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iTTTK MORNING NEWB, |
V , TA ..I.ISHRHIBSO. iROORPfiHATEDISSa. V
J.U. ESTILL, President. 1
THE WAIL OF THE LOWLAND
Woiiil Loss of Life and Property on
the Islands.
The Carolina Coast Bore the Brunt of
the Awful Tempest -Rivers United
With Each Other Over the Land.
Port Royal Practically in Ruins.
Thirty Dead Bodies Were Found on
It’s Beach—The Newly Appointed
Quarantine Offioer Among: the Dost.
Seventy Per Cent, of the Sea Island
Cotton Crop Destroyed, and Rice
Nearly Ruined.
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 31.—Reports of
accidents continue to com# in, showing
the general havoc by Sunday’s storm.
Thousands Of valuable timber trees have
horn Mown down. Crops are washed
away, and the rivers are full of the flot
sam and jetsam of the disaster. Advices
from the sea coast may be summed up in
the following extracts from to-day’s
Charleston papers: The long staple cotton
crop lias met with severe injury,
and the estimates are that, while in for
mer years Charleston received SIO,OOO
bales of sea island cotton, this year she
will do well to get 3,000 bales. That is
the situation in a nutshell, as viewed yes
terday by those who are in the best posi
tion to do any talking. Reports indicate
that the sea islands met with the heavi
est damage, while the upland# fared
somewhat better.
THE LOWLANDS UTTERLY DESOLATED.
Mr. Robinson, of Kerrison's establish
ment, gives the following story of the ef
fects of the storm in the low country: 110
had just arrived from Walterboro, and
stated that from Bisclioff’s place on the
Kdisto to Jacksonboro two negroes floated
the whole distance on the top of their
chanty, and reported that all the negroes
on the place in the lowlands had been
drowned, in ail oabout 100 men, women
and children. They relate a terrible ex
perience, and furthermore state that all
of the dwellings are totally destroyed
and the place in abject desolation.
At Walterboro, Mr. Robinson said many
of the houses had been completely
washed from their foundations out into
the streets, and all of the rice fields were
overflowed.
The steamboat Pilot Boy, familiar to
every soul on the inland route between
the cities of Charleston and Savannah,
has been stranded and is more or less in
jured. The pilot fleet of the harbor is
wrecked or stranded. The phosphate
works, which are located on the banks of
the neighboring river, are in little better
plight than those on Charleston neck.
PORT ROYAL THE SCENE OP DEATH.
Port Royal, lying on a tongue of land
further,;dov.m tho ILaufort ri\er, must
have been more exposed to the fearful
tempest. The place is practically in
ruins. Its water front is destroyed and
great damage has been done to its build
ings. The great loss of life which re
sulted from the storm on every shore of
the islands is greatest here. It has been
more authentically stated that thirty odd
negroes were foundjdead on the beach,
and the number was expected to be large
ly increased before the, death roll was
finally closed.
It is needless to add that the crops
wore injured terribly. Fifty per cent,
loss would probably not he too largo an
estimate to make.
NEW QUARANTINE OFFICER DROWNED.
Several gentlemen from this city, who
were in Port Royal or Beaufort during
the hurricane, returned to Charleston
yesterday on the first train which came
into the city over the Charleston & Sa
vannah railroad. They report that the
loss of life and property at those places
and on the neighboring sea islands has
bean fearful. The death roll had already
risen to thirty odd persons, among whom
was numbered Dr. Ellis, the newly ap
pointed quarantine officer for the port.
Paris Island, where the Unite and States
dry docks are building, and which stands
between the Broad and Beaufort rivers,
was swept by the cyclone. The fatality
which has pursued the government im
provements since their inception
found its culmination on Sun
day night. The injury could not be
accurately calculated.
Beaufort, the prettiest inland town in
the Carolines, is terribly damaged, not
withstanding the fact that it stands six
miles up the Beaufort river. Many of
the residences in tho town were badly
damaged and the wharves are nearly or
quite destroyed.
THE NIGHT IN CASTLE PINCKNEY.
The experience of Capt. Whltely and
his wife and family of ten children on
Castle Pinckney on the night of the
storm was a terrible one. The wind blew
the storehouses to pieces, and blew away
all the ship chandlers’ stores, and his
dwelling was so exposed that it was seen
t° be dangerous to remain in it. He and
his family sought shelter from the fury
m a place to leeward of the port.
1 hree of the little lines were
six months to three years of
a f?e, and stood it like tho old ones, with
out a whimper. The fury of the winds
and waves was so great that some huge
masses of iron used for holding buoys,
and weighing 4,500 pounds, were moved
trom their places and rolled about the
beach. Some great anchors weighing
from 5,000 to .000 pounds, were flung
about the place like so much timber. The
P is a complete ruin, and in spite of it
all Capt. Whitely and his brave family
fort ° n the east * an<l anl * folding the
MAKING HERSELF SNUG.
The missing steamship, Seminole, about
winch so much anxiety was felt, steamed
mto the harbor yesterday morning, with
scarcely a scratch on her. She and her
passengers escaped unscathed from tho
Horrors of the storm which swept tho
coast.
1\ hen the Seminole mot the hurricane
sue was off the mouth of the St. John’s
‘ ■'er, and was preparing to head in for
no entrance. Her officers appreciated
me situation at a glance, and, making out
t ? seaward for a considerable distance,
turned the vessel’s nose into the eye
1 the cyclone and cast out their
nchors. The captain said sue breasted
a duck during tho long hours
,} l “ e storm and was not injured iu the
ust when it had subsided. As soon as
i< wind had partially lulled he turned
in 1 , lnt ? t,le John’s and made his dock
Jacksonville in perfect safety. His
-urn trip was uneventful, except" for the
'"“‘rices of the storm which were
itneased at. several points.
,|* e httle watering place which stands
U , taouth of the St. John's river was a
i • • feet wreck, and all along tho banks of
“ e stream damage was apparent The
)t iltetring,
passengers did not think that the coast of
Florida had sustained nearly so much loss
as that of South Carolina.
The Italian bark Vincenzo Galito which
left this port for Hamburg on the 16th,
was abandoned at sea off Hatteras on the
24th. He sails had been blown away,
and her foretopmast was gone, and she
was otherwise disabled, when, fortunate
ly, the whaling schooaer Hattie E. Smith,
Capt. Bourne, which had also suffered
damage, came aiougiide and gallantly
rescued the crew of the bark.
AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN.
Commissioner Nesbit's Estimates and
Views as to the Crops.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 31.—Advance sheets
of the regular monthly bulletin issued by
the department of agriculture shows that
tho most recent developments! are conclu
sively bearing out the predictions fre
quently made of a short crop this year.
Not counting the devastation of the hur
ricane which swept across the state Sun
day night, the freaks of the elements in
North and Middle Georgia have been
such as to play havoc with the crop. As
Commissioner Nesbit puts it, in these sec
tions the crop appears to be good to
the casual observer, but on a closer in
spection it is found that there are
more leaves and weeds than buds or
forms. A great deal of rain, followed by
protracted drought, has produced this re
sult. Everywhere the crop is backward,
and its ultimate size and yield will de
pend upon the lateness of the fall. Rust
is also doing much damage, arid a pe
culiar result reported in the sections
where rain has followed the drought is
scalding the plants, which causes it to
shed its leaves and bolls.
THE WORLD 19 ANXIOUS.
The commissioner says the eyes of the
world are now upon the south. For the
next two months we will be occupied in
gathering the cotton crop, and he urges
tho farmers of Georgia not to waste a
ment’s time in housing their cotton, which
is of more or less interest to every civil
ized nation on the globe. While
tiro farmers of Georgia have of late years
made their crop, $35,000,000 worth,
at an actual loss to them, it
throws life and activity into every ave
nue of trade. Especially is marketing
important at this time, when the country
is suffering from financial paralysis.
Commissioner Nesbit says plainly to
the farmers that he fears they will
have to settle their indebtedness with
cotton at five or six cents, or perhaps
less.
THE EASTERN 9HYLOCKS.
To prevent this calamity he advises the
farmer to plant his crops in the hands of
his merchant, by holding it; then to pro
tect the credit of both, and finally to
break the unjust financial system which
enables a few money-lenders to control
the money of the country to the ruin of
the south and west and the profit of the
eastern shylocks.
The bulletin shows the average of
crops for the state to be (this average is
made up on conditions before the recent
hurricane) cotton, 79 2-7 per cent; corn
SSSjj per cent; rice 76 per cent. The rice
crop is estimated to be cut down }.j by
the storm of Sunday night. In southeast
Georgia cotton is 77 per cent, and in Mid
dle Georgia 81 per cent.
“WILL GET THERE,”
Notwithstanding No Gas Nor Eleotrio
Light, Telegraph Nor Telephone.
Washington, Aug. 31.—The Charleston
News and Courier of the 30th, received
here by mail, says: “There has not been
the faintest tick of a telegraph instru
ment in this city since about 3 o’clock on
Sunday afternoon. What is still more
discouragin'!, there is nothing to indicate
that we shall be able to communicate with
tho outside world for two or three days,
and possibly a week.”
BY CANDLELIGHT.
The News and Courier incidentally re
marks that this edition of the paper was
s*t by candle, that the “available supply
of candles was exhausted about 2 a. m.,
which necessitated leaving out four col
umns of news about the cyclone.” It
adds: “The outlook last night was very
cheering for a city without either gas or
electric light, telegraph or telephone.
But Charleston has wrestled with and
overcome difficulties much more serious
than this one. Charleston may be de
pended upon to ‘get there.’ ”
THE YEMASSEE.
Without a Scratch, an Accident Hav
ing Saved Her.
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 31.—News of the
arrival of the steamship Yemassee at
Charleston comes through the mail re
ceived hero to-night. The Yemassee left
New York Saturday with a full list of
passengers, and great uneasiness was felt
on account of her being so long overdue.
She araived to-day without a scratch,
owing to the fortunate fact that on Satur
day afternoon her engine broke down,
thus causing delay. She did not en
counter the gale.
BRITISH SHIP ASTORIA.
Abandoned Twenty-five Miles North
of Hunting Isand—Crew Saved.
Baltimore, Aug. 81.—The Decatur H.
Miller arrived in port this morning with
the shipwrecked crew of the British ship
Astoria, foundered Tuesday morning,
twenty-five miles north of Hunting Is
land. The Astoria Was sighted with dis
tress signals flying. The vessel was en
route from Pensacola to Antwerp, loaded
with yellow pine. Capt. Faulkner, his
wife and crew, twenty -persons, were
taken off and the Astoria abandoned.
The Bark Tremont a Total Wreck.
Boston, Aug. 31.—The owners of Bark
Tremont, from Mobile, before reported
stranded at Fuyal, received word yester
day that the vessel is a total wreck, but
crew saved. There is very little insur
ance on vessel.
Communication Restored.
Washington, Aug. 81.—The Atlantic
Coast Line announces this morning that
the breaks on that line south of Charles
ton by the recent storm are repaired and
the line is now open from Washington to
Florida points.
Both Vessels Will Need Repairs.
Washington. Aug. 31.—The terrible ex
perience of the Kearsarge and the mon
itor Nantucket off Cape Hatteras during
the hurricane will necessitate repairs at
the Norfolk navy yard to both vessels.
Longshoremen’s Strike Off.
New York, Aug. 31.—Strike among
longshoremen is at end. This morning
they relinquished the strike without
gaining their point and applied for work
at various piers at reduced rates.
SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1893.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A Train Breaks Through a Bridge, j
Killing Five and Injuring Nine.
Springfield, Mass., Aug. 31.—A terrible
accident to the western express, No. 16,
on the Boston and Albany railroad, due
at Springfield at 1:15 o'clock, occurred at
the second railroad bridge east of Ches
ter this afternoon. The bridge collapsed,
letting the train through into the river
below. Five persons are reported killed
and nine injured. Five cars went through.
The train consisted of buffet car, dining
car, three sleepers and two ordinary
coaches. The bridge was over the west
branch of the Westfield river.
ASSISTANCE HURRIED TO THE SCENE.
Two wrecking trains left Springfield
immediately after the accident. On the
latter train were Medical Examiner Breck
and Dr. Seole of Springfield. The injured
are being cared for by the people of Ches
ter. The train was running at an ordi
nary rate of speed. as it left Albany on
time, and no danger was feared until tho
moment that the bridge sank under the
weight of the locomotive. The river bed
is some ten or twelve feet below the
bridge. The engine went through first,
and five palace cars were piled upon it, ono
above another.
FAR MORE FRIGHTFUL THAN REPORTED.
Springfield. Mass., Aug. 31. —The ill
fated train was one of the fastest ex
press on the road, stopping only at Pitts
field from Albany to Springfield. It car
ries the largest engine and best cars of
any train ruuniug west of Springfield.
The scene of the accident is but a short
distance below Chester, and is just below
the steep grade going up the mountain.
The buffet ear and two sleeps are a total
wreck. The bridge was a two-span lat
tice structure 221 feet long. To-night at
6 o’clock fifteen have been taken out, two
of whom are unidentified. The list of
identified dead are:
ROSTER OF THE KILLED.
J. E. DoWitt, Portland, Me., president
of tho Union Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany.
T. K. Kelly of Boston.
Miss Susie Cotting of Boston.
Mrs. C. B. Ishum of Philadelphia.
Miss Emmie Delert.v of Columbus, O.
C. H. Ives of Chicago.
F. Sedwieh of Palmer.
Express Messenger John McMasters of
Springfield.
Brakeman J. 11. Murray of Greenbusb,
N. Y.
Baggage Master George W. Morse of
Boston.
Wagner Carcine
Conductor J. C. Stackpole of Hartford,
Conn.
K. C. Hitchcock of Bellows Falls, Vt.
About fifteen were seriously injured,
and five or six may die.
NO SIGNS OF FEVER.
But Brunswick is in Great Straits for
the Necessaries of Life.
Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 31.—Eight days
have passed and no new cases. A bulle
tin signed by H. Burford, president of
health board, to-day announces that no
more bulletins will be issued unless new
canes are found Dr. J. A. Dunwody re
turned to Brunswick to-day. The follow
ing, signed by Mayor I-amb and the relief
committee, nas been forwarded by wire to
Washington;
AN URGENT MESSAGE DISPATCHED.
•*
“Senators Gordon and Colquitt and
Members Georgia Delegation, Washing
ton, D. C.: The report published that the
government would lend its aid to tho
Brunswick sufferers has stopped all aid
from outside sources. We are bottled
up by the world and in dire distress for
the necessaries of life. Can you find no
way of relief.”
In addition to this, Surgeons Carter and
Hutton will appeal to Surgeon General
Wyman.
QUARANTINE TO BE RAISED.
On Thursday, Sept. 7, Surgeons Carter,
Hutton and Guiterus will recommend the
raising of all quarantine against Bruns
wick, unless new cases develop.
Mrs. T. M. Carnegie, of Pittsburg, wired
one hundred dollars to the relief commit
tee to-day.
FROM TAMPA.
No Fever in the City, and the Port
Taznpa Case Recovering.
Tampa, Fla., Aug. 31.—N0 new devel
opments of yellow fever at Port Tampa
to-day. Neumann is improving, and will
soon be out of danger. The authorities
are using the utmost vigilance to keep
the fever out of the city. No danger is
anticipated here.
CUBANS RETURNING HOME.
About 200 Cubans left here to-night on
the Maseotte, bound for Cuba. The gov
ernment of Cuba furnished free
transportation to any of them
who would take the oath of allegiance
and return to their nativity. The present
idleness of a dozen cigar factories at this
place caused the exodus.
THE WORLD’S FAIR.
The Directors no Longer Obliged to
Open the Gates on Sunday.
Chicago, Aug. 31.—The injunction re
straining the directors from closing tho
world's fair gates to the public on Sun
days has been dissolved. Judges Dunn
and Brentano united in the decision to
this effect this morning. Judge Goggin
dissented, and upheld decision of Judge
Stein. The injunction was granted b.v
Judge Stein on the superior court bill
filed against the Columbian Exposition by
Charles W. Clingman. A motion was
made before Judges Dunn, Brentano and
Goggin to dissolve the restraining order,
and that motion has been sustained by
Judges Dunn and Brentano. With the
injunction disohed the directors are at
liberty to use their discretion in opening
the gates Sunday, and the rule adopted
by them against the fair on first day of
week will therefore be in force.
OVER 60,000 RESUME.
Abandonmsnt of the Great Miners,
Strike in South Wales.
London, Aug. 31.—More than 60.000
miners resumed work in South Wales to
day. This means practically the collapse
of the strike in South Wales and Mon
mouthshire.
Two Suspended Banks Resume.
Louisville, Ky., Aug. 81.—Two more
suspended banks, the Louisville City
National and Merchants’ National, re
sumed business yesterday.
After a Long Struggle.
Ironton, 0., Aug. 81.—H. S. Bundy was
nominated for congress by the repub
licans of this district on the 1,793d bal
lot.
600 LOST ON THE ISLANDS,
Frightful Fatality Along the South
Carolina Coast.
The Death Record Not. Yet Complete,
Probably—Great Destitution, and an
Urgent Appeal for Provisions—Crops
Entirely Destroyed.
Augusta, Aug. 31.—Receiver Averlll, of
the Port Royal and Augusta road, wires
the Chronicle to-night that The loss of
life on the sea islands of South Carolina
exceeds anything yet reported and may
roach 600. Great destitution exists
among tho 7,000 remaining Inhabitants,
and an urgent appeal is made for aid in
the shape of provisions, crops and pro
visions having been entirely destroyed.
390 DEAD BODIES FOUND.
A special to Chronicle from Beaufort,
S. C., says: Over 390 dead bodies have
been found on the islands about Beaufort
and Port Royal. Over $2,000,000 of prop
erty has been wrecked near the same
place. Both of these are the direct re
sult of the severe storm which
swept along the Atlantic
coast Sunday night. Every ono
of the fifteen or twenty islands lying
around Port Royal and Beaufort is
steeped in sorrow. On every door knob
there is a bunch of crape aiul upon every
hillside there are,fresh-madeigraves,some
already filled, while others are awaiting
the bodies that will be deposited in them
just as soon as someone cun be found to
do the kind Christian act of shoveling the
dirt upon the coffins.
POSSIBLY OVER ONE THOUSAND DEAD.
Tlie beaches, the undergrowth, trees
and shrubbery, the marshes and
the inlets, are turning up new
dead bodies every time an inves
tigation is made. Of the many disasters
and devastations which have visited this
section of tho country none have been
half as horrible as those which came
Sunday. Already more than 200 bodies
have been found, and those who
are at all posted about the country
and the habits of the people
in the storm which visited these
sections are confident in their prediction
that the death roll will run as high as
500. Some of tho people, and they are
among the best of this section of the
state, even place the loss at more than
1,000. There has not been an hour of any
day since the early hours of Monday
morning that a dead body has not been
found at some point on ono of the many
islands.
THE DEAD l JB.VD IN <MtO< IPS.
As the waters recede drfd (he people
move deeper into the wreckage gathered
by the storm the ghastly pictures are un
covered. ' So frequent are the discoveries
that the finding of a singlo body attracts
no attention at all. It takes the discov
ery of at least a group of half dozen or
more to induce the people to show any
feeling whatever. It is around Beaufort
and Port Royal that the death rate was
the greatest, but in neither of the towns
were many lives lost.
At Beaufort the only coffins were bought
to supply the local demand, while Port
Royal got off even lighter. Around the
two towns there is a complete chain of
islands, and it was upon these that the
black angel of death hovered for
hours Sunday night, leaving in his
path sorrow and desolation greater
than has ever visited the state before,
even in the bloody days of recon
struction. The storm was one of the
most severe the people of the eoast have
ever known. This section of the Atlantic
coast has been prolific in storms—storms
that scattered death and the destruction
of property in their wake—but tho
weatherwise, the oldest citizen, the pilot,
cannot recall anything equaling it.
PRODIGIOUS WRECKAGE.
Wind, rain and hail and the elements
seemed combined in their greatest fury.
The seas ran high, and salt water waves
were driven by the heavy winds as much
as twenty miles inland. Houses were
blown away. Trees were torn from the
earth, leaving holes big enough to hide a
freight train in. Vessels were dashed
against the breakers, and thrown upon
the earth as much as five miles from the
water's edge. It was a grand tableau, and
those who passed through it will never
forget the experience of Sunday night.
The storm began really Sunday morning.
The day came on with heavy black clouds
hanging over the ports. An ugly wind
started up about 10 o'clock Sunday morn
ing, blowing from tho northeast. It in
creased as the hours grew, and about
noon a coid, chilly rain started. lying be
fore dark the people living along the eoast
knew that a storm wns inevitable,
but none dreamed of the great
extent it would assume. Late in the
evening the wind took on greater velocity,
and as night advanced the velocity of
wind increased until it attained a speed
of 130 miles an hour at 3 o’clock, and this
is about the time the City of Savannah
went ashore, it is believed by those
who have conversed with parties who
were aboard the vessel.
THE NIGHT RIFF. WITH HORRORS.
The wind alone was a storm which
would have terrorized any community,
but with the blinding rain and vivid
flashes of lightning and deafening peals
of thunder, the hearts of the stoutest
were made to quail. No painting could
give the faintest idea of the night. Then
is it any wonder that of the 800 or more
who lost their lives that night one,
a lady, should have died Ofrorn sheer
fright’ All through the night, husbands
guarded their wives and children as if
protecting them from some deadly foe.
Up and down the coasts, in the farm
houses, in boats, the people walked to
and fro, each minute expecting death and
all the time praying for deliverance. In
many instances people left their homes
and lashed themselves to trees to prevent
being blown away.
The vessels on the waters rode the
mad waves with anchors drag
ging along behind, as though the
anchors were made of cork and not of
iron.
THE LIGHT OF A PEACEFUL DAT.
With the dawn of Monday the rain
ceased and the winds began to subside.
The sun came out and tho skies became
blue and clear. There was nothing in the
morning to indicate the terrible story of
the night before. But scattered through
tho streets of Beaufort. Port
Royal and the other towns aloug the
coast and along the banks of the
rivers were evidences of the great fury
of the storm Sunday night. Houses were
found, whole and in pieces, miles away
from their foundations. Steamships
were resting upon dry land# Trees were
twisted, plaited and ,scattered about,
while at intervals dead ere found,
and ever and anon the waves would cast
up ono or more lifeless forms, swollen,
distorted and bruised.
At first no one thought of giving atten
tion to anything or anybody outside of
his own needs, but as the dead bodies
multiplied the Good Samaritan feeling
grew, and b,v noon every one on the chain
of islands had become a grave digger.
It was the pick and shovel only widen
were in demand, and the number of dead
prevented any unstinted use of
those tools. All duy Monday
the bodies began to multiply
so rapidly that the coroner was com- i
pelled to swear in a half a dozen deputies,
one for each of the Islands where deaths
were reported. One of these deputies
held an inquest over seventy-eight people,
and while the inquest was being held
seventy-eight graves were being dug and
seventy-eight dead bodies, swollen and
fast decomposing, were awaiting inter
ment at the hands of their white and
colored friends who cscujwid death so nar
rowly.
THE AWFUL TALE NOT YET ALL TOLD.
A glance at tho map will show that
around this place are some twenty
islands. Some of these are very small,
with only one or two families living
thereon, while others are larger and ac
commodate as many inhabitants as 4,500.
Some of these have not been heard from
at all, while ou those which have been
“spoken” there was not a single
one which did not Increase
the dead roll. On some of these
the death rate was large, but in many In
stances the names of the dead cannot be
ascertained, many of them being beyond
recognition when found, while others
were unknown because no one was pres
ent who could identify them. There are
only two boats here now, and both
are chartered by the ' Port Royal
and Augusta railroad. This prevents
passage between the islands; and that,
too, is an obstacle to the identification of
the dead, as many of the bodies are
picked up on an island where they did
not llye and therefore are unknown.
However, the collector of the port, ox-
Congressman Small, is compiling the in
formation as fast as it can bo obtained
and making a record of the dead as rap
idly as possible. The book will show
that St, Helena has a population of 4,500,
Ladies’ Islaud has 1,500, Wawthas Islaud
75, Coosaw island 600, Beaufort town
has 8,600, Port Royal Island, embracing
the towns of Beaufort and Port Royal,
has 8,000.
THE DEATH ROLL THUS FAR.
Now. as far as reliable information has
reached here, the dead will reach 400,
and they are located in this way: At the
Pueific works 79 dead bodies have been
found and buried. It was here that tlie
deputy'coroner held the one big inquest.
Ou Ladies’ Island 28 bodies were hurled
ou Tuesday, and others have been found
since. On Paris Island, 19 bodies
had been recovered and burhi
up to Tuesday afternoon. On
Beaufort Island 12 bodies have
been buried. At Coosaw mines 5 bodies
have been buried. At Caines neck 22
bodies have been recovered and buried,
and reports are that 79 lives were lost
here. On Eustis place, one of the
richest plantations ou Ladies' Island, 49
new-made graves were 111 led yesterday
morning. At the other end of Ladies’
Island 7 dead bodies were found. At
Dawtha Island, a place of about 1,200
acres, SO lives are reported lost, and
nearly half that many have been recov
ered.
MEETING OP CITIZENS HELD.
A citizens’ meeting was held this morn
ing, at which a committee was appointed
to hurry the work of cleaning up the
town, and another committee, with the
collector of customs, Robert Small, as
chairmain, was authorized te issue a pub
lic appeal to tho country. Collector
Small confirmed the sad story of death
and devastation. Ho said: “This ad
dress embodies what I would say to you,
and if you will send it to the country at
large, by means of the Associated Press,
you will greatly facilitate us in securing
the aid that is imperatively needed.
THE ADDRESS IS AS FOLLOWS:
Beaufort. S. C. Aug. Sl.—lt becomes my
painful duty to appeal through you to the
friends of humanL.v for aid for the sufferers
from the cyclone which passed over this sec
tion on Sunday night. Every wharf and
warehouse has been demolished, windows
shattered, houses unroofed and trees thrown
down. While fullaccounts have not yet come
in, vet enough have come to say that tho
loss of life and property has been truly ap
palling. Within u radius of twenty miles be
tween 100 and r,OO lives have been lost. Ou the
island of St. Helena, proverbial for thrift and
enterprise, already over 150 huve been re
ported drowned. From everywhere conics
news of houses having been swept away and
crops totally destroyed. These sea islands
are the homes chiefly of negroes, who,
by thrift and Industry, have made themselves
homes with none to molest or make them
afraid. In one night all have been swept
away. They are now homeless amt almost
naked. Their bedding, furniture and clothes
have been carried off by the angry waves.
While writing, in this town the rain is de
stroying what has been snatched from the
sea. We earnestly ask for aid in feeding and
clothing the huugry and naked. Yours truly,
Robert Small.
Collector and Chairman of Citizens Com
ip i 110 C
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IN LOSSES.
The damage to the phosphate industry,
to shipping, warehouses, commerce, mer
chandise, dwellings and crops
around Beaufort and Port
Royal will go to two million dollars.
Add a million for Charleston, another
for Savannah, and the damage to
the railroad and steamship compa
nies, and there 'is a grand total
of something like five million dollars and
six hundred dead bodies, as the fruit of
Sunday night’s blow in a stretch of a
hundred miles on the Georgia and South
Carolina coast. It is equal to the devas
tation of war, and these are the figures
given by conservative man.
PROCLAMATION.
Gov. Tillman Appeals for Aid for the
Unfortunates of the Storm.
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 31.—Gov. Tillman
issued the following proclamation at II
o'clock to-night:
State of South Carolina. Executive Cham
ber, Columbia. S. 0., Aug. 31, 1803. Proclama
tion-Having received the following telegram
from J. H. Averill, receiver of the Port
Koyai and Augusta Railroad Company, con
veying the startling intelligence or an appall
ing loss of life and terrible state of destitu
tion upon the islands upon the coast of this
state, resulting from the terrible hurricane
which the Almighty in his judgment has vis
ited upon the people of the South Atlantic
states, causing universal suffering:
Yetumassee, S C.. Ang 30. —To the Hon. B.
R. Tillman, Governor of South Carolina—
The loss of life by the recent cyclone on tho
islands adjacent to Beaufort and Port Royal
will number not les than OtiO people. There
are 7,000 on the Island entirely destitute of
provisions, all they hud being washed away
and tin ir crops entirely lost. Great destitu
tion will prevail among thorn unless they
have speedy relief. I am working night and
day to open up communication, and hope to
hove trains into Beaufort not later than Mon
day next. Please address any reply you hr.vo
to me at Yemassee. from which point it will be
forwarded by railroad.
J. H. AVERII.L.
Now I, B. R. Tillman, governprof the Slute
of South Carolina, noting in my official ca
pacity and for the best interest of the people
of this commonwealth, do Issue this my
proclamation and call upon the people
throughout the length and breadth of the
state to come to the uld of their suffering
fellow citizens. The fact that these are poor
colored farmers whose homes have been
ruined and whose crops are destroyed ap
peals with peculiar force to every right
thinking person The general loss in
Charleston and elsewhere is great, but other
communities can take care of themselves.
Contributions cun he made in money, food,
clothing und other necessaries of life suf
ficient to meet the present enter
geucy. Money contributlonscan he sent to the
Hank of Beaufort, subject to tho draft of a
general relief committee which I will appoint
at the earliest possible moment, with head
quarters at Fort Royal.
I call upon all classes of people, both white
and colored, to come hastily to the relief
of the unfortunate people. 1 would suggest
that churches and charitable and ‘phllun
throplc organizations collect the contribu
tions at the various railway Stations, to be
shippeil tO'Port Royal as soon as the railroad
is repaired. Full directions will be given
through the press later on; and remember
He gives twice who gives quickly," under
these circumstances. B. R. Tillman,
Governor of South Carolina.
The governor has wired Receiver Aver
ill to .appoint a committer of seven, con
sisting of Beaufort and Yemussee citi
zens, two of whom shall be negroes.
PULLING HERSELF TOGETHER.
Charleston Recovering From the
Shook of the Elements.
Charleston. S. C., Aug. 31.—The city is
rapidly recovering from the effect of the
cyclone as fur as outward appearances
are concerned, although the city is yet
without light or telephone ami is abso
lutely shut out from the rest of the world
save by railroad from Charleston to Au
gusta, where these despatches are sent,
to bo telegraphed thence. The list of the
dead is swelling every day as new bodies
are found. It now numbers nine persons;
of these, three perished In the city, throe
on Sullivan’s Island and three ou Jumes
Island.
News was received In tho city thnt tho
light ship at tißattlesnake shouls is a com
pltee wreck. The crew are all safe
on 1./ing Island, where refuge was taken.
The reitort is that there Is not a remnant
of the light ship to tell the tale of the
wreck. The crew have an abundant- sup
ply of food for the present. They expect
to reach the city to-day or to-morrow.
The schooner Morris W. Child, Capt.
Haskell, was towed to quarantine here
last evening by the tug Hercules, Capt.
Revel. 81ie is from Brunswick and has
lumboron board. Her Jlbboom And part of
her sails are gone. About Hft.DOO
feet of lumber Was thrown overboard.
Cap(. Haskell reports that they passed
six men floating with life preservers on
them. They barely had life in them uud
were surrounded by a lot of wreckage.
It was imitossible to rescue thorn on ac
count of the high sea running.
The Morris W. Child has on board the
captain and crew of the schooner Harold
C. Beecher which was abandoned at sea.
The Beecher, left Brunswick for New
Haven loaded down with lumber on
Aug. 23.
ONTO WASHINGTON.
The President and Family Left Now
York Last Night.
New York. Aug. 31. —President Cleve
land. Mrs. Cleveland, baby Ruth and her
nurse, Dr. Bryant, Secretary Lamontantt
Mrs. Cleveland's maid left for Washing
ton to night on the 9:15 train on tho
Pennsylvania road. Mr. Cleveland
certainly did not look like a very sick man
as he sat chutting with the doctor before
the train pulled out. Mrs. Cleveland
r.tniled brightly when she buw the news
paper reporters loitering around tho steps
of the car.
DEATH IN MILLEDGEVILLE.
Col. M W. Hall, a Prominent Young
Lawyer, Passes Away.
Milledgeville, Ga., Aug. 31.—C01. M. W.
Hall, law partner of J. D. Howurd and a
prominent lawyer of this city, died this
morning at 8 o’clock. Col. Hall was only
30 yours of age, but had gained an envia
ble reputation at the bar. He will be
buried with military honors by the ex-
Cadets at 1 o’clock to-morrow from the
Methodist church. Tho lawyers of the
city will act as pall bearers, and the
mortal remains of an ambitious young
life will be laid by the side of the .young
I wife who preceded him to the grave two
' years ago. He leaves two Httle children
and a host of triends to lament his death.
HIS NECK BBROKEN.
Accident to a Lineman Who Was En
gaged in Repairing Breaks.
Brunson, S. C., Aug. 81.—John Grant,
colored, telegraph linemen for the Port
Royal and Augusta railway, whtfe going
up tlie track hero to-day repairing the
breaks of the cyclone, was instantly
killed by the lever car jumping the truck
and breaking his neck He had been in
the employ of tho telegraph company for
over twenty years and was well re
spected. j __
THE CHOLERA ABROAD.
Nine New Cases and Five Deaths at
Leerdam, Wednesday.
Amsterdam, Aug. 31.—Nine fresh cases
of cholera and five deaths reported in
Leerdam yesterday. The Dutch-Ameri
can Steamship Company has notified its
agents that all emigrants before embark
ing must remain five days under the ob
servations of an American physician in
the company’s hospital. Emigrants will
not be allowed to come or go at pleasure,
but be obliged to sleep and eat in the hos
pital.
Cholera Epidemic at Grimsby, Eng.
London Aug. 31.--The epidemic in the
Lincolnshire seaport. Grimsby', has been
declared to be Asiatic cholera, after hav
ing been called a “choleretic disease”
for many days. The last victim of the
disease was a woman, who died last Tues
day. Several other cases before hers had
ended fatally The authorities of Grims
by believe that the cholera was brought
to the city by immigrants from infected
ports. Yesterday a seaman died from
cholera aboard the Grimsby steumer in
the harbor of Stromness, Scotland.
DAILY. 110 A YEAR 1
S CENTS A COPY. Y
WEEKLY,#! IB A YEAR J
HOPE TO ST AVE OFF A VOTE.
Attitnde of the Silveritc Forces in the
Senate.
Confidence That Unconditional Repeal
Would be Carried if the Question
Could be Brought to an Issue—Gen.
Gordon's Speech a Surprise to the
Free Coinage Mon and a Great Help
to Other Opponents—Plan of the Re
peal Men to Deplete or Wear Out the
Silver Men By Sessions if the Latter
Unite for Delay.
Washington, August 31.—For some
days it has * been considered
pretty certain thnt unconditional repeal
would go through the Senate if it could
come to a vote. The doubt has been as to
the ability of the repeal men to get a vote.
The probability of that is greatly
strengthened. There hits been a pretty
steady shrinkage In the number whom the
silver men feel that they can depend ou
to fight It out through thick and thin for
silver. Senator Gordon’s declaration
in favor of repeal was something of a sur
prise, and iudicates that there may b
other senators whose course will be as
surprising as his.
SENATOR MORGAN WONT FtLLIBCSTBR.
They counted largely on Senator Morgan
to aid them in filibustering, but they have
now given up that hope in that matter.
His assistance would have been potent,
and to be deprived of it is discouraging.
Wltjje his views have not changed as to
silver, ho will not join in any filibuster.
Whilo this does not weaken the deter
mination of the radical silver men to de
lay the vote as long as possible, their
power of endurance is necessarily cur
tailed by shrinkage of their numerical
strength* On the other hand, the anti
silver men. who thought they would get
repeal through the Senate in two
weeks, have extended tho limit to
three weeks, and say if they do not get a
vote at that time they will begin tho
policy of wearing out their opponents by
continuous session, night and aav. The
silver men feel that they cannot for s
certainty rely on the populists.
TUB DREAM OF TRK POPULISTS.
The populists think the repeal of the
Sherman act by tho votes of democrats
snd republicans will drive a great many
men In the south and west into the popu
list party. Therefore, they will not re
gret its passage in that way. Jerry
Simpson suys he takes some satisfaction
in the prospect that this will increase the
populist party. Senator Stewart insists
that unconditional repeal will novel' pass
the Senate.
IN THB SENATE.
Ur. Caffery of Louisiana Makes an
Admirable Maiden Speech.
Washington, Aug. 31.—After some un
important proceedings, Mr. Cockrell in
troduced a (xmeurrent resolution direct
ing~the Seeretary of the Treasury (under
the provisions of section 354 of the re
vised statutes) to Issue certificates not to
exceed 30 per cent, of the amount of gold
coin and bullion in the treasury, and to
expend the same in the paying of interest
on the public debt, or for any other de
mand, liability or obligation of tho United
States, Ho read the section referred to,
which authorizes tho deposit of gold
coin or bullion in the treasury, and the
issue thereon of gold coin certificates, and
also authorizes the issue of gold certifi
cates to the amount of 30 per cent, of the
coin and bullion in the treasury. Ho
sajd that the passage of the concurrent
resolution would allow the issue of from
23,000,000 to 35,000,000 dollars in gold cer
tificates. The current resolution was, at
his own request, laid on the table for the
present.
MR. WOLCOTT AMUSES TltE SENATE.
The House bill for the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act
was then taken up and Mr. Wolcott of
Colorado opened tho debate with a pre
fiared speech against the bill, delivered
n the presence of almost all the senator*
and of a large audience in tho galleries.
The iribst telling parts of it, those that
amused and interested its hearers most,
were some humorous and sarcastlo
touches in which he depicted the conver
sion of democratic statesmen from their
belief in silver and devotion to bimetal
lism, to the gold monometallism faith of
the President.
A SENATOR’S MAIDEN'SPEECH.
At the close of Mr. Wolcott’s .speech,
notice was given by Mr. Mills that he
would ask the Senate next Wednesday to
hear some remarks from him on the re
peal bill.
Theu the floor was taken by Mr. Caf
fery, dem., of Louisiana. It was his
maiden speech in the .Senate, and was in
favor of the unconditional repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act.
He warned the senator from Colorado
(Wolcott) that if ho expected to smile
away the serious money troubles of the
country, as Cervantes had laughed awa.v
chivalry and romance from Spain, he was
doomed to signal failure.
Mr. CafTery argued that if free coin
age were established at the ratio of It} to
1. the object of having both metals would
be defeated, for the country would
surely have nothing but silver. If at 20
to 1 tho same result would occur, as sil
ver was worth but 38 to 1. If the ratio
should be 38 to 1, there would be either
a gold or a silver basis, according as
gold or silver was most valued. The
alternative of a silver standard
was not to be thought of.
The United States were not going
backward a hundred years to grope their
way along with the South American
states and Mexico. Cotton would be sold
abroad for gold prices and paid for in ex
change calculated in silver, with a large
discount for fluctuation The United
States would sell iu a gold market and
buy in a silver market. Besides, the em
barrassments and difficulties of domestic
exchange would be intolerable.
PROUD OF HIS NATIVE STATE.
He was proud of the position of his na
tive state on the money vuestion. She
had always been sound, and, if his feeble
efforts would ayail. she always would be.
Sorely tempted, she refused in 1879 to re
pudiate the principal of her bonded debt.
Now the seductive offer was made to de
base the national currency, but her sena
tors on this floor, true to their eon victioas
and the traditions of their state, had
spunred the insidious proposition. It
might be his fate to feel the temporary
weight of the forces of inflation. It might
be that the star of his political life, just
rising above the horizon, would relapse