The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-10-14
FATALITIES OF LATE STORM
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NIER
VICTIMS REPORTED.
PROPERTY LOSS FEARFULLY HEAVY
Belated News From tho Hurricane Swept
section Proves 60 BE or An
Appalling Nature.

A special from Brunswick, Ca,
states that two bodies we're found in
the marsh near the city Thursday, one
white, Captain Frank Cummings; the
other colored, name unknown. Avery,
master Of the tug McCauly, from Saw
annah, arrived Thursday night and re-
ported four vessels ashore at Sapelo
island, one the Norwegian bark Anges
Campbell, loaded with lumber for
Darien; the tug Crescent City and
two schooners.
From eonfrmatory reports now in,
the loss on land and sea Of life around
Darien and Brunswick is 120-nine-
tenths colored. These reports are
secured from reliable sources, and are
verified as far as possible. The losses
are distributed as follows: Seven
Brunswick, twenty Campbell island,
FIVE Doboy and eight on an unknown
vessel wrecked off st. Andrews bar.
The property loss, including Darien,
Brunswick, Sapelo, st. Simons, Jekyl.
Cumberland and Wolf islands, sur
rounding rice fields, stock, cattle and
buildings, at conservative figures, is es-
timated at 81 100000.
On Egg island, James Stockley and
wife climbed to their dwelling roof for
safety. The water rose and drowned
Mrs. Stockley. Stockley held his
wifes body until it grew stiff. A wave
come and tore his wife's body from his
hands and sent Stockley into a nearby
tree. His wife's body aoated by him
to sea aud he could not reach it. He
spent a night Of horror in the tree, and
when the water subsidized built a raft
and drifted to st. Simons, being sew
eral days without food.
At Sapelo island the people are re-
ported safe, but the lighthouse is rem
dered useless by the waves. One
wave, thirty-fye feet high, is reported
by the keeper to have hit it.
All of Wolf Island clubhouse build
ings were washed away The family
living there have not yet been heard
from and are supposed to be drowned.
Pilot Frank Fader, on st. Andrews
bar, reports that his boat, Maude
Helen, is on bluff twenty feet above
high water. His report also enume-
rates the following disasters: One un-
known three-masted schooner loaded
with coal was dashed to pieces on the
south breakers, ten miles from st.
Andrews light, and all hands, estima-
ted at eight, were lost.
Damage on Cumberland Island.
The Hotel Cumberland property was
damaged $4,000. Macon row was
completely ruined. The seas washed
the underpinning away and wrecked II
all. The pavilion was washed up on
the railroad track. Atlanta row was
unroofed and undermined. The main
hotel buildings cupola is gone and
portions of the roof. The steamboat
dock had nothing left but the piling
The main bluff at High Point, Cum
berland, is washed away from one hun
bred to one hundred and fifty feet bach
into the mainland.
Mrs. Lucy Carnegie's steam yachI
Dungeness was washed upon the bluff
and badly damaged. The Carnegie
mansion at Dungeness apparently haC
been under water some feet.
Jekyl Island fort on the south enc
was washed away and the heavy can
non dismounted.
The housekeeper of Charles Moody
on the south end of Jekyl, is gone
and Moody has not been heard from
Jekyl dock is gone, and the water ap
parently had submerged the ground
and cottages several feet.
The three.masted schooner Ednt
and Emma, loaded with coal anC
railroad iron, is up in the marsl
abreast Of Jekyl clubhouse.
John R. Young, of Ellis, Young
Co., Savannah and Brunswick, says
"Our total loss viii probably not 6,
to $4,000. We are saving nearly oil
the naval stores that we're swept away
and we expect to get back oil eXcep
about 500 barrels of rosin."
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