The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-09-08
THAT TERRIBLE STORM.
Death and Devastation Along At.
lantic Coast.
The Seacoast Strewn With Flotsam
and Jetsam.
READS LIKE A STORY.

SAVANNAH, GA.-Thc steamship Cit,
OF Savannah left Boston Thuroday after
noon. 1t never will reach Savannah TO
t was wrecked miles south of s.. Helen,
hghthouSe. Part of the passenger
reached st. Helena Island by the shin,
boa's. T"e steamer was then poius
rapidly to pieces when she was sighted
tuesday evening by the City of Birminp
nam, who anchored near by. and
Wednesday morning amid the breaker.
res :ued the balance of the passengers and
crew, who had resigned Themselves -rC
death. The Birmingham then headed for
savannah, arriving there in safety. The
wrecked passengers of the Savannah lost
everything, some being even without
hats and coats.
ONLY SIX PERSONS KILLED IN cuAp,psA,s
CHARLEsToN, 9. C.-Thc cyclone is
endcd. The city has started to replace
damages while yet shut off from COM
munication with the outer world. The
sight presented was a familiarone
70 tho people of this city-a city
almost in ruins; the streets and thorough.
fares strewn with debris from the roofs ,,f
stores and dwellings,; tn, road .wars
blocked up by the hundreds of giant trees
uprooted from the earth ;s' dcwalks g rewn
with crumblng brick and mortar. tho
courts and alleys aud by-paths under
water; magnificent water trent wi h its
costly docks, where the a ct of a conf
hent could be anchored, piled with
wreckage; some of its churchos unroofed
and almost every residence in the citv
more or lees injured.
Water and wind have played havoc in
the old City by the Sea, and laid waste
some OF its plc'santest PLACES and "deso
iatlon saddens all her green" 1t began
In the wee small hours of the day. When
and while the fiery gale was still bowling
through the town, threatening almost to.
tai annihilation along the by-ways and
on the thorougbfares, you could see tho
hewers OF wood, the African American
with provident eye for extra fire-wood.
A rough estimate Of the loss places it
at something over million dollars. There
are no lights iu the city, both gas and
electric lights having gone Out, and there
has heen no railroad communication south
of us. The loss of life is six people.
HALF THE ISLANDERS DROWNED.
A,SANANNAH, GA.-Beaufort, 8. c., suf-
fercd fearfully from the storm. Capt.
Finnie, of the steamer Bessie, which ar
rived from Beaufort, st. Helena and
Bluffton half an hour Iefore the City of
Birmingham, says that Beaufort is wreck
ed and that on the Sea Islands the loss of
life among the negroes is very great.
Fully one-third the population of the
islands is drowned.
20 DEAD BODIES FUND.
AUGUSTA. GA.-News from the storm
swept Districts of Port Royal and Beau
fort is.stilI very meagre, the only news
obtainable being by mail. Seventy dead
and swollen bodies were taken from the
Coosiw river by searching parties Not
one-half of the horrors of the storm has
yet been told.
The result of the work of the relief
party puts the number Of missing ut over
q hundred, but owing to poor means of
communication the correct list of the
dead cannot be obtained. In several
places along the Coosaw river were
found their bodies lying on the bank
close together. Graves were hastily dug
near the places of discovery and without
ceremony the storm victims were placed
beneath the earth. Many OF the dead
were SO far advanced in Putrifcation
that theisight was sickening aad revolt.
ing.