The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-08-31
N nm STORNS RANGE
The Disasters Both on Land and
at Saa,
DETAILS YET HARD TO OBTAIN

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southeastern angle. The damage at Beau
fort, Port Royal and ueighboring low
Islands skirting the Atlantic coast was
terrible If the reports are accurate The
rice fields along the Savannah and its af-
fluent streams were torn up by wind and
water. Water was driven I'm from the At
lantic, and tides were unprecedently high,
in some places being eighteen feet above
mean high water mark
Indefinite reports received from Port
Royal and Beaufort make it appear that
the storm did greater damage there and in
that vicinity than elsewhere One report
Is TO the effect that 100 lives were lost at
those two places and along the Atlantic
coast intervening. Most of the loss was
among the negroes, who became fright
ened, and in their panic stayed in their
homes too long to make their escape. No
message can be gotten from Port Royal
or Beaufort Columbia has no communi-
cation with the outside world.
News received by The Chronicle brings
the startling intelligence that seventy dead
and swollen bodies were taken from the
Coosa river at Port Royal by searching
parties Not one-half of the horrors of the
storm has yet been told, as messengers
from surrounding sections are rrivinR
hourly, bringing news of deaths and terri
bic havoc caused by the gale.
. h number Of missing is over lOO but
owing to the poor means Of communion
lion correct lists of the dead cannot be OBJ
tanned. In several places along the Coosa
river were found eight or ten bodies lying
on the bank close together. Graves were
hastily dug near the place of discovery of
the bodies and without ceremony the
Of,
earth. Many of the dead were so far ad-
vanced in qualification that the sight was
-iCkening and revolving. Suffering in
some localities among negroes is reported
as being distressing
CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug 31.-The dam
age here is fully as great as from tho ter
rible cyclone of 1885 The News and
Courier estimates the losses as follows:
City property, 100000; fertilzinG works,
Sl78,5 Charleston Mining company,
$4,000; railroads, 100000; telephone eX-
change, S6,OOJ telegraph companies, $780,
900; lead works, $4,000; wharves, S25OOO0;
shipping, $4,000; Ashley river bridge,
| 100000; churches s5O,0Ol private property,
100000; miscellaneous, SlOO,O OOO Total,
| 81, III, 500. The experience of 1885 taught
CharlestOnians "A lesson, and over S1,0OO,-
coo cyclone insurance was held. This will
greatly offset the damage Five persons
were killed and two injured at Charleston
and others are missing
Rattlesnake Shoals lightship was com
pletely wrecked The crew escaped The
Seminole and Yemassee, of the Clyde Line
steamers, are both overdue at Charleston
and great anxiety is felt. The schooner
Morris w. Child, from Brpnswick, lum-
Der, was towed into Charleston by a tug.
The vessel is much Injured, This vessel
reports passing through wreckage and
seeing six men in the water with live pre-
servers on. They were barely alive. No
IS ,istance cou.d be given them.
Fort MONROE, Va, Aug 8l.-The Kear-
sarge which left New York on Friday
last with the monitor Nantucket in tow
: for Wilmington, n c., ran into the hur
ricane off Hatteras on Monday. Her
hawser parted and both vessels had very
bad shaking up. AT one time it wa
feared the Nantucket would go down. Th'
Kearsarge stood by her and both turned
= about and made tor Hampton Roads
D where they arrived yesterday afternoon
They proceeded to the Norfolk yard, ,wher
} they will have 10 repair damages before
r proceeding.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 31.-The following par
3 ticulars as to the effect of the storm a
TyLee have been obtained. 1t will COS
probably $4,000 to repair the damage
The bridge over Lazaretto creek i
, wrecked. The track from Lazaretto creel
bridge to Mrs. Taylor's house is completed
= wrecked The water came up with sucl
, force that it picked the track up and car
ried it 500 feet from the road bed.
I One or two foundations tell where thu
Estill House was OF Peter Smiths hous
not a board remains G. r. Robbins hous
r is badly battered up. The Rattle clu
house is supposed to rest On one side c
: Wilmington Island, at any rate it is not o
C Tybee. The house of w. r. Wilson
moved up towards the railroad about fift
! feet. Several houses were destroyed b
q fire The home of Mr.. Rocker is move
back about thirty feet. The house {
Il Frank Slorer was treated rather queerll
/ The first floor was blown away, while th
second floor sailed across several lots, an
d was uninjured. The pictures on the MAJ
r. tel were not even disturbed by the higl
of the building. A box car at the east en-
q of the "Y" switch Of the railroad, whel
Scott Bacon, his wife and two sons liveC
all Of whom were killed, was blown froI
a its trucks, and has not been found.
The Hotel Tybee is damaged but littl
Some of the cottages of Chatham are dan
e aged. The big sand drives along IL
beach were swept away. The only bat
{ houses now on the island are those of ii
d Atlantic club. 1t is now estimated thj
the losses of the planters will be great
u than at first supposed. Nearly the who
q crop is destroyed. The loss is estimated
e4O0 900. The steamer City Of Birmin
l. ham, from New York, has arrived at [ h
a port with the wrecked passengers Of ii
steamship City of Savannah, from Bosto
y WILMINGToN, N. c., Aug. 3l.-Tl
n three masted schooner Carrie L. Godfre
OF Philadelphia, from Charleston for WI
d mington, Del, with cargo of acid pho
n phate and nitrate soda, put in at Sout
port yes; erday leaking slightly and ha
Is ing lost her sails. Two men, names n
% given, were washed overheard Al
drowned.
o WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. - Reports ]
D., ceived by the weather bureau show tn
" the hurricane has moved northeast and
e now central near the mouth of the
., Lawrence river The storm covers pc
- shaped radius with Montreal at the poi
2. corresponding TO the iuXtoposition Of pc
and stem. Halifax is on the eastern OF
, skirts of the hurricanes circumference.
Al NEW York Aug. 8l.-The bark TIL