Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01
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STORM ON SULLIVAN'S ISLAND.
Escapes, But No Lives
Were Lost,

Were Lost.
The Charleston Post of Tuesday
prints the following story of the fear
full conditions on Sullivan's Island
Sunday and Monday because Of the
storm:
That no lives were lost on Sullivan's
Island during the hurricane and deluge
of Sunday night, appear more and
more Of a miracle as fuller reports of
the dangers and sufferings of the At
lanticville residents, particularly are
brought to the city. Hundreds of peo-
pie. among them many women and
children, obliged to leave their wreck
ed 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 mere
substantial houses, that none lost their
footing and were drowned in the rag
ing flood that covered the island, seems
miraculous.
When day broke over the island,
Monday morning, a scene of destruc-
tion and ruin was disclosed, such as
those who viewed it never wish to see
again. Parties of men who had looked
after the safety of their own families,
were out as soon as there was light
efough, searching among the ruined
houses and debris fearful that persons
night have been caught under their
o, erturned cottages and killed or in
jured, 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 ptiful procession Of homeless fami-
lies started for the army post where
the refugees were made as comfortable
as possible under the circumstances,
by the officers and hospital corps.
SCantily clad men carrying children
and huge bundles of household be-
hausted women, trudged down the
roads, through inches of water and
struggled with the still violent wind.
Most of the people who were obliged
to >Ieave their houses, either during
tie night or early Monday morning
were cottagers at the upper end Of At
Ianticville, where most of the damage
was done. Many houses there were
&C mpletely overturned. the porches Of
a great many more were torn off as If
by house wrecking crew, and scarce
ly home was not damaged, either by
the wind or water.
ell 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, and all manner of
wreckage was scattered all over the
island, and in the roads,
ON Monday morning, the beach was
swept as clean as a floor. The tele-
phone and light poles on the beach
were all snapped off even with the
sand and had been carried up to the
houses.
The front row of houses, at station
90, which are built nearer to the wa
ter than any on the island had fortu-
nately been abandoned when the water
first began to rise on Sunday night,
several of them were swept clear OF
their foundations and blown against
the houses behind them.
1t was 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
particular has come to light. AT sta
ton 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.
1t was then that many of the people
decided to leave their homes and go
to the cottages farther from the beat
ing surf But to make ones way
against a gale which was breaking
telegraph poles was obviously impossi-
BILE, to say nothing of the knee deep
water, swirling down the paths like a
mountain torrent. For the men of any
family to help women to safe place
through the wind and water and drift
ing wreckage would have been terrif-
ic task, and without the help of two
young men of Charleston, A. o. Halsey
and NJ S. Hertz, the death record or
Atlanticville might not have been
clear, as it so providentially is, and
many of the residents of that portion
of the island would have spent a much
more dangerous and trying night.
Mr.. Halsey and Mr.. Hertz first got
their own families safely to the cot
tage of A. Barton Miller, a substan-
tial bungalow rather higher than the
majority, and then started to help
other distressed cottagers to this ref
uge. The wind was blowing harder
each minute, and it was an exhaust
ing and perilous task to venture out
into the storm at all. But these two
men, both of them extraordinarily
strong, made trip after trip to the
neighhoring cottages, and returned
with drcnched and exhausted women
and children. in some cases having
carried the women for 100 yards
against the full force of the hurri-
cane. ON one trip they had been blown
off the road and into the deep ditch,
and it was only with the greatest diff
liculty that they had been able to get
back To the house. Yet after short
rest they were out again bringing in
more people from threatened houses
and carrying reinsurance To neighbor-
ing cottages.
This is only one of the many cases
i'm which people We're saved by heroic
efforts, the soldiers from Fort Muul-
,ri. b,yiu,r SnnIrp1 the island i'm the