Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-31

and concluded by saying that the good credit
of the United States is valuable to every
man in the United States engaged in any in
dustry, because enterprises that give employ
ment to labor can 60 forward only by capi
tai, and capital can be lent out only on goot
credit. What we want is good dollars and in
ducement to put them into business. IfIknov
myself at all my view is that as more hu
man beings are engaged in labor with hands
than any other way, they are chiefly to bt
considered in Governmental affairs. Ap
plause.] That is my opinion all the time
In travelling, our safety depends on The hon
esty and fidelity with which the common la
borers perform their part. If on the railroad
there be defective machinery or carelessness
our lives are endangered. So our National
safety depends on honest labor; therefore, the
best thing to do is to keep our credit goot
and our currency sound and stable.
The Recent Terrible Storm.
- A tempestuous gale of unprecedented
severity swept over a portion of the Atlantic
coast early last Thursday morning. On the
New England coast much damage was done
to shipping, and several lives we're lost The
signal corps station at Cape Henry reports
that the American ship A. S. Davis, of Sears
port, Maine, loaded with guano, from Callao
and bound to Hampton Roads and Norfolk
ran ashore at 2, a. M, on the 23rd, eight
miles South of the station. The vessel and
cargo are total loss. The crew of nineteen
men were all lost with, one exception. Nine
of the bodies were washed ashore.
In the city of Philadelphia, incalculable
damage was done by the wind, which at 2.45
a. m. was blowing at the rate Of 25 miles an
hour in westerly direction. 1t gradually
increased in fury, obtaining velocity Of u
miles an hour. Not in many years, if ever
before, has there been so much damage done
in the streets, public squares and along the
river fronts. Many Of the public school
buildings are damaged. Over forty churches
Vi dll ucuOIUludLOuc "ClC lbOiC WI 1000 oohA-
aged by the demolishing of steeples &c. The
sheds for departing trains at the Pennsylva'
MIA Railroad depot, in West Philadelphia
we're demolished, involving loss Of forty to
fifty thousand dollars The large, depot al
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, at Washington avenue wharf, was
reduced to ruins, and the south side of the
Pennsylvania grain elevator, in the imme'
diate vicinity, was blown in. Two spans OF
the Schuylkill bridge, on the Reading Rail
road, fell in, stopping all travel. Numerous
disasters to shipping are reported. Seven
persons were killed in the city and about sew
enty-6ve injured. Detailed reports, made up
next day after the storm, show that by the
storm in the city, 3S4 dwellings and stores
were unroofed and otherwise injured and sew.
eral were completely demolished. In addi.
ton to these, there were badly injured, 81
churches, % schools, 35 factories and ware
houses, 5 hotels, 2 elevators and 30 other
large buildings, such as depots, ferry houses
mills and railroad Offices. The fatal acci'
dents were six, and those seriously injured
number thirteen. ...
By the same storm three vessels and sever
al lives were lost on the Chesapeake bay
Among the vessels lost was the Empress
Her crew consisted of twenty.one men. She
was first struck by the gale between II and
2 o'clock in the morning, and soon became
unmanageable, and drifted towards Bamen
leland. 4 largo sea erept over her and
stove in all the joiner work. Her command
or, Captain Barker, one of the wheelsmen
and one of the colored passengers were res.
cued by passing vessel and taken to Chris
field. Six of the crew were taken off by a
boat from the steamer Shirley, of the same
place, by line which lies ashore on Bamen
Island. The Shirley was unable to save any
of the others, and is unable ns yet to get of.
Her upper saloon was carried away, and she
rapidly filled with water and sank. The
scenes at the wreck are described as being
horrible in the extreme. The nine men ta'
ken to Cbris6eld we're the only persons saved,
30 that the loss of life must have teen great.