The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-09-07
THE LOSSES.
ADDITIONAL STORM NEWS
The Loss of life EIuch Large than a
First Reported,

AUGUSTA, Sept. 1.-The loss of life
on sea Island far exceeds anything yet
reported and viii not fall far short Of
600. Great destitution exists among
the seven thousand remaining inhab-
itants and an urgent appeal is made
for aid in the shape of provisions,
crops and provisions having been en-
tirely destroyed.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. Accounts
continue to come in of general havoc
by Sundays storm. Thousands of
valuable timber trees have been blown
down, crops washed away. and the
rivers are full of floats and jetsam sf
the disaster. AdyiceS from the sea-
coast may be summed up in the fol-
lowing extracts:
The long staple cotton crop has met
with severe injury and the esti-
mates are that where in former years
Charleston received 10, 900 bales of Sea
Island cotton, this year she will do
well to get 1900 bales.
A party just arrived from Walten-
bOrO states that from BiSchOff'S place
on the EdiSt0 river at JacksOnboro,
two negroes tloated the whole dis
tance on the top of their ShantieS and
reported that all the negroes on the
place in the low lands had been drown
ed, in ali about one hundred men, wo-
men and children. They relate a ter
rible experience and Furthermore
state that all of the dwellings are to-
tally destroyed and the place is in ab
ject desolation.
The fury of the winds and waves
was so great that some huge masses
of iron, used for holding buOys and
weighing 4,500 0pounds. were moved
from their places and rolled about the
beach. Some great anchors were
missing, weighing from 1900 to 5000
pounds and were flung about the place
like so much timber The place is a
complete ruin.
Port Royal, lying on tongue of
land further down the Beaufort river,
must have been even more exposed to
the fury of the tempest. The place
is practically in ruins. It's water
front is destroyed and great damage
| has been done to its buildings. The
great loss of life which resulted from
the storm on every shore of the island
| is greatest here, or else it has been
more than stated Thirty odd negroes
were found dead on the beach, and
| the number was expected to be
| largely increased before the death roll
was finally closed 1t is needless to
/ add that the crops were injured terri
| bly,. Fifty per cent loss would prob
ably not be large enough an estimate
| to make.
Paris island, where United States
dry stocks are building, and which
stands between the Broad and Beau
fort rivers, was swept by the cyclones.
! The fatality which has pursued the
| government improvements since their
/ inception found its culminations on
| Sunday night. The injury could not
be accurately calculated.
Beaufort, the prcttiest town in the
| Carolinas is terribly damaged, not
| withstanding the fact that the island
| is six miles up the Beaufort river.
! Many of the residences in the town
were badly damaged and the wharves
i are nearly or quite destroyed. The
| experience of Capt. White and his wife
and family of ten children on Castle
Pinkney on the night of the storm
was terrible one. The wind blew
the storehouses to pieces, and blew
away all the dwellings and it was dan
gerous to remain in it. His family
sought shelter from the fury and tenn
pest on the leeward of the fort ano
with his children he stood out of the
storm with occasional waves brewins
over the helpless family.