The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-01
BEAUFORT BADLY BATTERED.
THE STORM sWOOPs DOWN ON THE
TOWN WITHOUT WARNING.

Luck OF n I10RI wave All Ihat 1-re-
vented the Storm EquaIling the
Memorable One of Three Years
AgO-DweIlings Badly Damaged
All Over Town, But No Loss of Life
RepOrted-NO News RECEIVED From
the Sea Islands.
Charleston. s. G., Sept sO.-Specials to
the News and Courier from Beaufort
say: without premonition from the
weather bureau, which the people of
Beaufort have had reason to expect would
warn them of an approaching or impend-
ing cyclone or hurricane Beaufort was
suddenly visited yesterday by almost as
fearful and destructive a cyclone as that
of August, 1893. 1t came in all it's fury
about y o'clock noon. During It's contin-
uance for one hour and half it equaled,
if not rivalled in intensity, as long as it
lasted, its memorable predecessor.
Nothing but the lack of the tidal wave
or rather the prevalence of an inordi-
nately high tide, caused by the meeting
or pilitg up of one tide upon another by
continued gale Of hours, prevented its be-
ing quite as disastrous a calamity as
that which made 1898 a black letter year
! for this devoted people.
cat about 1:30 OF clock the wind shifted
from the southeast to the southwark and
only lessened its violence about 2 O'Clock,
! when 1t appeared that the fury of the
gale had abated sufficiently for persons
! to emerge into the streets to catalogue
! the disasters.
! Along Bay street great many of the
- II Al.
| es and stores were snapped off and had
fallen into the streets below and upon the
| roofs. The masonry at the sides of the
piazzas of 7. W. Scheper's grocery store
and that of G. A. Longs residence, over
the express office, was blown down with
| its brick and mortar. At Schepers dock
the steam tug Weymouth of the Farmers
Phosphate Works, but belonging to the es-
tate of Col. william Gregg, was wrecked
against the bul1head and sunk at the
head of the wharf. The yachts Osprey,
owned by Mr.. Miles, Nellie, by Col. Yer
dier, and Julia, by Henry Scheper, that lay
at anchor off the sea wall, and which, with
| timely warning, could have been put in
| safe harbor were capsiZed and sunk, but
| have since been recovered. Ali the pilot
boats that lay in front of the town from
disuse the past week, owing to the heavy
| seas prevailing outside, rode safely
| through the storm. The only one of the
fleet that stopped down at Port Royal was
the Scheper No. q, and she was driven
| high and dry upon the marshes of Jericho
| up Battery creek.
THE handsome residence OF the late
George Waterhouse, now owned by his
estate, formerly the Lewis Sans house,
was terribly wrecked, the roof entirely
blown off and swept away and the hand
some columns and the upper piazza torn
| to pieces and other damage done to the
| front of the bOllep and fences
'eThe residence of the Messrs. Wallace,
formerly the Fuller house, on the corner
of Bay street, had it's roof torn and its
veranda destroyed.
Mr. n Cqittenden's hardware store, on
| the opposite corner, was rudely lace
rated, by having it's front doors and win
dows blown in, and subjected to floods
| of rain.
THE jewelry store Of AIR. w. P. Bristol,
formerly Roberts, just newly fitted up for
a jewelry store, was entirely unroofed,
while its neighbor, the dry goods store
of Messrs Wallace & Danner, the leading
| dry goods store in town, suffered a SINH
| lar disaster and it, together with the
iewelry store of A. M. Greenfield, next
door, had their roofing tin hanging in
sheets from the wires of the electric
light and telephone posts in front. The
back part of the brick house, occupied
as the postoffice, lost part Of its ma
sonry.
The club house, as it is called, form
| erly the property of Col Tom Elliott, now
owned by Commodore Beardsley, is a sad
| spectacle to behold, with its piazzas all
| torn to pieces and its columns Frustrated,
leaving the massive looking brick and
tabby structure sadly deiapidated 1t
had been occupied by Col. Averill and his
| family, but they had moved out of it be-
fore the crash came.
"Mr Middleton Elliotts house, form
erly the Edmund Rhett house, was un-
! roofed it's piazZas wre1ched off and the
house made uninhabitable until thor
| oughly repaired.
"Mr. George Sass house, a. little higher
up the bay was unroOfed and it's roof
carried bodily block away.
| 1.-THE court house was terribly damaged
glasses smashed, rain pouring in, plaster
| ing falling down, and the offices made un-
tenable until repairs are made Clerk of
/ Court Bampfed, while endeavoring to
get his books and records to a less expos
| ed place than the front room afforded,
met with a serious accident his hand
| being crushed between the door and
frame as it was violently blown against
him.
ION the point the most badly damaged
house is that known as the Col. Paul
Hamilton home, now the estate of the late
r. b. Fuller and one Of the ancient land
marks Of the point.
James BarnwelPs home was also un-
rooted and part of the piazza torn away
"The residence of Mrs. A. e. Danner
and of her family, consisting of Mrs. NJ
! O'D. White, her daughter and son-ln-
law, Mr. O'D. White, and children was
! also unroofed.
THE residence of NJ. Pollitzer was serl-
ously damaged and the sea wall in front
shattered by the waves.
Or A. p. Prioleau's property, being
the doctors residence and a home rented
to Mr.. Emory upon it, were terribly used
up from their exposed position, losing
| their roofs.
Opposite to them the residence Of DR.
! II. O. Hutson was unroofed, and the
house made uninhabtable until repaired
There are a great many other disas-
ters to properties all over town, but
| have only listed the above as among the
| most important or extensive.
1T is, of course, impossible as yet to
estimate the amount OF damage. but II
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