The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-31
SIX DEATHS, $1,ooo,o 900 DAMAGE.
Hurricane Passes After Working
Much Injury to Charleston.

Hurricane Passes After Working
Much Injury to Charleston.
The hurricane which bore down
upon Charleston Sunday evening,
and which held the city in its grip
throughout Sunday night, passed on
early Monday, leaving behind it
trail of death and wreckage unpar-
alleled in that community since the
great storm of 1898.
Six deaths are known to have been
caused by the hurricane. Besides
that of Engineer Coburn, two young
men and a negro woman were killed
in Mount Pleasant, and two white
women were drowned in Charleston.
The names of the dead are:
Alonzo J. Coburn, of Charleston.
E. v. Cutter, of Charleston.
Robert E. Smith, of Columbia.
Rosa Robinson, of Charleston.
Ida Morgan, of Charleston.
Unknown colOred woman.
Besides these rumors of a num-
Der of other drownings and killings
have been brought in, but these It
has been impossible to corroborate.
It is impossible as yet to say just
how great has been the property loss
as result of the hurricanes work.
No reports from the sea islands or
from the coast have yet been obtain
able.
Damage Estimate Impossible.
In the immediate vicinity of Char
lesion estimates vary from a quarter
of million dollars upward. It is
probable that the loss is about a mill
lion dollars. That is the figure which
number of the most capable observ-
ers hit upon.
Sullivan's Island and the Isle Of
Palms both came through the storm
with no loss of life on either island,
but the night was one of great terror
on both, and much damage has been
done on both. Many houses on Sul-s
livan's Island have been wrecked,
and the hotel on the Isle Of Palms
suffered severely. The transporta-
tion system has been put completely
out of business.
/ The hurricane was at it's height at
midnight Sunday night, when the
wind attained a velocity Of "a miles
the hour and the barometer dropped
to 29.43. The wind continued to-
blow fiercely until about daylight
and then gradually subsided until the
storm passed on somewhere to the
south of Charleston and inland-the
weather bureau does not know just
where.
Water Front Damage Great. &
In Charleston the greatest dam
age, of course, was done along the
water front, but practically every
house south Of Calhoun street testi-
fed to the fury of the gale. Along
Broad street, East Bay, King and
Meeting streets scores Of residences
and places of business were unroof-
ed and had the windows blown out.
The rain, which fell heavily Monday
night was in consequence most ur---
welcome, even though accompanied
by but little wind. Hundreds of trees
in all parts of the city were blown
down or split to pieces. M
The streets everywhere Monday
were filled with wreckage of all sorts.
Little business was transacted. The
work of repairing the damage has al
ready progressed well, however, and
the street railway was in operation
Tuesday and the streets were all
open to traffic.
Communication with the outside
world was established Tuesday,
trains operating from the old Line
street station, of the Southern Rail-
way, the union station being put out
of commission temporarily.
All telegraph wires were down to
Charleston Sunday and Monday, but
they were in working order Tuesday.
Up to Tuesday no news was heard
from Beaufort and the near by is-
lands, and it is feared the damage
there was fully as heavy. as in Char
lesion.