The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-30

AUGUSTA, Ga Aug. ga special to
the Chronicle from Port Royal, S. c..
brings startling information. Fully 100
lives have been lost at Port Royal,
Beaufort and ghboring points by
drowning during the storm. Over
twenty-five Of those were seen by the
correspondent and his information was
received concerning the others from
reliable source. OF the 100 persons
killed and drowned onlysix were white,
the others being negroes.
The negroes were SO frightened and
terrror-stricken that many were killed
and drowned by not leaving their cabins
to seek places of safety. Twenty per.
sons were drowned on Paris Island.
No news has been received from st.
Helena, four miles from Beaufort. 1t
is believed that twenty-five lives were
lost between Port Royal and Seabrook,
all negroes
Every house in Beaufort and Port
Royal was damaged and number of
barges and craft were wrecked and
blown ashore. The Coosaw Mine Com
pany looses $4,000. Total losses are
estimated in the neighborhood of half
million dollars.
SAVANNAH, Ca, August go The list
of fatalities is gradually growing, and
it is impossible to tell to what xten t it
will go. Several bodies of drowned per.
sons were picked up and searches are
now being made for others who are
missing.
The drowning Of A. G. Ulmer, assist
antcashier of the Central Railroad Bank,
was one OF the most unfortunate fatal.
tiles OF the storm. MIR. Ulmer owned q
farm on Hutchinson Island, opposite the
city, and had gone over to pay off his
hands and attend to other duties. There
were bruises on his face and it is sup
posed that he struck against an out shed
when he jumped from mis- barn as /. was
about to blow down.
The other fatalities go far reported
are as follows: Toney Holmes, colored,
crushed in house on Hutchison's Island:
four unknown negroes, drowned on
Bramperton's plantation four miles from
this city; Lewis Gognett, colored. ran
into live trolley wire; six year old
colored boy drowned on Hutchinson's
Island; Jno. Williams. Mary Butler,
and Sarah Green drowned on rice
plantation. south of the city; two I'm.
known sailors were drowned on Tybee
Island.
Forty to fifty other persons are re-
pc ted missing, and it is supposed. as
nothing has been heard from them, that
their bodies will be found later.
Twelve barks and barkentines which
were anchored at the quarantine station
were blown high and dry upon the
marsh, and some Of them were carried
by the storm across the marshes on an
island two miles distant from the sta
tion. One OF the vessels at Tybee was
completely capsized and three club
houses on the island were blown entirely
down. Others were flooded and the peo-
pie sought shelter wherever they could.
The wires are all down and Savannah
is almost entirely shut off from tele-
graphic communication.
The tug Paulsen arrived in the city at
5 o'clt OK yesterday afternoon. She
brought about sixty passengers from
Iyoee. Mr.. Revers, one of them, stated
that four negroes engaged in clearing
the railroad tracks were drowned.
a sailor and a cabin boy on the
schooner Harold, which is on her side
on North Beach, are drowned. 1t is re-
ported that eight of the crew of terra
pin sloop. which were ashore on the
south end, were drowned.
The water swept with tremendous
force over this part of the Island, rail-
road tracks being carried from 200 to
500 feet. An empty train is in the
woods and trains on all roads are com
ing in irregularly, and some have en-
tirely stopped to repair washouts.
The church steeples are demolished
and at least 500 large trees are blown
down all over the city. The Tybee road
is under water for it's entire distance
and in many places is entirely washed
away. There is no communication
with Tybee except by water.
Sundays storm injured many build
ings in Savannah and did great damage
to trees. Only four buildings sustained
serious damage, however
Fifteen people are known to have
been drowned and more are missing.
1t is now impossible to estimate the
amount Of property destroyed.
Thirty wrecks have been reported so
tar. Fifteen vessels in the harbor and
off Tybee were wrecked or badly dam
aged. More than that number of
smaller craft are missing and are be.
lieved to have been lost.
Six unknown vessels are reported