The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-02
THE CLIMAX.

Halt dozen yachts, two or three
pilot boats and a dredging machine
were sunk here. The steamer City
of Palatka. at Adger's wharf, rode
out the storm in safety. Boyer's
wharf was wrecked and the pilot
boat Schreper and a number of fish,
ing smacks and yachts sunk. -Four
piers and the sheds of the Atlantic
wharf were blown down and dam
aged. The Cotton Exchange build
ing was also damaged. Korr's wharf
was completely demolished and
Browns wharf damaged. The steam
er Planter was stove in at Accom-
mediation wharf. The damage to
the Central wharf was very serious.
The Market wharf was heavily dam
aged. Four piers and three of the
sheds of the Union wharf were car
ried away. Several vessels sank and
others were more or less damaged.
GREAT DESTRUCTION IN THE CITY.
The damage to houses in the city
can hardly be estimated. The Ne,rs
and Courier of Charleston makes the
following rough estimates of the
losses: Wharf property, s350,0O0; ;
private property, 100000; cotton
presses, $4,000; churches. $4,000;
city property, Streets and parks,
s35, 600; railroads, $4,000; Ashley
river bridge. $1,000; shipping. $780,
600; lumber mills, $4,000; miscel-
laneous, 100000; total, s1.123, 900.
On King street less injury was
done than was anticipated, though
trees and fences were blown down
and here and there houses were un-
rooted. The pleasure boats on Rut-
ledge Street Lake were piled upon
the northern shore in confused
mass of broken hulks. Along Ash
ley river there were many casuali-
ties to shipping. vessels being
grounded all along the river. Two
sloops have not yet been found. The
fence and out houses of the Roper
Hospital were blown down ard the
roof of the Jail was injured. The
Convent of the Sisters of Mercy was
seriously injured and unroofed. The
colored Church in Cromwell's alley
was completely demolished. Frank
lin street is barricaded with fallen
trees. In Benseman court two small
houses were blown down on the oc.
cupants. who escaped without seri-
GUS injury. The South battery was
the scene of great confusion and
damage to shipping. The streets
were flooded and crafts of all descrip.
ton were washed ashore and were
floating in the streets at high tide.
The fishermen's boats were destroy
ed and the wharves piled high with
incongruous wrecks.
IN OTHER SECTIONS.
The northwestern and central
portions of the city suffered slight
damage compared with that along
the water front, through the entire
portion of the city west of Rutledge
avenue was submerged with water
from one to three feet dreep,in manv
places covering the first floor of
houses. The spire of the Citadel
Square Baptist Church, one of the
taliest in the city, was blown across
the four-story dwelling of Thomas
d. Dotterer, cutting away the piazza
and front walls aud leaving the in
terror of the dwelling exposed to the
storm. Several miraculous escapes
occurred here, but no one was injur-
ed. 1t will take $1,000 to replace
the steeple. The Plymouth Church,
Pitt street, was completely unroofed.
The ST. Phillips Street Synagogue
was also unroofed. The Church
Home in Lawrence street was bad.
ly damaged and Avery Institute un-
rooted. The Trinity Methods.
Episcopal Church in Hazel street
was unroofed and the chapel in the
Citadel was also unroofed. The main
building was not much damaged.
The Charleston High School and
the Catholic Central School were
damaged. The Mount Zion Presby-
terian church. colored, in Calhoun
street, was badly wrecked. The spire
of the German Lutheran church was
injured. About a mile of railroad
tracks were torn up and freight de-
pots badly damaged. The damage
to the Northwestern Railroad yards
amounts to two thousand dollars.
Two sloops. weighing thirty and fif-
ty tons each, were blown out of the
water and across the tracks. The
South Carolina Railroad wharves
and immense storehousss' were un.
rooted &nd heavily damszed. One
building was thrown on its side and
foated one hundssd 5asds iato the
marsh. The track from the inter-
section of the Northeastern Railroad
to the South Casolius Railway
wharvss aoated xif aboSr and was
deposited in zigzag proportions on
whatever foundations were exposed
by the recedeing waters. The loss to
the South Carolina Railroad is esti-
mated at so, 600 At this point. 9th
er railroads several thousand dollars
each. as l.l saI t4s
Az Ssllivans Island many houses