Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-09-01
RAGING ELEMENTS.
THE RECENT HURRICAN
IN CAROLINA.
Dreadful Destruction ofLife and Great
Less Of Property.
Houses, DOkes, Ships and People Wash
ed Away.
Cities Submerged and Rice Fields Ut
terly Destroyed.

PORT ROYAL, Aug. 29.-The hurrican
announced by the Signal Service depart
ment passed here Saturday. At Beaufort
the damage was considerable. Forty
lives were lost, all colored, at Port Royal
Ferry.
1t seems that on account of the storm
the ferryman could not convey passen-
gers across the river. Passengers gather
ed in the ferry house awaiting an abate-
ment of the storm, when the house was
carried away by the high tide. Seven
bodies were recovered to day. The mum.
ber actually drowned is uncertain, but it
is rumored to vary from 20 to 40. One
washer and one dredge of the Coosaw
Mining company, in the Coosaw river,
are sunk. No lives were lost. Consid-
cradle damage was done to the wharves
and lighters of the company.
No mention of the loss of life at Port
Royal ferry is made in Beaufort letters
dated yesterday. The wires are still
down.
THE STORM IN GEORGIA.
AUGUSTA. Ca, Aug ga terrific
hurricane visited Savannah on Saturday
night. The velocity of the wind was
about so miles an hour. Early in the
eveningIthe signal service Office was un-
rooted and the instruments destroyed.
A portion of the roof of the morning
"Neacs" Office was blown off and the
building flooded. The City exchange
is badly damaged.
A number of firms on the bay lost
heavily by damage to goods. About 30
| private dwellings were more or less in
iured. The sheds on the new wharf of
the Baltimore Steamship line were
blown entirely down, several -four and
rice mills unroofed and the contents
| flooded.
A large portion Of the city Nas ,unda,
water for several hours. The Central
railroad wharves were badly damaged
public parks shorn of some of their finest
trees and otherwise injured. The de-
struction of shade trees is very great
The Georgia Infrmary was wrecked
and the patients barely escaped, mum
ber being buried by falling brick and
plaster. The German brig, Maria Lou
ise, Capt. Minke, had her stern badly
mashed, the rudder, bowsprit and jib
boom broken, her sides also injured
The pilot boat Maid on the Mist collide6
1 with schooner and sunk. Several other
tug boats were injured. The steamer
City of Bridges had hole punched ir
her side. A house swept down the river
and three of the occupants, Mrs. Stokes
and her two children were drowned
Mr.. Stokes barely escaped. Engineer
Richard Fitzgerald, of the Fl. B. Plant
was drowned.
The loss of life among the Coloret
people occupying little huts on the rice
plantations and along the river is very
great. On Tybee island the house o.
Henry Solomon was blown down and the
ruins caught fire. Three persons perish
ed. The family of David Bowers, color
ed, comprising seven persons, was al
drowned. A colored woman and foul
house and drowned. All the people OF
Shed island were drowned. Several 9th
er persons are known to have perished
At Ft. Pulaska the officers quarter
were flooded. The telegraph lines tt
Savannah are all down.
1t is apprehended, that notwithstand
ing the warnings of the approaching
storm, some vessels along the coast hav'
suffered, and the news of disasters will
be received during the week. The storm
has been very severe. and Particular,
dangerous to vessels from the fact tina
the wind shifted frequently and blew
with equal severity from north, east
northeast, northwest and west.
At Beaufort the water house whar
was washed away, andtwo sloops wash
ed under the bluffs. The streets wer
filled with water.
At Port Royal the bridge connectin,
the wharf with the cotton compress wa
washed away, and part Of the railroa,
track destroyed. Ten negro hands of tn
Coosaw mining company, returning hom
Saturday night, got in the ferry house a
Port Royal ferry, ten miles from town
for protection. The house was washe
away and the men were drowned. I'm
mense loss of life is reported. Severs
pilot boats and United States boat al
washed ashore.
The steamer Saragossa, for Baltimore
has eturned with her rudder broken.