The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-12
HURRICANE HITS
 | SOUTH CAROLINA
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Charleston and other nearby towns on the coast north of here re- mained isolated today except for spasnodic and infrequent short wave radio messages. Highways into Beau | fort, both from the north and south were reported under water, but ef- forts were being made by county authorities to reach the city today to determine how it survived the storm.
 Try to Contact A portable radio transmitter was sent from Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga., today to the area north of here to establish contact with the Paris Island base near Beaufort where 1000 marines are stationed.
 (The Paris Island marine base notified the navy department in Washington that the hurricane had caused considerable property dam- age but no casualties). The storm, reaching its height at mid-afternoon yesterday when its peak velocitieS were around 100 miles an hour, had blown itself out inland, but early today tremendous tides were rolling up on the Georgia and South Carolina beaches and cities and towns were inundated for blocks.
 Charleston got word through by faltering short wave radio that while part of its water front was flooded and it's streets were filtered with debris of every sort, it's diff- culties were not great and its death toll, if any, was small.
 A Charleston amateur radio sta ton early today reported that there was widespread footing in the flood- ed section of the city and that some military police" were patroling the city. He did not specify the affilia- tion of the military police, but there is an army post at Charleston. Anxiety for Beaufort But there was some anxiety for the town of Beaufort, s. C., popula- ton 2,800s and Paris Island, S. C., 6 naval station where some 1000 ma rines are stationed. They are approx imately midway between here and Charleston and the center of the hurricane passed over them or near them. Nothing had been heard from either since early yesterday after noon. Roads were flooded and blocked, telephone and telegraph lines were down. When these com munities will be heard from or reached by outsiders was problem atical.
 The hurricane shattered win dows, uproQted trees, wrecked auto- mobiles, scattered advertising signs and the shingles of houses here and at Charleston. A negro women was fatally injured by flying glass here A Charleston radio amateur said six persons had been drowned al Folly Beach, 12 miles from Charles. ton.
 But the radio of the Charleston naval station reported that so fal as was k nown, there had been nc | loss of life, though considerable property damage of "a minor na. tulre."
 Tidal Wave Hit Them
 A tidal wave yesterda yafternoor swept over the Charleston water front for a depth of six blocks, driv- ing hundreds from their homes Gen. Charles P. Summerall, former army chief of staff and Red Gross representative there wirelessed the Red Cross in two shelters and that homeless were being housed by the Red Cross in two sllolders and that an undetermined number had found refuge in homes.
 A new tidal wave swept up over the water front early today, but it was not believed to have inundated any more streets than the first one did.
 The Red Cross dispatched eight disaster relief experts from Wash ington and regional offices nearer to Charleston, here and points be- tween.
 Charleston amateur radio opera tor T. W. Zeigler reported that it was impossible" to travel on them The gretest danger was in the southeast section, near the water front, where, he said, c number of houses had been destroyed before the tidal wave inundated the others The power system was knocked out and 1t was not until after midnight that 1t was partially restored. The power station was under i2 feet of water at one time. Lower Charlotte street also had been under i2 feet of water.
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