Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-30
THE RECENT STORM.
Death in its Wake---Great Devasta
tion--Fury ofthe Wind.

elemental are concerned it was one of
the worst ever experienced on the At
lantic seaboard.
The storm began early Sunday after
noon in Savannah and increased from
then until it reached the climax, be-
tween eleven and twelve o'clock at
night, having blown for eight hours in
terrific hurricane. The work of de-
struction began in the afternoon, and
lasted until the storm had spent Its
force at midnight. All the wharves
along the river front were under water,
and the tide was still rising rapidly. A
view of the city at daylight revealed
scene of wreck and ruin that surpassed
that of the great hurricane Of 1881. The
ruin at quarantine is Unreasonable.
Nothing in the nature of wharf Is
standing where one of the finest sta
tons on the South Atlantic was twenty
four hours before, except the doctors
house. The list Of fatalities is gradual
ly growing, and it is impossible to tell
to what extent it will grow. Livery
hour seems to bring some storyof death
as result Of the storm. Houses were
blown down, and the inmates injured
and drowned while in helpless condi-
ton. Forty to fifty other persons are
reported missing, and it is supposed, as
nothing has been heard from them,
that their bodies will be found later.
Twelve banks and barkiDtines 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 on an
island two miles distant from the sta
ton.
One of the vessels at Tybee was cap
sized and three clubhouses on the ISL
and were blown down. The wires are
all down, and Savannah is almost en-
tirely shut off from telegraphic commu-
nication. a sailor and the cabin boy
on the schooner Harold, which is on
her side on North Bra nch, are drowned.
1t is reported that eight Of the crew OF
a terrapin sloop, which went ashore on
the south end, were drowned. The
water swept with tremendous force
over this part of the island, railroad
tracks being carried from 200 to 500
feet. Houses did not stand q ghost OF
a chance, but were demolished in every
direction. The church steeples were
demolished, and at least 800 large trees
blown down. The Tybee road is un-
der water for the entire distance, and
in many places is entirely washed
away. There ia no communication
whatever with Tybee except by water.
At Southport, ~ c., the wind veloci-
| ty was seventy-three miles per hour.
The three masted schooner Three Sis
tiers, with cargo of lumber, from Sa-
vannah for Philadelphia, was wrecked
and abandoned Off Cape Fear ON the
night of August 2a. Her commander,
Captain Isaac Simpson, of Market
Hook, Pa, and Mate Johnson Heede,
of Baltimore, were washed overheard
and drowned. The brigantine Was
trow Germany with a cargo of salt,
went to pieces off Caswell Beach. The
crew saved themselves by swimming
ashore. The storm did great damage
TO crops all through North Carolina.
Tobacco, corn and cotton were severely
injured. A terrific cyclone struck Ker-
nersvile at o'clock yesterday morn
ing. a hundred houses were wrecked,
and a woman killed. Many were in
jured. The Baptist brick church was
RACED to the ground. Factories, stores
and residences we're unroofed and some
were blown entirely away.
1t is reported that one hundred lives
have been lost at Port Royal, S. c.,
Beaufort and other neighbpring points
by drowning during the storm. OF
The one hundred persons killed and
drowned only six were white, the 9th
ers being negroes. The negroes were
so terror stricken that many were
killed and drowned by not leaving
their cabins to seek places of safety.
Twenty persons we're drowned on Par
is Island. No news has been received
from St. Helena, four miles from Beau-
fort. 1t is believed fully twenty-five
lives were lost between Port Royal and
Seabrook, all negroes. Every house in
Beaufort and Port Royal was damaged
to some extent, and Il number of barges
and craft were wrecked and blown
ashore.
The storm off the capes was furious,
and several schooners were sunk, but
no lives are reported loss.
The Delaware and New Jersey peach
and other crops were ruined By the
storm.
Many thrilling incidents occurred on
the Hudson river Monday night while
the storm was raging. Considerable
damage was done to shipping, but no
lives were lost.
In New York the wind blew with
hurricane force. Many vessels drag
ged their anchors, and small crafts
were driven ashore at various places in
and about the bay and rivers. Steam
boats from Long Island Sound report
the storm as the worst for many years.
Much damage was done to yachts and
other boats in the Sound. In Brook
Ign the wind destroyed thirteen houses
in the course of construction and did
other damage.
Asbury Park and other places along
the New Jersey coast had thrilling eX-
periences-this being the second storm
encountered in FIVE days. Wharves
were washed away, buildings unroofed
and bath and boat houses were demol-
ished. At Coney Island the beach was
strewn with wreckage.
A pas seuger train on the Atlantic
Coast Line, with Pullman sleepers at
taehed, reached Richmond yesterday
from Charleston, IS. c., having been de-
Ioyod tu,antv-foDr hours hv the deStrI1o-