The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-09-07
sTORT or TERRIBLE HURRICANE
As TOLD By ATLANTA PREACHER

las TOLD By ATLANTA BkEACktEh
Among the Atlanta people who went
through the terrible experiences OF thk
hurricane which visited Charleston,
). c., and the neighboring coast last
sunday night was br. Dunbar Ogden,
9astorsQf the Central Presbyterian
church.
He was on Sullivans island with his
two Oldest children spending q Vaca-
ton. 1t was the first storm he had
ever seen and the emphatically hopes
that it will be the last one.
The story told by Dr Ogden OF the
storms dangers and devastation on
Sulliyan's island is a thrilling one.
I'VE did not get any storm warnings
from the weather bureau on Sullivan's
island,p he declares, though / notice
the papers say we did. Practically
everyone on Sulliyan's island was TAX,
en- unawares and few got away before
the storm broke.
Sunday was rainy and raw, with a
strong wind coming from the north
west. A heavy sea was running and
it was an Impressive sight to see the
wind catch the spray from the break
er and toss it far ashore. During the
afternoon of Sunday the wind got
higher, and about nightfall it veered,
so that it came in almost directly
from the ocean.
by the time darkness set in it was
blowing a gale and the water was be-
ginning to rise. In an hour our cot
tage, which was about on a line with
the hotel. some two city blocks dis
tant from the beach, was rocking and
shaking, and we were busy piling fur
niture against the doors and windows
to keep them from blowing in. Por-
tions Of the roof were torn away and
the rain, which poured down in a
driving torrent, beat through the holes
and inundated the floors of the house.
All night We sat up. There was no
sleep for anyone. The children did
sleep a little, as we tried to keep them
in ignorance of the danger. The wind
/ could not have imagined, until II
heard and felt it, that it could blow
so hard. 1t gives one an impression
of awful force that
I'VE thought of leaving the cottage
and trying to make our way to the
forks on S%ullivan's. island. But it was
OA1SA q 4, anu Iu0 Wluu anu 1dlA anu
danger of falling houses and wind
blown roofs kept US from v~entuTfng
out. We decided to stick to the trem-
bling little cottage and trust our
of awful force.
Every Once in awhile we would
take soundings of the water. 1t kept
rising till about 8 O'Clock in the night.
| tasted it and it was salty. By that
/ knew the sea was rolling in over the
island. We did not know how high
IL was, coming. We did not know
what minute our cottage would come
down on us.
"Once in the night a party of life
savers who were patrolling the car
track came by and shouted reassur-
to us.
FINALLY morning came, and day
light. but little cessation of wind. We
peered through a window and such a
of devastation met our gaze as ]
never saw before. Cottages were
blown down all around us. Roofs
were scattered everywhere. Only the
high sand dunes of the island were
visible. Water covered all the low
The porch c our cottage was
gone, and a big boat was smashed
against the corner of the house"
Late Monday afternoon DR.. Ogden
and the party in his cottage got TO the
fort, an dthat night they spent in 3
in Charleston.
THE havoc wrought by the storm
along the water front was frightful,'
says DR., Ogden. 81 did not see q
wharf or a dock left except the gov
ernment's Atlanta Journal.