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Six Lives Lost in Sunday
Night's Cyclone.
PROM LOSS OIL lllld
The Beautiful Battery
a Mass of Debris.
WHARVES NEARLY ALL SMASHED
Shipping in the Marsh, on the
Wrecks of Wharves and
at the Bottom.
The Topography of Sullivan's Island
Changed—A Great Number of Houses
Wrecked Both in the City and on the
Island—Fort Moultrie a Haven of
Refuge—Water in the Lower Part of
the City Several Feet Deep—Steel
Bridge Across the Ashley Smashed.
Charleston, S. C., Aug. 29.—The old
earthquake city is once more engaged in
rebuilding her waste places. The cyclone
of 1893 arrived here on Sunday last. It wa?
entirely unexpected, and of course caught
everybody unprepared. The wind had
been blowing from the east for several
days at the velocity of about twenty
miles. At about 2 o’clock Sunday
the fury of the gale set in,
and [by 7 o’clock it was blowing at
the rate of 100 miles an hour, accompan
ied by a drenching rain. By 4 p. in.
pretty much all the streets and lots south
of Calhoun street and west of Coming
street were under water, just as they
have been a dozen times during the sum
mer, when the drains have been con
gested by unusually heavy rains.
ENTIRELY UNPREPARED.
At that time, however, the situation
assumed a phase that became much more
serious. The hour of high water was 8:07
p. m., and, judging from experiences in
former cyclones, the culmination of the
blow and the receding of the water was
confidently looked for at that
time. Nobody was prepared for
what followed. By 4 o'clock
the salt water had joined the surface rain
water, washing clean over the causeways
and low bulkheads along the river front.
In an hour the water had risen to a depth
of four feet in Lynch and Gadsden streets,
and at 8 o’clock the entire western sec
tion of the city was from six to ten feet
under water.
APPALLING SITUATION.
Here was a condition that became at
once alarming. Night added to the ter
rors of the situation. As the gas meters
in many of the houses were submerged by
the rising flood, the inmates of the houses
were deprived of light and cut off from
communication with the rest of the world.
Ingress or egress from the houses was
impossible in many cases. The inhabi
tants were as completely isolated as if
they were on an island in the Atlantic
ocean. Houses in the western part of the
city which were built on the ground were
flooded on the lower floors to the depth of
from three to six feet. Those which are
built on pillars from eight to ten feet
high escaped this disaster, but
their inmates were still cut off
from all communication with the
lest of the world. As the night
advanced the situation became appalling.
Light o’clock, the time of high water,
passed, but there was no lull in the fury
of the wind. On the contrary, the gusts
came on in shorter intervals and with
increased fury, and the frame houses
shook and trembled and swayed to the
fury of the gale in a way that carried
fear and terror to the hearts of the
inmates.
1 1 will be remembered that many houses
filled with women and children were in
utter darkness owing to the flooding of
gas metres. In many instances the men
of the family were away, without any
possible means of getting to their resi
dences. All around them the apparently
endless water lapped the floors of their
high piazzas and threatened with
drowning those who might escape being
crushed beneath the walls and roofs
"bii h threatened momentarily to yield to
the force and fury of the wind. This
° 'dinued till noon on Monday, when the
* >ter subsided and the people had a
ckam-e to look around.
OVER ONE MILLION LOSS.
I lie city was a scene of utter wreck
* ,lu ruin. Of the hundred or moro piers
She Mofnitta ffrtoi
on the water front but two remained,
the granite pier of the custom house and
a granite pier farther south. The beau
tiful high Battery was wiped out of ex
istence.
The railroads leading to the city were
crippled and the telograph and telephone
lines are down. There has been no commu
nication with the country between hero
and Savannah for three days, and it is
feared the rice crop will be a , total
loss.
THE CASUALTIES.
The casualties are six persons, three of
whom were killed in the city and three
on Sullivan’s Island, the beautiful seaside
resort of the city, which was covered
completely with water. The loss to ship
ping in port was very heavy. The
bridge over the Ashley river, connecting
the city with the sea island was de
stroyed. There is no feeling of despon
dency here. The fire department is to
day pumping out the cisterns and cellars
and everybody is repairing damages.
There was somedangerof a water famine.
Most of the drinking water used here is
from cisterns which hold rain water.
All of them were filled with salt water,
rendering their contents useless. There
is, however, a limited supply of artesian
water which will probably last till the
cisterns can be cleaned out. The light
ship at Rattlesnake Shoals off the harbor
is lost; the crew, however, were saved.
A DETAILED ACCOUNT.
Charleston, S. C., Aug. 29. —Charleston
has suffered severely from one of the
greatest storms in her history. Lives
were lost and immense damage done to
property. A summary of results of the
storm may be stated as follows:
KILLED.
Mary Barnwell (oolored), killed Sun
day afternoon on Kramer's farm, on
Charleston neck, about five miles from
the city. A falling chimney crushed her
as she ran from a falling house.
Robert Simmons (colored) was
drowned trying fo save the life of a col
ored child on Young’s lot.
James Jones, tho young child whom
Simmons was trying to save.
Mrs. E. Pollard was found crushed in
the wreck of her house on Sullivan’s
Island.
Andrew Bryan, colored; drowned
while trying to escape from his house on
Sullivan’s Island.
Sylvia Bryan, colored, wife of Andrew;
drowned with her husband while trying
to escape.
INJURED.
Ella Boles, colored; severely cut and
bruised about the head aud face.
William Boblea, colored; bruised and
cut by flying slates and glass.
property damage.
'The News and Courier of this morn
ing estimates the property losses as fol
lows:
City property SIOO,OOO
Fertilizer works 1X5,500
Charleston Mining Company 50,000
Railroads 30,000
Telephone Exchange,.., 6,000
Telegraph companies 30,000
Lead works 12,000
Wharves 250.000
Shipping 50,000
Ashley River Bridge UO.OOO
Churches 50,000
Brivate property 200,000
Miscellaneous 100,050
Total $1,111,500
The News and Courier contains this
morning nearly two pages of a descriptive
story of the storm, from which the follow
ing is condensed:
THE BATTERY RUINED.
Charleston’s beautiful battery pre
sented a scene of desolation yesterday
morning. The terrible flood of waters
which had dashed their angry waves over
the ramparts throughout the preceding
night had done their work effectually,
and the receding torrent, when it swept
back to sea, carried with it the glory of
the handsomest water front that ever
graced a city.
The solid masonry of the sea wall alone
withstood the shock of the tempest.
The oaken posts and the iron railing
which surmounted it was almost entirely
swept away. The brick wall which had
supported the place had fallen in and the
conglomerate mas3 which had filled in
the space between the two walls was com
pletely undermined. For a short dis
tance in tho center of the east wall the
flagging remained intact, but even here
the iron railing was gone. Everywhere
else the beautiful smootlvfootway of the
high battery presented the most uneven
ami dilapidated appearance.
White Point Garden proper presented a
sorry spectacle. The south side was still
submerged to the depth of a foot and a half.
One of the handsomest of the live oaks in
this garden had been uprooted. Tlie
shell walks were strewn with debris,
including timbers, broken branches,
portions of benches and drift wood.
The driveway is in places heavily drifted
with mud and sand, and where it extends
down South Battery is badly clogged
with fallen trees, limbs and pieces of tim
ber. The iron drain pipes piled up beside
the pathway were rolled aud tossed about
as if they were straws. Added to the
ruin of fencing and private gardens and
to the defacing of the handsome houses
the scene presented is one of v. idespreud
ruin.
HOW THE CHURCHES FARED.
There ai-e seventy-odd churches in
Charleston. Almost every one sustained
damage. Lacking space to particularize,
the money losses may be stated thus:
Mount Zion almost ruined, loss
$10,000; First Presbyterian. $500; Second
Presbyterian, $5,000 ;Grace Episcopal ,$200;
Bethel Methodist. $2,500; St. Matthew's
Lutheran, $600; St. Paul’s Episcopal,
$400; Citadel Square Baptist, SI,OOO ; St.
Luke’s Epis -opal, $200; St. Joseph’s
Catholic, $2,000; Emanuel A. M. E.,
$3,000: Zion, colored, $500; Westminster
Presbyterian, 1500; St. Peter’s, colored
Catholic, $100; Trinity Methodist, $2,500;
St. John's Lutheran. $200; Unitarian.,s3oo.
Among the churches which are ap
parently uninjured or very slightly injured
are the' Holy Communion, St, Johannes
German Lutheran, the Wentworth Street
Lutheran, the New Cathedral and the
Pro-Cathedral, St. Patrick s, St. Mary’s,
(it. C.,) and Beth Elohim Synagogue.
The damage to church property in the
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1893.
city may be safely calculated to amount
to $.‘.0,000.
THE WHARVES WIFED OUT.
There are only two wharves left intact
in the city. At Southern wharf the pier
is swept clean away and the wharf sheds
are down. The former site of the pier
can be traced by a few piles still stand
ing half out of the water. In the slip a
large mast is about half way out of water,
but the name of the boat at the other end
could not be ascertained.
South Commercial, which was entirely
covered with wreckage, railroad ties and
tin roofing, presented a very deplora
ble sight. A number of small boats were
in the [Tile of debris and several su,all
sized sailing vessels.
North Commercial pier swept entirely
away, not a sign of it being left. The
rooms of the Carolina Yacht Club are on
this wharf, and the front of the brick
building was pierced through by huge
timbers hurled against it by the waves
during the previous night. In the dock
the yachts Naomi, Polly and Caprice were
sunk and badly wrecked.
Vanderhorst wharf was completely
wrecked and ruined from the Bay to the
end of the pier. Several yachts in this
dock were damaged past redemption.
Adger's wharf was one of the two safe
ones. Being constructed of stono and
with extra strong sheds it stood the
storm without much injury.
North Adger’s had lost its pier head,
and the sheds were damaged to some ex
tent.
South Boyce's wharf, a large two-mas
ter, the Wade Hampton, a Charleston
boat, had her stern flung up on land and
her bow almost under the water. Slie
had had a tough time and was pretty
well scarred up. The Louise, a steam
boat in the same slip, was pretty badly
used up.
Brown’s wharf, the landing for the
Clyde Line steamers, is one of the most
disastrous wrecks on the water front.
The heads of the piers are gone and every
shed was down. A terrible litter of bar
rels, timber and boxes covered every
thing.
Accommodation wharf had its entire
front down. The Planter rode the storm
tied up at the wharf. She had her sides
pretty badly scarred and a good-size hole
in her deck, near the stern.
Central wharf—'The three-master, Lau
ra E. Messer, had her nose shoved high
up into the wharf. She had pounded
very heavily on the rocks and was pretty
badly scarred. Her lines did not part,
but the wharf gave way and the schooner
got wedged in the corner of the dock in a
pretty bad shape.
At Custom House wharf tbe Wistaria
was tied up witli her sides very badly
smashed and her bulwarks gone. No se
rious damage was dor.e, however.
The Ferry wharf wa3 an ugly ruin.
The front of the pier was washed away
and the sheds were completely shorn of
boards and tin.
Union wharf suffered greatly. What
was left of it was piled up in a mighty
small heap. The East Shore Terminal
pier No. 3 had lost all the tin from its
sheds and a part of the pier had been
washed away.
Broderick's wharf was completely
wrecked and the dock was filled with
wrecked sloops. The sloop Ida was found
high and dry, and two sloops, each bear
ing the name Minnie, were wrecked on
the wharf.
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co.'s wharf was very
badly demolished. The piers of the wharf
were all gone and the sheds were down
and the stores of fertilizers were spread
over everything. In this dock is the
wreck of the steamer Daniel’s Island.
Merchants' wharf was also in a bad fix.
Like all the others, her piers and sheds
were wrecked and her slips full of ship
wrecks. Six large sloops were wrecked
at this wharf, the Laura L., Centennial.
Beulah, Rose and two unknown boats
that were beaten to pieces.
The Charleston Rice Milling Company’s
buildings were down, and the wooden
buildings and works of Bennett's mill
shared a like fate.
Pregnall’s Wharf—The dry dock was
broken right in half, and in the middle a
pilot was tosring around on her side. The
dry dock is a terrible wreck; a part of it
crushed in the stern of the E. H. Jackson,
hurting it severely.
Marine wharf was as much blown down
as the rest and held the wrecks of two
large lighters and two yachts.
Above Pregnali’s as far as Marshall’s
wharf the wharves all suffered a similar
fate.
AMONG TUB SHIPPING.
At Marshall’s wharf were three barks
left on shore. The Cesarina, a bark of
650 tons, and The Maria, of about 450 tons,
were in the same slip in one huge tangled
wreck.
The bark the Agnes, of Barth, Ger
many, was tied up at Marshall's wharf
before the storm. Early in the night she
broke her moorings and was washed by
the high seas over piles and debris high
and dry. Her captain, Schepeler, was
loading her with rosin and turpentine
and was getting ready to start for Savan
nah to finish the cargo. She is now
high and dry and has lost her rudder and
windlass. Her hull is pretty badly
scraped, but time and tact will put her
afloat again.
The schooner Nellie W. Ilowlett was at
the Northeastern railroad wharf with
about 100,000 feet of lumber on board.
She dragged to Reed street and will have
to be dredged out.
The 1 schooner B. F. Leo was at Stein
meyer's and dragged to Halsey’s pond,
where she is high and dry.
The schooner Annie C. Grace was at the
Etiwan works loading fertilizers and
dragged ashore in the marsh.
The schooner May Williams was at the
.South Carolina wharf loading for New
York and lost her jibboom.
The schooner Addie B. Bacon was in
the stream loaded with a cargo of phos
phate rock for Mantua and was driven
between Pregnall's and the Marine
wharves. She lost her rudder and sus
tained other damages.
Tbe schooner E. G. Right was at Brad
ley’s and was driven through the New
Bridge and went ashore up the Ashley.
Jibboom and bowsprit gone and other in
juries.
The schooner M. Luella Ward also was
at Bradley's, and was forced against the
bridge and sustained serious damage.
The schooner Sallie Bissell is up against
the Now bridge also.
Tbe Emma S. is ashore up the Ashley.
The schooner Emma Pendleton is
against a mud flat at West Point, where
the storm sent her.
The schooner Lydia J. Lewis is ashore
near Wappoo Mills.
The steamer Kiawah is resting on the
wharf with her bow in the water and
does not appear to be very much damaged.
Mr. Cramer's steam launch Lorena is a
totai loss, being crushed to pieces by the
Kiawah.
Friberg's shipyard, at the foot of Coun
cil street, has been entirely swept away,
not a thing remaining but a few piles.
The sloop Emma was on the was when
the gale started, but no trace of the boat
has been seen or hoard of since.
The steamer Jennie and Sue, which had
been hauled out for repairs, was com
pletely wrecked and will prove a total
loss.
ABOUT THE CITT.
The new iron and steel drawbridge
across Ashley river at the foot of Spring
street was wrecked. It led to the truck
farming section of St. Andrew's Parish.
The estimated loss is given elsewhere.
The railroads were literally knocked
out. No trains left for Savannah from
Sunday noon up to tonicht. it is said to
night that a train for Savannah will go
out over the South Carolina railway, to
take the South Bound at Denmark.
Both (if the telegraph companies lost
all of their wires, and the telephono sys
tem was prostrated.
The Grimball mansion had portions of
the piazza carried away. and every out
building, together with all the fencing, is
entirely obliterated.
The Werner, Kershaw and Allston
houses suffered in a like manner, and the
occupants were compelled to seek shelter
elsewhere
The lower portion of Savage street,
west end of Tradd, the lower part of New
and Logan streets were all under water,
ard all the residents in this neighborhood
suffered great loss from the overflow.
The first floor of almost every house was
from four to seven inches underwater.
Mr. Losso and family were rescued
with difficulty from his residence in
Council street.
The residents of Council street suffered
great loss, the street being low and the
houses mostly one-story cottages. One
house, occupied by a Mr. Deneaux, was
entirely washed away.
ON SULIVAN’S ISLAND.
The inhabitants say that every foot of
Sullivan's Island was under water at
midnight Sunday. Down by the fort and
lower down it was as much as seven feet
deep. Higher up it graded off. and at the
hotel it is said to have reached the depth
of about four feet. The waters from the
front and back beaches met, and a per
fect ocean was formed.
The force of the wind was so great as
to carry the heavy pile-driver of Mr.
Crouch up on the island as far as Aider
man Johnson’s home, which it wrecked.
Fort Moultrie was the haven of very
many of the islanders. It was not dam
aged by the waves, although tlie water
came in through the ent ranee. The peo
ple out of the neighboring cottages all
sought refuge in the old castle and made
themselves as comfortable us possible
under the circumstances. Children were
carried closely wrapped in blankets and
made comfortable in the bomb-proofs.
Not mauy were free from water, but thoso
that were held as many as could possibly
bo crowded into them. The men carried
lanterns and a few had the precaution to
take coffee pots.
Thirty-two houses are known to have
been more or less badly damaged, most of
them wrecked completely. Among the
wrecks is the Presbyterian church. The
Catholic chapel was damaged. The total
of wrecks will be larger when the returns
are all in. The New Brighton hotel was
badly damaged. Three lives were lost on
the island, as told elsewhere.
On the island the storm was unevent
ful until about 7 o’clock. Then the wind
reached a high velocity, some say to a ve
locity of 125 miles an hour. It was from
the northeast. Before midnight it shifted
to the east, by dayligiw it was southwest.
It rained during the whole night. It
poured in torrents and nothing could
protect the people. The worst of the
storm was between 11 and 1 o’clock, it
was said.
Yesterday the wiud was strong and the
sand as it blew in the face pricked like
pins. How the wind blew on Sunday
■ night may be estimated when it is said
that there is not to day a sand hill on
Sullivan’s Island. Mounds that were ten,
twenty and twenty-five feet high are as
level as ever was any part of Middle
street. Not a sand hill is left. Every
thing is swept clean. The car tracks are
covered.
NOT AS BAD A3 ’BS.
The News and Courier says editorially:
“It will require several days of investiga
tion and collection of details of the loss
and injury whicli has been distributed
over so large a field before a fairly ap
proximate estimate can be made of the
damage inflicted on property in Charles
ton by the severe storm which swept the
city during the twenty-four hours from
about t o'clock p. m. Sunday until the
same hour yesterday. Enough is known,
however, to warrant the statement that
the aggregate ot damages w ill hardly fall
short of that of the storm of August, 1885,
which was about $1,000,000, in round
numbers.”
SULLIVAN’S ISLAND.
Two Drowned and One Killed by a
Falling House.
Florence, S. C., Aug. 28.—During the
cyclone at Sullivan's Island yesterday, a
man named Bryant and his wife were
drowned. Mrs. E. Pollard, white,
was killed by a falling house. Fifteen
houses were swept away. Every house
on the i4pid was more or less damaged.
AT COLUMBIA.
Columbia, S. C. Aug. 29.—Reports of
the storm from various towns in South
Carolina show considerable damage to
buildings, trees and fences. Corn is badly
blown down and the damage to the cot
ton crop cannot be estimated at this time,
but it isvery heavy. Streams are much
swollen and milldams washed away. The
unharvested tobacco crop, is totally des
troyed in some places.
Travel, which has been very much im
peded, is being resumed. Trains came
througli from Charleston to-day. The
damage here is slight outside of trees.
No 1 oss of life is reported except at
Charleston. Weather clear and hot.
SCHEDULE ABANDONED.
No News From the South Sinoe the
Hurricane There.
Washington, Aug. 29.—1 t is stated at
the offices of the Richmond and Danville
railroads and the Atlantic Coast Line
that no trains have arrived since the
storm occurred. A train came in over
the Richmond and Danville early this
morning, but was in advance of the storm.
The southern train on the Atlantic Coast
Line which was to have reached here at
2 o'clock this morning, was abandoned at
Richmond and merged into a train there
scheduled to reach Washington at 7 a in.
At 12 o'clock it was said at the office
here that this train would probably be
in shortly.
WEATHER TILL TO-NIGHT.
The Hurricane Center in Pennsylva
nia Yesterday—Forecast.
Washington, Aug. 29.—Forecast till 8
o’clock p. m. Weduesday: Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, south
westerly winds, veering to northwesterly;
cooler and fair weather. Hurricane
center has passed northeastward over
Washington City and is probably now in
Pennsylvania. All telegraphic communi
cation is cut off except from Maryland to
North Carolina.
ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
A Startling Report From Port
Royal.
Six Are Said to Have Besn White Hen
and the Others Black -Twenty Per
sons Drowned on Paris Island—No
Nows Yet From St. Helena-Im
mense Damage to Property at Beau
fort and Port Royal—Heavy Losses
of the Coosaw Mining Company.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 29. —A special to the
Chronicle from Port Royal, S. C., brings
the startling information that fully 100
lives have been lost at Port Royal, Beau
fort and neighboring points, by drowning
during the storm. Over twenty-five of
thoso were seen by the correspond ent, and
his information was received about the
others from reliable sources. Of the 100
persons killed and drowned only six were
white, the others being negroes. The ne
groes were so frightened and terror
stricken that many wore killed und
drowned by not leaving tneir cabins to
seek places of safety.
TWENTY DROWNED ON PARIS ISLAND.
Twenty persons were drowned on Paris
Island. No news bus been received from
St. Helena, four miles from Beaufort.
It is believed that fully twenty-five lives
were lost between Port Royal and Sea
brook, all negroes. Every house in Beau
fort and Port Royal was damaged to
some extent, and a number of barges and
crafts were wrecked and blown ashore.
The Coosaw Mining Company loses
$50,000. The total losses arc estimated
in the neighborhood of half a million
dollurs.
A TALE FROM CHARLESTON.
Frightful Results of the Storm iu That
City.
Richmond, Va., Aug. 29.—Passenger
train No. 78 of the Atlantic Coast Line,
with Pullman sleepers attached, reached
bore this evening at 6:50 from Charles
ton, S. C., having been delayed twenty
four hours by the destructive storm
which swept over the South Atlantic
states Sunday and Monday. A corre
spondent. in an interview with Mr. J. B.
Beddingfield, Southern Express messen
ger, who was in Charleston during the
storm, was given this story: He says
that the battle of the wind and rain
commenced with terrific force at 1 o’clock
Sunday afternoon and continued without
cessation until Monday morning at 7
o'clock. That there was not fifty yards
space in the city that did not con
tain debris, such as the roofs of houses,
signs, awnings, telegraph polos and other
things of like nature, which wore scat
tered in great confusion. The roof of the
St. Charles hotel was blown off.
THE STREETS LIKE RIVERS.
The streets were flooded with water
almost to the doors. That he saw four
teen box ears that had been blown from
the railroad track and turned over. That
all the phosphate works in the city were
blown down or badly damaged.
EIGHT REPORTED KILLED.
There was a schooner lying high in the
streets, having been driven from its an
chorage. There was no communication
with Savannah, all telegraph lineshaving
been prostrated. While he saw no one
killed or injured, it was currently re
ported that eight people had been killed
in the city.
PRIVATE DISPATCH TO THIS CITT.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 29.—Charleston has
suffered very severely. The entire
wharves and Battery are reported com
pletely wrecked. Many houses were un
roofed. The city was nearly six feet
under water. This is from a Charleston
paper of to-day. Our lines are badly
wrecked. It may bo several days before
we can get in communication.
THE STORM AT AIKEN.
It Knocked Down Trees But Killed
Nobody.
Aiken, R. C.. Aug. 29. —Aiken did not
escape tlie fury of Sunday night's
storm. Hundreds of trees are uprooted
but no dwellings wore blown down. The
only building as yet heard of is a large
shed of the Aiken Fire and Ornamental
Brick Company’s works, which was used
to store brick in. A large tree fell, about
4:30 a. m. Monday, on the Coffin House,
occupied by Mr. C. W. Ariness and
family. It did no damage, iiowever.
Rain fell in torrents and the wind
came iu gusts which shook the founda
tion of every house. Trees that have
braved many a storm succumbed to this
tornado. Many phantom parties were held,
which were singular, as there were no
masks, but every body enjoyed them
selves. Crops are damaged considerably.
Trains could not run. The first train on
time was 4:17 p. m. Monday from Au
gusta, Ga. Train from Charleston due
here at 11:55 p. m. Sunday did not leave
Charleston. It rained nearly all day
Monday, but tlie moon rose Monday
night in all its grandeur and shone forth
on a city presenting a great contrast to
the night before.
RUINED CROPS.
That is the Report From Many
Sections.
Brunson, S.C., Aug., 29.—A severe
wind and rain storm passed over this
place Sunday night. Considerable dam
age was done to property. Two trees
were blown on the residence of Mrs.
Julia E. Youmaus, wrecking both endsof
the building. Mrs. Youmans occupied one
of the end rooms, and her escape from
death is miraculous. Several barns were
blown down, also the colored Methodist
church, two or three houses thrown from
their foundations, and lots of fencing
was blown down. The rain beat in
some of the stores injuring stock slightly.
The streets are filled with upturned
trees and broken branches.
Tlie crops, so far as we are able to learn
this morning, are absolutely ruined.
YEMAS3EE.
Communication With Port Royal Out
Off, But Open to Augusta.
Yemassee, S. C., Aug. 29.—Communica
tion between this point and Port Royal
has been entirely cut off since Sunday,
and no information has been obtainable
to-day. It appears that the whole of
Whale Branch trestle is gone but tlie
drawbridge aud a small piece of tlie east
end of the draw is s.ewed out
of liue. Ely’s trestle is also
gone and most of the smaller trestles.
A party from Beaufort reports that the
east side of Bay st reet is wrecked and
that the steamer Pilot Boy is ashore neur
the toll-gate high aud dry. Every phos
phate dredge in Coosaw river is sunk but
one.
WIDESPREAD SUBMERGENCE.
Beaufort was almost entirely under
water, but fortunately there wore no
cansualities.
There is nothing deflnito from Port
Royal but it is roported that the damage
there is fearful.
The railroad from here to Augusta is in
good shape.
TEN NEGROES KILT,ED.
Ridgeland, S. C., Aug. 29. —During the
cyclone Sunday night a house in the Old
Stiil Yard was wrecked and seven ne
groes killed. At. the old place of Dr.
Morecoek, near Ridgeland, a house was
blown down, instantly killing three ne
groes. J. S. Claghorn had three mules
killed by the wrecking of his barn.
AT WILMINGTON.
Slight Damage to the City, But
the Same Sad Story of ths Sea.
Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 28.—A severe
storm of wind and rain prevailed here
yesterday and to-day but caused no dam
age beyond blowing down a few tret's and
fences and overturning two unfinished
frame buildings. The tide was the high
est known in years. At Southport tho
wind's velocity was 37 mites. The Nor
wegian bark Bonita was blown ashore
from the river. No other damage done.
Schoonerß T. Hazard, Itafford, George
town from Elizabethjiort, N. J., with
a cargo of railroad ties, put in at South
port this morning iu distress, leaking and
with spanker and mainsail lost. Reports
having been struck by a hurricane Satur
day night twenty-five' miles southeast of
Frying Pan lightship.
CAPTAIN AND MATE DROWNED.
The 3-mastt and schooner Three Sisters,
with a cargo of lumber from Suvaunuh
for Philadelphia, was wrecked and aban
doned off Capo Fear Aug. 28. Her com
mander, Isaac Simpson of Market Hook,
Pa., and mate, Johnson Heode of Park
avenue, Baltimore, were washed over
hoard and drowned. The names of tho
survivors are: William Simpson, steward,
son of the captain; John Washington, a
passenger; John Scott and another man,
name not known. Tho vessel was left
anchored and in a leaking condition.
FOUNDERED ON CASWELL REACH.
The German brigantine Wastrow, from
Liverpool, for this port, with a cargo of
salt, went to picies on Caswell beach.
The crew was saved, having swam ashore.
They are now at the Caswoll life-saving
station. An unknown three-masted
schooner is also reported ashore and leak
ing and showing signals of distress on
Sale beach, two miles out, west souai
west of this point. A life saving crew
have gone to her assistance.
AT OXFORD N. C.
Oxford, N. C., Aug. 28.—High wind and
rain prevailed here to-day. A large
brick warehouse owned by Thomas A
Jones was blown down. A negro boy in
the building at the time was caught by a
falling timber, but managed to oxtricate
himself and make bis escape.
BLOWN ENTIRELY AWAY.
The Cyclone’s Work at Kerner
ville, N. C.
Koroerville. N. C., Aug. 28.—A terrific
cyclone struck here at 5 o'clock this morn
ing. A hundred houses were wrecked
and a woman was killed. Many were in
jured. Tho Baptist brick church was
razed to the ground. Factories, stores
and residences were unroofed, and some
were blown entirely away. High winds
and heavy rains are still raging.
CROPS BA 111. Y INJURED.
Raleigh, N. 0., Aug. 28.—The storm did
great damage to crops all through North
Carolina. Tobacco, corn and ootton were
severely injured in this state.
THE BTORM AT AUGUSTA.
Troes Uprooted and Crops Badly
Damaged.
Augusta, Aug. 29—The damage done by
the storm in Augusta was not great. No
lives were lost and no serious damage
done to property. The wind reached n
velocity of about fifty miles an hour. The
streets were strewn with large and small
limbs, torn from the many trees. In quite
a number of instances tlie trees them
selves were snapped short off and some
torn up by the roots.
The Telephone Company, the Telegraph
Companies, Street Railway Company and
Electric Light Companies all suffered
more less, as some of their wires were
badly broken and mixed.
Quite a lot of fencing in and around the
city was blown down and completely
wrecked. Part of the front and rear
fences at Judge Eve’s place out on Monte
Snno was blown some little distance from
its usual resting placo. Tho fencing around
tho exposition suffered, and nearly S2OO
damage was done tho main building.
Mr. Bryan Lawrence’s cattle burn down
on his farm, a few miles from the city,
was blown down. The wind literally
picked the barn up and carried it several
yards from its original site. The most
miraculous thing in this case was that
there were over a hundred head of sheep
in the barn and only one of them was
killed.
Reports came in from the adjoining sec
tions, telling of tbe great damage done to
the crops by the storm.
The Port Royal and Western Carolina
railroad suffered a slight damage at Bor
deaux.
BUILDINGS AT BLACKVILLE CRUSHED.
A special dispatch from Blackville, S.
C., says that several buildings iu
that city were crushed, mill dams
were washed away, country roads made
impassable, the cotton crop terribly dam
aged and the tobacco crop totally de
vastated :
AT WAYNESBORO.
Waynesboro. Ga.. Aug. 29.—The storm
did great damage to tho cotton crop, and
fences were blown down. Reports from
Screven county says that tbe storm
was very severe there, doing great dam
age to houses and the cotton crop. No
casualties so far as known.
WAYCROSS SUFFERED A LITTLE.
The Crops in the Surrounding Country
Damaged Greatly.
Waycross, Ga., Aug. 29.—The storm
Sunday and Sunday night damaged the
outstanding crops in the surrounding
country. Corn and cotton were damaged
to a great extent. At Waltcrtown the
wind damaged the extensive saw mill
plant to such an extent that busi
ness was shut down yesterday
for repairs. Several buildings here were
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injured. Tho top of the round house ol
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
road was partly blown off
The small shade trees on the streets
were badly twisted and some were blown
down. No injury to persons or stock has
been reported.
Tho Teachers’ Institute of Pierce
County was to have convened yesterday
at Blaokshear for its annual session of
one week, with Prof. S. P. Settle as ex
pert, but the teachers were prevented
from reaching there on account of the
work of the storm.
THE STORM AT THE CAPITAL.
All the Electric Systems Crippled OS
Suspended.
Washington, Aug. 29 —The storm did
immense damage to shade trees in Wash
ington, tearing them up by the roots or
dismembering them in every direction.
The olectric light and telephone service
in Alexandria and Georgetown is crip
pled, and in both these suburbs, as well
as iu the city proper, great uneasiness
is felt by the police and tire departments.
Telegraphic communication with the west
was entirely broken off about 7:30 o’clock
p. m., and witli the east shortly before*
midnight. Early this morning partial
telegraphic communication was reopened
east as far ns Baltimore, but thero stop
ped, and as far south as Lynchburg, Va.
Intense anxiety is manifested for news of
tlie tornado at Suvannah and other
points south,(but up to 11:80 o'clock a.
m., nothing had been heard to sup
plement tlie meager and alarming dis
patches of lust night.
NO MORE BULLETINS.
The Fever Considered at an End at
Brunswick.
Brunswick, Ga., August 29.—N0
now or suspicious cases, six days
have passed, and if any germs are in
Brunswick none can find thorn. Se
thoroughly satisfying were tho report#
from all tlie physicians to-day that it waa
deddod unneocessary to issue a bulletin.
The health board’s sileuce is significant
and no moro yellow fovor cases will bo
reported.
Judge Alfred J. Cravatt, a prominent
citizen, has'returned and says he looks foe
the speedy resumption of Brunswick'#
growth. Dr. C. Foget, a New Orleans
expert, arrived to day and will taka
charge of the hospital at Camp Hutton if
ono is needed. He lias been
in consultation with the surgeon# in
charge here and will remain until
quarantine is raised. Surgeon Hutton
said to-day lie would push Camp Hutton
to completion so that it will be in readi
ness in the event that any new cases re
quire use; but, as we have had six days’
Immunity from any further outbreak of
the disease, things look favorable to a
speedy relaxation in quarantine regula
tions.
NO SICKNESS AMONG REFTOEES.
Dr. Guiteras has mado a canvass of
Waynosville aud surroundings, which
developed that there is no sickness there
about of a suspicious nature among the
Brunswick refugees and others. Dr.
Hutton speaks encouragingly of tiie pros
pect. Dr. Guiteras says it is safe
to prosupie that the fever
has been stopped by the
system of thorough depopulation, and he
indorses Mayor Lamb's action in issuing
tlie proclamation to the people to leave.
Drs Hutton and Carter indorse Mayor
Lamb’s proclamation and think hi#
method for ridding Brunswick of fover
people lias saved her from an epidemic.
Dr. Guiteros in anaintervlew advises
Brunswickians not to rush back home
yet as fever geruis may exist iu some of
the dosed houses, and those who are com
fortably situated had better remain away
until frost, or if circumstances compel
their return, they must arrange to sun
their houses several days before
occupancy. Brunswickians hero do
not think this necessary, and
many express the intention
of moving their families before frost, un
less new developments arise.
Tiroßoron airing beneficial.
The rllc is reduced to a minimum
where homes have been aired and sunned
regularly for several days before occu
pancy. Dr. Hutton says from present in
dications tlie government quarantine will
soon be relaxed, and he will soon be able
to turn Camp Hutton over to religious so
cieties for camp meetings. All the guards
will be removed from around Branham’s
house Thursday morning. Doctors hero
are ail in a merry mood to-day, and con
sider their work almost endod. The re
lief committee is still doing good work,
and Mayor Lamb is having a large forco
at work on sanitation.
THE TOTAL OF CONTRIBUTIONS.
Total cash subscriptions from Geor
gians amount to $1,493, besides several
car loads goods. The price for negro
labor has been voluntarily raised from 25
cents to 50 cents per day, and 75 cents in
rations. A large number are now work
ing on these terms.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Nathan Friedlander Shoots His Wife
and Then Himself.
New Orleans, Aug. 29.—Tonight Nathan
Friedlander killed his wife, and then
committed suicide at his home on Con
stance street. Friedlander was formerly
a man of substantial standing, was the
son of a prominent commission merchant
and sugar planter, and at the death of
his father went in business with his
brother. They ran through with their
funds recklessly, speculated heavily, and
failed for a large sum. Five years ago he
married Miss Friedman, daughter of
Judge Friendlander, a leading country
lawyer.
origin of the tragedy.
He had lately been prosecuting his wife,
and her declaration that he had prepared
to secure a divorce appears to have been
the cause of the tragedy. While his wife
was lying on a bed in a rear room of her
cottage ~ home, tending their 3-year
old baby and talking to her
sisters, Friedland entered from the
back, drew his pistol, and shot down the
helpless woman on the bed. One bullet
went through her iieart and another
painfully wounded tlie baby in the arm.
He assured himself of the completeness of
his work, and then placed the pistol to
his mouth and fired, a bullet passing
through his brain.
Dry Goods Failure at Macon.
Macon, Ga., Aug. 29. —The John Ellis
Company, one of the largest dry goods
firms in the city, succumbed to the inevi
table to-day and assigned to W. M. Gordon.
The liabilities are put down at $38,000,
and the assets at $54,000. Difficulty in
making collections and the foreclosure of
.aiienal
Bank brought about the failure.