Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-09
SIX HUNDRED DEAD.
It 1s Expected That the Victims of the
Southern storm VIII Reach That Num-
ber--Neariy 400 Bodies Found.

tt 5s Expected That the Victims of the
Southern storm VIII Reach That Num-
ber--Nearly 400 Bodies Found.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Sept. 1. - Receiver
Averill, of the Port Royal & Augusta
road, wires the Chronicle that the loss
of life on Sea islands, South Carolina,
far exceeds anything yet reported, and
will not fall short of 600. Great desti-
tuition exists among tho 1000 remain
ing inhabitants and urgent appeal is
made for aid in hape of provisions.
BEAUFORT, $. c., Sept. l. Over 800
dead bodies have been found on the
islands about Beaufort and Port Royal
Over $4,000. 600 of property has been
wrecked near the same points, Both
are the direct result of severe storms
which swept along the Atlantic
coast Sunday night. Every one of
the fifteen or twenty islands lying
around Port Royal and Beaufort are
mourning. On every door knob there
is bunch of crepe, and upon every
hillside there are fresh-made graves
The beeches, the underground trees
and shrubbery, the marshes and the in
lets are revealing dead bodies every
time an investigation is made.
OF the many disasters and devasta-
tions which have visited this section of
the country none have been half as
horrible as that which came Sunday,
Those who are at all posted about the
country and the habits of the people in
the storm-visited sections are confident
in their prediction that the death roll
will run as high as 500. Some of the
best people of this section of the state
even place the loss at more than 1,000
1t is around Beaufort and Port ROYAL
that the death rate was the greatest,
but in neither of the towns were many
lives lost. Around the two towns there
is complete chain of islands, and it
was upon these that the harvest of
death was reaped. Port Royal is prac-
tically in ruins. In addition to the
enormous destruction of property crops
were injured terribly. Fifty per cent.
loss would probably not be too large
an estimate to make.
Paris island, where the United States
dry docks are building and which
stands between the Broad and Beau
fort rivers, was swept by the cyclone.
The fatality which has pursued the
government improvements since their
inception found it's elimination on Sun
day night. The injury could not be ac.
curately calculated.
Beaufort, the prettiest island town
in the Carolinas, is terribly damaged,
notwithstanding the fact that it stands
miles up the river. Many of the resi-
dences in the town were badly dam
aged and the wharves are nearly
or quite destroyed. The fury of the
wind and waves was so great that some
huge masses of iron used for holding
buoys and weighing $500 pounds were
moved from their places and rolled
about the beach Some great anchors
weighing from $500 to 5000 pounds
We're flung about like so much timber.
The place is complete ruin.
COLUMBUS, $. c., Sept. Accounts
continue to come in of general havoc by
Sundays storm. Mr.. B. Robinson, of
Kerrison's establishment, gives TIE fol-
lowing story of the effects of the storm
in the low country: He had just ar
rived from Walterboro, and stated that
from Blschoffs place on the Edisto
river to jackson boro two negroes float
ed the whole distance on the top of
their shanties and reported that all the
negroes in the lowlands had
been drowned-in all about 100 men,
women and children. They relate
terrible experience and furthermore
state that all of the dwellings are total
ly destroyed and the place in abject
desolation. At Walterboro, Mr.. Robin
son said, many of the houses had been
completely washed from their founda-
tious out into the streets, and all of the
rice fields were overfowed.
Gov. Tillman has issued proclama-
ton calling upon the people to come TO
the aid of their suffering fellow-citi-
zens. Contributions can be sent to the
Bank of Beaufort, subject to the draft
of relief committee which the gov
ernor will appoint.
Estimates of injury to the cotton
crop that where in former years Char
lesion received 10000 bales of Sea island
cotton this year it will do well to get
5000 bales.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 1.-Ten
bodies of victims of Sundays cyclone
were discovered in drift IA miles from
Jacksonville Thursday morning. The
damage to fruit trees and orange groves
is enormous.