The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-08-30
WITH WIND and WAVE
Ruin Marks the Path Of the Cyclone
Along the Atlantic Coast
MILLIONS LlE' IN DEBRIS
Ships Washed High and Dry In City
Streets-Frightfui Loss OF Life
From Boston TO
tho Gulf.

s"S tuut tulAS IUJ
lives were lost at Port Royal, at Beaufort
and neighboring points by drowning dur
ing tho storm. OF 100 persons killed aud
drowned only six were white, the others
being negroes. Twenty persons were
drowned on Apris island. No news has
been received from St. Helena, four miles
from Beaufort. 1t Is believed that fully
25 lives are lost between Port Royal and
Sea Brook, all negroes. Every house in
Beaufort and Port Royal is damaged to
some extent and a number of barges and
craft were wrecked and blown ashore.
The total loss is estimated in the neigh
borhood of half million dollars.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 29.-lt Is feared
that nearly 100 lives were lost by the hur-
rcanc and flood. The list of victims SO
far as known, Is: A. c. Ulmer, assistant
cashier of the Central Railroad bank,
Hutchinson island, drowned; Tony
Holmes. colored. crushed in q house on
Hutchinson island; four unknown ne
grocs drowned on Brampton's plantation,
four miles from the city; Lewis Gagnett,
colored, ran into a live trolly wire: Fatlcr
Squire, n 6-year-old colored boy. drowned
on Hutchinson's island; John Williams,
drowned; Mary Butler, drowned; Sarah
Green, drowned on n rice plantation south
of the city; two unknown sailors drowned
at Tyber island.
Scarcely a house IN the city escaped
damage. The streets are almost impassa.
bie' from tangie OF taiien trees twisted
wires. house roofs ana wreckage. The
Quarantine STATION was cohp'cte'y de-
stroyed. lie loss Is estimated Mt one
million.
Inc ere, suorh VI ounuay anu "onuay
u,u eous'uerao,e .h.hor us'haso ih 'ne
c'y proper. ri'een people are khown 10
nave oe,h uro"heu as nhentioneu ias'
h'sh., Moro are missing pu' u I'M
Possio'e YET 10 es'i''a'e tue huuioe.' in
aoai,ioG 10 tue Vesseis IN the naroor
Wreeheo as rePor'ea ias' n'e", y nu"ocr
OF other wrecks are hearu OF 'o-uay.
Niore 'pan ~ vesseis arc IeE'orto wrecAeu
SO lar and many SAL boats are lost. Noth-
ing yet heard oil the steamship City OF
Savannah. many hours overdue. Had
that portion oil the city known as iybee
island been washed away the destruction
could not have been much worse than 1t
Is. AT least hall OF the houses on the
island were blown down or badiy DAMAGED
and oven the railroad tracks were carried
up by the WIND ana water unth parts
stood up ike renee.
BALTIMORE aug ZS.-Not since the
great HOOD oil loos mas such storm pcen
experienced IN batimo re as that OF iast
night. Inc wind piew furious gaze az
the afternoon anu IN the evening ram De-
gan falilng IN torrents anu o,d not cease
untii morning. noois anu chitnneys were
torn oil, much glass was smashed, tele-
graph and telephone wires were wrecked
and electric lights went out, leaving the
greater pa rt OF the city in darkness. On
the bay mo untainous seas piled up and
rolled high in the basin, spreading over
the walls and flo oding the streets and ad.
-jacent buildings. This morni nR the streets
rcsembled lagoons instead OF business
thorouShfares. The wha arres were COM
pleteiy submerged and some portions de.
stroyed. Several schooners were washed
high and dry on the streets. Wareb ouses
along tho water front suffered damages
| aggrcgatinG many thousands OF dollars. A
southeast gale prevented the waters from
reccding until noon to-day, to which time
business was practically at standstill IN
the flooded districts. Incoming vessels
repor, severe experiences. Dispatches
| from Annapons state great damage
around the wharves and to shipping. In
Eikion, the river was beaten back by a
terrific gale until the water Hooded the
streets, great damage being done thereby.
In Cumberland valley great damage was
done to property and tho growing crops.
Milford. Delaware, reports that the storm
ruined the remainder oil the peach crop IN
that section TO the extent OF l5o,Ol
baskets.
| kicHMoNp, va. Aug. "a passenger
train on the Atlantic coast line arrived
tins evening from eharies'on' having been
delayed % hours py ,he destructive storm
OF sunday anu MONDAY anexpress mes
senger' VINO was III Chariestoh curing tue
storm, says 1t commenced at ! O'Clock
SUNDAY AFTERNOON ana continued without
abatement untii Monday morning lhere
was not 90 yards of space IN the streets
not Uttered with the debris oi tue roois o.
houses, signs ana tue ike. lhe root o.
81. Charies hotei was blown ON anu th'
streets were nooded with water almost te