The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-09-08
THAT TERRIBLE STORM.
Death and Devastation Along At.
lantic Coast.
The seacoast Strewn With Flotsam
and Jstsam.
READS LIKE A STORY,

SAVANNAH, GA.-Thc steamship Cit
OF Savannah left Boston Thursd.y after
noon. 1t never will reach Savannah 70
h was wrecked Q miles south of s.. Helen,
lighthouse. PIrt of the passenger
reached st. Helena Island by the ship
ooas. T"e steamer was then goiu,
rapidly to pieces when she was sighted
Iussday evening by the City of Birming
ham, who anchored near by, ant
wednesday morning amid the breaker
res ueu the balance of the passengers and
crew, who had resigned Themselves q
death. The Birmingham then headed TO,
Savannah, arriving there in safety. The
wrecked passengers of the Savannah los,
everything, some being even without
hats and coats.
! ONLY SIX PERSONS KILLED IN cuAR1nsrov
CHARLESTON, g. C.-Thc cyclone is
ended. The city has started to replace
dimagis while yet shut off from com
munlcation with the outer world. The
sight presented was familiarone
TO the people of this city-a CITY
almost in ruins; the streets and thorough.
tares strewn with debris from the roofs of
stores and dwellings,; tn, road wars
blocked up by the hundreds of giant trees
uprooted from the earth IS dcwaks s'rewn
with crumbl;ng brick and mortar: tho
courts and alleys and by paths under
water; magnificent water trent wi h its
costly docks, where the q ct of a conf
nent could be anchored, piled with
wreck"ge; some of its church,s unroofed
and almost every residence in the citv
more or less injured.
Water and wind have played havoc in
the old City by the Sea, and laid vase
some OF its plc'santest PLACES and "deso
lation saddens all her green" 1t began
In the wee small hours of the day. When
and while the fiery gale was still bowling
through the town, threatening almost to.
tai annihilation along the by-ways and
on the thorougbfares, you could see the
hewers OF wood, the African American
with provident eye for extra fire-wood.
A rough estimate OF the loss places it
at something over million dollars. There
are no lights in the city, both gas and
electric lights having gone out, and there
has been no railroad communication south
of us. The loss of life is six people.
HALF THE ISLANDERS DROWNED.
:. .ISANANNAH, GA.-Beaufort, s. c., suf-
fercd fearfully from the storm. Capt.
Finnie, of the steamer Bessie, which ar
rived from Beaufort, st. Helena and
Bluffton half IN hour Iefore the City of
Birmingham, says that Beaufort is wreck
ed and that on the Sea Islands the loss of
life among the negroes is very great.
Fully one-third the population of the
islands is drowned.
70 DEAD BODIES FUND.
AUGUSTA. GA News from the storm
swept districts of Port Royal and Beau
fort is still very meagre, the only news
obtainable beng by mail. Seventy dead
and swollen bodies were taken from the
Coosiw river by searching parties Not
one-haf of the horrors of the storm has
yet been told.
The result of the work of the relief
party puts the number of missing at over
a hundred. but owing to poor means of
commune ltion the correct list of the
dead cannot be obtained. In several
places along the Coosaw river were
found their bodies lying on the bank
close together. Graves were hastily dug
near the places of discovery and without
ceremony the storm victims were placed
beneath the earth. Many Of the dead
were SO far advanced in putrifcation
that the sight was sickening acd revolt.
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