The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-09-07
HUNDREDS ARE LOST.
MIGHTY HARVEST OF DEATH IN
THE SOUTH.
Ruin Wrought on Every >idc->corrs Of
Lives Destroyed by the Angry Element
WreckaSe.
Work of the Win,i.

Sunday and Monday. more complet.
details of the awful visitation are made
known. Many places where the storm
was most severe are not reached by
telegraph. and reports from these
points ara necessarily slow and mae
curatc. The cyclone flew through Port
Royal. :. G.. at the rate ri loo miles
an hour. and was followed by a tidal
wave that almost swept the town away
One hundred lives are said TO have
been lost here. At the time this is
written Port Royal is completely cut
Off fron the outside world. As all the
telegraph wires are down and the rail
roads washed away. Even the people
themselves have nn idea OF the extent
of damage done. The messenger was
unable to give the exact number Of
lives lost. but without overestimating
and drowned He saw himself thirty
dead bodies. Others are being recov-
cred. and many are still missing. The
suffering and misery the storm has
caused cannot be pictured nor the dam
age to property be estimated. Most of
the drowned are negroes.
The people of Beaufort and Port
Royal We're apprehcnsivc i'll regard To
the fate of st. Helena. Il small island
four miles from Beaufort. They We're
unable to hear a single word from
there. There Were twenty five lives
lest between Port Royal and Seabro TX.
a small station only four miles from the
harbOr. all of them negroes. who were
plantation hands. Houses were blown
down and carried in every direction.
and almost Il tidal wave covered tn.
town to a depth of ten and twelve feet.
Only meager reports have been re-
ceived from other points near Beau
fort. and it is feared that many more
negroes have been killed. The Alma
Cumming. a large boat loading at the
Sea Island Chemical Works, was swept
from its mooringS and badly injured.
The pilot boat Palmetto tied up at
Port Royal decks. was blown to pieces
and finally sunk few yards from its
mornings. Every house in Port ROYAL
and Beaufort was seriously damaged.
Lives Lost by Hundreds.
\ passenger train of the Atlantic
Coast line reached Richmond. Va,
from Charleston. >. c.. having been de-
laycd twcnty-four hours by the storm
J. Is. Rtddinacauld, the southern EX-
press Ctmpanys messenger. who was
in Charleston durin" the stol IN, says
that the battle OF wind and rain began
with terrific force at one o'clock on
Sunday aft, rnuon and continued with
out cessation until Monday morning at
seven O'Clock. While the record of
terror and ruin wrought by the great
disaster OF lSSo remains unbrnkcn.
Charleston stood in the track of this
cyclone which has shaken the old city
to her foundation stones. The total
Il fn Irt, t. fnf fnr
some days, ana the loss of life il UNI
known. Not fifty yards space was left
in the streets that did not contain
debris Of all kinds roofs of houses.
signs. awnings. telegraph poles, etc.
which were scattered in all directions
during the storm.
1t Is reported that five hundred
persons have been drowned on the
Sea Islands. but this report cannot be
verified. The Sea Islands skirt the
| coasts of North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida.
storm ut savannah.
At Savannah. Ga. the storm. which
| had been predicted by the weather
bureau for several days. began early in
f; the afternoon and. according to Il dis
| patch. increased from then ON until il
| reached the climax between ii and l!
| o'clock at night. having lasted for eight
hours. The storm and rain ceased for
| awhile in the afternoon. 1t began
! again with terrific force and the work
; of destruction lcigned supreme and
j lasted until midnight. when the storm
! spent its fury. All the wharvcs along
. the river front and ocean steamship
F., companies and Savannah. Florida and
+, Western Railroad wharVes We're under
| water. The city streets were impassa-
bic on account of debris and fallen
. tres, twisted roofs. masses Of brick
! fences. and broken limbs and branches.
| Il is difficult at the time this is writ
ten to estimate the damage as the re-
| suit of the storm. but it was very gen
! eral. and it is safe to say it will go up
, in the hundreds of thousands and per
haps higher. Nearly if not quite all
! the property owners in the city have
T been damaged to some extent and some
TO the amount of thousands Fourteen
! lives are known TO bc lost. and this will
certainly lie augmented when details
come to hand. There are forty or fifty
other Pc, IS rs who are reported miss
ing. and it is supposed. as nothing has
been heard from them. that their
bodies will Re found later on Twelve
DarkS and DarkontlneS when We're an
chorcG off quarantine station were
thrown high upon the island. and some
of them Were carried by the storm
across the marshes into an island TWEEN
" miles distant from the quarantine
station.
The ruin At quarantine j. immeasur.
able Nothing Is standing where one
OF the finest stations Of the south At
lanric was twenty-four hours before. eX
cept the doctors house. and how thi:
weathered the fearful gale is miracu
lou-. The wharyc- are gone. the new
fumigating plant. which cost the cit,
50 much money. i i'll tie bottom OF tn,
sea. and nine vessels which were wait
ing there 20" release 70 90 10 tn.
city are high and dry in the marsh
and no doubt will ba tota! wrecks. The
Co>nine was the only vessel which
managed 10 keep atioa-. It i re-
ported that eight Of the crew of d ter,
rapin >loop which went ashore OF thu
south end We're drowned. All the hath
houses are gone. the knights Of pyth
las club house was washed away