The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-08-31
STORM SWEPT SOUTH
Awful Destrl ction Of Property
at Savannah and Charleston.
HUNDREDS LOST THEIR LIVES.

Ships Were Blown High and Dry Upon
the Land-s1O, 600, 900 Worth of Dam
age at .savannah--Ba Baltimore and Kern
ersville, N. c., Suffer.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 3O.-Among the fa-
talities by the storm are those of a
a 6-year-old colored boy, drowned on
Hutchinson island; John Williams,
Mary Butler and Sarah Green, drowned
on rice plantation south of the city.
Two unknown sailors wore drowned at
Tybbe island. Fifty or sixty other per.
sons are reported missing, and it is sup
posed, as nothing has been heard from
them, that their bodies will be found
later. Twelve barks and barkentines
which were anchored at Quarantine
station were blown high and dry upon
the marsh and some of them were car
ried by the storm across the marshes on
an island two miles distant from the
station. One of the vessels at Tybbe
was completely capsized and three club
houses on the island were blown entirely
down. Others were flooded and the
people sought shelter wherever they
could find it. The wires are all down
and Savannah is almost entirely shut
off from telegraphic communication.
Trains on all roads are coming in ir
regularly and some have entirely
stopped to repair washoutt. Many
church steeples are demolished and at
least 500 large trees are blown down.
The Tybbe road is under water for the
entire distance and in many places is en-
tirely washed away. There is no COM
munication whatever with Tybbe ex-
cept by water. 1t is estimated that
$1O,OOO,O0O worth of property was de-
troyed.
A Richmond, dispatch says: Pas
senger train No. 7S of the Atlantic
Coast line, with Pullman sleepers at
tached, reached here from Charleston,
S. c., having been delayed 20 hours by
the destructive storm which swept over
the South Atlantic coast. Mr.. j. 3.
Beddingfeld, Southern Express mes
senger, who was in Charleston during
the storm, says that there was not so
yards space in the streets that did not
contain debris, such as roofs of houses,
signs, awnings, telegraph poles, etc,
which were scattered in all directions,
that the roof of the st. Charles hotel
flooded with water almost to its doors.
That he saw II box cars that had been
blown from the railroad track and
| turned over. That all the phosphate
works in the city were blown down or
1 badly damaged. There was schooner
| lying high in the streets, having been
! driven from its anchorage. There was
no communication with Savannah, all
| telegraph lines having been Frustrated.
While he saw no one killed or injured,
it was currently reported that eight
| people had been killed in the city. 1t
| was also rumored that there had been
| great loss of life on Sullivan's island
| report placing the number in the hun
dreds, but inasmuch as all communiCa,
| was cut off of course there was nc
means of verifying the report. For
| many miles along the line of the At
| lantic Coast line road leading out of
Charleston telegraph polls were nearly
| all blown down, and the storm was one
of the severest and most destructive
ever experienced in that section.
The storm was general through North
Carolina. At Kernersville 100 houses
were wrecked and q woman killed.
A dispatch from Baltimore says thai
the lower part of the city is under
water and great damage to property il
reported. The steamer John f. Togart
of the Maryland and Virginia Steam
boat company sank in the Trappe river
The passengers were landed few min
utes before the vessel went down
While employees Of the Brush Electric
company were Strengthening out thu
tangled wires on Charles street, Louis
F. Mans was electrocuted and fell t
the sidewalk dead,
A special from Port Royal, s. G.
brings the startling information tina
fully one hundred lives have been los
at Port Royal, Beaufort and neighbor
ing points by drowning during th
storm.