Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-07
Fifty per cent loss would probably not
be too large an estimate to make.
THE LOSS OF LIFE FEARFUL.

be too large an estimate to make.
THE Loss OF LIFE FEARFUL.
Several gentlemen from this city, who
were in Port Royal or Beaufort during
the hurricane, returned to Charleston
yesterday on the first train which came
into the city over the Charleston &
Savannah railway. They report that
the loss of life and the destruction OF
property at those places and the neigh
boring Sea Islands have been fearful.
The death-roll had already risen to
thirty-odd persons, among whom was
DIR. Ellis, the newly-appointed quaran-
tine officer for the port. Paris Island,
where the United States, dry docks are
building, and which stands between the
Broad and the Beaufort rivers, was
swept by the cyclone. The fatality
which has pursued the government i'm
provements since their Inception found
its elimination on Sunday night. The
injury could not be accurately calcu-
lated.
Beaufort, the prettest island town in
the Carolinas, is terribly damaged, not
withstanding the fact that 1t stands six
miles up the river. Many Of the resi-
dences in the town were badly damaged
and the wharves are nearly or quite
destroyed.
NIGHT OF TERROR.
The experience of Captain Whitley
and his wife and family of 10 children
on Castle Pinckney on the night of the
storm was terrible one. The wind
blew the storehouscs TO pieces and blew
away all the ship chandlcrs stores and
his dwelling was SO exposed that it was
seen to be dangerous to remain in it,
He and his family sought shelter from
the fury of the tempest to the leeward
of the fort, and, with his children, he
stood out the storm, with occasional
waves breaking over them. Three Of
the little ones were from 6 months to
years of age, and they stood it like the
old ones, without whimper.
The fury of the winds and waves was
so great that some huge masses of iror
used for holding buoys, and weighing
4,500 pounds were moved from thei
places and rolled about the beach. Som,
great anchors weighing from 1000 Il
5000 pounds, were flung about the plac,
like so much timber. The place is
complete ruin, and, in spite Of it all
Captain Whitley and his brave family
are on the Castle and are holding thu
fort.
THE SEMINOLE SAFE IN PORT.
The missing steamship Seminole
about which SO much anxiety was felt
steamed into the harbor yesterda,
morning scarcely scratch on her. Sh
and her passengers escaped unscathet
from the storm. When the Seminal
met the hurricane she was off the moutl
of the ST. Johns river and was pre-
pairing to head in for an entrance. He
officers appreciated the situation at
glance, and making out TO neaward 70
u considerable distance, turned the yes
sells nose into the eye of the wind an
cast out their anchors. The captain sal
that she breasted the water like due
during the long hours of the storm an
was not injured in the least when
I subsidized. AS soon as the wind had pal
TALLY lulled, he turned her into the s
Johns and made his dock in jackson
Vile in perfect safety. His return tri
was uneventful, except for the evidence
OF the storm, which were witnessed {
several points.
VESSELS ABANDONED.
The italian bark Vincenzo Galatoli
which left this port for Hamburg on III
18th, was abandoned at sea of Hattera
ON the Gath. Her sails had been blow
away, her foretopmast was gone an
she was otherwise disabled, when TO
tunately the whaling schooner HIATT
Z. Smith, Captain Bourne, which ha
also suffered damage, came alongsic
and CALAMITY rescued the crew of IL
} bark.
CHARLESTON LIGHTED BIZ CANDLES.
: WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-Charlesto
| newspapers of Tuesday and Wednesda,
August Goth and Both, have been r.
received here. They are, of cours,
, destitute of telegraphic news Of an
! kind, except some stray dispatches r
: ceived by train by way of Atlanta, Ga
but are full Of graphic details of Il
ravages of the cyclone. The Ne,os az
: Courier says: "There has not been u
faintest tick of telegraph instrumei
| in this city since about o'clock on SUI
t day afternoon. What Is still more di
couraging, there is nothing to indica
] that we shall be able TO communica
L | WIFI tIlt OubSluC WOllu III bho VI tbAAs
$ days and possibly week."
The NeUs and Courier Of the 30
incidentally remarks that this edition
Y the paper was set up by candle ligh
1 that "the available supply ,of candl
: was exhausted about q a. M, whit
n necessitated the leaving out of fol
G columns of news about the cyclone"
adds; "The outlook last night was We
S cheering for city without either gas
G electric light, telegraph or telephon
y Charleston has wrestled with and owe
come difficulties much more serio
e than this one. Charleston may be d
n pended upon to get there"
1t SAVANNAH, Ga, Sept. is. s. Erie
i ling, OF the wholesale grocery firm
@ Guohenheimer 81 Son, retained fro
% Beaufort tonight on special tug, ha
ing left there this morning.
o Mr.. Friedling says that at least s
y persons were drowned on the islands
n that vicinity, and that when all repol
y are in upwards of 1000 will be fou
to have persisted.
10 Up to yesterday the coroner had he
d an inquest on 800 bodies, 81 Of viii
e were buried in one pit and so in anoth
IL Is lmpOSSlule W piOCuie COlllls.
1t tempt at identification of bodies
l. been abandoned.
1t All that is desired now is to get
70 bodies out of the way as quickly
possible, to prevent epidemics result
al from their rapid decomposition.
1t No accurate record is kept OF
Us lumber of dead and the statistics of
disaster will never be fully known.
ROUGH WEATHER CONTINUES.
ia AUGUSTA, GA, Sept. THE weatl
" continues bad and heavy general raj
IL still prevail. The South Carolina RI
\ road IS washed out in many places a