The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-27
SOUTHERN CYCLONE.
WORSE TnAN a BoMpARpMENT.

: WORSE THAN a BoMBAnDMES1
} Tho Destruction that Visited Charleston
: South carolIna-rhis Time the Enemy
was Nature, and the D Devastation was
More than that Done by War.
J AUGUSTA. GA, Augusta Yesterday
storm in Charleston, s. O., was cyclon
in the proper sense Of the term. Th
, wind was 25 miles an hour at 1:So in th,
morning, increasing to So, 40 and 80
which was reached about in the even
ing, finally running up as or 50 mile
an hour. The northern edge Of tht
clone touched Charleston and compile
led its passage in forty minutes. Th,
streets were more desola.e at the end o
1.-TWO hours than alter the bombardment
during the war.
The etorm commenced properly atday.
light from tho southeast, with frequent
gusts. AS early as 0 o'clock the roof ol
St. AIichael's Church was stripped. At Z
a. N. the apparatus in the roof Of the
signal office, the flagstaff and Eeatheryane
were demolished. The last observation
before the climax OF destruction recorded
tho wind at 6S miles an hour. The climax
Of the cyclone was about O'Clock.
But a single shed Is standing on the wharf; /;
every thing Is in confusion at the wharis.
Alto o'clock there was sudden fall but
soon the gale increased aud continued till
l o'clock, when the great storm OF 1885
was over. Hundreds OF thousands Of
dollars were expended on the wharves.
The water front on Copper river suffered
most, the Southern wharf suffered least.
SHIFTING DESTROYED.
The commercial wharyes were COM
pletely wrecked. Half dozen yachts,
two pilot boats and dredging machine
were sunk. Boyce's wharf was wrecked
and the pilot boat schreper and a number
Of fishing smacks and yachts were sunk.
-Four piers and the sheds Of the Atlantic
wharf were blown away. The Cotton Ex-
change building was also damaged. Kcros'
wharf was demolished. The steamer
Planter was stove in at Accom-
mediation wharf. The damage to the
Central wharf was very serious,
four piers aud three sheds Of the Union
wharf were swept away. The wharf at
Castle Pinkuey was carried away. The
steamer Delaware, from New York Satur-
day, came in all right'last night. She re-
potts q fearful storm at sea. The damage
to houses in the city cannot he estimated.
Tho pleasure boats on Rutledge street
lake were piled upon the northern shore
in a confused mass Of broken hulks.
Two sloops have not yet been found.
The convent OF the Sisters oil Mercy was
seriously injured and unroofed. The plas-
tering is down, the library badly dam.
aged and the building temporarily unfit
for use. The colored church in Crom-
wells alley was completely demolished.
In Frask kiln street a large tree was riven
In three parts from top to bottom but re-
mained standing. The whole street Is
barricaded with fallen trees.
SCENE OF CONFUSION.
The south battery was the scene of
great confusion and damageto shipping,
and .the streetsiwere flooded with water,
and crafts Of all description we're washed
ashore and were floating inthe streets at
high tide. Ths fshermen's boats
were destroyed and 4the wharyes
piled high with incongruous wrecks.
M & .a,.i, .nos..rn aud oontrol no,.
ihe ho.su"ee.e'n anu ssn py.
tions OF The CITY suffered slight
damage compared win stnat along
tne water 'front.', lroqgti ny eh..le Rosaoa
ol lne clsy Msss .L .aat atee Ss iron. ena W. 70
three sSuI feet deep. -, 80
Tho spire q the Citadel Square Baptist
church, one Of the tallest IN the 3 city, was
scrnss naarnr sne cntys Se
nisgna ne and n front . walls and leaving The in.
terror ofthe dwelling exposed 70 the storm:
Several miraculous escapes occurred re-,
mere, d 9ps nno no ons was ,ba a,een,e The
pis,on.tS isss so.vgV chntrS "s was comnleteiv nm.
ro5isd 81 Peters street Synagogue was
unrooied.
Avery Institute was rnrnoied. Triaity,
Methodist Episcopal Church in Hasell
street was unrooled. The Mount Zion
Presbyterian Church, colored. in Calhoun
street, was unrooied and .badly wrecked.
About mile ofrallroid track was blown
up. Freight depots were badly damaged.
Two stacks were blown out of water across
the track weighing thirty and fifty tons
each. The South Gar Railway wharyes
aad immense storehouse were unroofed
and heavily damaged, The building was
thrown on its side and fioated 100 yards
~ THE LOSSES.
The N,,r, and Courier, Of Charleston,
makes tbe following rough estimate ot the.
'4'',f - 2 81 'IS,,..a lala e,s-