The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-31
FROM eEoRaETowN. s. c.
The sampit River Described as a Rag,
ing Sea.

ing Sea.
Columbia, s. c., Aug "A special 10
the State from Georgetown, on the coast,
says the Sampit river is a raging sea and
its swollen tide has spread over every
dock and wharf, covering large area OF
Front, Queen and Cannon streets TO
a depth of from one to two feet, flooding
lots and stores and compelling their abau-
donment. All houses on the wharves are
partially submerged and their contents
seriously damaged while the swelling
waters are threatening to rise above the
floor of the stores on the west
side of Front street. A mum Der
of small boats, lighters and bateaus
have been sunk at their mornings, while
the ends of the streets, docks and sub
merged wharves are filed with cord wood,
lumber, timber shingles, barrels of rosin,
turpentine and other debris of the storm
swept Sampit. The turpentine distille-
rles of Congdon, Hazard Il Co. on the Pen
lnsula have been wrecked and the storm
king has levied terrible tribute upon
the stores of crude spirits and rOsin, and
of cord wood from the "still" yards of
this firm, and of NJ. Moses Il Bro, as well
as upon the large stock of cypress timber
in the pens along the shores.
Fences innumerable have gone down
before the fury of the blast as if built of
straw, and our magnificent shade trees
have suffered to a most deplorable de-
gree nmany places large oaks and elms
have been Frustrated. Everywhere the
angry gale has whipped the foliage into
tatters, wrenched large arms of oaks from
their sockets and hurled them into the
streets or upon the fences. From end to
end the streets are covered with mass
OF broken and shattered limbs and with
tWlgs and leaves.
CITY HALL TOWER INJURED.
The east and west fronts of the
city hall tower, containing the
clock dials, have been blown in. No one
is known TO be missing. News will be
anXiously awaited from North, South and
Pawley's islands. The unparalleled and
unremitting violence and duration of the
gale render it not at all improbable that
those resorts have suffered heavily,
although no apprehension is felt for the
safety of residents and visitors.
FATE OF THE RICE CROP.
Next, what of the rice crop2 The
gravest fears are entertained in this re
gard The rice fields on the Sampit river
have been practically converted into &
part of that river, with the main land for
banks on either side AS with the
Sampit doubtless to a much worse extent
is IL with the fields along the other rivers
ana Winyah bay. Some think that the
submergence of the rice has protected it
| from the violence of the wind; that it has
| not suffered much damage. Others think
the crop is destroyed. 1t is hardly cred
| liable by one not an eyewitness to be told
| that the waters covering the rice fields as
far as the eye could reach were dashed
into angry waves and pillows which
| broke as they madly chased each other
over the submerged rice. What will the
harvest be2 God knows.
SPEARS FOR THREE sCHooNERs.
A later dispatch states that Pawley's
Island, summer resort, is intact and
everybody is safe. The scho0ners Haz-
| ard Waccamaw and Snyder, loaded with
lumber, cross ties and shingles from New
York, sailed on Monday, and it is feared
| they had not time to make safe offing
| before the gale struck them.