Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-06
TERRIBLE CYCLONE.
Hundreds of Lives Lost and Much
Property Destroyed.
Atlantic Coast Cities from Savannah
North, Devastation.

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the hundreds, and desolation is every
where in the States along the Atlantic
Coast. From Augusta, Ga, comes the
alarming rumor that town of Port
Royal, S. c., has been completely de.
molished, with a terrible loss of life and
there is much reason to apprehend that
scores of those who live on what is
known as the Sea Islands, fringing the
coast, have been overwhelmed. No
such extended destruction has been
known for years. 1t covers an area of
thousands of miles, and has been CON-
plete and terrible. Details of what is
now transpiring in the cyclones path
are pitfully meager, but their very
meagerness indicates how widespread
and devasting was the disaster.
In this city, while the strength of the
hurricane was apparent, the damage
was not great. Vessels in the harbor
suffered considerably, and in Brooklyn
several buildings collapsed.
The great storm first loomed into
view in the vicinity of the Bahamas on
Friday morning last, when its rate of
progressive motion was small, not ex.
ceed thirteen miles an hour on that
day. From the position of its center
ON Friday morning to the position it
occupied on Monday night, north north,
west of Lynchburg, Va, the distance
travelled by the hurricane is 500 miles,
Its average rate of advance did not,
therefore, exceed eighteen miles per
hour, though during Monday it trav veled
more than three hundred miles in
twelve hours-a rate of about twenty
five miles an hour. With the latter
velocity it ascended and passed over
the mountains of North Carolina.
RICHMOND, VA, August 29.-"Five
hundred persons are reported to have
been drowned ON the Sea Islands.
That was the startling news con-
tanned in dispatch received late to-
night by the Atlantic Coast Line from
Florence, s. C. The Sea Islands skirt
the coast of North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida. No verifcation
has since been received. The dispatch
continues:
"The storm carried the water from
the rivers into the Atlantic Coast Line
sheds at Charleston, S. c., to the depth
of six feet, and in Meeting street, in the
center of Charleston, the water was
two feet deep. A four tasted schooner
was forced into the railroad shed by
the rushing waters. Streets are filled
with debris. Many dead sea birds we're
strewn about. All the phosphate works
about the city have been demolished.
The roof of every third house in the
city is gone"
AUGUSTA, GA, August pa special
to the Chronicle from Port Royal, S.
c., brings the startling information
that fully 100 lives have been lost at
Port Royal, Beaufort and neighboring
points by drowning during the storm.
Over twenty five of these were seen by
the correspondent, and his information
regarding the others was received from
reliable sources. Of the 100 persons
killed and drowned only six were white,
the Others being negroes. The negroes
were SO frightened and terror stricken
that many were killed and drowned by
not leaving their cabins to seek places
of safety. Twenty persons were drowned
on Paris Island. No news has been
received from st. Helena, four miles
from Beaufort. tits believed fully that
twenty five lives were lost between
Port Royal and Sea Brook, all negroes
Every house in Beaufort and Port
Royal was damaged to some extent,
and number of barges and craft were
wrecked and blown ashore. The Coo
saw Mining Co. losses $4,000. The
total losses are estimated in the neigh
borhood of half a million dollars.
.. SAVANNAH, ga, August 29.-Fifteen
people are known to have been drowned,
and more are missing. 1t is impossible
to estimate the amount of property
destroyed.
More than thirty wrecks have been
reported so far. Fifteen vessels in the
harbor and off Tybee were wrecked or
badly damaged. More than that num-
Der of smaller craft are missing, and
are believed to have been lost. The
schooner Lena Smith, reported ashore,
lies high on the Tybee Beach. just west
of the wharf. Six unknown vessels
are reported ashore on Tybee Beach
from the outside. The other disasters
which occurred to the shipping be.
tween the Quarantine Station and Ty.
bee Roads are: The Norwegian craft
Harold, which is lying at Ty bee Beach
Norwegian bark Linden, at Quarantine
Station. high and dry in the marsh,
with foremast gone; the Norwegian
bark Elma is also up in the marsh al
Quarantine, with all of her masts gone
The Portuguese bark Andacia is high
and dry and is considered to be tota
wreck. The bark Mexico, which wal
lying at the Upper Quarantine wharves
is now between the lateral row of pill
ings on the wharf. How she got ther,
is a wonder. Apparently she mus
have been lifted over the outside pilings
The British barkentine Genesta is higi