The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-31
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY ACCOMP-
ANIES STORM At CHARLESTON
IT CAME WITHOUT WARNING
Islanders Caught Like Rats in a
Trap. The Worst Blow Since
the Great Storm of 1898.
The Dead

a. d. Sopurn; charleston; Rosa
Robinson, Charleston; Eva My 3
ers, Charleston; Tom Deely, 4"
The Cassidy family, care TAX
ers at the Wapoo Phosphate =
Works =
Number unknown; estimated
at 20.
= Property loss estimated at I"
100000.
- g y
Charleston, Aug. 2S. - Charles
ton awoke this morning to find a
Scene Of devastation and ruin, fol-
lowing night of great terror with
the visitation of another cyclone
which surreptiously crept in from
the ocean with short notice of it's
coming from the United States
weather bureau. The damages are
not comparable to the losses OF
property interests in the great
storms of 1S5 and 1893, but the
disturbance was protracted over
probably a longer period of time
than any Cf these previous hurri-
canes and with the roaring of the
winds, torrential showers, the roll
ing of tins off houses, flying of
states, falling of trees and smash
OF buildings and parts of buildings,
while the storm waged during the
black hours of night, a scene of
confusion and terror was created
which probably had it's counterpart
only y on the night of the earthquake
and in the previous hurricanes.
Besides the heavy property loss
reported or estimated, eight or ten
persons are believed to have been
killed. The disturbance, after last
ing 20 hours in Charleston during
which the wind attained a velocity
of "a milest an hour, moved to-
ward the west, and now according
to the reports of the weather bu-
reau, has gone we'll inland, pass
ing between Columbia and Augusta,
thus removing any further danger.
Residents of Sulliyan'S Island suf-
fered less than was expected, the
last reports being that the wind had
subsided and that there had been
no injury to islanders.
The damage suffered was shar-
ed by the crop and by property in
Charleston, largely along the wa
terfront. Beaufort is still cut off
from communication, as is George
town, but no fears are felt for the
latter town.
Charleston, Aug. % (via Sum-
merville, Aug. 49, - Seven per-
soils known to be dead, many in
jurei and property damage of more
than $1,00O,000 seems to be the
total of damage wrought by strom
here
The dead.
E. r. Smith, Columbia, drowned
under falling wharf.
Motorman Cutter, drowned.
Ida Robinson, crushed by roof.
Al"nzo ]. Coburn, engineer, kill
ed by flying timber.
Eva Myers, drowned.
| Tom Deeley, drowned.
In addition to the above the Cas-
sidy family, number unknown, care
takers at thee Wappoo phosphate
works, are missing and believed to
have been drowned.
Great rleief was felt when it
was learned late to-day that the
people on Sullivan's Island were
all safe, many having been taken
off by the ferry boat Lawrence,
which tied up overn light at the
Mount Pleasant wharf.
After a perilous night, clinging
to roof top, Ernest Hodge, a mid
die aged man, was rescued this
morning at daybreak by the crew
of the Consolidated Power Station
on the Meeting street road.
Hodge occupied a lonely little
cottage, located in the marsh grass
back of Cedar street With him
were two white women, Ida Morgan
and Rosa Robinson. both of Char
lesion.
About IL O'Clock last night,
with the storm at its worst, the
chimney fell in. Hodges states that
he jumped through the window,
leaving the two women in the room.
Swimming around for a while, he
clung to the roof of the little
house which had fallen in.
Through the wild night the desper-
ate man held on, finally drifting
with the wind toward the power
station, where early this morning
he was rescued. The police were
at once notified and sent the half
drowned man to the city hospital.
Pumps were used by the doc
tors to get water from Hodges
lungs. Late this afternoon he was
reported to be on the road to re-
coVery. No word has been heard
of the Morgan and Robinson wo-
men, and no doubt, they were lost
in the seething sea which swept
the marsh lands in the upper
part of the city.
An account of the tragedy at
the Mount Pleasant wharf comes
from an eye witness, Mr.. William
l.. Perry, of Columbia, a friend of
Mr.. Smith. The two gentlemen, ac-
companied by Mrs. Smith and her
neice, Miss Annie McDougal, arriv-
ed in Charleston yesterday morning
at 9:30 and proceeded to the Isle
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