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Mott said residents on Seabrook's
Island had been reported endan-
gered. He said an effort had been
made to get through to the island
by automobile, but the attempt ap-
parentlv was unsuccessful through
hast night.
Colored residents of the area
known as Gadsden Green, living
along the Ashley River, we're forced
to evacuate their homes.
One of the hardest hit sections
OF Charleston in the tornadoes of
September %, 1899, this neighbor-
hood also bore the brunt of the
wind and tide that caused havoc
throughout the city yesterday.
About $50 colored persons. many of
them children, were taken for
shelter into the Burke Industrial
School, The Red Cross furnished
milk, but there was no other food
available.
There were also other isolated
cases reported in which residents
were forced to leave their homes
because of the high water. but no
other sections of the city were
affected so completely.
Georgetown today went about the
Job of cleaning up streets Uttered
with debris after yesterdays storm
Pawleys Island. Georgetowns near
est beach. appeared to have been the
heaviest hit in this section. At least
30 beach cottages were demolished
by the huge waves.
Harbors Battered.
Georgetown harbors, filled with
boats loaded with pulpwood for
mills here and with pleasure craft,
was battered severely, but early re-
ports revealed no loss of vessels al
though several were damaged. There
were no casualties reported in this
urea.
Telephone or telegraph COM
munication with Charleston, go
miles southeast, was still impossible
at midday.
The storm washed over a large
portion of Pawleys Island and ate
away a number OF tie huge sand
dunes.
The low exits to Pawleys also
were inundated by the huge tidal
waves and all streets and roads
we're heavily damaged.
Every person known to have been
on Pawleys had departed before the
brunt of the storm and no casual
ties were reported
Property damage was expected to
run high, however. About every
building on the island was damaged
to some extent if not demolished.
The sun was shining at Myrtle
Beach today and Mayor Ben Graham
said the situation was entirely
normal"
"A great majority of the people
who left before the storm are re-
turning" he said. There was no
property damage of any conse-
cuence"
Governor Leaves for Beaufort.
No word of casualties came from
either Fort Screven, near Savannah,
or Beaufort, S. c., where the storm
and accompanying high tide struck
In force.
Gov. Maybank left Columbia,
South Cardinals capital, for Beau
fort today after he had been unable
to get reports on storm damage in
that section of the State.
I've tried every way to hear from
Rnot1fArf Do ,-v-ie Tel
States Marine station) but I've not
heard word. I'm going down there
the quickest way I can and see if
they need any help" Gov. Maybank
said.
He said individuals from all over
the United States" had telephoned |
him their offers of help for the
stricken areas.
The gale at Savannah, described
as the hardest since the sos, tore |
down communication lines and |
dropped the barometer to 28.78, the |
lowest point in the history of Sa-
vannah.
A relief official went over the
debris Uttered road between Sa-
vannah and Tybee Island, beach re-
sort, and announced there appar-
emily were no casualties in that Sec
ton. Houses were blown of their
foundations, many roofs torn away,
trees uprooted and both telephone
and telegraph wires downed.
Georgia power officials announced
little trouble to transmission lines.
but trouble over local lines at
augusta, Dublin, Gordon and