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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-07
.A HUNTER A:W.AKES AND
FINDS a BIGSNAKE
FIXING To- sSW ALLOW HIM.
Being Clad in nBuckskin the Tray.
eller Is Able to Cut HisWay
Gut of the Snake.

!. -s-fef Z ? 80 y
Tell you something about my
South american experiences?
Well, and mind you, if you think
/ am stretching a bit and you fancy
/ am telling q no-such thing and
your delicacy forbid, walk away,
but our immortal George was
never more nen-prevaricative for
after q number of years it isonly
quite recently that ] allow myself
to even think of a little episode de-
quite a trifle- that befell me
while ] was in that country Of
jaguars, rank Sora and boa
constructors, the memory of which
to-day sends q cold shiKeration5
cavorting up and down my spinal
columnial structural natomy.
Allen and I put on our buckskin
.huntingsuits and with grub for .
four-days' hunt;We set out to see
what we could see. It was the
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He Got Left.

Our trunks had been burned
with the car, and when we got to
CINCINNATI an official of the rail-
road company desired each one OF
us to give him our statement OF
loss. A tall and solemn looking
young man came to me as l was
figuring away and wanted to know
what sum I was going to name.
"Well, I think my loss isat least
$780," 1 replied. "Was your trunk
burned, too2"
eyes,"
.Got your loss figured up?"
"Not yet; and I wanted to ask
you about it. Can talk to you in
confdence?"
.oh, yes"
swell, 1 don't suppose my
things were actually worth over
$12, but"
"But you'd like to get ffty2"
"That's it, exactly. The rail-
road folks seem willing to pay
whatever is asked"
well. then, why not make it
s5O9"
"Wouldn't it be cheating?"
aThat's a matter you must set
tie with your own conscience"
"Yes, I know it is, and gaul
darn my buttons if I don't hope
that somebody will kick ms all
over this town."
"Why, what's the mattel2".
aMatterl Who, instead Of be-
ing ready to scoop the railroad out
of $40 or $50, I've got to take
$40 or $12! I've been studying to
be a preacher for the last six
months, and bless my old hat if
I dast tell 'em lie. That's allus
the way of it. I'm never fixed to
hit anything good which comes
along!"
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sitsd The state before, even j

visited The state before, even III
the blood days of construc uction.
The atorm WAS one: of the most
severe the peop1e Of the coast have
ieyersk known: This sect ton of the
3Atlanti tic eoasts has been prolific in
gstorm storms that scat attered
death and sdestru ctions prop perty
iin thsir wake, but the wealth therwise,
the oldestsc citizen, the pilot, can't
recall any thing eaualing it. Wind,
ram ahnd hail aud the elemets
soemsd comb mbined their greatest
fury The seas ran high, and salt
water swayes we're driven By the
heavy winds as much as twenty
miles ssinland.
Houses we're blown away. Trees
torn Romsthe earth, leaving holes
big en6ugh to hide a freight train.
Vessels we're dashed against the
and thrown upon the
earth as much as FIVE. miles. from
the Wafer's edge. It was a grand
.tablean and those who passed
throug e Will: never forget the
experianca Of Sunday night The.
storm began really Sunday
morning Fhe day came on with
heavy black clouds hanging over
the POI An ugly wind started
up about 10 O 'clo Ok Sunday.
morning wing from the north
east. Its Its inc reased as the day.
grew oD, ,sand about noon, q cold
chill lain started Long before
dark thspe eople living along the
coast kAeWs that a. storm was
inevitable, but none dreamed Of.
the Extent it assumed. Late.
in the evening the wind took on a
great yeUty and as the night.
= -; e., fl,o
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ment at the hands of their white

ment at the hands of their white
and colored friends ds,who escaped
|deai47so narrowly. &.
& Aglance at the map will show
that around this place there are
some twenty islands. Some of
these are very small, with only one
Tor two families living thereon,
while others are larger and accom-
modate as many: habitants as
$500. Some Of these have not
been heard from: at all, while on
those which have been spoken
there was notsa single one which
did not increase the dead roll. On
some Of these the death rate was
large, but in ma any instances the
names of the dead cannot be as
certained, many Of them being
beyond recognition when found,
while others we're buried as un-
known, because no one was present
who could identify them. There
are only two boats here now, and
both are chartered by the Port
Royal aid Augusta railroad. This
prevents passage between the
islands, and that, too, is an sobsta-.
Gle to theid identif eation:o Of the dead,
as many.o of the bodies are picked.
up on an island where they did
not live, and thereby are unknown.
The coroner, however, and collec-
tor Of the port, ex-C Congressman:
Small, are bling the informa-
ton as fast as it,can be obtained,
and are making 9 record of the
;
dead as.rapidly as possible. The
book they are compiling will show
that st. Helena has population Of
$500. Ladies' island has a popu-.
lation of 1900. Dawtha Island
has q population Of rs. Coosaw
Z 3 4 80 IL -
Island has population of 600.
J Beaufort town has a population of
$500. Port Royal Island em-
the towns Of Beaufort and
Port Royal, has a population Of
5000. Now, as far as reliable in
formation which has reached the
officers. goes. the dead VIII nrnhers
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On Paris Island lS bodies nad
been recovered and buried up to
Tuesday afternoon.
On Beaufort Island 10 bodies
have been buried.
At Coosaw mines 5 bodies have
been buried.
At Gains Neck % bodies have
been recovered and buried, and re-
ports are that 79 lives were lost
here.
On Eustis place, one of the
richest plantations on Lady's Is
land, 49 new made graves were
filled yesterday morning.
At the other end of Lady's Is-
land Z other dead bodies have been
found.
At Dawtha Island, a place of
about 1900 acres, 80 lives are re-
ported lost and nearly half that
many have been recovered.
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| in. With one master effort was
almost the snake lifted mp
the forward part of his body and Il
kind of slipped down, down down
about twenty feel, when Icame to
9 standstill.
Hwas too dark for me te take
observations or I would be able to-
tell you what Issaw in there, but Z.
can't. It would take a lifetime to
| tell you what I thought, OF WON'T.
I just went to work. First, ] pulled
my A calibre Colts slipped my
hand upwards and aimed at the
heart of my afec ctionate friend
and pulled the trigger, and as il
was a self-coeker Z kept on pulling
until all five chambers were
empty. Talk about noise! I never
heard any Thing half like it, Why
Hoy did I know where:to aim for
the hearth Don ask such foolish
questions. Do you think 4 don't
know what I'm talk ing aboutS
Let me seel Where was i at2
Oil the shooting. We'll, sir,
never saw hing like the way
that fellow on the outside Of me
cutup. he squirmed ana tvisted
and tried to get me up again. but
ho could not reach me.s Presently
Inexperienced some difficulty il
breathing. The blood prevented
the second hand air from getting
down to me. wanted to wait q
little longer until things were q a.
little quieter on the outside, but q
dared not, ! drew my hunting
knife aud started in to carve my
way out, while all the while the
fuss kept On the outside Then
q was glad I wasn't there. I cut
and cut piece after piece.
It's no small thing cutting out
through about two feet twenty
four inches-of snake muscle.
flesh and gristle. But { did il, and
just as / was about to crawl out
there was that horrid mouth atthes
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on Paris; Island, asshort distance
from Beaufort, where the United
States naval stores are kept, and
where they are build ding . large
rydock
Only two of these were white
men, one q echanic engaged on.
the dry dock and the other the
resident physician of the Island.
The other white people on the
Island had q most miraculous es-
cape as the water swept over the
entire island and carried almost.
ever, thing away with it. For
hours il was between fifteen and
twenty feet deep, with the wind nd
blowing g.at the rate Of 12o miles,
an honr.
NO NEWS FROM ST. HELENA 81
The people in Beaufort and Port
Royal we're most alopreh ehensiye in
regard to the fate 81 st. Helena, "a
small island about three or four
miles from B Bsaufort, as they we're
unable TO hear asingle word from
there up to the time ] left and II i.
is thought that:a nunbero fatali-
ties had occurred at this point.
Some thought that the entire
place had been swept away, but .
do not think that this is true. In.
all pro- ility, quite q number OF Of
the residents have been killed.
MORE LIVES LOST.
am positive there must have
been fully twenty five lives lost
between Port Ro, al md seabrook,
q small station only q few miles mi
from the barber.
I visited this section end saw
the majority Of these men who
drowned. and from what I
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BOATS WRECKED.

2 i
"The.steamer PILOT Boy, of Char
lesion, which was tied to Water
.housers dock was swept away,
carrying along with large portion
of the dock; this steamer was fol-
lowed by three tugs, Juno, Way
mouth, and Alliance, and all four
of the boats were swept up on the
Bluff and left there high aDd dry.
Three pilot boats were left in
the marsh about 500 yards from
the channel, two oof them are almost
total wrecks.
sThe Alma Cumming, a large
boat that was loading atthe Sea
Island Chemical works, was swept
from its mooring and washed up
on the beach and badly injured.
The pilot boat G Palmetto" which
was tied up at the Port Royal docks
was almost blown to pieces and
finally sunk afew yards from it's
Hmooring.n
"A large steam pile.driyer, the
property Of Capt. Kramer, Of
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Pharaoh's daughterl-I awoke
and found myself looking up into
the wide-open mouth of a whaling
big boa. He was salivering me
with his broad tongue--a little
preparatory operation to gulping
me whole. I would have moved, of
course, but I was literally scared
to death. I couldn't stir a muscle.
When I became at all rational
I easily realized that I might as
well be quiet, for had I moved
the reptile would have embraced
me so affectionately that I would
not have had the slightest. desire
to do 30 any more. With one of
those happy (2) thoughts that
comes once only in a lifetime 1
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-07

Thg only way to cure fever and
ague fs either to neutralize the
poisons which cause the disease
or to expel them from the system.
Ayers Ague Cure operates in both
ways. 1t is warranted specific
for all forms of malarial disorders
and never fails to cure. Try it.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-07

hashes OF fSgnyurns anu ueaIen!ng
peals Of thunder the hearts of the
stoutest were made to quail. No
painting could give the faintest
idea Of the night. Then, is it any
wonder that of the 300 or more
who lost their lives that night one
a lady, should have died from
sheer fright?
All through the night husbands
guarded their wives and children
as if protecting them from some
deadly foe. All up and down the
coasts,in the farm houses, in boats,
the people walked to and fro, each
minute expecting death, and all
the time praying for deliverance.
In many instances people left
their homes and lashed themselves
to trees to prevent being blown
away. The vessels on the waters
rode the mad waves with anchors
dragging along behind, as though
the anchors were made of cork,
and not Of iron. With the dawn of
Monday the rain ceased and the
winds began to subside. The sun
came out and the skies became
blue and clear. There was nothing
in the morning to indicate the
terrible story of the night before.
But scattered through the streets
of Beaufort, Port Royal, and the
other towns.along the coast and
along the banks of the rivers were
evidences of the great fury of the
storm of Sunday night. Houses
we're fd whole and in pieces
miles away from their foundations.
Steamships were resting upon dry
land, trees were twisted, plated
and scattered about, while at
intervals dead bodies were found,
and ever and anon the waves
would cast one or more lifeless
form, swollen, distorted and
bruised.
AT frstino one thought of giving
attention to anything or anybody
outside of his own needs, but as
the dead bodies multiplied, the
good samaritan feeling grew, and
by noon every one on the chain of
islands about this place had be-
come a grave digger. 1t was the
pick and the shovel alone which
were in demand, and the number
of dead prevented any unstinted
use of these tools. All during the
day Monday the bodies began to
multiply so rapidly that the coro-
ner was compelled to swear in a
half dozen deputies-one for each
of the islands where deaths were
reported. One of these deputies
held an inquest over seventy-eight
people, and while the inquest was
being held seventy-eight graves
were being dug, and seventy-eight
dead bodies, swollen. and fast de-
composing, were awaiting inter-
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hands. He is now busy furnishing
lumber for the trestles and bridges
on the new railroad. In order to
insure supply for the future he
has purchased the timber on five
hundred acres of the heaviest
timbered land in the county"
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Charleston was carried up the
TGoosaw river about 800 yards and.
then landed on the marsh. The.
pile-driver lis an immense thing,
but it was swept away with as
much ease as if it had been a
small boat.
DREDeEs WASHED ASHORE.
ALI of the dredges of the Coosaw
Mining Company were swept
ashore and the majority of them
badly injured.
Fortunately there was no one
killed on any of he.dredges, but
quite a number had very narrow
escapes. SCI
aAlso a great many Of their
lighters were swept ashore, and,
some Of them were carried inland
as far as two miles.
! Several Of these lighters were
total wrecks and others it will
take considerable money to repair.
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
- : -
There was not a dwelling in
Port Royal and Beaufort that es-
capped without injuries. Every
single one sustained heavy dam
ages.
'.Many were almost totally car
ried away by the wind, and their
occupants had quite a hard time
escaping, as the planks and bricks
were flying in all directions.
ESTIMATED AT 100000.
Everything was SO demoralized,
and everyone 50 frightened and
terrorized by the fearful calamity
that has been visited upon them
down in Beaufort and Port Royal,
that it was hard to tell just exactly
how much damage was done. From;
: =
what / saw and heard I should say
100000 would be a low estimate,
and then I do otthink that that
mountwould cover it all .-
HEAVY LOSSES.
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my feet were taken IN and could
feel the genial change in the
temperature. Then a slide in a
little further, while, all the while,
1 could feel his tongue working
me innerwards. I kept my hands
close to my sides, but at the same
time relaxed my other muscles for
fear that he might be tempted to
try a little masticatory preliminary
to the grand swallow act. Ny
hands passed in safely; after, my
body, and the last I saw Of day.
light was just before my face pass
ed in the red hole. Then I saw
hebig jaws close and Twas with
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v az! 1. s..R aaa aes.a I saof

szv1j,oo0 wouid pe low estimate,
and thenI do not think that that
amount would covert all"
And it will be some time before
they can get allsof the buildings
and machinery in thorough re-
pair.
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xagu..a chroniele, Aus. goth.
Nearly 9 hundred lives Wese
lost around Beaufort and Port
Roysl.
This was the startling informa-
tion that was brought to the city
last night from these two places
sby Mr.. E. NJ. AYerill, general
freight and passenger agent of the
Charleston, sumpter and Northern
railroad, VINO was so unfortunate
asSto have been in Beaufort all
duting the storm.
BE arrived in the city on q
special train from .Yemassee, and
broughtup the first news that has
been received from this portion of
the coast since the, storm.
Upon his arrival he was seen by
q Chronicle reporter and full
account of the storm was obtained.
Mr. Ayerill had the following to
say:
.sAs you know We have been
completely cut off from the out
side world down in Beaufort and
Port Royal. by the storm, as all
telegraph wires are down aud the
railroads badly washed, and ! am
sure the people have no idea Of
the great extent of damage done
and how many lives we're lost.
NEARLY OO>L1vEs LOST.
4
am unable to state exactly
how many lives we're lost, but / do
not think I would be exaggerating
the number in the least, when /
say that nearly 3 hundred people
were killed and drowned. Over
twenty-five of these / saw myself
and received my information in
regard TO the others from reliable
!, sources.
]. ut is utterly impossible to
picture the horribls suffering and
misery that this storm has caused
ii and around Beaufort and Port
Royal; and the great damage it
has done to property.
MOST OF THEK NEGROES.
Out of this one hundred people
who we're drowned there were
shout six Write persons, the re-
mainder being negroes.
The negroes were so frightened
terror-stricken, that in many cases
they we're killed and drowned by
not having enough sense left in
ssek 4 place ofsafety.
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN DROWNED.
Twenty persons vera drowned
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Logan 70 rear that 1 would drown,
the blood flowed SO freely.
Well, 1 got out, anyway; but l
ruined my buckskin suit and my
hair didn't turn gray, either.
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mind to wait, as it were, for
hing to turn up. I didn't
care what it was, so long as
b anything. Ny Familiarity
The boa's habits of taking his
whole and without chewing
me hope for the best-to be
wed, IN fact. Did ever
he before have such a hope
u to perch upon his steruum?
attentive serpent understood
lsiness thoroughly. I may
was an artist in the licking
bss. Judging from the size OF
puth I would say that he had
Eerable practice in that line
is a veteran and lost no time
Pretty soon I was as slick
lid be desired by the most
Eous of the snake epicureans
) t I could almost hear him
with gusto his chops, he
well pleased with his tooth.
afternoon meal, ready for
artaking. Then came the
plng of my journey into the
lored region from whose
} I never heard of any ones
ing. Oh! I wasn't. a bit
y No, mol l even became
fted in the whole process, as
of unique experiment fol
left of science, &c.
lually-so gentle was he
!
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Augusta Chronicle, Sept. lst.

Augusta Chronicle, Sept. Ist.
BEAUFORT, S. c., Aug. 31.-Over
800 dead bodies have been found
on the islands about Beaufort and
Port Royal. Over 100000 of
property has been wrecked near
the same point. And both of these
are the direct result of the severe
storm, which swept along the At
.lantie coast Sunday night. Every
one of the Is or 20 islands lying
around Port Royal and Beaufort
are stepped in sorrow. On every
door knob there is a bunch of crepe
and upon every hillside there are
fresh made graves already filled,
while others are awaiting the
bodies that will be deposited in
them just as some one can be
found to do the kind Christian act
of showing the dirt upon the coffin.
The beaches, the underground
trees and shrubberY, the marshes
and the inlets, are turning up new
dead bodies every time an in
vestigation is made. Of the many
disasters and devastations which
have visited. this section Of the
country, none have been half as
horrible as those which came
Sunday. Already. more than 300
bodies have been found, and those
who are at all posted about the
country and the habits of the pso-
pie in the storm visited sections
are confident in their predictions
that the death roll will run as
high as 500. Some of the people,
and they are among. the best peo-
pie, of this section of the state,
even place the loss at more than
ONE THOUSAND.
There has not been an hour of
any day since the early hours of
Monday morning that a dead body
has not been found at some point
On one of the many hours. AS the
waters recede and the people move
deeper into the wreckage gathered
by the storm the CHASTITY pictures
are uncovered. So frequent are
the discoveries that the finding of a
single body attracts no attention
at all. 1t takes the discovery of
at least a clump of q half dozen or
more to induce the people to show
any feelings whatever. 1t is around
Beaufort and Port Royal that the
death rate was the greatest, but in
neither of the towns were many
lives lost. At Beaufort only cohins
were bought to supply the local
demand, while in Port Royal got
off even lighter. Around the two
towns there is a complete chain Of
islands, and it was upon these
that the black angel of death
hovered for hours Sunday night,
leaving in his path sorrow and
ldesolation greater than has ever
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GLOOMY REPORTS.

= d = I -
every meagre reports have been
received from a portion of the
coast near Beaufort where it is
pretty thickly settled and it is
feared that quite a number of ne
groes have been killed,
sWhen LEFT Beaufort and Port
Royal reports were coming in
hourly Of. the damage done to the
surrounding country and also of
the lives lost.
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-FOUR TREsTLEs DOWN.

aFour of the large trestles be-
tween Beaufort and Ysmasse were
completely washed away.
A large force of hands have been
steadily at work and all of. them
are now in thorough repair except
the big break over Whale Branch,
which is about 1000 feet long.
aThe work on this break will be
started on at once by large force
and by the 10th, the heavy trestle
will be in place and the road will
then be clear of every vestige of
wreck.
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SLIGHTLY DAMAGED.

aThe wharf of the Port Royal
and Augusta Railroad was slightly
damaged and the roof on their
large warehouse was also injured
"In1, Port Royal proper their
damageswill not amount to over
$1,000 and the sheds and wharf
will be IN condition for all busi-
ness by the 7th of September.
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WILL CONTINUE BUSINESS.

~.
aYou can state that the Port
Royal and Augusta Railroad will
continue to accept all business as
they will have no trouble in hand
ling every bit of freight sent to
them.
Freight will be carried down to
Whole Branch where it will be
transferred toa boat and from that
point will go down to Beaufort by
water.
"It is true the railroad has sus-
tanned some damages, but that
will not impair their capacity for
transacting business, and the peo-
pie can rest assured that their
freight will be handled as safely
as if nothing had happened.
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A LONG WALK.

Mr.. Averill says it was rough
travelling as the wind had played
havoc with the trees around the
track and many of them were lit
orally swept up blythe roots.
He also says that it will take
days for the people of the district
to find out how much damage was
done by the terrific storm.