The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-01
ISLAND ESCAPES MIRACULOUS.
Marvellous That No Lives We're Lost
in Storm-StOries of Heroic
Work.

we're lost on Sullivan's island during
the hurricane and deluge Of Sunday
nighi, appear more and more OF a
miracle as fuller reports Of the dan
gers and sufferings Of the AtlantlcVllle
residents, particularly, are brought to
the city. With hundreds Of people
among them many women and chill
dren, obliged to leave their wrecked
and falling houses and venture out
into the 90-mile an hour gale, plung-
ing through waist-deep water in many
places, seeking refuge in the more
substantial houses that n one lost their
footing and were drowned in the rag
ing food that covered the island, seems
miraculous.
When day broke over the island,
Monday morning, scene of destruc-
ton and ruin was disclosed, such as
those who viewed it never wish to see
again. Parties of men who had looked
afker the safety Of their own families,
were out as soon as there was light
enough, searching among the ruined
houses and debris fearful that persons
might have been caught under their
overturned cottages and killed Or in
iured, and when a thorough search
showed that everyone had either
reached a refuge in safety or weather.
ed the storm in their own homes, great
relief was felt.
As soon as it was really daylight, a
pitiful procession of homeless families
started for the army post where the
refugees were made as comfortable as
possible under the circumstances, by
the officers and hospital corps. Scan
tily clad men carrying children and
huge bundles of household belongings,
followed by weary and exhausted wo-
men, trudged down the roads, through
inches of water and struggled with the
still violent wind.
Se7erest on Upper End.
Most of the people who were obliged
to leave their houses, either during
the night or early Monday morning
were cottagers at the upper end OF
Atlantic7ille, where most Of the dam-
ago was done. Many houses there
were completely overturned, the por-
ches of a. great many more were torn
off as if by house-wreckiog crew, and
scarcely home was not damaged,
either by the mind or water.
All the smaller buildings, servants
quarters and fences, were uprooted by
the wind, and in some cases carried a
couple Of stations down the island by
the sweeping tide. Roofs Of wrecked
houses, telegraph poles, fences, de-
tached piazzas, ano all manner OF
wreckage was scattered all over the
island, and in the roads,
On Monday morning, tie beach was
swept as clean as a floor. The tele-
phone and light poles on the beach
were all snapped of even With the
sand, and had been carried up 20 the
houses.
Houses Blown From Beach.
Tie front row of houses, at statioa
g, which are built nearer to the water
than any on the island had fortunately
been abandoned when the water fist
began to rise on Sunday night, severa1
Of them were swept clear Of their
foundations and blown against the
houses behind them.
1t was in getting the people from en-
dangered houses to the stronger and
farther removed. ones that the great
est danger was encountered, and many
of those engaged in the work proved
themselves, worthy of the name of
hero.
While many deeds of daring and
brave endurance were accomplished
during the wild night, one case in par
ticular has come to light. At station
25,> the water came up with a rush,
rising in a few minutes from the
beach to a depth of from two to four
feet under the houses in the front
row. It was then that many of the
people decided to leave their homes
and go to the cottages farther from
the beating surf. But to make ones
way against a gale which was break
ing telegraph poles was obviously i'm
possible, to say nothing of the knee
deep water, swirling down the paths
like mountain torrent. For the men
of any family to help women to a safe
place through the wind and water and