New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-30
DEVASTATION IN CHARLESTON
MEAGRF DETAILS OF TERRIBLE WORK
THERE BY SUNDAY NIGHTS CYCLONE
THE STRrTrS FULL OF WRECK AGE-FIi1r PER
slNs EEPOLTED KILLED SHlPrIHG lN
THE HARBoR SAVED By NEEDING
ATIMEIY WARM NG-RUMoRED
DESrRUrION ON SULLi-
VANS ISLAND.

Richmond. Aug. 20-Pas>cnger train NO -, OF
the Atlantic Coast Line reached here TINS evening
~ $50 o'clock from Charleston, having been de-
lay.d ,w,ntv-four hours 10y ia" destructive"
.,orm which swept over the south Atlanti' coast
sunday and Monday j. T. Ibdinsi"ld, southern
LAprr-s messenger who was in Charleston during
ihr hurricane Bays that the storm of wind ana
rain Iccan with terrific for, at O'Clock on sun
dny afternoon and continued without cessation
until Monday morning at o'clock that thor" was
not nifty yards spac" in th" streets that did not
contain wrcclagc, such as roofs OF houses, signs,
awnings and telegraph poles which were scattered
in all directions: that the roof Of the St. Charles
Hotel was blown oil. and that TIA" street. were
ilood,d with water almost TO the doors of houses.
Ecngiicld saw fourteen box ears that had been
blnwn from the railroad track and turned over.
All IN" phosphate works in TN" city were blown
down or badly damaged There was Il schooner
living high in the streets having tccn driven from
it, anchorage.
There was no communication with Savannah,
all telegraph lines having been prostrltod. While
he saw no one killed or injured, it WAS currently
reported that eight persons lad been killed ~
the city L. was also rumorcd that there had
b-.n rrcat los Of life on Suiyans lslanl, report
placing the numbers III the hundreds. but, a.
all communication was cut OF, there was no
m,ans Of verifying the report. For many miles
along the Atlantic Coast Line road, leading on;
Of Charleston, telegraph poles were nearly All
blown down. and the storm was one OF the sever
.t and most dcs;ructIV" ever experienced IL that
region.
tborl.,ton. : C.. Aug. ?o.-WhiIc the r"cor'l
of ruin wrought by the great disaster of 1888
remains mniroken. Charleston has Iu~t been ray
;,ocd by Il cyclone which has shaken tl" old city
10 her foundation stones, although the damas" =
propcrty cannot yet b" told and the lcs, of lif"
j. unknown The citizens when they awOkn
Yesterday morning gazcd rpon nnumcraol" evl-
d,nc,s of the hurricane which swept over III"
city on sunday afternoon and nIght -lproot'l
trees. fallen roofs, br)hcn fences, and, in III" less
substantial parts of the town, many wrecked sheds
and shantics.
IN saturday niaht heavy gale started soon
after midnight and blew for several hours. but
as a partial lulI had preceded dawn AMI con
tinned throughout the early hours of the m rn
ine. il was hoped that after all the city would
NOT fall within the track Of the cyclone Bnt
fine weather looked exceedingly dirty On sun
Iay morning. and the winl rose again to = lie
and came in htfu 2ust- onr of the norhra''
\ heavy canopy Of clouds, which dnrin. the fore
noon had been nittne rapidly across I'll" heavens
began - settle down upon the city. seward
a heavy mist thickcncd until it became wall OF
cloud.
There was no longer Il doubt that the cyclone
was to IL scord ipon the city IN all is fury. The
craft AT anchor in the hay were first 10 take
alarm and from all quarters of the llnrbor th''
came hurNing in. All that were apl" touh'
m0oringS along tie wharv,s AMI On" r"st noV'N
higher up the river nnd made the best anchorage
they could There comparatively few larG'
.hips in port just now, else the damage , noi,
might have been multp"l mary times. "u !"
o'clock special bulletin from th' weather ID"
rcaii. posted in front Of TIL" News ana , ourhT
building. warned the citizens Of Impending uiS
astcr. he attendance at TN" various chuIrm',
was small. and few people who were no, ans1 hi
lutely compelled 10 be- out '''ntiirfu DeNol" INV"
doors. .
Washington, Aug 29.-Up 10 late hour TO
dav the only displtch from south carolina re-
ceved AZ the United Press Office IN mishlhj .'n
was "A Florence, :. C., telegram rlorenc1, I,;i
little railroad town between Charleston ana w, NJ
mineton. and not far from COlnmbri. y ihl
dispatch said that in a cyclone ~ Sullivan iSian
Yesterday y Rrvan and vii" " r" dr""h''ss IN nnn
Mrs. f. Holland white was klllrl .N d lum. 'r
h0us". Fifteen houses wcr' swept away "'u ",'urN',
building on the island was more 81 less di'nas'"
Sullivan's Island H. in the Atlantl' cr an ~ ~
miles east Of Charleston and is the site oi ror'
IAI t..