Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-09-01
The Gale on the Coast.

sceno Wltniu the narDor irom Hoou
until midnight. as the heavy sen broke
against tho battery sea wall throwing vast
sheets Of spray forty feot high over tho city
water front, was grand and terrible. Thos.
@. Lesesno, aged %, son Of Chausellor Lee
eesne, was swept from.tho battery SEQ wall by
the winds and drowned. Three other deaths
resulting from the gallo, those of two negro
mon and negro woman, arc SO far reported.
The damage to property in the Eastcrly part
Of tho city is widespread, but not Of worry
serious character. consisting mainly Of tho
destruction Of tin roofs, ohimneys, fencing,
signs and trees, and the tearing up of the
planking of the wharves. The damage is
roughly estimated at 100000. AT Sullivan's
in tho seaside suburbs Of Charleston, several
cottages were swept away and much other
damage was done, amounting in all to about
$40, 600, but no lives wore lost as far as is
known. The shipping in port had ample
time to prepare for the gale, and sustained no
damage. Tho steamers City Of Atlanta, for
New York. and Calvert, for Baltimore, which
wero to havesailed yesterday, remained here.
The steamer G. w. Clyde arrived from Now
York this afternoon, having encountered
hurricane OF Cepo Fear without damage.
Tho steamers Cleopatra. from Baltimore,
and Equator, from Philadelphia, are of the
bur.
AUGUSTA, August 20..-A terrific hurricane
visited Savannah on Saturday night. The
velocity Of wind was about 80 miles an hour
Early in tho evening the signal service office
was unroofed and the Instruments destroyed.
A portion Of the Morning Ne,os of6co was
blown off and tho building flooded. The city
exchange was badly damaged. A number Of
firms on tho bay lost heavily. About fifty
private dwellings were moro or less injured
The sheds on tho now wharf of the Bal timose
steamship line were blown entirely down.
Several -four and rico mills woro unroofed
and their contents flooded. A large portion Of
the city was under wator for several hours.
Tho Central railroad wharyes were badly
damaged. Tho public parks were denuded
Of some Of their finest trees and otherwise
injured. Tho destruction Of shade trees was
worry great. The Gnorgia inGrmary was
wrecked and tho patients barely escapcd.-a
number being bruised by the falling bricks
and plascring.
The German brig Maria Louise, Captain
Miuko, had her stern badly smashed and
her ruddcr, bowsprit and jbboom broken.
Her sides were also Injured.
The pilot boat Maid Of the Mist collided
with schooner and sunk, and several tug
boats were injured. Steamer City of
Bridgoton, had hole punched 10 her side
4 house was swepe down the river and
tbreo occupants, Mrs. Stokes aud her two
children, were drowned. Mr.. Stokes
barely escaped. Engineer Richard Fitz
gerald of the steamer II. B. Plant was
drowned. The loss of lifo amvng cootcd
people occupying little huts on rice planta-
tions and along the river was very great
On tho Tybec island tho house Of Henry
Solomon was blown down aud tho ruins
caught fire. Three persons pcrished. The
family of David l}owens, colored, compris
ing seven persons, drowned Il oolorcd
woman and her four children were washed
away 10 their house. All of tho people at
Shad island we're drowned. At Fort Pu~
laski the officers quarters we're flooded.
The telegraph lines to Savannah arc all
down. 1t is opprchcnded that notwith-
standing the warnings of the approaching
storm, some vessels along tho coast have
suffered, aud news of tho disaster will DO
received during the week. The storm has
been very severe and particularly danger
Gus to vessels from tho fact that the wind
shifted frequently, blowing from tho North,
East, Northeast, Northwest and West. At
Beaufort the waterhouse wharf was washed
away, sluops were washed under tho bluff
aud the streets filled with water. At tho
Port Royal bridge the connecting wharf
with tho cotton compress wero washed
away, and part of tho railroad track was
destroyed Ten negro hands of the Coosaw
mining company returning home on Sstur-
day night, went into the ferry house of
Port Royal ferry, ten miles from town for
protection. The house was washed away
with all the men, who wcro drowned.
This is tho only loss of life reported. Sew.
eral pilot boats and United States tugs were
washed ashore.
PORT ROYAL.
A hurricane passed over here on Satur-
duy night. On account of the storm the
ferryman could not convey passengers across
the river. A number of persons were in ferry
houses awaiting the abatement Of the storm
when the house was carried away by tho
high tide. Seven bodies wero recovered
to day. The number actually drowned is
uncertain, as the rumors conflct, ranging in
number from twenty to forty.
Ono washer aud one dredge of tic Coosaw
mining company in Coosaw river were lost
No lives were lost. There was considerable
damage done tho wharvcs and lighters Of
the company
The estimated damage to individual and
railroad property is $4,000.
The loss at Beaufort is estimated at S.