The morning call., 1893-09-01
AFTER THE CYCLONE.
The Tale of Death and Destruc-
tion Not Yet Told.
Much Is Yet to Come From Port
Royal and the Sea
Islands.

COLUMBUS. S. c., Aug. S1.-Accounts
continue TO come in of the general havoc
by Sundays STERN. Mr. Robinson Of Ker-
riston says that from Bisehoffs place on
the EdistO river to Jackso boro 1t is re-
ported all the negroes on the low fands
were drowned, in all about 100 men, women
aud children. The survivors relate terri
BILE experience, and Furthermore state that
eleven of the dwellings were totally de-
stroyed and the place is in abject
desoiation.
At Waltcrboro many houses were COM
pletely washed from their foundations out
into the streets, and all the rice fields were
oVerfioUed. Crops to the value Of 30 per
cent were destroyed. The reports of loss
OF life and destruction of property in Port
Royal, Beaufort and Sea Islands are fear
ful. and the death roll there already
aggregates 30 odd persons.
The missing ship Seminole of the Clyde
line steamed into the harbor yesterday,
having escaped the storm. Inquiry at the
Clyde line Offices ELECTED little information
regarding other missing vessels.
AUGUSTA, Ga. Aug. 31.-A special from
Beaufort. S. c., says: Over 800 dead bodies
were found on the islands about Beaufort
and Port Royal and over 81 600. 900 worth
of property has been wrecked near the
same points. Every one of the fifteen or
twenty islands lying around Port Royal
and Beaufort are in mourning Those who
are at all posted about the country
and habits of the people In the
storm-visited sections are confident in
their prediction that the death roll will
run as high as 500, and people in this sec
tion even place the loss at more than 1000
There has not been an hour since Monday
morning that dead body has not been
found at some point on the islands. As
the waters recede and the people move
deeper into the wreckage gathered by the
storm the CHASTITY remains are uncovered
Great destitution exists among the 1000
remaining inhabitants of the coast and an
urgent appeal has been made for pro-
visions.
special to the Chronicle from Charles
ton says that the steamer Yemasso, over
due since Saturday from New York,
arrived safely. She did not encounter the
storm.
Reliable computation places the dead at
500. There are now 1000 negroes who have
been driven to Port ROYAL by the storm
and they are starving. They are so desti-
tute and so badly In need of something to
eat in fact that they have resorted to fight
ing among themselves for food. Several
were killed in this fight for provisions.
The negroes are getting more and more
daring in the struggle to keep their wives
and children from starving, and it is diff
cult 10 keep the sufferers in subjection.
SAVANNAH, Ca. Aug. 81. Reports of
the disastrous work of the storm are still
coming in. The entire coast is strewn
with wreckage and debris, and vessels are
high and dry in exposed harbors.
LONDON, Aug. 31.-A dispatch from
Para. Brazil. says: The British steamsh hip
Just in, which sailed from New York on
August IS, arrived at Barbados yesterday.
She passed through a series OF terrific
storms. Her decks were s~eptd day after
dav. The second mate, boatswain and
four seamen were washed overheard and
drowned.