Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-30
MONDAY'SHURRICANE
Reports of Death and Damage by
the Storm.
GREAT Loss OF LIFE At PORT ROYAL
Savannah and Charleston are Great
Sufferers.
THE PATH OF THE TEMPEST.

THE PATH OF THE TEMPEST.
The worst storm Savannah has known
since the awful cyclone of 1881, when 100
people were killed, struck there Monday
morning. The wind began early, about died
out for several hours, and did not begin
again until the afternoon. Then the work
of destruction began, and lasted until the
storm had spent its force at midnight. All
the wharves along the river front and the
ocean steamship and Savannah, Florida ard
Western railroad wharves were under
water. A view of the city at daylight yes
terday revealed a scene of wreck and ruin
that surpassed that of the great hurricane
of 1881
The ruin at quarantine is immeasurable
Nothing Is standing where one of the finest
stations on the South Atlantic was twenty
four hours ago except the doctors house
and how this weathered the fearful gale Is
miraculous. The wharves are gone, the
new Immigration plant which has cost the
city so much money Is in the bottom OF the
sea, and twelve vessels which were wait
ing for release to come to the city, are high
and dry in the marsh, and no doubt will he
totally wrecked. The Cosnine was the only
vessel which managed to keep afloat.
bris. fallen trees, twisted roofs messes of
brick fences and broken limbs and buncnes
of trees were piled across the sidewalks and
in the square, and broken wires are swing
ing in every direction. 1t is impossible to
estimate the damage as the result of the
storm, but it was very general, and IL is
safe to say that 1t will go up in the hun
dred thousands and perhaps more Nearly
every one, II not quite all the property
owners in the city have been damaged to
some extent and some to the amount OF
thousands
The list of fatalities is gradually grow
ing. and it is impossible to tell to what ex-
tent II will go. Several bodies of drowned
persons were picked up, and searches are
being made for others who are missing.
Every hour seems to bring some new story
of death as a result of the storm.
Over Forty Persons Missing.
From forty to fifty persons are 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 quarantine station were blown
high and dry upon the marsh. and some Of
them were carried by the storm across the
marshes to an island two miles distant from
the station.
One of the vessels at Tybee was COM
pletely capsfzed. Three club houses on the
island We're blown entirely down. Others
were flooded and the people in them sought
shelter wherever they could.
The tug Paulsen arrived in the city at 5
O'Clock Monday afternoon. She brought
up about sixty passengers from Tybee. Mr..
Revers one of them, stated that four ne
groes engaged in clearing The railroad track
were drowned.
A sailor and the cabin boy on the schooner
Harold, which Is on her side on North
Beach, are drowned.
1t Is reported that eight of the crew of a
terrapin sloop which went ashore on the
south end were drowned.
Damage mt Tybee.
The Hotel Tybee is considerably dam
aged in front. The verandas are gone and
so are the bath houses The knights of
Pythias club house was washed away. Two
of the cottages Of the Cottage Club are gone
The north end is practically cleaned out.
The water swept with tremendous force
over this part of the island railroad tracks
being carried from 200 to 500 feet. The Chat
hams club house is badly damaged. The
paMlions on the beach are gone; SO is the
switchback. An empty train is in the
woods. The church steeples are demolished,
and at least 500 large trees are blown down.
The Tybee road is under water for the en-
tlrely washed away. There is no comrnu-
nication whatever with Tybee except 10y
water.
Savannahs damage amounts to s5Oo,OoO.
but Tybee Island is almost ruined.
Hundred Lives Lost.
A special from Port Royal. s. c.. brings
the startling information that fully 100 lives
have been lost at Port Royal, Beaufort and
neighboring points by drowning during the
storm.
Over twenty-five of these were seen by
the correspondent. and his information was
received from other reliable sources.
OF the 100 persons killed and drowned only
six were white, the others being negroes
The negroes were so frightened and terror
stricken that many were killed and drowned
by not leaving their cabins to seek places of
safety.
Twenty persons were drowned on Paris
Island.
No news has been received from st. Hele-
ma, four miles from Beaufort. 1t is be-
lieved fully twenty-five lives were lost be-
tween Port Royal and Seabrook, all ne
groeS.
Every house in Beaufort and Port ROYAL
was damaged to some extent. and a num-
Der of barges and craft We're wrecked and
blown ashore. The Coosaw Mining Com
| pany loses $4,000. The total losses are es-
| timated in the neighborhood of half a mil
| lion dollars
At Blackville. S. c., several buildings were
crushed, mill dams were washed away the
| cotton crop terribly damaged and the to-
| bacco crop. yet to be harvested. totally de-
vastated.
| At Waynesboro', Ca, the storm did great
| damage to the cotton crop and fences were
| blown down. Reports from Screven county
| say that the storm was very severe there
|
! crops No casualties so far known
| The Storm mt Charleston.
Passenger train No. IS of the Atlantic
Coast Line reached Richmond. Va. last
evening from Charleston, S. c. having been
delayed twenty-four hours by the storm
| In an interview Mr.. ]. b. Beddingfield
the Southern Express messenger, who was
In Charleston during the storm, said that
| the battle of wind and rain commenced
with terrific force at / o'clock Sunday af-
| ternoon, and continued without cessation
| until Monday morning at O'Clock; that
| there was not fifty yards space in the
| streets that did not contain debris such as
| roofs OF houses, signs, awnings and tele-
| graph poles.
| The roof of the ST. Charles Hotel was
| blown off, and the streets were flooded
| with water almost to its doors He saw
| fourteen box cars that had been blown
4 from the railroad track and turned over
All the phosphate works in the city were
| blown down or badly damaged
| There was schooner lying high in the
streets, having been driven from its an
| chorage.
| While he saw one killed or injured
1t was currently reported that eight people
had been killed in the city. 1t was also
| rumored that there had been great loss OF
life on Sullivans Island. the report placine