The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-09-02
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PORTIONS of the South Visited BY .
Disastrous Hurricane.
An Enormous Amount Of Damage Done
to Property and Crops-A Number or
3 Lives Lost and Many Persons
3 .sl Are Missing.
SWEPT ~ STORM.

Il SWEPT By STORM.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 29.-This city
presents u scene Of desolation. Death
and disaster have marked the path
Of the terrible cyclone which ragged
along the coast Sunday night. The
ruin at quarantine is unreasonable.
Nothing is standing where ono
of the finest stations on the
South Atlantic was twenty four
hours ago except the doctors
house, and how this weathered the
fearful gale is miraculous. The
wharves are gone. the new f1migating
plant which has cost the city SO much
money is in the bottom of the sea, and
nine vessels which were waiting there
for release to come to the city are high
and dry in the marsh and no doubt
win be total wrecks. The Cosnlne was
the only vessel which managed to keep
afoat.
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
RALEIGH. N. c., Aug. 30.-The town
of Kernsville was struck by terrific
windstorm Monday. One hundred
houses were blown down and four per-
sons killed.
IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Aug. 29.-All the
South Atlantic coast as far as can be
ascertained from this wrecked point,
with much of the interior, has been
swept by the West India hur-
ricane which has been playing
such havoc for several days. The
wires are down everywhere, buried
beneath ruins, and information
is meager. The fury of the hurricane
is unexampled in interior Carolina.
WORST IN MANY YEARS
An old citizen remarked: "No storm
ever visited the state to be compared
with this since the storm in September,
1925, sixty-seven years ago. The only
time, too, that we have ever had rain
fall to approach this in severity was in
March, l841, when it rained steadily
for sixty-three hours. That was the
time when Augusta was washed away
and many people were drowned"
FLORIDA SUFFERS.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug 29.-This
city has been cut Off from communica-
ton with the outside world since 8
o'clock Sunday morning. In this city
the velocity of the wind was 80 miles
per hour. Hundreds of trees were
blown down and signs disappeared
before the gale. Scores of dwell
ings and public buildings were
entirely or partly unroofed, causing
great damage from the rain, which fell
in torrents
DOWN IN TEXAS
FORT WORTH, Tex, Aug 29.-A local
cyclonic storm Sunday b-ew down a
small church on STATIONS ranch, 4
miles from Cleburne, and wounded
twenty lone persons, broken limbs being
the most serious injuries.
LATER NEWS.
AUGUSTA, Ca, Aug. 30.-A special to
the Chronicle from Port Royal, S. c.,
brings the startling information that
fully 100 lives have been lost at Port
Royal, at Beaufort and neighboring
points by drowning during the storm.
Over twenty-five were seen by the CORE
spondent, and his information regarding
sources OF the 100 persons killed and
drowned only six were white, the others
being negroes. ;ssas4aasa6
LOSS ENORMOUS
/ SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 3O.-The list OF
fatalities as the result of Sundays
storm is rapidly increasing. The City
of Savannah, which sailed from Boston
Thursday, is fifty hours overdue, and
no tidings from it whatever have
been received. The Savannah is one
of the oldest boats ON the line, and
those who know of it's condition said
that if it did not come in on the COM
ing tide it would not come at all. So
far it's signal whistle has not been
heard, and it is given up as disabled or
lost Fifteen people are known to have
been drowned during the storm and
more are missing:
It IS difficult to give an estimate of
the damage done by the storm. To
buildings, 100000 would cover the in
jury done; vessels wrecked, $3.50, 600;
damage to railroads leading out of the
city, 500, 900; damage to the rice crop,
5000, 900. Interior tributary to Savan-
nah damage will probably amount to
over wide territory has suffered Sc
verely, and in many turpentine districts
at least one-fourth of the trees are de-
stroyed.
IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3O.-The violent
storm which swept over the city and
the surrounding country from midnight
till o'clock Tuesday morning had its
origin in cyclone that arose in the
West Indies and then swept along the
Atlantic coast in a northeasterly direc-
ton, 1t swept over Florida on Sunday,
had it's storm center well inland, and
reached out in every directioa for dis
tance of more than ! 500 miles
The tide was higher than any since
1878, and hundreds Of acres of corn and
tomatoes have been ruined At Salem,
N. j., all the fruit remaining on the
trees from the last blow is of, and the
outlook for the farmers is dark one,
The corn crop is ruined.
IN CONNECTICUT.
New HAVEN, Conn. Aug. 3o.-Heavy
damage to property was done here by
the storm Tuesday morning. It is es-
timated that 100 or more shade trees
went down in the gale and chimnevs and