The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-31
IN THE STORMS RANGE.
The Disasters Both on Land and
at Gea.
DETAILS YET HARD TO OBTAIN,


tne Cycione oil lSSo-Tho kearsargo and
Nantucket Have q Rough Experience.
COLUMBIA, g. c.. Aug. 81-The storm OF
Sunday night and Monday morning was
one Of the fercest that ever swept over
south Carolina. Wires are down in every
3 direction and details are hard to obtain.
The damage was general extending over
the entire state, being most severe in the
southeastern angle. The damage at Beau
fort, Port Royal and neighboring low
ISLANDS skirting the Atlantic coast was
terrible, IL the reports are accurate. The
rice fields along the Savannah and its af
huent streams were torn up by wind and
water. Water was driven in from the At
1antic. and tides were unprecedently high,
IN some places being eighteen feet above
mean high water mark.
Indefinite reports received from Port
Royal and Beaufort make it appear that
the storm did greater damage there and in
that vicinity than elsewhere. Que report
Is to the effect that 100 lives were lost at
those two places and along tho Atlantic
coast intervening. Most of the loss was
among the negroes, who became fright.
ened, and in their panic stayed in their
homes too long to make their escape. No
message can b0 gotten from Port Royal
or Beaufort. Columbia has no communi-
cation with the outside world.
News received by The Chronicle brings
the startling intelligence that seventy dead
and swollen bodies were taken from the
Coosa river ut Port Royal by searching
parties. Not onehalf of the horrors of the
storm has yet been told, as messengers
from surrounding sections are arriving
hourly, bringing News of deaths and terri
BILE havoc caused by the gale.
IN, number OF missing is over 100, but
owing to the poor means of communica-
tion correct lists Of the dead cannot be OBJ
tained. Iu several places ong 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 were placed beneath the
earth Many Of the dead were 80 far ad-
Sanced in qualification that the sight WAS
sdokening and revolving. Suffering in
some localities among negroes is reported
as being distressing.
CHARLEsroS, s. O., Aug. 31.-The dam.
age here is fully Ds great as from the ter.
rible cyclone of 1885 The News and
Courier estimates the losses as follows:
City property, 100000; fesilizing works,
Sl1S,60O; Charleston Mining company,
$4,000; railroads, $50, ,0oo; telephone ex.
change. 5000; telegraph companies, $780,
ooO; lead works, sl2, 600; wharves, SEQ 900:
khipping, t50,0OO Ashley river bridge.
1000; churches, $4,000; private property,
100000; miscellaneous, Sl00, COO. Total,
Sill, 800 The experience of 1888 taught
Charlestonisns lesson, and over 81 0OO,.
900 cyclone insurance was held This will
greatly offset the damage. Five persons
were killed and two injured at Charleston
and others are missing,
RattlesnaAe Shoals lightship was com
Pletely wrecked The crew escaped. The
Seminole and Yemassee, of the Clyde Line
Steamers, IRE both overdue at Charleston
and great anxiety Is felt. The schooner
Morris w. Child, from Brunswick, lum
Der, was towe6 into Charleston by tug
The vessel is much injured. This vessel
reports passing through wreckage and
sseing six men in the water with live pre-
Servers on. They were barely alive No
assistance could he given them.
Fofr MONROE, Va, Aug. 3l.-The i.rar.
sarge, which left New York on Friday
last with the monitor Nantucket in tow
for Wilmington, N. c.. ran into the hur
rscane off Hstterss OH Monday. Her
hhwser parted aud both vessels had a very
bad shaking up. At one time it was
feared the Nantucket would 10 down. The
kearsarge stood by her and both turned
about and made tor Hampton Roads,
where they arrived yesterday afternoon
They proceeded to the Norfolk yard where
they will have 10 repair damages before
proceeding.
SAVANNAH, Aug, 81-The following par
ticulars as to the effect of the storm at
Tylee have been obtained 1t will cost
probably $4,000 10 repair tho damage.
The bridge over LaAaretto creek liz
wrecked The track from Lazaretto creek
bridge TO Mrs. Taylor's house is completely
wrecked The water came up with such
force that it picked the track up and car
ned it 500 feet from the road bed.
One or two foundations tell where the
Estill House was. OF Peter Smiths house
not board remains. e. II. Robbins house
10 badly battered up. The Rattle club
house is supposed TO rest on one side of
wilmington Island, at any rate it is not on
1shae. The house of w. r. Wilson ia
moved up towards the railroad about fifty
fset. Several houses were destroyed by
IRE. The home of Mr. Rocker is moved
back about thirty feet Tho house OF
Frank Storer was treated rather queerly.
The first floor was blown away, while the
second tioor sailed across several lots, and
was uninjured. The pictures on the man |
tel were not even disturbed by the flight |
OF the building. A box car at the east end
OF the "Y" switch of the railroad, where
Scott Bacon. his wife and two sons lived |
ali OF whom were killed, was blown from
Its trucks, and has not been found.
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 |
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 |
100000. 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, !
WILMlNGfoN, n. c., Aug. 3l.-The /,
three masted schooner Carrie l.. Godfrey, |
OF Philadelphia, from Charleston for Will !
mington, Del, with cargo OF acid phos-
phate and nitrate soda, put in at South
port yesterday leaking slightly and hay-
lag lost her sa1s. Two men, names not |
given, were washed overheard and |
drowned
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81, = Reports re.
ceived by the weather bureau show that !
the hurricane has moved northeast and is |
now central near the mouth of the st. |
Lawrence river. The storm covers pear
shaped radius wieiS Montreal at the point |
corresponding TO the juxtoposition of pear |
I nd stem. Hal flax Is on the eastern out |
sftsts of the hurricanes circumference.
NKW YORK, Aug. 81,-rhe bark Tfllid |
from Fernandina, Fla, Just arrived, re-
ports having had = continuation of heavy |
southeast ana northeast gales, with tire
mendous high seas, during which the ves-
sci labored heavily, causing her to spring
leak. She sighted the schooner Annie s,
Conant in .istress, bore down to her, res
cued the captain apd crew of seven men
and brought them to this port.
LONDON. Aug 3i.-A dispatch from
Para. Brazil, says that the British steam
Highest Of all in I,eaveninp Pow