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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday
Volume 82, No. 18 University of South Carolina September 25, 1989
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This building on King Street in Charleston,
Hurricane Hugo left in its path as it ripped aloi
Coliseum vc
By HAL MILLARD
Managing Editor f
As Hurricane Hugo's torrential rains and 1
brutal winds battered Columbia, a tired Kelly c
Bennett looked out the door of Carolina Coliseum's
Elephant Room and choked back tears. I
"I've been trying all night to keep from los- s
ing it, to keep from crying," said Bennett, a s
Columbia native. i
Bennett, and others like her, had come to the 1
coliseum to volunteer ? to help hundreds of I
coastal residents fleeing Hugo's wrath.
It was an exhausting job. <
Campus sur
By KELLY C. THOMAS
News Editor
USC's Columbia campus appears to have surviv
Hurricane Hugo with minimal damage, university of
rials said.
"We were really lucky to escape with as little dai
age as we did," Vice President for Facilities Planni
David Rinker said. The campus recreation facil
known as The Bubble sustained the worst damage, i
cording to ttniversity reports. "The Bubble was c
stroyed," Rinker said.
As of yet, no decision has been made as to whetf
The Bubble, which housed indoor tennis facilities
well as football and soccer practice fields and wan
up areas for athletes, will be rebuilt, he said.
He said the South and West energy plants at UJ
were out of power, leaving the campus south of Bl<
som Street without power until late Friday afternoon
Columbians j(
relief to storm
By JEFF WILSON loa
Assistant News Editor sai(
Student organizations, local church and C?1
civic groups and Columbia residents joined ^
forces to provide relief for Hurricane Hugo's Asj
victims Sunday.
The whole event is being coordinated by Val
Vice President of Student Affairs Dennis a^c
Pruitt, local ministries, the Salvation Army Chi
and student groups, said Student Government l^e
President Marie-Louise Ramsdale. "I called ^al
my phone list, and other student leaders *
called their phone lists, and we got students ^r(
down to the coliseum to volunteer." r
She said more than 40 students volunteered
to sort and box clothes and other V/h
provisions. ta^
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Ken Bush, commanding officer for the the
Salvation Army, said, "It is almost impossi- gav
ble to estimate as to the quantity of goods.
We're hoping that over the next ten days we
will get approximately 100,000 pounds of
commodities to send to Charleston and other W01
areas like Conway and Sumter. That would Sot
be about five tractor-trailer truck loads. &01
These areas were badly hit, and they can use Eve
all the assistance we can give them." whe
The first truckload of supplies will be hugi
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where the historic horse-drawn carriages we
lg South Carolina's coast Thursday.
ylunteers he
By the time Hugo's strength had reached full
orce over Columbia, there were at least 900
tightened, hungry and wet evacuees waiting
>ut the storm in the coliseum.
Hundreds slept on the basketball court in
"rank McGuire Arena. The overflow had to
ileep in the stands. Stragglers came in a steady
itream as the storm's force heightened. In one
;ection of the building, a makeshift ambulatory
x/ard had hppn qpf nn tn rare for the, p.lderlv and
he sick.
Bennett, her eyes tired and her voice soft,
said she had been there since 5:30 in the after'vives
Hug(
In addition to the damage caused to
Hugo blew down trees and tree limbs aci
ed especially on the east side, causing mine
II- the roofs of some university buildings ai
some transformers,
m- The high winds also broke a few wind
ng pus, Dean of Student Life Jerry Brewer sa
ity "I was over in the Bates area, and it w;
ic- especially when some of the windows sta:
le- out and we had to get people out of th
said. "It (the storm) was something I n
ler live through again. I'm just glad everythii
as O.K."
m- Rinker said no damage cost estimate
made as of yet. "We've been much to
SC with people up until now."
)S- Persons looking for updated informatk
status can call 777-8477.
)in to give e
i's victims ff
ded at 3:00 p.m. today at the coliseum, he H|
i. If there are not enough provisions at the I
iseum to fill a truck, more supplies will I
picked up at the Salvation Army office on I
>embly Street
irad Smith, associate pastor for Spring I
[ley Presbyterian Church, said, "We have I
>ut 25 people here from the Spring Valley I
jrch. The thing that is really amazing is I
structure that has formed and the fact W
l people are just able to give."
^ople found out about the relief drive
)ugh the media and have come out to give pPi
nassive numbers, he said.
It all started as people wanting to help,
len I first had the idea for the drive, I
ced to Ken Bush from the Salvation 41
ny, and I talked to John Bolin about using
Elephant Room in the coliseum, and he
e us the go ahead," Smith said.
I then got in contact with Dennis Pruitt
tut lining up some college students to
k with the church youth groups. Dennis
in contact with Marie-Louise, and she
the students to come out and participate.
rybody is doing what they can, and, ^
n you add it together, it is an incredibly vos*
e room full of stuff."
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CHARLES JONES/The Gamecock
re kept, displays the destruction
Ip victims
noon. It was now 3:30 in the morning. She was
ready for this particular nightmare to be over.
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her hand. She started telling me about this woman
in Charleston. She looked at me and said,
'She's not going to make it out,' and that she
would have to ride the hard part through by
herself... It's been like that all night," Bennett
said, her voice trailing off.
"And it feels like it's going to last a little
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wades through the mass of donated clothing ii
coliseum's Elephant Room Sunday.
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Coastal e
ride out
By KATHY HEBERGER
Staff Writer
Evacuees who poured off 1-26
from Charleston to pack Columbia
hotels and shelters this past
week are wondering if they have
a place to call home.
"I just wish I knew what was
going on down there," John's Island
resident Johari Andika said.
"You don't know what to do. All
the news about home is so general.
They don't tell you what
your street looks like or if your
house is still there."
Andika and her daughter, Lillie
Saint-Fort, visiting from New
Jersey, slept on neighboring cots
in the Holiday Inn's ballroom
Thursday night.
"I'm just glad I could be here
with my mother instead of at
home worrying about her," SaintFort
said.
Worrying and wondering are
the norm these days for coastal
inhabitants waiting for conditions
to clear up in the Charleston
area. David Zendzian and Chris
Grabowski, two of 47 students
from the College of Charleston
staying in the old Roost this
week, said they dread seeing
their first floor dorm rooms.
"I threw everything I could
into my car, and I chained my
bike frame to the building,"
Zendzian said. "But man.. .our
ceiling isn't even going to be
dry. We'll have to throw out our
couch mattresses if they're still
there."
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indoor sports facility, was destroyed
Hurricane
I devastates C
By The Associated Press
CHARLESTON-Hurricane
Hugo punched the city of antebellum
mansions with full fury and
killed at least 12 people in the Carolinas
before weakening Friday
and trailing off inland to the north.
South Carolina's barrier islands
were also hit hard as houses were
- blown off their foundations and
boats were pushed ashore, stacked
* along the beaches two and three
deep.
"Garden City for all practical
purposes is gone," said M. .L
Love, a Horry County administrap
tor who toured the elite resort
community near Myrtle Beach.
President Bush declared seven'
counties a federal disaster area.
"It is the worst storm, the worst
disaster, I've ever seen anywhere,"
said Gov. Carroll Campbell.
Eleven of the U.S. deaths were
in South Carolina, said Warren
Hardy of the state's Office of
Emergency Preparedness. The
South Carolina deaths included an
1 elderly man found in the rubble of
a house in Charleston and a power
rath
evacuees
storm
The people who stayed in
Charleston are also a cause of
worry. "I noticed a lot of the
poorer people still sitting on their
porches when we left. Some
were starting to head for designated
high school shelters. I feel
sorry for the people who couldn't
get out of town," he said.
Grabowski says he started to
panic early Thursday when he
wasn't sure about his way out.
"Some friends I was supposed to
ride with left without me, and I
didn't know where to go," he
said.
The sparsely furnished old
Roost, which has been vacant
since the spring, will house the
Charleston students until Thursday,
or until their dorms have
electricity and working sewage
systems. "I'm glad I'm here.
This is so much better than a
gym floor," Grabowski said.
COC student Stephanie Smith,
whose parents came to pick her
up Friday, agreed that the
emergency accomodations at
USC were great "They fed us a
lot We stayed up all night and
listened to the radio for news
from home," she said.
The coliseum's gym floor was
a haven for James Island resident
Bernard Elliott and about 900
other evacuees when they arrived
Thursday. "It was better than being
in Charleston," he said.
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TEDDY LEPP/The Gamecock
when Hurricane Hugo hit Columhits
S.C.,
Charleston
company employee who was electrocuted
Friday as he worked to restore
electricity. In North Carolina,
a 6-month-old baby was killed in
Union County when a tree fell on
a house.
Charleston was clobbered with
135 mph winds and a tidal surge
of 12 to 17 feet. The storm, which
at its height was as large as the
state of South Carolina, flattened
30 buildings, peeled off roofs and
flooded streets.
'There's just destruction every-where,"
said Mayor Joseph P. Ri
ley, who imposed a 6 p.m. curfew.
He called it a "disaster of extraordinary
dimensions."
Riley estimated damage at $1
billion in the city of 65,000
residents.
National Guardsmen patrolled
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there was sporadic looting before
authorities restored order.
At least 900,000 people were
without power in the Carolinas, officials
said.