Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-01
FRIGHTFUL HAVOC
The Storm King Counts His Vic
Tins by Hundreds.
SWEPT is LANDS ARE A BIG MoRGUe
-Four hundred and Fifty Co-pses Ac-
counted for and the Lost May
Reach One Thousand.


Single Corpses No Longer Attract Atten.
tion. So Tricky Are They Strewn Over
the Inflated Land-Every body Living
Engaged in Burying the Dead - The
Whole Coast n Scene of Wreck and Ruin.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Sept IA special to The
800 dead bodies have been found on the ISL
ands about Beaufort and Port Royal, and
the death list now foots up $50 including
reports fro other places, which are neces-
sarily incomplete The damage to the
phosphate industry, the shipping ware
houses. commerce, merchandise, dwellings,
and crops around Beaufort and Port Royal
will go to S200O,0OO and Sl0Oo,O0O for
Charleston and for Savannah, and the
damage to railroad and steamship compa-
MES will make total of something like
S50O0,00O and 600 dead bodies as the fruit
of Sunday nights blow in a stretch of 100
miles on the Georgia and South Carolina
coasts. 1t is equal to the devastation of
war, and these are the figures given by
conservative men.
Not an Island Escaped the Havoc.
Every one of the fifteen or twenty ISL
ands lying around Port Royal and Eeau-
fort are stepped in sorrow On every
door knob there is a bunch of Grape, and
on every hillside there are fresh made
graves, Some already filed, while others
are awaiting the bodies that will be depos-
tied in them just as soon as some one can
be found to do the Christian act of shovel
ing the dirt upon the coffin. The beaches,
tn underground trees and shrubbery, the
marshes and the inlets are turning up
new dead bodies every time an investiga-
devastations which have visited this Sec
tion of the country none has been half as
horrible as those which came Sunday
Figuring on ZOO Lives Lost.
Some OF the ieople-and they are among
the best people of this section Of the state
even place the loss at more than LOCO.
There has not been an hour OF any day
since the early hour of Monday morning
that a dead body has not been found at
some point on one of the many islands.
AS the waters recede and the people move
deeper into the wreckage gathered by the
storm the ghastly pictures are uncovered
So frequent are the discoveries that the
finding of a single body attracts no atten-
tion at all. II takes the discovery of at
least clump of half dozen or more to in
duce the people 10 show any feeling what
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Royal that the death rate was the great
est, but in neither of the towns were
many lives lost.
The Scene After the Storm.
Scattered through the streets of Beau
fort, Port Royal, and other towns along
the coast and along the banks of the rivers
as evidences of the great fury of the
storm of Sunday night houses were
found whole and in pieces miles away from
their foundations. Steamships were rest
ing upon dry lands, trees were twisted and
scattered ab~rt, while at intervals, dead
bodies We're Nund, and ever and anon the
waves cast } one or more lifeless forms,
swollen and distorted and bruised. All
during MonfHy the bodies began 10 multi
ply so rapidly that the coroner was com
PEELED to swear in n half dozen deputies,
one for each of the islands where deaths
were reported
Making a Record of the Dead.
The coroner and the collector of the port,
ex-Congressman Small are compiling
information as fast as it can be OBJ
tanned, and are making record of the
dead as rapidly as possible. The book they
are compiling will show that St Helena
has population of 400: aides Island
1900; Wawthis Island, -; Coosaw Island,
600; Beaufort Gown, $500; Port Royal
Island, embracing the towns of Beaufort
and Port Royal. 5000 Now, as far as
reliable information which has reached the
officers, the lead reach 49, and they are
located in this way: At the Pacific works
40 dead bodice have been found and buried
1t was here that the deputy coroner held
the one big inquest.
On Lady island twenty eight bodies were
buried on Tuesday and others have been
found since. On Paris island nineteen
bodies have been recovered and buried up
to Tuesday afternoon. On Beaufort island
twelve bodies have been buried. At Coo
saw mines five bodies have been buried.
AT Gains Neck twenty-five bodies have
been recovered and buried, and reports
are that seventy-hine lives were lost here.
On Eustis Place. one of the richest planta-
tions on Ladies island, forty eight new
made graves were filled Wednesday
morning. At the other end of Ladies
island seven dead bodies have been found.
At Dawtha island, place of about 200
acres, eighty lives are reported lost ana
nearly half that many have been recovered.
AWFUL ACCIDENT ON THE RAIL.
Fourteen Persons Killed and the Game
Number Wounded.