The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-09-06
STORM ECHOES.
Further Details Of the Ravage5 Of
the Terrible Tornado.
Great Loss OF Life and Enormous Destruo-
tion Of Property In South Carolina
and Along the Atlantic Coast
Many Disastrous wreoks--
The Damage mt
Charleston.

COLUMBIA, s. c., Aug. 31,-The storm
Of Sunday night and Monday morning
was one of the fercest that has ever
swept over South Carolina. Wires are
down In every direction and details are
hard to get at. The damage was gen.
eral, extending over the entire state,
severest In the southeastern angle and
the least severe In the northwestern
angle. The damage at Beaufort and
Port Royal and the neighboring low
islands skirting the Atlantic coast was
frightful, II reports are accurate. Rice
fields along the Savannah and It's afflu-
ent streams were torn up by the winds
and waters Water was driven In from
the Atlantic and the tides are unprece.
dentedly high, In some places being
eighteen feet above mean high water
mark. .s.s4.
Much rice already out and stacked
was swept away and uncut rice suffered
seriously. The sea island cotton farms
were terribly washed up. Indefinite
reports received from Port Royal and
Beaufort make II appear that the storm
did greater damage there and In that
vicinity than elsewhere. One report IL
to the effect that 100 lives were lost AZ
those two places and along the Allan.
tic coast intervening. Most Of the loss
was among the negroes, who became
frightened and in their panic stayed in
their homes too long to make their es-
cape. No message can be gotten from
Port Royal or Beaufort. The storm
continued for about the same time all
over the state and the only difference
was in the damage at each point The
damage at Charleston was fully as
great as from the terrible cyclone Of
1885.
The News and Courier estimates the
losses in Charleston as follows: City
property, 100000; fertilizer works,
S173, 500; Charleston Mining Company,
$4,000; railroads, ssNssN ft6btks -
change, $4,000; telegraph companies,
$4,000; lead works, $4,000; wharves,
$685. shipping, $50, 900; Ashley river
bridge, 100000; churches s5O, 1000; priv
ate property, $500, 900; miscellaneous,
100000. Total, ILL, 500.
The experience of 1855 taught the
Charlestonites lesson and over 81, ,000,-
900 cyclone insurance was held there.
This will greatly offset the damage.
Six persons were killed and two in
jured at Charleston and others are
missing. Rattlesnake shoals light shir
is completely wrecked. The crew es.
capped.
AUGUSTA, Ca, Aug. 81.-A special
from Port Royal, S. c., brings the start
ling information that fully one hun
dred lives have been lost at Port Royal.
Beaufort and neighboring points by
drowning during the storm. Over
twenty-five of these were seen by the
correspondent and his information was
received by others from reliable
sources OF the 100 persons killed and
drowned only six were white, the
Others being negroes.
SAVANNAH, Ca, Aug. 3i.-The storm
injured many buildings in Savannah
and did great damage TO the trees.
Only four buildings sustained serious
damage. Fifteen poSss - kssva 10
have been drowned and msEA ore niss-
ing. II is imposs1sp. - sesk.6 -
amount Of property destroyed.
More than forty wrecks have been re-
ported so far. Fifteen vessels in the
harbor and off Tybee were wrecked or
badly damaged. More than that num-
Der OF smaller craft are missing and
are believed TO have been lost. The
schooner Lena Smith reported ashore
lies high upon Tybee beach just west
of the wharf. Six unknown vessels are
reported ashore on Tybee beach from
the outside
The loss Of naval stores by the storm
is heavy. Thousands of barrels Of
spirits and rosin hoated from the
wharves and sheds were carried back
on the lowlands The hoops on tho
barrels are bursting and the spirits are
running 10 waste. The railroads will
not allow the exporters to pick out
their stocks, which are mixed indis-
CIllludJclys NO cbbilihOS VI ehO uahi'
age to the stock on hand is yet obtain
able.
1t is now estimated that the losses Of
the planters will be much greater than
was at first supposed. Nearly the
whole cotton crop is destroyed and the
loss is estimated at s400, 900.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8l.-Reports coming
In from points along the Hudson river
state that number Of lives have been
lost by the breaking up of big tows In
Tuesdays storm A big tow broke
apart between Sing Sing and YER
planls's point, and It is rumored that
seven bodies have been washed ashore
at Stony Point. The loss TO river ship
ping Is estimated TO be fully 100000.
UREA, N. Y, Aug. s1.-The high
winds and the recent heavy rains have
occasioned damage 10 the extent OF
B thousands Of dollars 10 hop crops In
Oneida and Madison county. In some
yards nearly every pole is prostrated
and the hops can only be saved by Inn
mediate picking. Much Of the fruit
has been blown from the trees and the
corn and buclSwheat crops have suffered
severely.
LANcAsTER, Pa, Aug. Si.-Monday
nights storm did great damage
throughout the state. many trees be-
: ino, hiown down and much fruit ruined.