The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-01
The VAIL OF THE LOWLAND
WOiul Loss Of Life and Property on
the Islands.

With Each other Over the Land.
Port Royal Practically in Ruins.
Thirty Dead Bodies Were Found on
It's Beach-The Newly Appointed
Quarantine officer Among the Lost.
Seventy Per Cent. of the Sea Island
Cotton Crop Destroyed, and Rice
Nearly Ruined.
Columbia, S. c., Aug. 31.-Reports of
accidents continue to come in, showing
the general havoc by Sundays storm.
Thousands of valuable timber trees have
been blown down. Crops are washed
away. and the rivers are full of the fot-
sam and jetsam of the disaster. Advices
from the sea coast may be summed up in
the following extracts from to-days
Charleston papers: The long staple cotton
crop has met with severe injury,
and the estimates are that, while in for
mer years Charleston received $4,000
bales of sea island cotton, this year she
will do well to get 5000 bales. That is
the situation in a nutshell, as viewed yes
terday by those who are in the best posi-
tion to do any talking. Reports indicate
that the sea islands met with the heavi-
est damage, while the uplands Jared
somewhat better.
THE LowLANDs UTTERLY DEsoLATED.
Mr. Robinson, of Kerrison's establish
ment, gives the following story of the eff
fects of the storm in the low country: He
had just arrived from Walterboro, and
stated that from Bischoff's place on the
Edisto to Jacksonboro two negroes foated
the whole distance on the top of their
shanty, and reported that all the negroes
on the place in the lowlands had been
drowned, in all uabout 100 men, women
and children. They relate a terrible ex-
perienee, and furthermore state that all
of the dwellings are totally destroyed
and the place in abiect desolation.
At Walterboro, Mr.. Robinson said many
of the houses had been completely
washed from their foundations out into
the streets, and all of the rice fields were
overfowed.
The steamboat Pilot Boy, familiar to
every soul on the inland route between
the cities of Charleston and Savannah,
has been stranded and is more or less in
1ured. The pilot fleet of the harbor is
wrecked or stranded. The phosphate
works, which are located on the banks of
the neighbOring river, are in little better
plight than those on Charleston neck
PORT ROYAL THE SCENE OF DEATH.
Port Royal, lying on a tongue of land
further E9ow- tho Beaufort river. nust
have been more exposed to the fearful
tempest The place is practically in
ruins Its water front is destroyed and
great damage has been done to its build
ings The great loss of life which re-
suited from the storm on every shore of
the islands is greatest here. 1t has been
more automatically stated that thirty odd
negroes were found tdead on the beach,
and the number was expected to be large
ly increased before the death roll was
finally closed.
It is needless to add that the crops
were injured terribly. Fifty per cent.
loss would probably not be too large an
estimate to make.
NEW QUARANTINE OFFICER DROWNED.
Several gentlemen from this city, who
were in Port Royal or Beaufort during
the hurricane, returned to Charleston
yesterday on the first train which came
into the city over the Charleston g. Sa-
yannah railroad. They report that the
loss Of life and property at those places
and on the neighboring sea islands has
been fearful. The death roll had already
risen TO thirty odd persons, among whom
was numbered DR. Ellis, the newly ap-
pointed quarantine officer for the port.
Paris Island, where the Unite States
dry docks are building, and whic h stands
between the Broad and Beaufort rivers,
was swept by the cyclone. The fatality
which has pursued the government i'm
proyements since their inception
found its elimination on Sun
day night. The injury could not be
accurately calculated.
Beaufort, the prettiest inland town in
the Carolinas, is terribly damaged, not
Wlthstanding the fact that it stands six
miles up the Beaufort river. Many of
the residences in the town were badly
damaged and the wharves are nearly or
quite destroyed.
THE NIGHT IN CASTLE PINcKNEY.
The experience of Capt. Whitley and
MS wife and family of ten children on
Caste Pinckney on the night of the
storm was terrible one. The wind blew
Jne StOrehouses to pieces, and blew away
al Inc ship chambers stores, and his
uWeIllng was so exposed that it was seen
10 De dangerous to remain in it. He and
MS family sought shelter from the fury
5m ~ place to leeward of the port.
Ihree of the little ones were
SIX months to three years of
age, and stood it like the old ones, with
out whimper The fury of the winds
ana waves was so great that some huge
masses Of iron used for holding buoys,
and weighing 4,50O pounds, were moved
from their places and rolled about the
oeach. Some great anchors weighing
from 5000 to 900 pounds, were flung
aoout the place like so much timber. The
pace is a complete ruin, and in spite of it
al Capt. Whitley and his brave family
fort.
MAKING HERSELF sNuG
Inc missing steamship, Seminole, about
MHlcn SO much anxiety was felt, steamed
1uUo une harbor yesterday morning, with
scarcely scratch on her. She and her
passengers escaped unscathed from the
coast
-, When the Seminole met the hurricane
cue sue was of the mouth of the St. Johns
tttyer, and was preparing to head in for
tle entrance. Her officers appreciated
tue situation at glance, and, making out
W " SeaWard for considerable distance,
oaaey turned the vessels nose into the eye
VI The cyclone and cast out their
fEIICnOfs. The captain SAID she breasted
M NE duck during the long hours
a. IL Cne storm and was not injured in the
tt55dst when it had subsidized As soon as
Le LSle WIND had partially lulled he turned
u; ;;Ier INTO the St. Johns and made his dock
- Jacksonville in perfect safety His
agesGru "Trip was uneventful, except for the