Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-07


washed away.
Mr.. Averill was unable to state the
exact number of lives lost, but, without
overestilnating, he says he is certain
they will number over 100. The un-
fortunates were killed and drowned.
He saw himself 80 dead bodies. Nearly
all the drowned were negroes. So far
as reported, when Mr.. Averill came
away, only six white persons had lost
their lives.
Over on Sullivan's Island, pleasure
resort near Charleston, the ruin is well
nigh complete. BY midnight Sunday
the gale was blowing 20 miles an hour.
y The furious waves completely sub
merged the island. The water last
night was seven feet deep. te
The three lives lost here were Mrs. q.
Pollard, Andrew Bryan, Sylvia Ryan,
all colored.
A great many islanders sought refuge
from the winds and rising waters in
Fort Moultrie.
cHARLEsToN's Loss 81 100000
CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 30.-The
cyclone is ended. The city has started
TO repair the damages while yet shut off
from communication with 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 by hundreds of giant
trees uprooted from the earth, sidewalks
strewn with crumbling brick and NOR
tar, courts, alleys and by-paths under
water, magnificent water front, with
| its costly docks, where the fleets OF a
continent could be berthed, piled with
wreckage, many churches unroofed, and
almost every residence in the city more
| or less injured. Water and wind had
played havoc in the old city by the sea,
and had laid waste some of its pleas
ATTEST places.
The work of reconstruction began in
the wee small hours Of dawn and while
the fierce gale was still bowling through
the town, threatening almost total ami
hilation. Along the byways and on the
thoroughfares could be seen the hewers
of wood, the Afrlcan-American citizen
of Charleston, true TO the instinct Of his
race, armed with big and little hatchets,
clearing away the debris with proyi-
dent eye for extra fire wood.
A few minutes later, away up King
street, a battalion of stalwart workmen,
armed with axes, saws, picks and
spades, commenced working their way
down the streets, followed close by one
of the familiar but Indispensable bob
tails of the street railway OH its march
from Line street to the Battery, and as
they progressed southwark, almost in
the teeth of the gale, hedge of ever.
green arose on each side of the roadway
and the street car The first step toward
return from chaos to civilization is
once more in evidence.
A rough estimate places the losses al
something over 100000. There are nc
lights in the city, both gas and eled
tricity having given out, aud there has
been no railroad communication south
of us. The total loss of life is six people
KEARsAReE AND NANTUCKET SAFE.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 80. -Apprehen
sions for tho Safety of the U. 5. S. Kear
sarge and the old monitor Nantucke
was removed this afternoon about
o'clock, just before Secretary Herber
left the Navy Department for his home
, by the receipt of a telegram from Com
mander Crowninshield, commanding
the Kearsarge, stating that both vessel
, had arrived at Fortress Monroe, Va.
I The dispatch reads as follows:
q FORTRESS MONROE, VA, Aug. 30.-Secrt
tdry Of Navy, Washington, ID. O.: Kearsarg
:, and Nantucket arrived here. Heavy gal
Monday near Hatteras parted tow lines
! Vessels separated during night. Rende2
. vous appointed Hampton Roads. kear
sarge overlook Nantucket near Cape Henri
1 this afternoon, Both ships proceed on :
{ Norfolk Yard. CRowNINsHIELD.
: AUGUSTA, GA, Aug. 31.-Receive
+ Averill of the Port Royal & August
9 railroad, wires the Chronicle to-nigh
that the loss Of life on Sea Islands, 5
b c., far exceeds anything yet reported
e and will not fall short of 900. Grea
a restitution among the remaining inhab
!. tants and earnest appeals is made 70
n provision.
A special to the Chronicle from Beau
J, fort, S. G., says;
e Over $40 dead bodies have been foun
9 on the islands about Beaufort and POI
Royal.
v Over two millions of property ha
been wrecked near the same point
d Both are the direct result of severe storm
@ which swept along the Atlantic coas
e Sunday night.
d Every one of the fifteen or twent
d islands lying around Port Royal an
o Beaufort are mourning. On every doc
knob there is a bunch Of crepe and upo
l. every hillside there are fresh mao
ot graves.
" The beaches, the underground treI
d and shrubbery, the marshes and IL
t. inlets are revealing dead bodies ever
i. time an investigation is made.
E. Those who are at all posted about Il
Q. country and the habits of the people
Sc the storm visited sections are contldel
h in their prediction that the death-ro
g. will run as high as 800 Some of Il
best people Of this section of the Sta
m even place the loss at more than l, 900.
n, There has not been an hour of II
a day since the early hours of Monds
r. morning that dead body had not bee
found at some point on one of the mar
I'd islands.
W AS the waters recede and the peop
Vt. move deeper into the wreckage gather,
OF by the storm, the CHASTITY remains a
RS uncovered.
So frequent are these discoveries tn
,ir finding of q single body attracts no ate
ne ton at all. 1t takes the discovery of
as least half dozen or more to indu
&c them to show any feelings whatever.
er 1t is around Beaufort and Port Roy
IS, that the death rate was the greatest, b
'ss in neither of the towns were many liv
lost.
co REPORTS OF RUIN STILL COMING IN,
ier COLUMBIA, s. c., Aug. 31.-Accour
ig- continue 70 come IA Oh general llaVoc
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