Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-09-02
In THE STORMS RANGE
Great Disasters on Both Land
and Sea.

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Great Disasters on Both Land
and Sea.
OVER TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
The Damage at Charleston Alone Proves
to be Greater Than That Caused by
Nantucket Have Rough Experience.
1 SAVANNAH, Aug. 30-Aimost on the an
riversary of the great hurricane of 1881
Savannah was swept Sunday night by one
4 OF the severest storms it has ever known.
/ The ruin at Quarantine isimmeasurable
Nothing is standing where one of the
/ finest stations on the South Atlantic was
| twenty-foar hours ago except the DOCTORS
4 house, and low this weathered the fear
/ full gale is miraculous. The wharves are
gone, the new fumigation plant, which
/ has cost the city SO much money, is in the
bottom of the sea, and nine vessels, which
were waiting for release to come to the
city. are high aud dry in the marsh and no
i doubt will be totally wrecked. The Cos
nine was the only vessel which managed
| to keep afoat
SAVANNAH, Aug. 31.-The following par
| ticulars as to the effect OF the storm at
/ Tybee have been obtained. 1t will cost
probably S5o,o00 to repair the damage
The bridge over Lazaretto creek is
wrecked. The track from Lazaretto creek
4 bridge to Mrs. Ta5 ior's house is completely
wrecked. The water came up with such
force that it picked the track up and car
ried it 500 feet from the road bed
/ One or two foundations tell where thu
Estin House was. OF Peter Smiths house
not board remains G. r. Robbins house
is badly battered up. The Rattle club
house is supposed to rest on one side of
Wilmington Island, at any rate it is not on
Tybee. The house of w. Il. Wilson is
moved up towards the railroad about fifty
feet. Several houses were destroyed by
+ fire. The home of Mr. Rocker is moved
back about thirty feet The house of
| Frank Storer was treated rather queerly
\ The first floor was blown away, while the
! second floor sailed across several lots, and
was uninjured The pictures ON the man
tel were not even disturbed by tile flight
of the building A box ear at the east end
OF the ~" switch Of the railroad, where
Scott Bacon, his wife and two sons lived,
1 all of whom We're killed, was blown from
/ its trucks and has not been found
4 The Hotel Tybee is damaged but little
Some of the cottages Of Chatham are dam
aged The big sand drives along the
/ beach were swept away. The only bath
houses now on the island are those of the
4 Atlantic club. 1t is now estimated that
the losses of the planters will be greater
/ than at first supposed. Nearly the whole
crop is destroyed. The loss is estimated at
$4,000 The steamer City of Birming-
/ ham, from New York has arrived at this
port with the wrecked passengers of the
steamship City OF Savannah, from Boston.
/ COLUMBIA, 5. c., Aug. 3i.-The storm Of
Sunday night and Monday morning was
one of the tlercest that ever swept over
South Carolina. Wires are down in every
direction and details are hard to obtain.
The damage was general, extending over
the entire state, being most severe in the
southeastern angle.
Indefinite reports received from Port
Royal and Beaufort make it appear that
the storm did greater damage there and in
that vicinity han elsewhere One report
is to the effect that 100 lives were lost at
those two places and along the Atlantic
coast intervening. Most Of the loss was
[
ened and in their panic stayed in their
homes too long to make their escape. No
message can be gotten from Port Royal
or Beaufort. Columbia has no communi-
cation with the outside world
1 News received by The Chronicle brings
the startling intelligence that seventy dead
and swollen bodies were tnkcn from the
CooSa river at Port Royal by searching
parties Not one half of the horrors of the
storm has yet been told, as messengers
/ from surrounding sections are arriving
hourly bringing news of deaths and terri
bic havoc caused by the gale.
The number of missing is over 100, but
owing to the poor means of communica-
ton correct lists Of the dead cannot be OBJ
tanned In several places along the Coosa
river were found eight or ten bodies lying
on the bank close together. Graves were
/ hastily dug near the place of discovery of
/ the bodies and without ceremony the
storm victims We're placed beneath the
earth. Many OF the dead were so far ad-
vanced in putrication that the sight was
sickening and revolving. Suffering in
some localities among negroes is reported
as being distressing
/ CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 9i.-The dam
age here is fully as great as from the ter
rible cyclone Of 1885 The News and
/ Courier estimates the losses as follows:
City property, 100000; fertilzing works,
1 Sl73.500; Charleston Mining company,
/ S50,cC0: railroads, $50, 900; telephone ex-
/ change, 5000; telee raph companies, $780,
600; lead works, SIP 600; wharyes, $3.50, coo;
shipping, $4,000; Ashley river bridge,
$4,000; churches sl0,0QJi private property,
4 s2C0,000, miscellaneous, 500, 600. Total,
81, Ill, 800. The experience Of 1855 taught
I Charlestonians a lesson, and over Sl000,-
900 cyclone insurance was held. This will
greatly Offset the damage. Five persons
were killed and two injured at Charleston
and others are missing.
- Rattlesuake Shoals lightship was COM
pleteiy wrecked. The crew escaped The
4 Seminole and Yenassee, Of the Clyde Line
steamers, are both overdue at Charleston
and great anxiety is felt. The schooner
Morris w Child, from Brunswick. lum-
Der, was tow ed into Charleston by a tug
The vessel is much injured. This vessel
reports passing through wreckage and
seeing six men in the water with live pre-
servers on. They were barely alive. No
assistance gould be given them
FGRT MONROE, va, Aug. 3l.-The Kear-
sarge, which left New York on Friday
last with the monitor Nantucket In tow
for Wilmington, n. c., ran into the bur
ricane off Hatteras on Monday Her
hawser parted and both vessels had very
bad shaking mp. At enc time it was
feared the Nantucket would 90 down The
KearsHrge stood by her and both turned
aheut and made tor Hampton Roads,
where they arrived yesterday afternoon
They proceeded to the Norfolk yard where
they will have to repair damages before
proceeding.
! RALEIGH, n. c., Aug. 30.-The storm did
great damage TO crops all through North
Carolina. Tobacco. corn and cotton were
severely injured III this state
WILMINGTON, n. c.. Aug. 3i.-Tha
three mas ted schooner Carrie L. Godfrey,
81 Philadelphia, from Charleston for VII.
+ mington, Del. with a cargo Of acid phos
phate and nitrate soda, put in at South
port yesterday leaking slightly and hav-
ing lost her sails. Two men. names not
given, were washed overheard and
drngraed