Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-07

the river, and three of the occupants, Mrs
Stokes and her two children. were drowned
Mr.. Stokes barely escaped. Engineer Fitz-
gerald of the steamer FL. B. Plant was drowned
and the loss of life among colored people oc-
cupying little huts along the river is great On
Tybee Island, Henry Solomon's house was
blown down, ard the ruins taking fire. three
persons were burned TO death. The family of
Daniel Bowers, colored, comprising seven per-
sons, and a colored woman and four children
found watery graves. All the people on Shad
Island and several persons at Fort Pulaski
persisted.
AT Port Royal S. c., on account of the storm
the ferry could not convey the passengers across
the river, and they gathered in the ferry house
awaiting an abatement of the storm, when the
house was carried away by the high tide Seven
bodies were recovered on the 29th ult. The
number actually drowned is uncertain, but it is
rumored will vary from twenty to forty. One
washer and one dredge of the Coosawa Mining
company, in the COOsawa River, were sunk. No
lives were lost. Considerable damage was done
wharves and lighters for the company.
The list of disasters by the cyclone which
prevailed on the Atlantic coast on the 9th ult.
IS being augmented daily by the arrival of yes
sells and steamers bringing tidings of shipwreck
The steamer Hudson fell in with the ship San
dusky, from Pensacola to Liverpool with lunl-
Der, dlsmasted, water-loggcd and her stern
| gone, and took off the crew, who had been
SoVCuGy-elSnG nOurS WlUnOuJ 1000 or water. Inc
steamer Chalmette sighted the schooner Lucie
Wheatley, Captain Supple, from Jacksonville
| for Baltimore In a sinking condition and took
| off the captain and crew and brought them to
| New York. They had been four days without
| food on water. The steamer Juniata took off
the crew of the water-logged schooner Parmeh
| NJ. Sails. The vessels captain had been lost
| overheard. James G.. Harris, mate of the
schooner Mary G. Fisher, from Philadelphia
| for Wilmington, N. c., laden with coal, was
| picked up at sea on the goth by the steamship
| Santiago de Cuba and brought to Savannah.
He was on piece of the cabin of the schooner
! and was naked and delirious when picked up.
| His schooner foundered on the oath off FRYING
| Pan Shoals and all hands were lost except Har-
ris 1t is estimated that over one hundred
lives were lost in the vicuity of Savannah by the
gale. Between twenty and thirty inquests
have already been held. With the exception of
seven, all are negroes washed off plantations.
The steamship Mararabah and schooner are
reported ashore On Sapelo. The pilot boat
Belle picked up, sixteen miles southeast of
Ilebe, raft with the captain and six men Of
the barque Brunswick, from Pascagoula for
Boston, which foundered on the 9th. -Four men
were lost from the raft. The brig Walter
Smith was abandoned southeast of Hattaras.
the bark Julie I'll. is aground in the marsh in
New River, S. c., and the bark Marietta and
revenue steamer Boutwell, are in the marshes
near Fort Pulaski. The steamship Irene
Morris, from Liverpool brought in two fisher
men belonging to the schooner Grace l.. Pears,
which vessel was lost In fog off the coast of
Nova Scotia.