The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-09-02
NARROW ESCAPE
Marvellous lha! No Lives We're Lost in
Storm.
MANY HEROIC DEEDS

Men Carried Women ard Children to
Safety. Cottages Wrecked by the
Force of the Wind. The Entire
Island Devastated by the Mad
Winds and the Raging Waters.
A special to The State says that no
lives were lost on Sullivan's island
during the hurricane and deluge OF
Sunday night, appear more and more
of miracle as fuller reports of the
dangers and sufferings of the Allan
ticville residents, particularly, are
brought to the city. With hundreds
of people among them many women
and children, obliged to leave their
wrecked and falling houses and yen-
| ture out into the 90-mile an hour
gale, plonging through waist deep wa
ter in many places, seeking refuge in
the more substantial houses, that
none lost their footing and were
drowned in the raging flood that COW
cred the island seems miraculous.
When day broke over the island,
Monday morning, scene Of destruc-
tion and ruin was disclosed, such as
those who viewed it never wish to see
again. Parties Of mon who had look
ed after the safety of their own fami-
| lies, were out as soon as there was
light enough searching among the
ruined houses and dabrip fearing
persons might have been caught with
their overturned cottages and killed
or injured, and when a thorough
search showed that everyone had
either reached refuge in safety or
weathered the storm in their own
homes, great relief was felt.
AS soon as it was really daylight,
families started for the army post
where the refugees were made as
comfortable as possible under the cir
cumstances by the officers and hospi-
tai corps. Scantily clad men carry
ing children and huge bundles of
household belongings, followed by
weary and exhausted women, trudged
down the roads, through inches of
water and struggled with the still
violent wind.
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 Atlanticville, where most Of
the damage was done. Many houses
there were completely turned over,
the porches OF great many more
were torn off as if by house wreck
ing crew, and scarcely a home was
not damaged either by wind or water.
All the smaller buildings, servants
quarters and fences, were uprooted
by. the wind, and in some cases car
ried couple of stations down the is
land by the sweeping tide. Roofs Of
wrecked houses, telegraph poles,
fences, detached piazZas, and all man
ner Of wreckage was scattered all
over the place, and in the roads.
On Monday morning the beach
was swept as clean as the floor. The
telephone and light poles on ths
beach were all snapped off even with
the sand, and had been carried up to
the houses.
The front row of houses, at sta
tion 23, which are built nearer to the
water than any on the island had
fortunately been abandoned when the
water first began to rise on Sunday
night several houses were swept clear
OF their foundations and bown against
the houses behind them.
1t was in getting the people from
dangerous houses to those stronger
and farther removed that the greatest
danger was encountered, and many
of those engaged in the work prov
ed themselves worthy of the name
OF hero.
While many deeds of daring and
brave endrance were accomplished
during the wild night, one case in
particular has come to light. At sta
! ton %, the water came up with 4
rush, rising in a few minutes from
beach to a depth Of from two to four
Fl ct under the houses in the front row
l. 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 gale, breaking tele-
graph poles was obviously impossible
to say nothing of the knec-deep wa
er, 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
drifting wreckage would have been a
terrific task, and without the help Of
two young men Of Charleston, A. o.
Halsey and NJ. S. Hertz, the rec
ord of Atlanticville might not have
been clear, as it so providentially is,
and many of the residents of that
part of the island would have spent
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. SUBSTANTIAL
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