The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-08-30
TWENTY LIVES LOST IN STORM
WHICH SWEPT CHARLESTON


ands near Charleston were notified on
Sunday afternoon TO leave at once.
All obeyed, it is said, except about
800. These, it is feared, are in seri-
Gus danger, no communication what
ever being obtainable. These islands
afford no protection from the high
winds that occur at this season OF
the year.
This storm occurred on the eigh-
teenth anniversary of the serious
storm of August 81, 1898, but is con-
sidered by all who witnessed tnat
storm to be much more serious and
destructive.
The train service to and from
Charleston is badly crippled. Trains
arriving within two miles Of The I'm
ion station are DELAYED considerably
in discharging their passengers on
account of the tracks being washed
away for distance of two miles.
The First Warning.
At noon Sunday the local wealth
err bureau received word from the
weather bureau in Washington to
hoist storm warnings. At 145 p. m.
the wind was blowing at a rate of
forty eight miles an hour and with a
rainfall of 2.60 inches, while each
moment the barometer still fell. The
velocity of the wind increased at an
enormous rate, and later the bureau
hoisted hurricane signals. The wind
increased to ninety-fo four miles an hour
when the register broke and further
readings were impossible.
Shipping is paralyzed The pilot
boats, which, in almost all kinds of
weather are stationed near Sullivan S
Island, were compelled to seek shell
ter. The Clyde Line steamer Mo-
hawk from Jacksonville, bound for
New York, was compelled to remain
in her berth. Wireless Operator c.
L. Jones of the Mohawk, stated that
he had just received a message from
the Apache, off the North Carolina
coast, saying that that vessel was de-
layed on account of high winds and
heavy southeast seas.
Estimates give the damage wrought
by the storm to be in the neigh bor-
hood of 100000 and $350,O00. Early
reports indicate that il the neighbor-
hood of twenty persons are killed and
that number were injured @,y flying
debris.
Havoc Along Water ont.
Charleston, S. c., via odmmerville
S. c., Aug. 29.-The storm played
great havoc on the waterfront, espe-
cially the loB er part Boyce's wharf
and Terry's wharf are complete
wrecks.
1t was said this morning nearly
every dory has been lost.
The schooner Edwina, which was
washed high on the Battery, had
been taking on lumber at Charleston s
wharf, has nine feet of water.
A few boards tell the story of all
that is left Of the pilot boat Sophie
Amelia K
Capt. George Swans launch Casno-
ga was also lifted out of the water and
damaged.
The barge Sewee of the Simons-
Mayrant company, was sunk.
The steamer Islander was picked ur
and deposited on the wharf of the
Consumers Coal company. She suf
fered some damage.
The Irma, launch owned by F. H
Weyman. was thrown up on one of the
dismantled piers.
The naval reserves also suffered ir
the storm. The boat house was
wrecked and only the cutter was saved
by hard work.
Several lifeboats of the lighthouse
tender Cypress, were smashed by the
waves as the boat lay at the customs
house dock.
The Charleston Canning factory
lost a portion of it's wharf, and suf
fered other damage to it's plant.
The schooner Laura Hall is ashore
on mud fiat up the Cooper river.
The schooner Hummarock was tief
up at Johnson's wharf yard. She Gu
through a portion of the wharf ant
suffered serious damage.
The schooner Jacob S. Winslow.
large four-masted schooner, held he
anchors at Simmons's lumber stakes.
The launch Skipjack, which go
adrift, was found on the beach O
James island unhurt
The deck of dory No. was foun,
floating off the Battery yesterday ant
parts of other boats were also seel
in the water.
| The heads of two of the piers of tn
| Clyde Steamship company we're dam
aged by the storm. but the Mohawl
rode through the storm at the dock.
The newly constructed Peoples Of
f1ce building was seriously damaged
A the wind carrying all Of the cornic
work away.
Il Six Torpedo Boats Ashore.
# Washington, Aug. 29.-Six torped
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