The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-10-08
THE DAMAGE AT BEAUFORT
Residences and Stores Badly Injured
Dy the Storm King.

News and Courier.
With out prcmoniton from the
weather bureau, which the pcOplcbo Of
Beaufort have had reason to expect
would apprisc them OF an approaching
or impending ucyclone or hurricane
Beaufort was suddenly visited Tuesday
by almost as fearful and destructive a
cyclone as that of August, 1893. 1t
came in all It's fury about II o'clock.
During its continuance for ono hour
and half it cquallcd, if not rivallcd in
intensity, as long as it lasted, its mem
Orablc predecessor. Nothing but the
lack Of the tidal wave or rather pre-
vhlcncc OF inordinntcly high tide caus-
ed 10y the meeting or piling up OF one
tide upon another by continued gale Of
hours, prevented it's being quite as dis
astrous calamity as that which
made 1893 a black letter year for this
devoted people.
At about half past o'clock the wind
shifted from southeast to southwark
and onlyolcsscned its violence at about
, o'clock when it appeared that the
fury OF the gale had abatcd sufficiently
lor persons TO emerge into the streets
To catalogue the disasters.
Along Bay street q great many Of
the brick chimnoys Of the most OK
posed houses and stores were snapped
OH ana udu JdllCn luGO inc SGrCCLS DO
low and upon the roofs
The masonry at the sides Of tho pi-
a.zis of II. w. Schepcr's. store
and that Of G. "A. Longs residence,
over the express Office was blown down
with its brick and mortar. The steam
tug Weymouth, belonging to tho cs-
tate OF Col. William Gregg, was
wrecked against the bulkhead and
sunk at the head of the wharf. All
the pi lot boats that lay in front Of the
town from disusc Of tho past week
owing to heavy seas prevailing out
side, rode safely through the storm.
The handsome residence Of the late
| George Watcrhousc, now owned by his
estate, formerly the Lewis Sans house,
was terribly wrecked, the roof entirely
| blown of and swept away, and the
| handsome columns ana the upper
piazza torn to pieces and other dam
age to the front Of the houses and
| fences.
The residence of the McS5rs. Wallace,
formerly the ullcrsHousc, had It's roof
torn and It's vcranda destroyed.
Mr.. Chritensen's hardware store on
the opposite corner, was rudcly lace
rated by having it's front doors and win
Gows blown in and subjected to hoods Of
rain.
The jcwclry store OF Mr.. w. Il Bris-
tol, formerly Roberts, just newly fitted
up Tor Jcwclry store, was entirely un-
rooted, while its neighbour, the dry
goous store Of Mcssrs. Wallace s. Dan
ner, the leading dry goods store in
town, suffered a similar disaster, and
It, together with the jewclry store Of
y. NJ Greenfield, next door, had their
roofing tin banging in sheets from tho
wires OF the electric light and tclo.
phonc posts in front. The back part
OF the brick house occupied as the
Postoflice lost part of it's masonry.
Inc club house, as it ia called FOR
meriy the property OF Col. Tom Elliott
J now owned by Commodore Bcardsley
} Is sad spectacle to behold, with its
= piazzas all torn to pieces and its col
, umns prostratcd, leaving the massive
, looking. brick and tabby structure
3 sadly dilapidated. 1t had hocn occu.
1 pied by Col. Averill and his family
t but theyshad moved out Of it before tic
G crash came.
9 Mr.. Middleton Elliott's house, form
d erly the Edmund Rhett house, was un.
0 rooted, it's piazzas wrenched Of ant
: the house made, uninhabitable unit
% thoroughly repaired. Mr.. Georp,
III Sass's house. little higher up the bay
IA was unroofed and It's roof carried bodiI,
D. block away. ,.a
:. The court house was terribly dam
pR aged, glasses smashed, rain pourin
~ m plastering falling down and tn
70. ! ohices made untruable until repair