The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-30
A TERRIFIC HURRICANE.
1t Passed Over Newberry Sunday Night
Trees Uprooted-The Cotton Mills
Unroofed - Crops Injured
IS Hours OF Fearful
Wind and Storm.

Trees Uprooted-The Cotton Mills
Unroofed - Crops Injured
Is hours OF Fearful
Wind and Storm.
One of the most terrible wind storms
known in this section in years, visited
| Newberry on Sunday. OminouS clouds
| began gathering late in the afternoon
from the Southeast. The wind began
blowing early in the night and con-
| tinued ince oantly throughout the en-
tire night and until about noon on
Monday. Together with the wind
storm there was heavy downpour Of
rain.
Many persons were very much
! frightened and sat up most OF the night
expecting the house to be torn 10 pieces.
Large and strong houses were made to
shake and quiver as reed, aud tall
| oaks and stately trees that had stood
the storms Of many winters were torn
| up by the roots.
The wind came from the Northeast
| and blew regular hurricane for fully
eighteen hours without cessation. The
day closed with a beautiful sunset fol-
lowed by a calm and beautiful moon
lit night, the wind having shifted to
| the North and then to the West.
coMMUNICATIoN SHUT OFF.
The telegraph wircs were down in
all directions aud we could neither
hear how the storm was elsewhere or
tell others how it ragged here. The
trains from Columbia and Greeuville
| finally got in but we could hear moth
ing from Charleston and the coast
country.
THE DAMAGE TO THE COTTON MILL
was probably the greatest of any in the
town. The roof on the east side was
rolled up and the rain was given free
access to the machinery ard cloth be-
low. The machinery was all soaked
and much cloth was more or less dam
aged. A new roof will have to be put
on one side and the mill will he virtu-
ally shut down for several days. Mr..
| McCrary said be could not tell just
what the damage will be but it will
amount to several hundred dollars be
sides the loss of time. A great many
other houses
| ALSO SPRUNG LEAKS,
and were more or less damaged. Among
these are not only to be counted the
store buildings with fiat tin roofs but
many private residences with new
shingle roofs. The streets were almost
LITERALLY COVERED
with trees and limbs of trees. Several
fences were also blown down.
The street force will be busy for sew
eral days getting the streets cleared. A
large oak blew down across the street
| in front of POOLS stables and Mr.. B. H.
Lovelace had to cut his way out Of his
house. The large mulberry that stood
in his yard was blown right in his front
piazza. Many other trees wre up
rooted in different parts Of the town.
Large trees in Helena and several
places in the county fell before the fury
of the storm.
THE CROPS INJURED.
The crops will be more or less in.
jured. Some corn and cotton patches
are badly damaged. The plants are
tangled and brought on a level with
the ground; the fodder shattered and
the open cotton whipped into the soil,
and the fruit much damaged. We have
not been able to hear from all parts of
the county, but such places as we have
heard from indicate that the storm was
general. Mr.. D. A. Ruff had the top Of
his barn blown away, and Mr.. J. J.
Gallman had lis barn blown down.
The daily papers report pretty much
| 1f h !,
out the State, as the storm was gen.
eral. We regret to learn that the wind
played havoc with Columbia's heauti-
full shade trees, which were the pride
of the State.
1T CAME FROM THE EAST.
AS evidence that it was continuation
of the storm that recently ragged on the
Atlantic, several sea birds were picked
up or caught here in Newberry, gulls,
Mother Carey's chickens, etc, having
been brought hither from their watery
home by the fury and force of the
winds, and by which turbulent ele-
ment many little English sparrow
lost his life.
HIGH WATER.
During the prevalence of the storm
au immense amount OF water must
have fallen. Scott's creek was full and
reports say that the larger streams were
much swollen on Monday and still ris.
ing. The Journal Of Monday said that
the Congaree was very full and rising
at the rate of two feet an hour. There
will be much damage to crops on the
river bottoms, if they are not entirely
destroyed.
The Columbia Journal of Monday
published the following incomplete &C.
count from Prosperity. Incomplete oe,
cause the wire broke before the opera
tor finished sending it.:
PROSPERITY, S. c., August 2S.-A
terrific gale from the castor rather
east by north-raged here the whole of
last night, doing immense damage to
tie young corn and the cotton crop.
Trees are uprooted 10 every direction,
store signs and window shutters are
smashed, and dwelling houses and
stores drenched. A large portion OF
the tin roof from Moseley Bros ware
house was torn off and the storage
goods drenched.
| The force of the wind was 90 great as
to kill many little birds, fifteen or
twenty lie now in front of the Pros
perity Hotel. The gale ragged with in
tense violence.
| SULLIvAS'S ISLAND.
The Augusta Chronicle learned from
Mr.. Arthur Buist, passenger on the
South Carolina train from Sullivan's
Island and Charleston, that neither
place has been wiped out but the storm
did great havoc. At it's worst the wind
blew at the rate of one hundred and
twenty miles an hour on Sullivan's Is
| land, which is q wreck. The island
was covered with water to the depth of
three or four feet, and over sixty houses
and cottages destroyed. Three lives
were lost. Two negro men and an old
white lady. 1t was with great difficult
ty that the ladies and children were
conveyed from the insecure houses to
the fort, hotel and other large and
firmly anchored buildings.