The resolution was signed by George
j Randall, 1) A Hooker. E. P. Hooker, W
| M. Connell, J MacDonald. John Norman,
} Edward Prion, George Darlow. John W.
Armstrong, Jonn Wade, E. A Todd.
FIRST OrriCRK HAMILTON'S BRAVERY.
The passengers of the City of Binning
; ham speak in the highest terms of the
conduct of First Officer Hamilton of the
Birmingham, who was in charge of the
boat sent to take off tbe crew of the
wrecked schooner, Joseph Southern, men
tion of which was made in yesterday's
Morning News.
The rescue was accomplished in the
short time of 40 minutes under the most
trying circumstances. "The seamanlike
qualities displayed by Officer Hamilton
on this occasion are deserving of the high
est praise,” said a passenger yesterday,
in speaking of the incident.
THE SAVANNAH INSURED.
No news having been received from the
ill-fated steamer yesterday, it is impossi
ble to tell whether any part of the wreck
or any of the cargo can be saved.
When the City of Savannah was first
built in 1877 she cost, as is shown by the
last report of Receiver Comer of the Cen
tral railroad, $351,862.78, and she was in
sured at the time of her loss for $150,000.
Mr. Comer said yesterday that he
hardly thought that the company will
build anew ship just at the present time,
as the business hardly warranted it dur
ing the greater part of the year. The
usual investigation in the case of such a
wreck will have to be held, and a report
will go to the government as well as to
the company.
ALMOST BEYOND REPAIR.
No Account of ths Damage to the Ty
bee Railroad Exaggerated.
The Central Railroad officials and
others who have examiued into the con
dition of the Tybee Railroad since the
storm say that none of the reports with
regard to the damage done have been ex
aggerated and that in some respects it
might have been carried even further.
General Superintendent Kline and
Supt. McNeely have been down the river
on a tug and have examined in detail the
track from the bridge over Lazaretto
creek to the Tybee hotel. They found it in
such a bad condition that they will prob
ably state in their report that the track
will have to be rebuilt if anything at all
is done for it, as repairing it with any de
gree of satisfaction is practically impossi
ble.
Of the portion which they examined,
the road from Lazaretto bridge to the
Tybee hotolis in the worst condition. The
track is practically all blown away from
that point down to the point of the island
itself, having been carried everywhere
from 5u to 1,000 feet from its bod. The
rails were twisted about as if they were
wisps of straw, and the water was at
times so high on the island that many
of the crossties actually floated away.
The portion of tbe line from the Naylor
house was not treated quite so badly,
though it is practically beyond repairs.
In many places it was washed out and in
others the sand was piled upon it five or
six feet in depth. The least damage is
towards the Hotel Tybee, which building
itself was practically undamaged except
at the kitchen and dining room. It seems
to have been better protected in this
direction than anywhere else. The Laz
aretto bridge is in as bad a condition as it
could be not to have been washed en
tirely away. That, too, would have to be
rebuilt before it would be of any value to
the road.
Although the track on the island is in
had enough condition, the portion of it be
tween the Lazaretto bridge and the bridge
over the St. Augustine creek is said to
be still worse. An exploring party was
sent down yesterday to examine this por
tion of it, but there were some parts that
they could not reach on account of the
fact that even tho roadbed in places has
been washed away for a considerable dis
tance. Here. too. tlie track lias been
treated as badly as it was on the island it
self. The rails and ties were blown about
in the same manner, but the l worst dam
age was probably from the washing away
of the roadbed, which was rather costly
in construction on account of being
in such a low marshy place.
The engine and three coaches, which
are now standing on the remains of the
track just opposite the light house, will
be brought up to the city next week ou
lighters. A party of officials and hands
will go down to the scene of the wreck on
Monday and arrangements will be made
for getting away this part of the prop
erty. which is about all of it that is left.
Mr. Comer has not determined yet what
action he will take with regard to the
road. It is evident that the only thing
that can be done is to build anew road,
and it is evident, too. that the Central has
not tlie money even to repair it. much less
to build unother road to the island. The
future of the Tybee road is therefore un
certain. but the people who live down
there will have to trust to that future
for whatever trnnstiorlation they get to
and from the island. The probability is,
or it may be called the certainty,that they
will have to depend on water routes, at
least until next summer comes around.
All of tho employes at the Tybee depot
vacated the place yesterday except the
night watchman. All the books and sup
plies wore moved over to the main offices
of the Central railroad on West Broad
street. There are several passenger
coaches at the Tybee depot which cannot
be removed until the track is repaired
They are all old coaches, however, and
are not in any particular demand just
now.
THE SOUTH BOUND ALL RIGHT.
All the Damage Along the Line Fully
Repaired Yesterday.
The damage to tho track of the South
Bound railroad as a result of the storm
was fully repaired yesterday and all
traius will be running on schedule time
to-day.
There were numerous washouts all
along the line, especially beyond Den
mark and going towards Columbia. It was
reported on the streets that there was a
big washout on the road between Fairfax
and Denmark night before last which
had resulted in a damage to the track
that would cost several thousand dollars
to repair. This, however, was a mistake.
There was a washout of about forty feet
between the two points mentioned, but it
was repaired after a few hours’work, and
trains were soon running all tho way
through from Columbia.
This finished up the work of repairing
all the bad washouts ou the line, and
trains can now run through without any
difficulty. The train from Columbia, dud
at 8 o'clock last night, arrived at 10
o'clock, two hours late.
WHEN WEARY AND LANGUID.
Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate.
When you are weary and languid with
the heat of summer, and svuive in vain to
keep cool, and your temper also, the use of
Horsford’s Acid Phospate will materially
aid you.— ad.
"So you have had some experience with
men this summer.'
Well, yes. I refused seven and accepted
five."—Life s Calendar.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAV. SEPTEMBER 1, 1803.
STILL FINDING THE DEAD,
The Fatalities From the Storm Grow
Appalling.
Twenty Bodies Recovered So Far
Around Savannah The Reports
From the Sea Islands Almost Be
yond Belief —The Harbor Filled
With Wrecks and the Entire Coast
Strewn With Wreckage -The Dam
age to Property Growing Greater
Every Day.
The number of fatalities from the
storm which swept with such terrific and
fata! force the entire Georgia and South
Carolina coast, will probably never be
known. Tbe dead are being picked up
every day. But the list of missing will
be the only record that will tell the tale
of tbe great disaster.
The report that six hundred people
were drowned on the sea islands is al
most too appalling to be believed. The
constantly increasing number of fatali
ties, however, Is accustoming people to
believe almost any report that bears
even the slightest mark of authenticity.
Twenty bodies have been found so far
near Savannah. The last recovered was
that of a little colored girl, which
floated down the river last night and
was picked up opposite the Ocean Steam
ship Company’s wharves.
TWENTY-POUR BODIES REPORTED FOUND.
A report was brought to the city late
last night from across the river that
twenty-four bodies had been found near
Screven's Ferry. The report lacked con
firmation, however. While it is not im
probable that several bodies have been
found there, the number is believed to
have been greatly exaggerated. The
body of the sailor who was drowned in the
bark Harold on Tybee beach is reported
to be still in the vessel.
The loss of life seems to have been
greater north of Tybee, on the South
Carolina coast than to the southward.
Not a single fatality has been reported
below Tybee. The revenue cutter
Boutwell and the steamers running be
tween here and Darien have patrolled
every ’navigable river and inlet. Mr.
C. Oemler found a coat on Wilmington
Island yesterday morning hanging up in
a tree, where the water had left it, with
a pistol in the pocket. The coat had
probably been left in a boat by its owner,
and was carried away by the storm.
Whether the owner is lost is unknown.
Searching parties are out on all the
islands looking for the dead, and to rescue
any who may have been cut off from
reach and are still alive.
The coast is strewn with the wreckage
of vessels which tells the story of the
loss of probably hundreds of lives and
hundreds of thousands of dollars in ship
ping.
THE WRECK OF THE NETTIE MURPHY.
The story of the experience of Captain
Cosmou. of the British ship Nettie Mur
phy, which was wrecked (luring the hur
ricane, and of the crew
taken off the vessel bo the
Norwegian brig Medea, whioh arrived at
Tybee Wednesday is told In his own
words. Captain Cosmon says:
"On Aug. 26. we got an increased wind
from the northeast. About Monday it
bad increased to a strong gale. W’hile
the ship was on the port tack, about 6
o’clock in the evening, it was blowing a
living hurricane from the same quarter.
On the morning of the 27th it continued
to blow, with even more force, if such a
thing cotild be possible. About 8 o’clock
the wind started to veer to westward and
the deck load on the port side began to
break up and go overboard. There was
no let up iu the force of tile storm up to
midnight, when it moderated a little.
The starboard dock load was all gone by
this time, and the ship fell down on
her port beam ends, and as there was
such a mountainous sea running, in the
short space of about fifteen minutes we
had nothing left on deck.
EVERYTHING CARRIED AWAY.
“The fore house, hatches, stanchions and
pits around the mizzen mast, the pumps,
water tanks and everything were washed
overboard. The after house was then
gutted and all the boats were gone. At 3
o'clock on Monday, the 38th, we were
taken off by the Norwegian brig Medea,
while in latitude 29° 26' north and longi
tude 79° 16’ west. When we left the ship
she was lying very low in the water, and
the decks wore beginning to break up. Tbe
vessel was head to the west, and she was
listed heavily to starboard.”
Capt. Cosmon has telegraphed the
owners of the Nettie Murphy, giving them
a description of tho disaster.
Mr. Walter Robertson, the British vice
consul, will take charge of the ship
wrecked seamen until the owners of the
vessel are heard from.
fllE GENESTA AFLOAT.
The bark Genesta which was blown
across the railroad track at Tybee from
quarantine got off yesterday and wont
down Oyster creek to a more comfortable
resting place. It will be remembered
that she was driven by storm of Sunday
night from the quarantine station across
the marshes and fetched up on McQueen’s
Island. No one has had any communica
tion with the vessel since her mishap, as
she is still under quarantine law, but it is
supposed that she rested near the edge
of Oyster creek, a short water
course that juts into McQueeirs Island,
and the captain, after getting rid of his
ballast, warped her into the creed. She
can be towed from Oyster creek around
through Lazaretto creek into the Savan
nah river. If the vessel is where she is
stated to be, she not only passed over
Long Island and South ohundel during tho
hurricane, but the Tybee railroad track
and McQueen s Island as well, and can
be put down as a lucky ship.
Strachau & Cos., the agents of the ves
sel. will send a tug down to her this
morning, and will probably tow • her
through the creek safe into the river.
THE ISABELLA GILL MISSING.
The schooner Isabella Gill, Capt. Col
lison, is still missing. - She was in tho
storm, if reports are true that she sailed
last week from Port Royal with a cargo
of phosphate rock. The Isabella Gill is' a
regular trader on the coast, and fre
quently comes to this port. She arrived
here on the lltli of last month witli a
cargo of coal for C. H. Dixon & Cos., and
after discharging sailed for Port Royal
for the cargo of rock, which is supposed
to have carried her to the bottom of the
sea.
The schooner Jennie Thomas, which is
waterlogged off Cape Fear, and the
schooner Leiia Smith, which is on the
beach at Tybee. arrived at this port in
company with the schooner Isabella Gill
on the 10th of August.
The schooner Leonard A. Burnham,
Captain from this port
on last Friday, f#'Portland, Maine, with
a heavy cargo of lumber. She has not
been heal'd from, and as she was in the
midst of the storm, and being an old vessil
there is little hope that she weathered it.
The Burnham was a regular trader with
this port and the captain is well known in
this city.
NOTHING HE(kRD OP THE I IVEKi'I
} The schooner Ida Lawrvr.ee, Certain
' Campbell, is another , ' the missing ves
sels which encountered the storm last
(Sunday. She sailed from this port on
the 23d with a cargo of lumb* r for Phila
delphia. shipped h, E B Hinting A Cos.
Captain Campbell i* ou of the most pop
| ularly known roofers along the coast: lie
| has been trading between this city snd
j the northern ports for a number of years.
Tbe three-mast,■d schooner Enchant
ress of New York. Capt Frank Rallent,
is ashore twenty-five miles south of Cape
Fear, with deck load lost: cabin and fore
castle were washed away. The mate was
washed overboard Sunday night and
drowned. The captain is considerably in
jured. The men were three days without
food or water. The Enchantress sailed
from Beaufort, S. C.. on August 23. for
New York, with a cargo of railroad ties.
Nothing has yet been heard from the
schooner Henry B. Ritter. Capt. Peter
son, which sailed from Savannah on the
22d with a cargo for New York. Capt.
Peterson has many friends in this city
who have great apprehension for his
safety. The cargo was shipped by Dale,
Dixon &Cos. —-
The Norwegian bark Aurora.
Koss, from London, which arrived yes
terday. did not encounter the storm, be
ing to the east of tne eulf last Sunday;
but she was in the heavy seas which
filled the ocean from the effects of the
hurricane.
Capt. Koss reports having sighted the
wreck of the Norwegian bark Dagny, iu
latitude 31 l> -10' and longitude 79M5', last
Tuesday. The vessel was waterlogged,
dismasted and abandoned. The Dagny,
Capt. Eskelund, sailed from Mobile for
Belfast with a cargo of timber on August
10th. She was LOftS tons register.
The Swedish steamship Hespania, Capt.
Jansen, arrived below yesterday. She is
from New Orleans to take a cargo of cot
ton for Genoa. The vessel is consinod to
Strauss & Cos., of this city. Capt. Jansen
reports that he had fair weather since
last Saturday, when he sailed, and had a
pleasant trip with the exception of seeing
the ocean in this vicinity filled with
wreckage from the , large number of dis
tressed and abandoned vessels which were
disabled by the cyclone last Sunday.
THE JENNIE THOMAS WRECKED AGAIN.
A telegram received yesterday by Jos.
A. Roberts from Southport, N. C.. stated
that the schooner Jennie Thomas was
waterlogged and anchored, .at sea, about
25 miles off Cape Fear, and the mate, Mr.
Sund had come ashore to get a tugboat to
go to her assistance.
A later telegram stated that the tug
boat had started to the distressed vessel.
The mate reports that all on board are
safe.
The schooner Jennie Thomas, Captain
Young, sailed from Savannah for Balti
more on Thursday Aug. 23 with a cargo
consisting of 269,879 feet of lumber and
8,001 railroad crossties. measuring 256,-
032 feet, shipped by Dale, Dixon & Cos.
The cargo was insured for $0,754 in the
Boston Murine Insurance Company, repre
sented by John Sullivan & Cos., of this
city.
Seven eighths of the schooner Jennie
Thomas is owned by parties in Savannah,
Mr. Meritt W. Dixon controlling the man
aging interest in her. She is named after
a daughter of D. K. Thomas, the coal
dealer. The vessel originally cost about
$35,000, and out of the twenty-eight shares
owned and held by Savannahians there
are about twelve of them covered by in
surance.
This is the third time during this year
that the schooner has met with disaster.
She was damaged in a storm on Jan. 14
while on a trip from Savannah to Balti
more, and also met with a serious loss
while in a storm on her return trip to this
city iu February.
The British barkentino Mexico h&s suc
ceeded in getting out of the pen of piling
which had encircled her at the quaran
tine station, after the storm. Her novel
position will no longer be seen or won
dered at, as she is now in the middle of
the Savannah river and will come to the
city to load with naval stores as soon as
released from quarantine.
THE CUTTER MORRILL’S PATROL.
On Wednesday the revenue cutter Lot
M. Morrill, stationed at Charleston, made
a trip to Kiawah Island, Beaufort county,
about thirty miles from Hunting Island,
to render assistance, if possible, to the
missing yachts of the Carolina Yacht
Club. The Morrill’s people at that time
had not heard of the disaster to the City
of Savannah. Of the trip the News and
Courier of yesterday says: "The miss
yachtsmen were found safe. Capt. Blake
hearing it rumored that an oar and a
body had been found on Kiawah beach,
which probably belonged to the steam
ship City of Savannah, ordered the Mor
rill at once to the scene. At daylight on
the following morning one of the cutters,
under the command of Lieut. Thompson,
carrying Messrs. Earle Sloan and Arthur
Simons, proceeded by way of Bass creek
to the front Beach of Kiawah Island.
A 'SICKENING SCENE.
“Here a scene sickening with apprehen
sion reveals over a scope of ten miles de
molition. The wreckage of the steamer
City of Savannah, cabin doors, saloon
chairs, mahogany steps, washstands,
mahogany balustrads and steps, as well
as cushions, pillows and hundreds of life
preservers, many stamped City of Savan
nah, strew r the beach intermingled with
fragments of the hard wood finish of,the
saloon, pieces of life boats and some of
the heavy timbering of her superstruc
ture.
“The party was resolved into a wide
search line, proceeding along miles of the
ocean front, swimming inlets and creeks
and wading marshes in their efforts to
discover the bodies of the probably un
fortunate ones. None were found. The
extent of beach covered by the debris
which the natives advised as extending
to Seabrook's Island suggests that the
steamer probably foundered fifteen or
more miles from shore. The horizon
carefully examined revealed the un
broken sea.
“It is the opinion that a vital casualty at
such a distance would not afford its dead
to the beaches for some days yet. Dili
gent inquiry satisfied the party that the
natives have as yet found none beyond
the cutter's organized lino of search.
That one thread of hope may be vet ex
tended to the anxious ones, who, through
sympathy and nearer bonds, hold dear
the lives on this ship. It may be said that
not one article of personal property was
found—no wearing apparel, no hand
bags, no trunks. The damage may have
been confined to the upper saloon. This
is a slender hope.
CONDITION OF THE NATIVES.
“The condition of the natives on Kiawah
Island is the subject of the most touching
pity. The cyclone destroyed their entire
crops, much of their small stock, and with
the tide enteriug their houses, swept
from them their few personal belongings.
Many were on the beach stripping the
canvas from the life preservers to be used
for making clothing. Cue colored boy,
whose name could not be ascertained,
was asserted to have been drowned in
one of the neighboring inlets.
"The Morrill returned to Charleston last
night that those calamities might be ad
tised for the prompt and intelligent
guidance of interests and of charities.
Capt. Blake's warm response to the ap
prehensive friends of the Carolina Yacht
Club lays that association under tribute
of tho warmest appreciation. This is
especially shared by the two members
accompanying tbe Morrill, the lavish
courtesy of whose other officers, Lieuts.
Thompson nnd Van Baskerek, is a charm
ing obligation.
BODIES ON MATTRESSES.
"Capt. Haskell, of the schooner Morris
W. Child, which arrived at quarantine
here in distress on Tuesday evening, be
ing bound from Brunswick to Boston, re
ports that he passed the bodies of six
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dead men, with life preservers on, twenty
miles east of Savannah. They were sur
rounded by wreckage, a part of which
was mattresses.
“The report that Capt. Haskell passed
six men floating, almost lifeless, was in
correct. He rescued the captain and
crew of the schooner Harold C. Beecher.
The captain of the Beecher also saw the
six dead bodies floating.
THE FORCE OF THE WIND.
“ThegeEtlemen who went down to Kia
waji on the cutter Morrill reported that
along the whole line of the beach which
they covered In their search for the dead
from the steamship City of Savannah
they had found numberless dead sea
gulls. The birds had been washed upon the
shore with the other wreckage from the
storm. They brought back to the city
with them many of the articles which
they found on the beach—saloon chairs,
life preservers and other fixtures, which
had once belonged to the ill-fated
steamer. ”
DAMAGE AT FORT PULASKI.
Dr. L. E. Cofer, United States marine
hospital surgeon, reports that consider
able damage was done at Fort Pulaski
in the quarantine quarters by the storm.
The water poured in through thfe ports
and was knee deep in the rooms and on
the parade. Everything was set afloat,
bedding, furniture, cooking utensils and
other supplies provided by the govern
ment for the equipment of the detention
hospital at the fort. The keepers waded
about all night trying to keep the most
valuable articles out of water. They
were in no danger of their lives, but had
a very unpleasant time of it.
Dr. Cofer tried to get a tug Tuesday
to take down a force of men to save the
supplies.sbut was not able to secure one.
He finally secured Capt. Carter's tug, the
Angler, and sent her down Wednesday
with a force of men to clean up the fort
and save the stock of supplies from
further damage. There was only a small
supply of provisions in the fort and the
loss on this score did not amount to much.
The fort will be put in order at once.
THE DAMAGE AT SAPELO.
The captain of the Bellevue, which ar
rived yesterday from Darien, reported to
Dr. Brunner that considerable damage
hud been done at the government quaran
tine station at Sapelo, amounting proba
bly to several thousand dollars. The
magnificent boat house, the pride of the
station, was entirely swept away. The
wharves of the disinfecting plant were
left intact, but the ballast lighter was
carried away. There was some
damage to the houses, but
the quarantine officers are all safe.
VESSELS ASHORE AT SAPELO.
Capt. Garnett reported several wrecks.
The bark Mary (j. Reed, from Cienfue
gos, for Brunswick, which was ordered to
Sapelo from Brunswick, parted her
cables during the gale and
went ashore in the marsh between
Sapelo and Black Beard Islands in Sap
elo sound. Her master came to Savan
nah yesterday. He expects the vessel
can be saved.
The stern wheel steamer Mascot of
Brunswick was washed several miles up
into the marsh, and it is hardly possible
that she can be gotten out.
Two unknown Norwegian barks were
lying wrecked in the marsh near Sapelo.
The Portuguese bark Sofola was ashore
near Doboy.
The two-masted schooner Ferreta is in
the marsh at Doboy.
AT THE BLOODY POINT LIGHT.
The keeper of the Bloody Point alight
sbip on Daufuskie Island says that tbe
station is almost a total wreck. The oil
room, kitchen and boathouse were torn
from their foundations. The brick piers
were torn out and two of the buildings
were washed 500 yards up on the island.
The oil cans and all the property of the
station were washed away and the
dwelling came near going. Tbe seas
dashed clean through the house. At 2
o’clock Monday morning the keeper, car
rying his Ills children and leading his
wife, waded waist deep three-quarters of
a mile to a house. The rear light keeper
lost all his quarters and other things, but
was able to keep his lights going all right.
Not a single white person on the island
came near or offered to render any assist
ance to the keeper or his family. The
keeper picked up ten cans of oil on the
beach after the storm.
A HEAVY LOSS AT QUARANTINE.
Mayor McDonough estimates that the
damage to the Savannah quarantine sta
tion by tho storm will amount to $15,001).
Both the upper and lower quar
antine stations are totul wrecks.
There is nothing left at the
upper station except the piling ou which
the wharves stood and at the lower sta
tion only the quarantine officer’s house
remains and that is in a damaged condi
tion. Tho new fumigating plant
is unhurt. The plant was
placed upon very strong foundations
when built which withstood the storm
splendidly.
The city is advertising for bids for rais
ing the three hoisting engines sunk at
the quarantine station. Temporary en
gines will be sent down to do the work
until the sunken engines are replace!.
NOT LIKELY TO BE REBUILT.
Mayor McDonough does not think that
the upper quarantine station will be re
built. He thinks that it will be better in
rebuilding to locate all the wharves at
the lower station. This will be much
more convenient than having two
stations half a mile apart mak
ing it necessary for the
quarantine officer to make frequent trips
between them. The quarantine officer’s
house is at the lower station. It will also
cost less to build a single large station
than to build two separate stations.
There is ample room for a number of
ships to swing at anchor at the lower
quarantine, and it is considered much
the better location for many reasons.
CLEARING THE STREETS.
The city has been dense with smoke
for the last two days from the hundreds
of brush fires in the stroets and squares.
Two hundred men have been at work
cutting away the broken branches of
trees and clearing the streets. All the
scavenger wagons were loaded with the
heavy brush, and since Monday
have been hauling it away. The
leaves are raked into ‘ piles
and burned on the streets. By the end of
the week the wreckage of the'storm will
have been entirely removed.
The park is still filled with broken
trees and branches. The walks have been
clean'd, however, and the removal of tho
brush will be finished in a few da vs.
Trees are being cut down only when they
are broken so that they cannot be straight
ened. Some portions of the park look like*
a wood yard from the wood that is cut
from tbe shattered trees.
Languor, loss of appetite and strength,
Nervous and neuralgic headaches
Promptly cured by Bromo-Seltzer.—ad.
REPAIRING THE BRIDGES.
Maj. Blajidford Pushing the Work in
the County as Rapidly as Possible.
The people who live at Isle of Hope and
points on other roads at a considerable dis
tance from the city, have experienced no
small amount of trouble since the storm
in moving to and from the city over the
county roads.
The bridges were all washed away
with few exceptions, and some of those
that were not carried away by the storm
were so badly undermined that they soon
fell from their positions. In well settled
communities like the Isle of Hope, this
washing away of the bridges has caused
no little inconvenience. The bridge on
the Vernon shell road, too, is gone, but for
that the county is not responsible, as
that road belongs to a private corpora
tion and will have to repair its own
damage.
County Engineer Blandford is on the
alert for any damage done for which the
county is made the sufferer, and he sent a
crew of hands out to the bridge on the
Skidaway road yesterday, the lumber
having been sent out the day before, and
set them to work repairing the washed
away bridge on this road which leads to
the Isle of Hope. Another crew vas also
put to work on the washouts on the road,
which were numerous. He hopes by the
end of this week to have the road in a
thoroughly good condition, and he assures
the people who live out that way that he
will use every effort iu his power to have
it done by that time. He is having the
most important roads and bridges re
paired first, and will complete the entire
work without delay as early as possible.
In his work in the county Maj. Bland
ford uses every effort to keep every spot
with which he has anything to do in a
thoroughly sanitary condition. He says
that the flood from the storm and the salt
water which covered tho marshes has
torn up and killed large quantities of veg
etation, which was drifted up in heaps
by the action of the wind, and this veg
etation is now lying everywhere in huge
masses, now decaying under the heat of
the September sun. What to do with it
he does not know. He says it would
tako a thousand wagons working for
sometime to cart it all away; but then
even with that comes the vexing problem,
where is it to be cartod? This decay
ing vegetation is no doubt producing a
very unsanitary condition throughout the
county, and there should be some means
by which the situation could be relieved.
LITTLE DAMAGE AT WARSAW.
The Island Escaped the Storm's
Wrath.
Dr. A. Oemler, who spent Sunday
night on Warsaw with his family during
tho storm, reports that the damage there
was very slight.
The only damage to the pavilion was the
undermining of the pillars of the piazza
on the side next to the ocean, causing the
piazza to sag down. No glass even in the
pavilion were blown out, which appears
wonderful, considering the number that
were broken by the wind in the city.
Expecting that the glass would be
blown out of the windows of the pavilion,
Dr. Oemler and his family took refuge in
a small house near by. Some
limbs of trees were blown
down on the roof.
The wharf at Warsaw was not carried
away, only a few of the plank being
loosened.
Dr. Oemler reports that the cross ties
from the Tybee railroad are lying all over
his field on Wilmington Island, a distance
of about three miles from the railroad.
The damage on Wilmington Island was
also slight.
PICKED UP DELIRIOUS.
William Hauard Taken Aboard by the
Captain of the Bellevue.*
William Hazard, who used to keep a
ship chandler's shop down on Dog Ham
mock, near Sapelo, was picked up near
Darien, said Capt. Garnett of the steamer
Bellevue yesterday, in a small sloop
rigged boat. Capt. Garnett returned yes
terday from Darien.
Hazard had been out sixteen hours
without food or water, and he was
suffering terribly from the pangs
of thirst and hunger. Ho
had stood it until he became delirious.
Hazard’s store and stock were entirely
swept away by the water, nnd when he
saw that it was going, he made for a
small sloop yacht which he owned and
determined to risk v his chances in her.
From that time he was out sixteen hours,
until he became delirious, when he was
picked up and taken care of.
RECEIVING TO-DAY.
Fresh After the Cyclone at Estill’e
News Depot, 21 1-2 Bull Street.
Puck, Judge, Truth, Life, Texas Sift
ings, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newsoa
per, Harper’s Weekly, Detroit Free
Press, Illustrated American, New York
Illustrated News, Savannah Morning
News, Charleston News and Courier,
Atlanta Constitution, Macon Telegram.
Augusta Chronicle, Florida Times Union,
and all of the New York and Philadel
phia dailies.—ad.
“An Inquiry Into the Truth of Dog
matic Christianity”
Comprising a discussion with a bishop
of tho Roman Catholic church. "It is ab
surd to assume what is beyond reason to
account for what is opposed to reason.”—
Ibid. Part 1, Chapter B, Section 2. By
William Bearing Harden of Savannah.
Price $1.50. For sale at Estill’s News
Depot, 21>£ Bull street, Savannah, Ga.—
ad.
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
and 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. Prendergast, whose advertise
ment appears elsewhere in this issue.—ad.
World’s Fair Rate Reduced
From Savannah via Central railroad to
$34 20 round trip, limit fifteen days. W.
G. Brewer, C. T. A., No. 19 Bull street.—
ad.
LUODEN 4 BATES 1 M. H .
WEATHER PROBABILOTEsr-Fhij)■ v
hpr * nd occasions'^'
slhht chances ui temperature, oi.Lh^ l(
II USUI Bill.
Figg-There’s a piano I had at a
bargain. They asked me *SOO for it
and I beat them down to xieso
What do you think of that’
Fogg—Think you did pretty well
for a green hand. I had that same
Instrument offered to me for sim
and they wouldn’t take off a cent
But. by George, just think of it!
They took off *250 for you —Boston
Transcript.
EXACTLY.
A good many people have inves
ted as much as *SOO in a piano only
to know that they have paid at
least *250 for their experience.
There Is only one fair way to sell
anything. That ls-at ON K
PRICE to every one. and that's
OUR PLAN. One thing it is well
to remember. If you pay *SOO for a
piano It ought to buy one of estate
lished reputation. No unknown
instrument Is worth such a price.
SEE US WHEN
YOU HUE READY.
MEN l BUIES
S. M. H.
CLOTHING.
Losing~
Big
Money.
So we are; so everybody
says.
All right, you are finding
it —in our 35 Per Cent. Re
duction Sale of Fall Weight
Suits.
STOVES.
WHAT .
CAN
WE
DO
FOR
YOU?
*
House Furnishings,
Stoves, Ranges,
Furnaces, Grates,
and Mantels.
30 BARNARD.
JAS.DODGLASS
...I .ii ———■ _
CLOTHING.
Thus the Ist of September sets in. We wish
to make sime memorable.
To-day and To-morrow
WE WILL SELL
*
100 Hs oi Our Mol $5 oil
Those who bought one of our
suits last season at the same
price will always remember us.
We mean what we say. These
suits will range In value at cost to
us from $7 50t051250. Calllnand
see them.
GROCERIES.
me ttMH Mi ill Beef.
$1 PER DOZEN.
California Claret $3 per doz
California Sauterne • • • 3 per doz
California Riesling •• • 3 per doz
These wines seven years in wood.
JAS. McGRATH
19 AND 19* WHITAKEB 8T