Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-02
A STORMS WORK.

presents Il scene of desolation. Death
and disaster have marked the path
of the terrible cyclone which ragged
along the coast Sunday night. 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 fumigating
plant which has cost the city so much
money is in the bottom of the sea, aod
nine vessels which were waiting there
for release to come to the city are high
and dry in the marsh and no doubt
will be total wrecks. The Cosnlne was
the only vessel which managed to keep
atlont.
The tug Paulson arrived in the city
at o'clock Monday afternoon. 1t
brought up sixty passengers from Ty-
bee. Mr.. Revers, one of them, said four
negroes engaged in clearing the rail-
road tracks were drowned. A sailor
and the cabin boy on the schooner
Harold, which is on its side on North
| beach, drowned. 1t is reported that
eight of the crew of terrapin sloop
which went ashore on the South end
were drowned.
A view of this city at daylight Mon
day morning revealed n scene of wreck
and ruin that surpassed that after the
| great hurricane of 1881. The streets
were impossible from the debris, fallen
| trees, twisted roots, masses of brick
| I,,,,,a1,oc Of
trees were piled across the side
walks and in the square and broken
wire strewn in every direction.
The list of fatalities is gradually
growing and it is impossible to tell
to what extent it will go. Several
bodies of drowned persons We're picked
up during the morning and searches
are now being made for others which
are missing Every hour seems to
bring some new story of death as a
result of the storm. The drown.
ing of A. c. Ulmer, assistant
cashier of the Central railroad
bank on Hutchinson's island, was
one of the most unfortunate
fatalities of the storm.
The other fatalities so far reported
are as follows:
Tony Holmes (colored) crushed in q houst
on Hutchinsons island; four unknown negroe:
drowned on the Bramptons plantation miles
from the city; Lewis Garnett Ccolored) raj
into live trolley wire; Tattler Squire, 6
yearuld colored boy, drowned OF Hutchinson's
island; John Williams, Mary Butler and Saral
| Greene, drowned on q rice plantation south o
the city.
There are forty to fifty other person.
who are reported missing, and it is sup
posed, as nothing has been heard from
them, that their bodies will be founC
later. Twelve barks and barlIentine.
which were anchored at quarantine sta
tion were blown high and dry upon thu
marsh and some of them We're carried
by the storm across the marshes OIL
to an island 2 miles distant from
the station
RALEIGH. n. c., Aug. 29.-The tow
of Kernsville was struck by terrif
windstorm Monday. One hundred
houses were blown down and four per
sons killed.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Aug. 29-All tn
, South Atlantic coast as far as can b
ascertained from this wrecked point
/ with much of the interior, has bee
swept by the West India hur
ricane which has been playing
such havoc for several days. Th
, wires are down everywhere, burie
, beneath ruins, and information
is meager The fury of the hurrican
is unexampled in interior Caroline
For eight or ten hours the hurrican
p held the country relentlessly in it
: clutches, and men and beasts alik
| +A onrfarl u
) surging war of the elements. Hur
( dreds of lofty trees were ruthlessl
t torn from their roots. House
: and other property went th
: same way.
: All We're just beginning to hope fo
= better times in the fall, notwithstanC
t ing the financial crisis, when thi
: storm came. Now the crops are wipe
1 away and with them the hopes of tn
: farmers. The crops have been move
e in the fields and the poor people, wit
e money scarce, are going to have grea
4 difficulty in recovering from the shocl
!; The loss is over 40 per cent. of the Ell
J. tire crops.
t JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 29.-Th
q city has been cut off from communici
r ton with the outside world since
S o'clock Sunday morning In this cit
J. tho velocity of the wind was IS mil,
v per hour Hundreds of trees wei
! blown down and signs disapeare
) before the gale, Scores of dwell
ings and public buildings wei
entirely or partly unroofed, causin
great damage from the rain, which fe
in torrents. S-.p
% st. Augustine reports the water con
~ ing in over the sea wall and damagin
>, business blocks. Linn hotel was III
. rooted and badly drenched. Abop
= thirty or forty yachts and small era
=. We're badly damaged or completely d
- stroyed. The fate of other localities
y Florida as we'll as of the south sic
. territory invaded by the storm is still
y sealed book. The wires are down
every direction from Jacksonville.
a FoRr WORTH, Tex, Aug 29.-A loc
g cyclonic storm Sunday blew down