The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-05
CYCLONE VICTIMS
NUMBER HUNDREDS.
Death Roll Increasing With Terrible Rapidly a,
Later Reports Come h,
COASTS Uttered WITH WRECKS
While tha OCEAN Is SHt#s With Debris Of Every
Description from Last Vesa!s,

49, 'AS~SHO ~ CA-O SUI IL IL CNhASAUJ
night has wen exceeded what was at
| first feared.
The rice and cotton fields have been
virtually ruined, the islands have been
inundated, and when all is told the
death roll Will probably aggregate up
the Carolina coast from five hundred
to a thousand persons.
The ocean and river fronts, entirely
unprotected from floods, have been
swept by the tidal wave for miles
inland.
Charleston has no communication by
wire and only a very broken one by
trains to the southwark. Washouts
on the railroads head off correspond
ence and dispatches, and specials fled
at half q dozen places have failed to
reach their destination.
The Clydesteamship Yenlassee which
left New York Saturday afternoon, ar
rived here forty hours late. Her en-
gines were broken and she was detained
about Hatteras, probably not meeting
the full brunt OF the gale. She was
| swept by the storm 300 miles out to
sea. but is practically uninjured.
The Yemassee reports the ocean
strewn for a hundred miles with
w~reckage and debris of every descrip-
ton. She passed many abandoned
vessels, among them the Freda WILLY,
from Maine, which had been burned to
the waters edge.
DEATH ROLL INCREASING
The death roll from the low country
increases with startling rapidity. From
the best information O~btainabie at
present the following bodies have been
found: Six III Charleston, three on
Sullivan'8 Island, two men in the har-
Dor and six found fitting at sea.
Thirty seven persons were drowned
It Port Royal and Beaufort, six ne
grOes in one house On Hawai- Island,
one hundred negroes on E tistO, twenty
SIX on the plantations of COmbahee and
four on johns Island.
Authentic reports from Port Royal
and Beaufort say n fourth OF the
buildings in Port Royal + badly de
m0lished and many Of the remaining
houses are gone. All the dredges and
washbOats IN the CO0gaw River are
either sunk or stranded.
DR.. Ellis, the lately appointed Quar-
antine Inspector, was drowned on Paris
Island. The bodies Of thirty negroes
were discovered in the same place.
HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS DAMAGED.
Captain F. V. Abbott, in charge of
the harbor improvements of the State,
told ne this morning he had no way of
! getting out to the jetties which were
being constructed at a cost Of IS 600, 900
across Charleston bar, and consequently
he could not estimate the damage done
to them by the cyclone. The loss of
Eagan & Friday, contractors for the
stone work of the ietties, is estimated
at between $40, 600 and SIS, 900.
Among the heaviest losers in the
city is the East Shore Terminal Com
pany, owned by New York capitalists.
Vice President w. E. Ruger said the
company has fourteen piers, and that
of these only two and q half are in
! shape for use. He estimates the actual
loss will aggregate $3.50, 600.
Information has been received that
the Italian bark Vinceso Galatola,
which left this port for Hamburg, was
abandoned at sea off Hatteras.
COTTON n RICE CROPS BADLY HURT.
The large staple cotton crop has met
with a serious injury and the estimates
are now that while Charleston usually
ships ten thousand bales she will this
season market scarcely one fifth Of
this amount.
Complete returns have not yet come
in and will not for several days be re-
ceived from the rice fields, but they
are damaged to the extent Of about
one half their usual yield.
The missing steamship Seminole,
about which so much anxiety was felt
steamed into the harbOr yesterday
morning with scarcely a scratch on
her. When the Seminole met the
hurricane she was off the mouth Of the
st. Johns River and was preparing to
head in for an entrance.
DIsMA8TED N LEAKING.
BEAUFORT, S. c., August 3L.-The
Norwegian bark Anna, dismasted, was
towed IN to day. The schooner Anna
Tebneau is in Cape Lookout Cove and
still leaking. Quantities of lumber and
~wreckage are coming ashore along the
coast.
The British schooner Manola is off
the bar. She lost mainsail, one boat,
foreboOm, both gaffs, part of deckload,
forestayeaiI and davits, and is leaking,
SAVANNAH, Ga, August 31-Jacob
Paulsen left for Coffin Point, S. c.,
this morning to bring the survivors of
the wrecked steamship City Of Savan-
nah here.
The entire coast is strewn with
wreckage, and vessels are high and
dry in exposed harbors. The bark
Clara Z. McGilvery, of Bull River, S..
c., loaded with phosphate, was torn
from her moorings and dashed upon
the shore, and lies a quarter of a mile
| from the dock. The beach and inlets
are filled with wrecks Of small craft.
DR.. William Duncan and @ M. Gun
ningham, who had been missing since
the storm, have been heard from and
are on their way to this city.
The bark Mary G.. Reed, Capt. Peter
son, of New York, is ashore at the
south end of Sapolo Island with her
hull half buried in sand. Six other