The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-08-31
SEVEN KILLED m STORM
Sundays Storm Did Consider
able Damafe Along South
Carolina Coast
PROPERTY LOSS ONE MILLION


Charleston Suffers the Heaviest Loss.
Houses Unroofed and Streets
strewn With Fallen Trees, Fences
and Other Debris-Several Piers
Washed Away and Harbor Filled
With wreckage-Busines I'm sa-
vannah, Ga, Was Tied Up on Ac-
count Of the Storm.
Charleston. S. c., Aug. 2s.-Seven
persons known to be dead, many in
jured and property damage of more
than $1,000. 900 seems to be the sum
total of the damage wrought by the
terrific storm which struck Charleston
Sunday Afternoon, isolating that city
from the rest OF the world.
In addition to the known dead, the
Cassidy family, caretakers at the
Wappoo Phosphate Works, are miss
ing, and are believed to have been
drowned.
Great relief was felt when it was
learned late today that the people on
Sullivan's Island were all safe, hav-
ing been taken Off by the ferryboat
Lawrence, which tied up overnight at
the Mount Pleasant wharf.
The harbor is filled with wreckage
of small boats, schoners and launches,
many piers are washed away along
the water front and in the city the
streets are strewn with fallen trees,
roofs, fences and other debris. Among
the principal buildings damaged are
the custom house, postoffice, st.
Michael's Church and the Wappoo
Fertilizer Mills. The street car, cleo
trio, telephone and fire alarm systems
are entirely out of commission.
All trains tonight are leaving the
city from the old depot, the new sta
tion being entirely under water. No
mail trains were operated in or out
of the city today.
At the height of the storm the wind
reached a velocity of "a miles an hour
while the tide rose feet or more at
the Battery, in front of the city.
Charleston, S. c., Aug. 2S.-As the
result of the freak storm which
struck this city and Savannah last
night and which reached hurricane
proportions, Charleston has been
pra lv
for twenty-four hours Property
losses, it is estimated, will reach ap-
proximately s1,00O,00O.
AlonZo Coburn, an engineer on the
Charleston division of the Southern
Railway, was instantly killed while
sitting in the yardmasters Office
when flying timbers crashed through
the windows and broke his neck.
A Mr.. Smith, of Columbia, and a
motorman, Cutter, of the local street
railway system, were killed and L.
D. Klintworthy, of st. Stephens and
E. B. Hill were seriously injured,
when trestle adjoining the Mount
Pleasant ferry collapsed. Two un-I
known women also were drowned
when their home was flooded before
they could escape. Several negroes
also are reported among the storm
victims.
The rainfall was more than two
inches. The disturbance was report
ed to be west of Charleston and
working away, and Forecaster Cole
said there is no further need of fear.
The tide was something over eight
feet during the storm, three feet
short of the panic of 1898. Consid-
erable damage was done by the wa
ter in the low sections of the city,
necessitating many people being re-
moved from their houses. The wa
tiers have caused washouts on the ap-
proaches to the union station, pre-
venting the use of this depot
Great damage is feared for the rice
and sea island cotton industries by
the rise of the tide. Heavy damage
was done to these crops in the storm
of last October and another severe
blow might prove much of a death
blow to both industries.
Mills Damaged.
The fertilizer mills also were dam
aged badly. In the city, the damage
is largely in the unroofing of houses,
blowing down of fences, topping
over Of chimneys, etc. The flooding
of premises and goods, with the un-|
roofing of the buildings, added to-
the property losses. The water front
has suffered as it has not done since
the cyclone Of 1885, when great hav-I
oc was wrought. A half dozen
wharves have been knocked away in
whole or part and shipping has suf-I
fered a good deal. j|
Storm Ties Up Business i'm Savannah.
Augusta, Ga, Aug. 2S.-Passen-
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