The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-21
SWEPT BY STORM.
An Awful Tidal Wave DESTROYS
Many Lives.
GREAT ANxiETYlS FELT.
Great Loss Of Life and Damage TO
ProparlV is Reported From
Many Parts Ct the
Gulf.

| A olSpatcn Tron NeH OTIeSUs, GuueA
date of Aug. Is, says the storm which
has been sweeping the Gulf coast from
Pensacols and moving westward during
the past two days, has Frustrated tele-
graph snd telephone wires to such an
extent that news from the outlyiEg 6
sections is hard to get at.
The greatest fears have been enter
tsined for the safety Of the people llV-
ing at Port Eads. which is at the
mouth Of the ri7sr, aud for the shios
,hst started for sea just before the
storm began. j.,
The wires there have been pros,Tated
since Tuesday night at 8 o'c'cck but
The Picayaue reached a mau who lett
Port Fades Wednesday. Hs was seen
at Burss, which is 50 miles down the
river, and the fsrtherest point with
which there is wire Communication at
the present time.
This man describes the Storm Whieh
swept that section as q regular tids!
wave, similar to the one which resulted
ia such aafuI loss of life in 1898. He
says all the people living on thu esst
bank Of the ri7.r have moved up to the
limp" which is Is miles from the
mouth Of the river.
The house Of man named CJbden,
half mile above the quarantine ats
ton, was swept away, and the 10 meu-
ber5 Of the family, including 9 children,
drowned.
The quarantine buildings we're badly
damaged but no one injured. The big
towboat Chamberlain wss driven high
and dry in the marsh, but her crew are
safe. The government boat General
Reise is believed to have been lost.
Capt. Obrien's house vas swept away,
but he was on the boat, which was
believed to be outside. The pile driver
at Ports Ea6s was sunk. Her crew
we're said to have osen saved.
The tugbost Velsso went down to
Pass q L'Outre, which is the eastern
mouth of the river, with two barges.
When last seen she had her deck
awash, and It is feared she has gone
down. II this boat and her bsrges haVe
been lost ~ people more have been
drowned. There are numerous reports
Of Individual casualties all along the
river from Burss down TO the Passes.
All the steamers which started for
the sea Tuesday remained inside the
Passes until Wednesday evening and
then went out safely, among the num-
Der being the Cromwell liner Proteus,
and the British transport Mechaniean
which was dynsmited while in port .
few days ago. Not single vessel has
passed up the river since the STORM
began and CREST fears are entertained
for the ones which are expected.
There is serious apprehension con-
cerning the Cheniere Caminada and
Grand Isle sections, on the south Lou
isisns coast, west Of the Mississippi
river, where 1000 lives were loss IL
1898 by the tidal wave. Up to this
writing no word has been received
from that section, which is largely in
habited by fishermen, mostly Chinese
and Malsys.
Up to last midnight everything
! seemed 10 be safe at the Mississippi
| coast towns, Bay 81. Louis, Pass Chris
| tian, Biloxi, Mississippi City and Ocean
Springs, but since then rot word
has been heard from them. AL wires
are down. The only reports Of dam
age 50 far received are Of destroyed
bath houses and uprooted trees.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
is blocked of beyond Chef Menteur, 80
miles from this city. The big steel
| bridge there is safe, but beyond there
are several wsshouts on the road. The
New Orleans snd Northwestern railroad
is also blocked by Wsshouts on the
lake and its big trsstle OYER Lake Po1t'
chsrtrain has been shaken by the
heavy sess breaking against it.
There has been much damage done
at Shell Beach, a settlement on Lake
Borgne, southeast Of the city, and
which connects with Lake Ponchar-
train. All the buildings there have been
swept away, and there are reports OF
loss Of life among the fishermen, but
the exact extent Of this is not k1oSr.
4 tidal wave swept over the land there
IS it did nine years ago.
Ia the city Of New O;lesns and sub
urbs there has been considerable dam
age. At Milneburg, one Of the lake re-
ports, the rsilroad pier head running
out into the lake for distance Of
thousand yards has been destroyed and
all light buildings demolished. The
big buildings On shore withstood the
gale. There was no loss Of life. The
stesmer Neptune tied up at this pier
head, pounded herself to pieces and
sank.
At West End the lake rushed over the
re7ertment and destroyed nearly all Of
the buildings there. The big dancing
pavilion st Lake View vas pounded 20
pieces by wrecksge, washed up By the
waves. The shell road to West End
was under three feet Of water, and
''Bucktown," gambling resort at the
end of the re7enement, has been swept
away. The old basin canal coming
into the city on Toulouse street over
flowed its banks inundatins the entire
second district. & thousand men have
been at work on il and are raising its
banks.
A coal feet Of 124 bsrges, belonging
tc tie Monougahela Coal company of
! Pitts5uyg and anchored al Coal Port,
nine miles above the city, had q rough
experience and every tug in the harbor
was sers to save them. Six Of them
with an aggregate capacity OF 5000 tens
of coal, sank.
The tovboat Henry MsTx, belonging
TO the Interstate Transportation COM
n,nz, pounded hole in htr bottom at
Gretns Ills morning aud sank.
The storm which developed yesterday
| ..I Sbro-,ho71t tho NIGHT snd 2