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• the MORNING news. j J P, TAB I.ISHE!>IBSO. INOORFORATEPIBB?. | 4.H. ESTILL, President. ) 1 “Si 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 1 DAILY, 10 A YEAR I J. 5 CENTS A COPY. J I WEEKLY, *1 25 A YEAR S 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.