The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-09-01
THE GENERAL REPORT.

M illions OF Dollars of Damage Dono and
Hundreds Of Lives Lost in the south-Ter
rifle seas-Great Losses to Shipping.
Advices at Augusta, Ga, state that 70 dead
were taken from the Coosaw river Wednes.
day by searching parties and reports Of 100
more missing persons are received.
Suffering In some localities among the ne.
groes is reported as being distressing, IN
| some cases there being only one or two left
out Of families of 10 or is.
Tybee Island. a seashere resort, was swept
out 10 sea or blown to pieces. Fifteen vessels
are ashore on Tybee island, carried more than
500 feet inland. Competent shipping men say
the loss on these vessels will be fully 5000 0Oo.
n No definite news had been received from st
Helena ana other islands, which for the most
part are thickiy populated, and where 1t Is
feared the loss OF life has been very great.
A special from Port Royal, s G, brings the
information that fully 100 lives have been lost
at Port Royal, BeaufOst and neighboring
points during the storm. Most ofthe drowned
are negroes, for only six whites lost their
lives. The negroes were SO frightened and
horror stricken that In many cases they we're
killed by not having enough sense In them TO
desert their shanties,and eek places Of safety.
Twenty persons were drowned on Paris Is
land. 1t fs b l!eved 20 lives were lost between
Port Royal AMI DeaDrook-all negroes. Every
house In Beaufort and Port Royal was dam
aged to some extent.
Beaufort's property loss is $500.OOO. Six
lives we're lost at Charleston. s G, and on
Sullivan's Island, near there. Nearly every
building In Charleston was unroofed and the
moi ey loss Is very great.
At Cspe Fear C,the schooner Three Sisters
was wrecked and the Captain and mate
drowned.
At Baltimore nearly all the electric lights
were extinguished Monday night, the streets
we're flooded aud Tuesday boats were used
by business men tr row from store to store.
Several schooners and pungles were esched
on the beds of the streets.
Kernsviile, N. c., was struck at O'Clock
Monday morning. A hundred houses were
wrecked and woman killed. Many were
Injured. The Baptist church was RACED to
the ground. The factories, stores aud resi-
dences were unroofed and some we're blown
away. Many bad warning Of the danger and
took refuge i'm CT liars and wells. Many IN
cellars saw their houses lifted from their
One house was blown into
lake $40 yards away.
Way out at Fort Worth, Tex, . cyclone
storm Sunday blew down small church on
ranch, four mics from Cleburne
and wounded 20 persons, broken limbs being |
tie most serious injuries. All the phosphate
works at Richmond. Va, were blown down
Or badly damaged. There was schooner ly- |
Ing high In the streets, having been driven
from Its anchorage. |
Further u, north the damsge was less &C. |
we're but serious. OF the New Jersey COST "a |
men were drowned within line Of ten miles. |
where there were four If saving stations |
closed up. Two lives we're lost at New Lon. |
don. The cyclone wrough: havoc with all
Electric wires aud one man was Killed at |
another at Camden. N. j.
At Rochester, N. Y. nine lives ale report
ID lost on Lake Ootario.
The bodies of three u 1known drowned men |
we're washed ashore from the Hudson river
It New York, Monday merning. Two were
ound opposite Rockefeller estste at TART
ow and one was picked no st Riverdale. Ii
g supposed that the men were drowned from
canal BOAT wrecked In the storm.
At Boston It was the worst storm known of
hat point for 30 years. The water WAS ter
Idle In its fury, and the yacht club rsfrs aud
hundreds Of boats anchored out In the bsy
we're tossed about Ike cocklesbells. The
ismsge to yachts and small boats In that sec
ion Is estims ted al SIC 90.
A number Of wrecks sre reported off Ports
mouth tut the sea Is so rough that Isles OF
,hoa's steamers have been unable TO move out
u tie river.
From Portland and Augusta, Me-, come re-
,orts of heavy damage TO fruit trees ard
rops by the terrific wind that swept through
be state Monday.
This storm, like rs immediate predecessor,
vas predicted By the Government Wes,her
Bureau several days in advance.
dsny vessels were held 10 port
II pat of TO seek for safety
ut the losses are many. There are nine
esyy loss OF life at ses. Schooner Charity
Fooisey, Captain CHM. of ROcklsnd. when
bout % miles north Of Cape Cod, was ST. uck
v the storm. While In the trough Of the sea
rster set her cargo OF lime on fire snd turned
er msinssil. In several places along the