The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-10-07

At the new docks Of the Southern rail
road the eastern warehouse is down
and much other damage done. Han
over park, the pride Of Brunswick, !:
wrecked. Every street is strewn with
debris.
Reports from Boulogne, across the
river from Folkston, say that several
people were killed and others injured,
but no veriication of these reports has
reached the Morning News yet.
OLD BEAUFORT SUFFERS.
BEAUFORT, Sept. 29.-Without warn
ING from the weather bureau Or any
intimation OF anything to be expected,
Beaufort was visited today at II o'clock
and lasting until 3, with quite as VIC
lent and destructive cyclone. for the
length of time It lasted as the memo
rabIe one of Aug. 27, 1898 The VIC
lence, force and velocity OF the wind
eoualled if it did not exceed that OF
1898, and if we had experienced as
high tide the destruction of life and
property would have been proportion,
ately greater. As it is, the town hiss
suffered terribly. The Chief and great.
est sufferers are among the Oldest and
most staunch houses. At about half
past o'clock the wind shifted from
southeast to southwark and only less
ened its violence by about 2 O'Clock,
when it appeared that the fury OF the
gale had abated.~ Besides the wrecks
already recorded, along Bay lstreet a
great many of the brick chimneys OF
~ most exposed houses and stores
we're snapped eff and had fallen into
the streets. belo and upon the roofs
The mason. y at< The sides Of the piaZ
zas of T. w. Schepe's grocery store
and thatoi G. A. Long S residence over
the express Office was blown down
with It's brick and mo, tar. The yachts
Osprey, owned by Mr.. Miles, Nellie,
by Colvidere, julia, by Henry Schep-
er, that lay at tanchor Off theses wall,
and which, with timely warning have
been put in safe harbor We're capsized
and sunk. All the pilot boats that lay
in front Of the, town from disuse OF
past week owing to- heavy seas pre-.
vailipg outside, rode safely through
the storm. The only one OF feet that
down at Port Royal was the
Scheper, No. 4, and she. was driven
high and dry upon the marshes Of
Jericho up Battery creek.
The handsome residence Of the late
Geo. Waterhouse, now owned by his
estate, formerly the Lewis Sans house,
was terribly wrecked, the roof entire.
ly blown off and swept away, and the
handsome columns and the upper piaZ|
"a tern to pieces aud other damage to
the front.of the house and fences. The
residence of the Messrs. Wallace, for
merry The .FUller house, on the corne..
of Bay Street, had lis roof. torn and its
veranda destroyed.
Theresare great many other dlsas-
ters to property all over the town, bat
I have only listed the above as among
the most important and.eStensive.. 1t
is. of course, impossible as yet TO .estl-'
mate the amount of damage, but II IS
likely to reach a large amount: IN
money. No loss of life in town IS re-
ported wo colcrcd Women from the
Oakland plantation were killed by the
falling in of their house. No news
has been received from the Islands.
From Port Royal. the damages to the
railroad properties are said not to be
very considerable. Some damages are
from the SeaIsland Chemical
works (Coosaw), and to Balwins, but
particulars are not yet IN. !,
FRIGHTFUL DAMAGE IN FLORIDA.
: JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 30.-lt IS
a conservative estimate to say that 80
people have lost their lives from yes
terdav's hurricane and the number
may run much higher. News from
that portion of the State where the
storm first struck is very slow in COM
ing, for wires are down and railroads
are impossible. Wrecking parties
which went out this morning have not
returned and it will be tomorrow be-
fore the full extent Of the damageis
known. The hurricane struck Cedar
Keys and reports show that 1t passed,
in its path OF destruction over twenty
towns and that between thirty and for
ty people have certainly been killed.
Cedar Keys is about 100 miles South
west of Jacksonville. The hurricane
which had been churning the water
out in the Gulf first struck this place,
a village of $500 Inhabitants. The
only report which has come concern.
ing Cedar Keys is that the town has
been swept away and many lives have,
been lost. This report comes from
Gainesville, which is fifty miles away.
Nobody has been able to get anything
from Cedar Keys.
Moving Northeasterly the storm
struck Willistown, a small town,
eleven houses were blown down, one
person was killed and several so badly
burt that it is expected they will die.
Near here is 4 large turpentlne farm
where State convicts are employed.
Twenty of these were huddled together
in cabin. A heavy tree was blown
across the cabin and six of the convicts
were crushed to death. In Alachume
County the storm did fearful work.
In Gainesville the Methodist Church
and twenty residences and business
houses were destroyed, and while
number of people were hurt no fatal
ties are reported: At44a Cross, fifteen
buildings were destfoyed. Rev. w.
A. Barr, Mrs. +. +. Mcintosh and her
baby are are reported killed. Near
there four laborers who were in cab
in on turpentine farm were crushed
by falling trees.
ewberry, in West Alachuma, is to-
tally wrecked. G. j. Eastlin, Mrs.
Nanny Moss, Frank Olmsted and
David Jones were killed. At High
Springs, Mallssa Harden, Jane Morris
and Sallie Mobiles, colored, are re-
ported to have been killed.
At this place a number OF people
took refuge in a box car, which
was in the path of the cyclone.
1t was blown along the track
and then off OF ii distance OF fifty
feet and eve.y person in it was BADLY
injured. Steve Mason and George