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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