The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-09-04
take considerable money to repair.

1
Royal and Beaufort that escaped with
out injuries. Every single one sus
tanned heavy damages. Many wer,
almost totally carried away by the
wind, and their occupants had quite ,
hard time escaping, as the planks ant
bricks were flying in all direction
Everything was SO demoralized, ant
everyone so frightened and terrorizeG
| by the fearful calamity that has beer
| visited upon them down in Beaufort
and Port Royal, that it was hard tt
tell just exactly how much damage
was done.
"The Coosaw Mining Company are
probably the heaviest losers of all, as
the damage to their works will amount
to over $4,000. The property of this
company was blown almost to pieces
and much damage was done. From
what l saw and heard / should say
5000, 900 would be low estimate, and
then do not think that that amount
would cover it all. And it will it be
some time before they can get oil OF
the buildings and machinery in
thorough repair.
The wharf of the Port Royal and Au-
gusta Railroad was slightly damaged
and the roof on their large warehouse
was also injured. In Port Royal pro-
over $4,000 and the sheds and wharf
will be in condition for all business by
the 7th of September.
-Four of the large trestles between
Beaufort and Yemassee were COM
pletely washed away. A large force
of hands have been steadily at work
and all of them are now in thorough
repair except the big break over
Whale Branch, which is about 1000
feet long. The work on this break
will be started on at once by large
force and by the 10th the heavy trestle
will then be clear of every vestige of
wreck"
AUGUSTA, GA, Aug. 31.-A special
to the Chronicle from Beaufort, South
Carolina, says: "Over three hundred
and ninety dead bodies have been found
on the islands about Beaufort and Port
Royal. Over two million dollars worth
OF property has been wrecked near the
same points. Both of these are the
direct result of the severe storm which
ragged along the Atlantic coast Sunday.
Every one of the fifteen or twenty
islands lying around Port Royal and
Beaufort are stepped in sorrow. On
every door knob there is bunch of
Grape and upon every hill side there
are fresh made. graves, some already
filed while others are awaiting the
bodies that vii be deposited in them
just as soon as s0inc, friend can be
found to do the kind Christian act of
shoveling the dirt upon the collin.
The beach, the undergrowth, trees and
shrubbery, the marshes and the inlets,
are turning up new dead bodies every
time an investigation is made. Of
the many disasters and devastations
which have visited this section of the
country mono have been as horrible as
those which came Sunday. Already
more than two hundred bodies have
been found and those who are at all
posted about the country and the habits
OF the people in the storm visited coun-
try are confident in their prediction
that the death roll will run as high as
five hundred. Some OF the people, and
they are among the best people of this
section and State place the loss at more
than one thousand. There has not been
an hour of any day since the early
hours OF Monday morning that q dead
body has not been found at some point
of the many islands. AS the waters
recede and the people move about in
the wreckage gathered by the storm,
the ghastly remains are uncovered.
So frequent are the discoveries that
the finding of a single body attracts no
attention at all. 1t takes the discovery
of at least clump of half dozen or
more to arouse any feeling whatever"
1t is around Beaufort and Port ROYAL
that the death rate was the greatest,
but in neither of the towns were many
lives lost. At Beaufort only a few
coffins were bought to supply the local
demand, while Port Royal got off
lighter. Around the two towns thore
is complete cluster of islands, and it
was upon these that the black angel of
death hovered for hours Sunday night,
leaving in his path sorrow and desola-
tion greater than ever.