Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-09-07
APPALLING.

Inc n0cenG Ol000Cor Along the southern
Coast tho Worst Ever Known - The
Death List Daily swelling-The Latest
Accounting Shows Over 700 Victims
Some Think the Total Will Reach $4,000
Great Suffering Among Survivors.
COLUMBIA, s. G., Sept. Sit is fast
developing that the loss OF life and de-
struction of all kinds of property on the
sea islands that skirt the southeastern
coast of South Carolina by the recent
hurricane have never been paralleled in
this country.
Estimates of the dead here range all
the way from 400 to 800, but in no in
stance has anyone said that less than
400 lives have been lost. The averages
have been between 600 and 500, and
from all that can be learned that seems
to be about the correct estimate
Coroner Wills has made this list of
the number drowned on the several is
lands:
Warsaw, ~: Coffin point 80; Dawthad, 81;
Coosaw island, 25; Pacific works (Chisholm's
island), 26: Hunting island. about %; st. He
lena island. 200; Savannah river planta tons,
l5o: Beaufort, 2; Salt water bridge, A; Otaheta
plantation. 6; on tug boats, g. Grays hill, s.:
Land end, p: Kane's neck, 60; .Coosaw mines.
5: Paris island. "A. Total 758.
1t is estimated that 5000 are in q
starving condition. The crops are
partially destroyed, the stock is all
drowned, and there is actually not
enough provisions in the country to
keep the people alive.
From Morris island all the way down
to the Tybee all are akin in their dis
tress. Morris island, Johns island,
Edisto, Wardmalaw, James island,
Charleston's neighbors, have perhaps
Jared somewhat better than st.
Helena, Coosaw. Dathan, Port Royal,
Paris, Dawfuskie, Ladies and the
myriad of smaller islands tribu-
tuary to Beaufort. Huddled to-
gether and within almost stones
throw of each other are Port ROYAL,
the largest of them all, and Ladies.
Dathan, Morgan, Coosaw, Chisholm.
st. Helena and Eddings island. It is
almost one isle, cut up with navigable
lagoons. Skirting the ocean front.
looking out TO the broad Atlantic,
are Hilton Head island, Dawfuskie
island and further over to Charleston,
Chaplins island, Prentis island and
Reynolds island. Hundreds of smaller
islands dot the coast To-day most OF
them are in ruins and the majority OF
the inhabitants are searching in vain
for sustenance. From ten to fifteen
thousands do marketing in Beau
fort. What they will now do is
the question. Higher up the coast
there are whites on the islands
who have something left. Down here
nothing is left. Eighty per cent. of the
houses has been swept away by the ter
rife storm. At Ladies' island roo house.
are gone; Eastice place of fifty houses
three are left. Hope plantation, al
homes destroyed That is the register
at Indian Hill, out of seventy-fiye places
I on Coosaw island but dozen are left
and SO it goes.
The population on these islands is al
most entirely colored, with few
whites who keep stores or manage ex
tensiye farms The crops consist al
most entirely of sea island cotton, will
few patches of corn, potatoes ant
small grain. Nothing is left of the cro)
except on the highlands.
There is danger of water famine al
over the islands. Even in Beaufor
county all the wells and cisterns ar,
filed with hot water. The people wer,
killed by the houses falling on then
and by drowning. The cabins wer,
scattered everywhere. In some places
as many as sixteen bodies could b,
found huddled together on the roads
They have not begun to find even small
proportion of the bodies. Some O.
them have been swept far up in tn,
marshes, where man cannot go. A
Gains neck there are deer, cows, hogs
snakes and all kinds of wild animals
piled up together, making the section
SO offensive that no one can go there
Many persons are dying from starva
ton.