The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-01
SIX HUNDRED DEAD.
Terrible Loss of Life on the
South Carolina Islands.
ATHousAND DROWNED. MAY BE.
Three Hundred and Ninety Corpses
Found Already. and Every Hour
Inereases the Number.

BEAUFORT. s. c., Aug. 3L-More than
so dead bodies have been found on the
islands about Beaufort and Port Royal.
and over s.. 0o0 600 worth of property has
been wrecked near the same points. both as
q direct result of the recent storms which
swept along the Atlantic coast Sunday
night Every one Of the fifteen or twenty
islands lying around Port Royal and
Beaufort Is in mourning. Those who are
at all posted about the country and the
habits Of the people in the storm visited
sections are confident in their prediction
that the death roll will run as high as 500.
Some of the best people in this section of
the state even place the loss at more than
1000. There has not been an hour since
Monday morning that dead bodies have
not been found ct some point on the
islands. As the waters recede and the
people move deeper into the wreckage
gathered by the storm CHASTITY remains are
uncovered.
Great restitution exists among the 1000
remaining inhabitants of the coast. and
an urgent appeal is made for provisions.
Later-Reliable computation places the
deaths at 500 There are now 1000 negroes,
who have been driven to Port Royal by
tute and SO badly in need of something to
eat that they have resorted to fighting
among themselves for food, and several
were killed in fight for provisions. The
negroes are getting more and more daring
in their struggles to keep their wives and
children from starving. and 1t Is difficult
to keep the sufferers in subsection.
COLUMBUS, S. c., Aug. 3l.-Accounts
continue to come in of general havoc
by Sundays storm. Mr.. Robinson, of
kerrison. says that from Buscof's place
on the Edisto river to Jacksonboro it is
reported that all the negroes on the low
lands were drowned. in all about 100 men,
women and children. The survivors re-
late terrible experiences. and Furthermore
state that all the dwellings were totally de-
stroyed and the place is in abject desolation.
At WATERFORD many houses were COM
pleteiy washed from their foundations out
into the streets and all the rice fields over
flowed. Crops to the value of so per cent.
were destroyed. The reports of loss and
destruction of property in Port Royal,
Beufort and Sea Islands are fearful. The
death-roll already now aggregates thirty
odd persons.
The missing ship Seminole. of the Clyde
line, steamed into the harbor yesterday,
having escaped the storm. Inquiry at the
Clyde line Office elected little information
regarding other missing vessels.
SAVANNAH. Ga, Aug 3l.-Reports of the
disastrous work OF the storm are still COM
ing in. The entire coast is strewn with
wreckage and debris and vessels high and
dry in exposed harbors.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Aug. 3f.--A special to the
Chronicle from Charleston says the steamer
Yemasso. overdue since Saturday from
New York, arrived safely. She did not
encounter the storm.
NEW York, Aug 3i.-The Atlas line
steamship Alvo. which sailed from here
August is for West indian ports, having
on board crew of sixty officers and men
and dozen passengers. is unheard from.