The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-10-18
Ill.Fated Sea Islands.

GEORGETOWN, S. c., Oct. 1.-THE
West Indian cyclone left destruction in its
path here. The wind blew hard all day
Thursday from tho Northeast, increas-
ing steadily, at midnight attaining ve-
locity of about so miles an hour. The
storm signals were displayed all day
warning all shipping not to leave the
harbor.
The wind blew harder after nightfall,
accompanied by heavy torrents of rain.
At O'Clock Friday morning the wind
was blowing about sixty miles an hour,
and the tide came all over tho water
front. The wind decreased somewhat
from that hour until daylight, then in
creased again till ten o'clock, when it blew
hardest.
The tide did not go out much on the
ebb, and now was coming higher than
before, and reached a height of ten inches
above the mark Of the hurricane of Au-
gust 81. The whole water front was
from one to four feet under water, and
thousands of dollars worth of merchan-
dize was badly damaged in the warehou-
ses.
At 10 o'clock the wind died out sudden
ly, and for fifteen minutes we had almost
a dead calm then it suddenly burst forth
from the west and blew very hard. This
change evidently indicated our proXimi-
coming from the west rapidly blew the
tide out again.
The Clyde steamer Croatan rode out
the storm at anchor at North Island.
The schooner Waccamaw was blown
ashore at the mouth of the Black
River, having dragged her anchors.
The schooner Prosperity was blown
ashore on South Island and will be total
loss.
The Islanders suffered greatly-the
worst at Magnolia Beach, where thir-
teen white and six colored people are
known to have been drowned. The tide
rose there four feet in ten minutes. The
waves swept the houses from their foun-
dations, and the inmates could not es-
cape. Two men and little girl are the
only ones saved out of total of twenty
two. They got on top Of small build
ing and drifted to the mainland.
Tim tide rose three feet in some Of the
houses on Pawley's Island, and the
houses of DR.. Fl. NJ. Tucker, B. P. Frazer
and l.. G. Lachicotte we're washed entire
ly away, the inmates only saving what
clothes they had on. No lives are re-
ported lost on this island nor on Debor-
ed from their foundations and drifted to
sea.
The tide rose above the floors Of the
dwellings on North Island, and all the
dwellers took refuge in the lighthouse.
The most heartreIding report comes
from DR.. J. W. Flagg, who escaped, and
also saved Miss Weston, ten years old.
They were clinging to the boughs of q
cedar tree, drifting to the mainland, and
his father and mother were with them on
the same tree. His mother became ex-
hausted and lost her hold upon the limb
AID his father let 20 to rescue her, and
both were drowned before his eyes.
Searching parties are patrolling the
beach, with the hope Of finding some Of
the bodies.
The number of drowned may be larger
when fuller reports can be gotten from
the scene.
Every rice plantation in the country
was under water yesterday, and 1t is
feared that the salt water will damage
the June rice to such an extent that it
will not be harvested at all. This rice
was very promising, and was about all
that most Of the planters had left from
the terrible destruction done by the Au-
gust hurricane.