The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-31

Is ended; the city has started to repair
damages while yet shut off from COM
munication from the outer world. The
sight presented yesterday was a familiar
one to people of this city-a city almost
in ruins, the streets and thoroughfares
strewn with debris from the roofs of
stores and dwellings. the roadways
blocked up by the hundreds of giant
trees uprooted from the earth. The
sidewalks are strewn with milling
brick and mortar and the courts, alleys
aud by paths are under water.
magnificent water front with it's
costly docks, where the fleet of CONT
mont could be berthed, is piled with
wreckage. Some OF it are churches un-
rooted and almost every residence in
the city more or less injured. Water
and rain had played havoc in the old
city by the sea, had laid waste some of
its pleasantest places and "desolation
sodden all her green"
1t began in the wee small hours Of
the dawn and while the fierce gale was
still ba Wing through the town, threat
ening almost total annihilation along
the byways and on the thoroughfares,
one could see the hewers OF wood, the
African. American citizen of Charles
ton, true to the instincts of his race,
armed with big and little hatchets,
clearing away the debris. with pro-
yider's eye for extra fire wood. few
minutes later, away up King street one
saw battalion of stalwart workmen
armed with axes, saws, picks and
spades, working their way down tho
streets, close in their rear, following
one of the familiar, but indispensab BILE
hnhfQiIl nf rho no
march from Line street to the battery,
and as they progressed southwark al
most in the teeth of the gale, hedge
Of evergreen arose on each side of the
roadway and the street car. The first
steps toward a return from chaos to civ
ilization Is once more in evidence.
A rough estimate of losses place it at
something over million dollars.
There are no lights In the city, both
gas and electricity having given out
and there has been no railroad com
munication to the south. The total
loss Of life is six people.
SAVANNAH, Aug. o.-Particulars as
to effect of the storm at Tybee Island
are now being obtained, and it is
thought that it will probably cost $50
600 to repair the DAMAGES. Private res
licences. cottages, club houses and bath
houses have been pretty we'll demol-
ished. The railroad track has been
twisted and carried off 500 feet from the
road bed. The Hotel Tybee is damaged
but little.
1t is now estimated that the loss of
the planters will be much greater than
was at'first supposed.
Nearly the whole crop is destroyed.
The loss is estimated at $500, 600.
The loss of naval stores by the storm
is heavy. Thousands of barrels of
spirits and rosin noated from the
wharves and sheds and were carried
back on low lands. The hoops of the
barrels are bursting and the spirits run
ming to waste. The railroads will not
allow exporters to pick out their stocks,
which are very much mixed.
COLUMBIA, s. G. Aug. 30 The storm
of Sunday night and Monday morning
was one of the fiercest that has ever
swept over South Carolina. Wires are
down in every direction and the details
are hard to get at. The damage was
general, extending over the entire State,
severest in the southeastern angle and
the least severe in the north western
angle. The damage at Beaufort and
Port Royal and the neighboring low
Islands skirting the Atlantic coast was
frightful If reports are accurate.
Rice fields and streams were torn up
by the wild winds and waters. Water
was driven in from the Atlantic and
the tides ware unprect dentedly high, in
some places eighteen feet above mean
high water mark.
Much rice cut and stocked was swept
away, and uncut rice suffered seriously.
Sea Island cotton farms were terribly
washed up. Indefinite reports received
from Port Royal and Beaufort mako it
appear that the storm did greater dam
ago there and in that vicinity than else
where. One report is to the effect that
100 lives were lost at those places ard
along the Atlantic coast Most of the
loss was among the negroes, who be-
came frightened and in their panic
stayed in their homes too long to make
their escape.
No message can be gotten from Port
Royal or Beaufort. The storm con.
tinued for about the same time oil over
the State. and the only difference was
in the damage at each point.
AUGUSTA, Ca, Aug. 30.-News from
the storm.swept district of Port ROYAL
aud Beaufort is still very meagre. No
telegraphic communication with these
places yet, only news ob.ainable being
by mail. News received by the Chron.
icle tonight brings the startling intel
ligence that seventy dead and swollen
bodies we're taken from the Coosaw
river to-day by searching parties. Not
one. half of the horrors of the storm has
yet been told, as messengers from sur
rounding sections are arriving hourly,
bringing news OF deaths caused by Sun
days gale.
The result of to-day's work Of the re-
lief party puts the number Of missing at
over hundred, but owing to the poor
means of Communication, correct lists