The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-30


There were blown down, burned, washed
away and otherwise demolished.
The railroad track was blown from
the ground and parts OF it stood up
along the lire like fence. Rails were
twisted and spikes were pulled from
the crossties
Washouts are not a circumstance to
the wretched condition into which the
tracks were twisted by the winds.
AT least one-half OF the houses on the
island have been blown down or badly
damaged.
Damages to buildings in Savannah
are being rapidly repaired.
1t is difficult to give an estimate of
the damage done by the storm. To
buildings, 100000 would cover the in
jury done; vessels wrecked, S15O,OO0;
and the damage TO railroads leading out
of city, S1O0, 600; damage to rice crop,
100000
The dsmsge to the interior, tributary
to Savannah, will probably amount to
one million dollars or more, as the cot
ton crop over wide territory has SUI.
fered severely, and in many turpentine
districts at least one fourth of the trees
are destroyed.
RICHMOND, Va, August 90 Passen-
ger train No IS OF the Atlantic Coast
A<ahOS Will olScpoIo dIGdCQeu,
reached here this morning from Charles.
ton, S. c., having been delayed twenty
four hours by the destructive storm
which swept over the South Atlantic
coast Sunday and Monday.
In an interview j. b. Beddlngfull,
Southern Express messenger, who was
in Charleston during the storm, said
that the battle of wind and rain com-
menced with terrific force at l o'clock
Sunday afternoon and continued with
out cessation until Monday morning at
o'clock. There was not fifty yards
space In the streets that did not contain
debris, such as roofs Of houses, signs,
awnings. telegraph poles etc which were
scattered in all directions.
The streets were flooded with water
almost to the doors Of the st. Charles
hotel. He saw fourteen box cars that
had been blown from the railroad track
and turned over. There was schooner
lying high in the streets, having been
driven there from it's anchorage.
There was no communication with
Savannah, all telegraph lines having
been Frustrated While no saw no one
killed or Injured, it was currently
reported that eight people had teen
killed in the city It was also rumored
that there had been great loss of life
OH oulllvanS Island, the report placing
the number in the hundreds. but,
in as much as all communication was
cut off. there was no means of verifying
the report.
AUGUSTA. Ga, Aug 20-The storm
which eau from Florida and followed
the Atlantic coast yesterday, has done
lncalculable injury to the farming in.
terests of the Southeast. No tele.
graphic communication has been re-
ceived by the Chronicle from Charles
ton, Savannah or Jacksonville since
yesterday afternoon.
August suffered no loss beyond the
breaking of telegraph. telephone and
electric light wires from falling trees,
hut the damage to crops cannot be COM
puted and estimated upon for some
days. special dispatch from Black
vile. s. G., says several buildings in
that town were crushed, mill dams were
washed away, country roads are i'm
damaged and tobacco yet to be harvested
totally devastated.
WILMINGTON, N. c., Aug. ga severe
storm of wind and rain prevailed here
Sunday and yesterday but caused no
damage beyond blowing down a few
trees and fences and overturning two un.
finished frame buildings.
The tide was the highest known in
years. AT Southp port the wind y velocity
was seventy-three miles. The Nor
wegian bark Bonita was blown ashore
in the river and several other vessels
have put into port in distress.
The three-masted schooner, Three
Sisters, with cargo of lumber from
Savannah for Philadelphia, was wrecked
and abandoned off Cape Fear on Mon.
day night, and her commander, Capt.
Isaac Simpson, of Market Hook, Pa,
and Mate Johnson Heede, of Park
avenue, Baltimore, were washed over.
board and drowned.
COLUMBIA, 5. c., August 29.-The
damage to tue crops all over the State
cannot be estim ated at this time. But
1t Is very heavy. Streams are much
swollen and mill dams washed away.
Unharvested tobacco crops are totally
destroyed Travel, which has been
very much impeded, is being resumed.
Trains ne through fir, n Cha lesion
to day. No loss of life reported except
at Charleston. The weather is clear
and hot.
KERNERsvILLE, N. C. Aug. 90 "A ter
rife cyclone struck here at S o'clock
this morning. A hundred houses were
wrecked and woman was killed The
orlck baptist Church was RACED to the
ground. Factories, stores and resi-.
dences were unroofed and some were
blown entirely away. High winds and
heavy rain are still raging.
RALEIGH. N. c., Aug 30 The storm
did great damage to the crops all
through North Carolina. Tobacco, corn
and cotton were severely injured all
over the State.
OXFORD N. G, Aug. 29.-High wind
and rain prevailed here Yesterday.