Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I The Press ami Banner.1 BY HUGH WILSON. Aititi:vii.e.r. ?. i.\ DESTRUCTIVE STORMS. m-ATH AND DEVASTATION MARKS l~S COURSF. If Kztendii from Florl?ln to Main*?Mniit OauiHKO Done In (lvarf>l!i mill I' loriili* ( "?" > ? Ti.r F -t.r ( 1 11I v on no u l li i nioiiim .-> .... , - . , the COAMt. Savannah, Sept. The fatalities l-y yesterday's storm, so far, foot up It. The body of Captain Charles ft. Murray of the ill fated tug Itobert Turner, which was blown ashore in : lie Savannah river, was found tcdiv i wedged in a training wall. It was brought to the city by a rescue tug. ; J .ater the body of one the deckhands was picked up by the United States revenue steamer Tybee, which has i l;een on relief duty since the storm jubsided. James MeGuire, a passen- < s er on the Turner, and two deck iiands are still missing. Fanny, culord, who was injured by a falling 1 oof in Southville died today, Riley i Williams, colorcd, 75 years old, crushed under a roof, died tonight. < The injured have all been removed to J I he hospitals or their homes. Three ] ;ire fatally injured and will die. The fatalities are likely to be much greater, ? when reports have been received from ' the sea islands. The damage to ship- / ping is heavy. The steamer Governor i Stafford, which left Beaufort, S. C., I for Savannah Tuesday morning, went I ashore on Daufuskie island, and is ly- 1 ing 100 yards hi?h and dry inland. I The barks Cuba and Rosenius, which ' ' " " J . drifted from their moorings anu went ashore, it is believed may be saved. J The schooners Island City and B. D. 1 Metcalf, which went ashore on their 1 way to sea are not damaged. The < bark Kylemore broke away from her I anchorage at quarantine and i9 lying < against a training wall half a mile j away. The loss small sailing vessels 1 is heavy. Upwards of 20 are reported J ashore m the marshes and creeks ard i beach at the mouth of the river. Most ] of these were small coasting vessels 1 plying between Savannah and neigh- 1 boring ports. The full extent of the J damage and Joss of life will not be ! known for several days. ] The damage in the city will proba- . * ' J "AA i-l/./, TJ J 1 ? ? Diy exceea ^i,i/uy,uuu. umuij a building escaped, and thousands of < houses are roofless. The work of < clearing away the wreckage from the streets went on all night and today i most of the streets are passable. The 1 parks are pitiable sights. Tall trees, : torn up by the roots or broken in two, f lie in swaths across shrubbery and J flowers. The ruin is complete. Tne i iimous Bonaventure cemetery, fou^ ? ailes from Savannah on the Thunder bolt road, is a scene of ruin. There and in picturesque Laurel Grove cense j lery, monuments and gravestones are overturned and in some instances the ] vaults are broken in. At the subur- i ban villages and resorts summer resi- i dences were blown away and yachts ] and pleasure steamers were driven i ashore, in some instances, high and l dry on the low bluffs. 1 A special to the Morning News from Burroughs, Ga., say: "The storm started here yesterday at 10 o'clock ard lasted until 1:15 o'clock. Trees ] were blown down in the woods and roads. About 15 houses in different places are blown down. All the stacks in the ricelields are blown down. The new Ogeechee Baptist church at Shiloh and the new Episcopalian church are blown to the groumi. Three lives are lost and several persons crippled The loss is estimated at $6,000. Every person had to leave his house and go out in iheopen field to save his life. There has never been such a storm here since 1854." TUtt WRECK OF P.RUNSWICK. Brunswick was wrecked by the hurricane . The property loss is estimated _4. - A AOPA AAA 1 J-r/Wl A/lll nnl.? ul ueiwetrn auu .|*.h?vu>'. xnc loss of life is four,>o far as known. The victims are all color? d: John Jefferson and baby, A.. Davis and William Daniels. The injured as far as known are: Mrs. M. Wiggins and child and Mrs. Kichard Purceli. These three have their heads crush*d in, hut will probably recover. The greatest losers of property are: Electric arid Gas Li?ht company, plant demolished, loss$?0,1)00; Gauber & Isaacs, wholesale grain and grocery house, total wreck, loss $4,0(H); J:cob L. Beach, residence partly wrecked; Downingcompany. wholesale grocers, damaged; Brunswick Grocery company; E. II. Mason & Co.. ship chandlers; liriesinreck's brick building and warehouse; J. B. Wright's brick building; Oglethorpe bunk building; Scarlett block; Crovatt block; Ward blcck; Wills' residence, all seriously dam aged; St. John's church wrecked com pTetely; S#. Athanasius church and school buildines wrecked completely; Mark's church badly damaged; Altamoha cypress mills badly damaged as to destruction of lumber; (ire department bell tower badly damaged; court house damaged considerably, so as to be unsafe tor further use. Partial I damage is done to rlie city hall. Plant system shops, Southern railway warehouses, union depot, Gwynn'sware house and ice factory and numerous other business and private dwellings. In shipping circles the damage is lerrific. A detailed less up to date is as follows: The Spanish bark Encarriacion, loaded for sea and anchored : cross the shoals, drifted in and was aground, badly listed and rigging ??1" (ho maish cidp r ficariy UWWVJVM, v.. ??IV < f Turtle river is a three-masted <chooncr aground betweeen l^uaranline and South Brunswick. It is the Lizzie E. Dennison from Quarantine, 'i'lie Norwegian bark LongieJlow lost i er jibboom and is ashore across from ihe Plant system dock. The Ameri v-an bark il. L. Routh had her windings broken and is lying easy ashore, Vetween McCullough's dock and (Quarantine. The brig Jennie rilulbert, loaded and down the river was blown over to Brandy Point, and is aground. The schooner Sarah Fuller broke her hawser and is * .hore off the Brunswick and Western docks. The schooner Harold was dis Kled ana suck, wiin o,iuu puuuus namite, off the Brunswick and irn docks. The borne boats are .fe and none of them badly dam50 far as known. Sterling station, several houses >wn and one lady, Mrs. Clark, injured by falling timber. At mou's mills, the llilton <Sc Dodge ? X-umber company suffered severe loss. \ 'jihe Episcopal church was wrecked t and much damage done lo stores and residences. In the railroad yards in Brunswick almost every tin-covered freight car is .unroofed. All the telephone, telegraph and electric light wires are down and the damage cannot be well estimated. At the quarantine station several of the buildings, , including the officers' quarters are : down, but Surgeon Burlord is safe. At the new docks of the Southern railroad the eastern warehouse is down, and much other damage done- i tanover park, the pride of Brunswick, is < wrecked. Every street is strewn with debris. j Reports from Boulogne, across the river from Jb'olkston, say that several people were uiueu anuouters mjureu. but no verification of these reports lias reached the Morning News yet. OLI? HKAl'KORT SUKKKItS. I>K.M'h'oKT,Sept. 21).?Without warn 1 ing from the weather bureau or any intimation of anything to be expected, < Beaufort was visited today at 11 o'clock ^ und lasting uutil 2, wun?|uueas viw lent and destructive a cycione for the j length of tirno it lasted :is the memo ( rable one of Aug. 27, J 89.5. The vio i lence, force and velocity of the wind i PQuaJJed if it did not exceed that of >: 1893, and if we had experienced as 1 high tide the destruction of life and property would have been proportion- 1 ately greater. As it is, the town has 1 suffered terribly. The chief and great- i est sufferers are among the oldest and s most staunch houses. At about half- < pastl o'clock the wind shifted from southeast to southward and only less- ] jned its violence by about 2 o'clock, 1 when it appeared that the fury of the J ?ale had abated. Besides the wrecks s already recorded, along Bay street a ' ?reat many of the brick chimneys oi ' i.he most exposed houses and stores 1 were snapped off and had fallen into ] ;he streets below and upon the roofs, rhe masonry at the sides of the piaz- 1 jas of T. W. Schepe's grocery store 1 ind thatof G. A. Long's residence over ( ;he express otlice was blown down i with its brick and mortar. The yachts < 3sprey, owned by Mr. Miles, Nellie, ( oy Colvidere, Julia, by Henry Schepsr, that lay at anchor off the sea wall, ' ind which, with timely warning have ' been put in safe harbor were capsized ] md sunk. All the pilot boats that lay s in front of the town from disuse of i past week owing to heavy seas pre- i mailing outside, rode safely through ' the storm. The only one of fleet that J stopped down at Port Roval was the Scheper, No. 4, and she was driven ] high and dry upon the marshes of < Jericho up Battery creek. 1 The handsome residence of the late ' 3eo. Waterhouse, now owned by his < estate, formerly the Lewis Sams house, ? twoc tc.??nhlTr TOw>r?lrpH the rnof entire iy blown off and swept away, and the handsome columns and the upper piazza tern to pieces and other damage to ' the front of the house and fences. The ( residence of the Messrs. Wallace, for- r merly ihe Fuller house, on the corner of Bay street, had its roof torn and its veranda destroyed. There are a great many other disas- ' ters to property all over the town, but J [ have only listed the above as among the most important and extensive. It J if, of course, impossible as yet to esti- ' mate the amount of damage, but it is likely to reach a large amount in money. No loss of life in town is re- 1 ? ? % il . J ported. Two colored women irom me Oakland plantation were killed by the J falling in of their house. No news j has been received from the islands. '' From Port Royal, the damages to the 1 railroad properties are said not to be very considerable. Some damages are 1 reported from the Sea Island Chemical 1 works (Coosaw), and to Balwins, but f particulars are not yet in. frightful damage in florida. Jacksonville, FlaM Sept. 30.?It is , a conservative estimate to say that 50 , people have lost their lives from yesterday's hurricane and the number may run much higher. News from that .portion of the State where the ( storm first struck is very slow in com inp, for wires are down and railroads are impassable. Wrecking parties which went out this morning have not returned and it will be tomorrow before the full extent of tho damageis known. The hurricane struck Cedar Keys and reports show that it passed in its path of destruction over twenty towns and that between thirty and forty people have certainly been killed. (Jf dar Keys is about 100 miles Southwest of Jacksonville. The hurricane which had been churning the water out in the Gulf lirst struct this place, a village of 1,50(1 inhabitants. The only report which has come concern ing Cedar Keys is that tho town has been swept away and many lives have been lost. This report comes from Gainesville, which is iifty miles away. Nobody has been able to get anything from Cedar Keys. Moving Northeasterly the storm struck WilJistown, a small town, eleven houses were blown down, one person was killed and several so badly hurt that it is expected they will die. Near here is a large turpentine farm where State conviets are employed. Twenty of these were huddled together in a cabin. A heavy tree was blown across the cabin and six of the convicts were crushed to death. In Alachume County the storm did fearful work, la Gainesville the Methodist Church and twenty residences and business houses were destroyed, and while a number of people were hurt no fatalities are reported. At La Cross, fifteen buildings were destroyed. Rev. W. A. liarr, Mrs. F. F. Mcintosh and her baby are are reported killed. Near there four laborers who were in a cabin on a turpentine farm were crushed by falling trees. Newberrv, in West Alachuma, is totally wrecked. _C. J. Eastlin, Mrs. INanny Moss, tf'rank uirasiea ana David Jones were killed. At Iligh Strings, Malissa Harden, Jane Morris and Sallie Nobles, colored, are reported to have been killed. At this place a number of people took refuse in a box car, which was in the path of the cyclone. It was blown along the track and then olf of it a distance of fifty feet and every person in it was oadly injured. Steve Mason and George Johnson have since died. At Gracy, a small place, twelve houses were blown down, a woman was killed, but a babe at her breast was unhurt, although it hid been carried some distance by the force of th j wind. At Lake B Uler. Bradford County, Mr. U. II. llarkej, Mrs. J. M. Futch and her infant were fatally hurt. Many Duildingj were blown down. At this place the wind blew to pieces two cars loaded with bricks and a negro, Henry Sullivan, who was .300 yards away, was killed by being struck by one of Hying bricks. On Judge Richard's turpentine farm I four convicts were killed by falling! trees. In Baker County four towns were almost totally destroyed. They are McClenny, Sanderson, Glen, St. Mary and Olustee. No one was killed outright in these towns, but many were injured, among whom were Mrs. C. S. Richardson, James McAlpinand North Webster, all of whom will die. At Live (>ak, the destruction is complete, but no loss of life is reported. Near Walborn the house of Amos White was destroyed and two of his children killed. At Lake City eight business houses and thirteen residences were destroyed. Mrs. Sarah Fletcher and two hoys were killed and Dora Jennings. Samuel Hudson and Jonas Mabry were fatally injured. Six persons are reported killed at Fort White, in Columbia County, but o names are given. The hurricane passed over Duval L'ounty, striking the edge of Jacksonville but doing very little damage. Phere was no loss of life hero. .Just Vortli of here, however, in JNassua Jounty, considerable destruction is eported. Five children were killed n the wreck of a school house. Miss Stewart, the teacher, had her arm broken. Lila Kails, a 12-years old girl, was dlled her Home, her mother being atally injured. Harry Johnson was tlso killed. At Ilillyardj, another school house was wrecked and four shildren were killed. At King's Ferry, Andy Johnson, Moses Lassiter, Simon IlendersDn, May Jones and a child were killed. Vlrs. Fisher was nursing a sick child ind the infant died as the house fell, rhe mother was hurt, but will recover. hi i.:n?] 1 mreesanurs were kiubu uu suuwuucio ;hat were loading lumber at King's Ferry. Across the line into Georgia the devastation was continued. At Folkston, which is near the Okeefeenokee swamp, the school house was wrecked md four children killed. Several jasualti-s are reported in Camden bounty, Ga. The storm then continued on its svay to Brunswick and Savannah. Lhere is no way to estimate the pro porty loss in Florida. The losses may seem heavier now than they will when more closely examined, but the talk imong insurance men is that the losses will foot up $2,000,000. This seems, aowever, an excessive estimate. The storm extended as far North as Maine, but the principal damage was lone in Florida and Georgia. Char !eston suffered a little, but not much, rhe storm coverea a large scope of ;ountry, and while it lasted was very severe. Put uu or Shut Up. The New York World, it is said, has ,he following letter in possession for 5ne month, but declined to push it: Helena, Mont., Aug. 21, 189G. To New York World: Gentlemen: I hereby authorize you jo publish t^at I will make a contract for one hundred thousand dollars' [$100,000) worth of silver for which I will agree to pay one dollar and ten jents ($1.10) per ounce in United States gold coin, and to be taken as soon as W. J. Bryan, as President of :he United States, has signed a coinage bill, which will provide for the free ind unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio compared with gold at 1C to 1, ? V* rtftrt nrl\A A MA O 1 If i n iliu XI itUJf til lumo nuu aiu raioiuf, about 50 cent dollar desire this contract, and are willing to put a forfeit, [ am prepared to secure this offer by el forfeiture of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). 1 feel confident that I can arrange similar contracts among my circle of business acquaintances for twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) to be taken one million a month for twenty months after the signature of such a bill. Yours truly, R. II. Kleinschmidt. Mr. Kleinschmidt is owner of a bank and one of the richest men in his State, lie is abundantly able to back his offer, butgetesno takers. His substantial proposition knocks the props from a favorite gold bug argument, and the World knew it. In old days when Senator McPherson talked about silver dollars being worlh only 70 cents, or in that neighborhood, Senator Standford, it is said, used to shut him up by just such propositions as thatof Mr. Kleinschmidt.?Augusta Chronicle. A Brutal Murder. RoanokiE, Va., Sept. 29. -The Blue; field Telegraph of yesterday prints the following: On Sunday evening at Upland, (ius Miller and his pal, Jim Hawkins, who had been drinking heavily, had a shooting affray, in which Hawkins was killed, Miller was terrorizing everybody in the community, aud his pal, Hawkins, having no pistol, Midler told him to go and get one, saying if he did not he would shoot him. llarkins went out and secured his pistol and Miller opened fire upon him. Hawkins took shelter behind a nearby house. Miller climbed to a position where he could see Hawkins and again fired at him, but missed him. Hawkins returned to his assailant. It so happened that Miller got llawkius's head under his arm, and holding his murderous weapon a few inches from llawkius's head discharged his pistol frequently. The brains splashed upon the murderer's shirt front and smeared the sleeve and breast of his coat, lteleasiag his v'ctim, who fell limp and dead upon the ground, this fiend in human form said: "There, I told you I would kill you." Miller then tried to escape, but was held forcibly by the crowd that had collected. Miller was taken to Welch and lodged in jail. Excitement ran high. A large crowd gathered at the depot and threatened to lynch Miller, but he was finally gotten on the train without any trouble and taken to jail. Captured l>y Democrats. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 28.- The Middle of the Jtoad Populist convention to-day, for the purpose of putting into nomination a straight ticket for Presidential electors in opposition to the fusion electors was captured by the silver Democrats and every attempt to conduct business failed. Only two Middle of the Road Populists?C. M. Clark of Lincoln and Dr. Bryant of Norfolk put in an appearence aod the silver Democrats present passed a 1 1 -i <-v r-? 4 resoiuuon enuursiu^ iusiuu uu mo State and national ticket. >'ecr<>eH Drowned. Savannah, Ga., Sept. 1.?Reports come from the Savannah River sections of South Carolina that there was considerable loss of life among the negroes in Tuesday's storms. The small schooner Island Flower which left Wilmington Island, Tuesday, for this ?ort is believed to have been lost with her crew of men. Houses aro down in all parts of this section. RIOT IN FORT MOTTE. ? C the display of force awes the 0 negroes. j' 0 All ilio reading OlVeiider* In Saturday ^ Nlghl'ri ltlnt 111 Cimtedr. K*? |?t Cheese- J borough -lie In llelleved let l>e Hiding; In ^ t he III ver Su mnjtH. 0 I FoiiT Mottr, Sept. 29. -Fort Motte s is Uie very heart of a dense colored j population. It is very necessary to 0 nave it thoroughly understood that) there must be no miractions 01 me 0 laws. Once consented to there is like- u ly to be no end of trouble. Last week, j', as was: published, a nagro named jj Goodwin was shot by a Mr. Collins, j No matter what the circumstances of ^ the shooting may have been, that n would have been attended to by the ^ law in the due course of time. The e shooting seemed to anger the colored e people, and many of them congregat- e ed on the streets of Fort Motte at night. r They were told to disperse, but instead j of doing as requested by the intendent g and ollicer.s of the place they refused, i and said that they would Jeave the streets whenever it suited their con- v venienoe There came near beinc i. blood spilled at the time, but it was ^ thought best not to precipitate a row 0 in such a fashion and at such a time. ^ The Fort Motte Guards were called out ^ to preserve the peace, and di'l all that v could be expected of them. ^ Monday SherilF Dukes telegraphed ^ to Governor Evans that he proposed v to make arrests at Fort Motte, and j wanted the military at his service if \ needed, it having been decided to arrest certaiu of the leaders in the bravado exhibition on the streets of Fort q Motte, on the ground of disturbing the g neace and makinc a riot. Tuesday h morning Sheiitf Dukes wont to make ? the arrests of the leaders who were in- n citing the negroes. Altogether there a are eleven warrants sworn out, but it j is thought that three or four arrests , will suffice. At the station one of the j parties who was wanted was seen. He _ was arrested and made no resistance. | It appears that a burly negro named ^ Cheeseborough was the man who did & most of the mischief, and who was n wanted on a duly prepared war- _ I rant. It was understood that he was jj in a house on Mr. Wm. Taber's place, j and to this house the officers went to r make the arrests. v When the house was reachcd by Deputy Douglass, a negro named _ Robinson, who was also wanted, came ? to the door and in a boastful spirit said p that no one could arrest him, and ? drew his pistol. Deputy Douglass j told him that it was no use to snoot, a but he. snapped his pistol at the officer s anyway. About this time Mr. Mitch- j ell saw the Hash of the steel of the pis B tol and came up in a gallop. He also e told llobinson to put up his pistol, and the negro told him that he could not ^ be made to do so. and with this drew _ his pistol and made the effort to fire at ^ Mitchell, but the pistol seemed to be ^ no good. Mitchell did not take the ^ chances that Douglass did, but return j, ed the fire with his double-barrelled ^ eh/if. on in ftrul insta.ntlv killed Robin- i son. Cheeseborough was not found j in the house. An inquest will be held j tomorrow, aud as additional arrests j are likely to be made some trouble is feared. f There were comparatively few ne- r groes to be seen about Fort Motte to- E day, and this seemed to give rise to the e suspicion that mischief might be con- j templated. So, all things considered, ^ it was thought best to call on Orangeburg for her two military commands, j and the Edisto Rifles and the Tillman ? V olunteers with fifty men went up to j Fort Motte on the night train to ren- f der such assistance as might be need- ^ ed. It was thought best to picket the j town, and detachments were thrown v out during the evening to keep a look- ^ out. The arrests will be made and the parties taken to Orangeburg, no ? matter how long it will take or what ~ the cost will be. Cheseborough, who * has been advising the negroes in their attitude of deliance, has been shot be r fore, and is regarded as quite a desper- j ate character.?News and Courier. s all is quiet. i Fort Mottk, S. 0., Sept. 30.?All is 1 quiet again in Fort Motte. The dis i play of military force, the evident in- t tention of the authorities to enforce t order and uphold the law, and the submission of the leading spirits?with c one exception?of the Saturday night J riot, lias had salutary effect upon the t A/ on/1 if TXT i 1 1 t UCgl in.^ Ul blll.^ UUUiUJUUlbj) ?UM <H in** probably be a decade or more, if ever, I that such another showing of hands a will be npcessary on the part of the t whites of this usually pecaceful and al- (3 ways attractive old town. The three i companies of militia on duly here last 1 nighi saw little of quiet and less of re- I pose. The "boys" were strongly in I evidenced all hours, from dewy eve J to rosy fhorn, and songs and dances, t card-playing, and story-telling?inter- C mingled with pranks of a more or less 1 practical nature?kept the hours liust- t ling into the past until the reveille I was sounded. At roll call the follow- f ing men answered to their names: Fort Motte (iuords?A. T. Darbv. t capt.; N. E. Carroll, 1st lieut.; J. A. t l'eterkin, 2d lieut.; W. J'. Shirer, 1 junior 2d lieut.; and Privates J. D. c Shirer, W. Ii. Watt, J. E. Du M'ord, M. ) II. Shirer, T. L. Shirer, M. L. Shirer, J J. A. W. Shirer, I. N. SUwson, Jr., f J. T. Carson, W. D. Kellar, Jake Mar- e cus, Weston Adams, A. ]{. Taber, Jr., c D. D. Taber, W. R. Taber, Jr., J. 1?. c Taber, W. T. Croswell, J. Rhett Shir- 1 er, W. 13. Trezevant, J. Carroll, II. Y. r S. Darby, and J. P. ClalFy. s Edisio Rifles?D. O. Herbert, capt.; a A TT. Mnss. lieut.: and Privates R. II. d Jenuing. A. W. Hoffman, S. G. Par- c ler, T. E. Williams, W. L. Hariey, R. c C. Moseley, S. H. Clark, J. S. Weeks, c A. C. Andrews, T. E. Briggman, T. i Ayers, Philip Kohn, E. II. Heidtman, 1 J. J. Mackay, J. B. Crosby, John C. Pike, Jr.. F. F. Mai pass, T. E. Lightfoot, L V. Dibble. B. P. Whitehead, I Fred Dantzler, C. P. Perryclear, and i Henry Konjohn. t Tillman Volunteers?J. H. Claffy, 1 capt.; J. W. Culler, 1st lieut.; H. H. Culler, 21 lieut.; R. E. Copes, junior I 2d lieut.; and Privates W. E. Hopkins, ( J. M. Antley, W. Kemmerlin, E. C. } Houser, John Palmer, W. C. Mitchell, t F. M. Culler, C. Gritlitb, E. A. Zeig- r ler, F. E. Smith, Eugene Bell, Edward s Bell, Ed. McCraw, Ernest O'Cain, Sara r O'Cain, E. C. Livingston, Sam Whissenhunt, J. W. Rickenbaker, L. W. f Weeks, Richard Hopkins, and J. B. t Robinson. t The morning opened clear and bree- 1 zy. The scarcity of negroes about t town yesterday was fully atoned for, so to speak, by the crowd of blacks r that tlocked about the station at an I earlv hour of the day. Most of them I' I . ?ere women, and all were peacefully c nclined. They were going on an ex- ^ ursion to Charleston, and the tragedy i if the day before seemed to be entire- c y forgotten by the volatile blacks. It ras thought that Frank Cheesebor- a iugb, the negro rioter most wanted, f uight board the excursion train at St. ? latthews, and a detail of fifteen men, ] Ive from each company present, were 1 ent down the road under command I if First Lieut. Adam Moss of the Sdisto lli lies, to apprehend the negro, i hould ho appear. They returned at s 0 o'clock, reporting that Cheesebor- i ugh had not put in appearance- f In the meantime, Art Vincent, one s f the negroes for whom a warrant i ras out for, came into town, and gave s limselfup. He said "he reckoned that t L - 1.1 1 A. iL! I 1 J .1 A U 1 ; was me dbsi irjing no cuuiu uu. j Ie was sent to Orangeburg later on. t Vhile waiting for the return of the t lilitary detachment sent to St. Mat. t hews, the soldier laddies were highly f ntertained by "Col." Bacon, a color- I d light of the community, who deliv- I red a "rhythmic" address on the glo- c ies, past and present, of the South, i t should be added that there was con- s iderably more rhyme than reason in t 'Colonel's" remarks. i At 9:45 a.m., the entire command c ras under arms, and awaiting the up t rain bearing the St. Matthew's detach- i lent. Immediately upon the arrival i f the train, Major R. M. daffy gave 1 he word, and the lin? of march was c iken up for Mr. Will Tabers place s rhere the inquest on Joe Robinson, < he negro killed yesterday, was to be t eld. The troops led the way, and 1 rere followed by Sheriff John H. i )ukes, Coroner D. E. Dukes Dr. W. t V. Wolfe, intendant, Dr. Charles R. f 'aber,and deputy sheriffs and citizens. 1 About a mile and a half out of town, f iam Williams, another ringleader, e tepped out into the road and gave 1 timself up. Williams lives on Mr. W. * J. Hane's place. He was one of the s lOisest or the mob last aaturuay, ana t that time declared they "had twen- ? 7 bullets to the white's oae." Things s rere different today with Williams. ] le was a thoroughly frightened nero, and the old saying, "Meek as loses," is inadequate to describe Wiliam's humility. He said, "When I eed the gov'ment had done got after ae I knowed it was time far me to ;iveup." Williams was placed in a art, and taken out to the scene of the quest, whence he was afterwards econveyed to town, and this evening pas placee on the Orangeburg train. As Joe Robinson's house was ap roached a crowd of some twenty -five legroes was seen lingering about the iremises, and it was feared some rouble might ensue, but happily this ear was groundless, and no; even , murmur was heard during the subequent proceedings. The militia rew up in front of the house, and the legroes, especially the women, were vidently awed by the display of force. Coroner Dukes at once empaneled lis jury. It comprised the following entlemen: Foreman, J. Gk Maylard, and Jurors D. H. Trtzavant, S. \ Bozzard, D. L. Collier, W. R. ,'aber, F. R. Bozzard, J. M. Crossand, A. H. Wienges, P. J. Tate, W. / Hane, A. E. Hane, J. W. Davis, . E. Shirer, and A. H. Wannamaker. tobinson's pistol was placed in evilence. It was of the Harrington & licbardson make, 38-calibre. One ? 1 t-.-i. 1L- . namoer was empty out uie umer < our were filled. Two of the cart- < idges bore the impress of the ham- ] aer, and it was only their failure to xplode that saved Deputy Mitchell's ife when Robinson drew on him yeserday afternoon. The first witness sworn was Dr. C. I. Taber, Jr. He testified as follows: \ 'As I rode up in company with Mr. 1 litchell, one of the deputy sheriffs, I ound Joe Robinson standing in his loor witb his pistol drawn, coverng Mr. Douglass and John Darid Shirer. They were remonstrating vith him, and asking him to put up bis ' ;un, as they did not wish to harm 1 iim. He replied that he would Dot ! ?'t Viic omn on/1 mlilari that he riAW KAf, UtM vould kill the first white that ' ame on the steps. Mr. Mitchell then an up and told llobinson to put up lis gun. He replied that he would not, ind immediately snapped his pistol at dr. Mitchell, who in return tired on lim with his shotgun. That is all I :now about it. Robinson was coninuing to snap his pistol until he was ired at by Mr. Mitchell." Mr. James Vincent, who was next ailed, deposed as follows: "I live on I fi Mavnawl's nlnPA T Sflllinf ! ' v? ? ? ?n ickets when I met up with these gen- i lemen, and I went with them to ! Prank Cheeseborough's liouse Orst md then to Art Vincent's, and then oJoe Robinson's house. Robinson Irew his pistol on Deputy Sherlf Mitchell, and cursed him. Mr. Mitchell told hira to lower his pistol, lobinson replied, 'No, G? d? it, won't, and raised his pistol on Mr. ditchell, and then Mr. Mitchell shot lim. We then went on around to Clarence Hane's to arrest Sam Wiliams, but he was not at home. After his we came on to Fort Motte. Mr. ditchell shot Robinson in self-de- j ence." ] Deputy Sheriff, W. L. Douglass, 1 >eing duly sworn, said: "Yesterday, I >etween 1 and 2 o'clock, I, Mr. Jno. i )avid Shirer and Dr. C. R. Taber, Jr., I ame here in search of Art Vincent, s Ve rode up in front of the house and oe Robinson began to curse at us beore we even got to the house. I ask- , d him what lie meant, as we had not ome there for him, but for Art Vinent. He said if we did not leave the 1 louse he would be G - d? if he did j iot kill us. He drew his pistol and tarted out the door towards me. I ! isked him what he meant, for he had 1 Irawn the pistol on rae. I then rolled * >ff my horse and came round in front * >f him, and by that time Mr. Mitchell ame up and told Robinson to put up ' lis gun as no one wanted to hurt him. J iobinsonsaid the first O?d?white j that put his foot on the steps le would kill, lie threw his pistol on dr. Mitchell and commenced snapp- ' ng it, and Mr. Mitchell shot him. He 1 lad snapped once at mo when Mr. \ ditchell shot him, and he fell." This concluded the evidence. The 1 iody was then examined by Dr. * Charles R. Taber and Dr. Walter W. 1 MTnlfA T>. lav towards the centre of he room, opposite the front door, and ested in a remarkably easy position, r howing that death had been instanta- j leous and painless. Drs. Taber and { Wolfe deposed as follows: '"We j ound that Joseph Robinson was shot j hrough the heart by sevon buckshot, j he balls passing through the body. ?he wound wassuflicient to cause imnediate death." The jury then withdrew. In a few i noments they returned, and Foreman ] ilaynard handed in the verdict thai < 'Joseph Iiobinson came to his death 1 / J >n September 29, through a gunshot vound in the heart, inllicted by Depity Sheriff T. D. Mitchell while in the lischarge of his duty." With the display of force present it tfas thought to be a good moment to urther impress the minds of the ne ;roes present, and at the request of Intendant Wolfe, Dr. Charles R. Ta>er and Capt. D. O. Herbert, of the ?disto llilles addressed the gathering Dr. iaber spoke with great feeling ind his words were imbued with inch kindly sentiment for the colored nan that more than one in his audi>nce seemed touched bv it. In sub stance, I)r. Taber, said": "Unfortulately we are here to day under very ;ad circumstances. We are here as he result of a reckless disregard of the aw. We can only be held in safety ogether by each man remembering he responsibilities of citizenship that est upon him. The moment a man ails to obey the laws of the land he )ecomes an outcast. Look at that )ody lying in there. That is the out:ome of Saturday's disturbance. Now, t was perfectly natural for you to inlist that the law should be enforced on he man who shot Goodwin, but the noment the sheriff arrived, and the snforcement of the law was made, hen you should have quitly refrained rom threats and disturbance. You nust remember that if you violate the aw of the land?as if any of us, black >r white, violate it?punishment, iwift and certain, will follow. Anther thing you must bear in mind. his is a white man's government, and >y the grace of God we intend to hold t as such; but we also intend to proect you in yo"-rights. The very best 'riends you hi /e on earth are right lere around you, and if you cannot eel it in your hearts that we are placid here together, side by side, as riends, to live as friends, and to die is friends then your ears are deaf to ill true, heart felt admonition." Captain Herbert's address was brief md to the point. He said: "I wish limply to confirm and endorse all that Dr. Taber has said. You see the arm >f the military brought here to day. TVJiat does it mean? It is the power >f the State, the strong arm of the aw. It is invoked to enforce the law >f South Carolina, which will be and ihall be administered, peaceably if >ossible, forcibly if necessary. We lesire to live in peace, but when the aw ia infracted, and the people riot -white or black?and resist the legally constituted authorities, then ,hev must take the consequence Bringing the military here cost money ;o us all, but we cast money consideritions aside when it is necessary to lphold the majesty of the law. My idyice is that rioters give themselves ip peaceably, and without resistance." These addresses virtually ended the iroceedings of the day. It was learn:d that Cheeseborough had left the immunity, and Sheriff Dukes, who >f course will arrest the negro if :'ound, decided to withdraw his posse ind the military force, for the present, rhe trouble, it is thought, is over, the aegroes have all professed peaceful inentions, order is restored, and the litizens of Fort Motte will go to bed a night with a very large sized burlen lifted from their minds. The negro Robinson is bnried, but not by wife or friends. Both refused to inter him, and uoroner louses was obliged to pay two negroes to put the iead man beneath the sod.?Columbia Register. Sad Fate of a Brave Crew. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 30.?The sailing schooner L. M. Morrill, Oapt. Dantilli, of this city, arrived on Moniay night at Schwaer's dock direct from Unalaska, after a cruise of nine months' sealing on the Japan coast and Behring Sea. The schooner brings the news of the loss of seven men from the British cruiser Satellite in Gutch barbor on the night of September 4, during one of the worst storms that aver struck the coast. Eight men, unJer command of the lirst lieutenant, were in the boat that left the Satellite. It was, as far as could be learned, picked up bodily by the wind and overturned. One of the sailors swam ashore, the others were never again seen. The next morning their boat was seen high and dry on the beach on the opposite side from the town, rhe two men whom the lieutenant's 3rew started out to save reached the land in safety; Rlglit r.Ivaa Lost. Washington, Oct. 1.?Passengers and trainmen on the Shenandoah Valley train on the Baltimore and Ohio Kailroad, which arrived here at 4 o'clock today, bring coniirmation of Lhe report of the disaster at Staunton caused by Tuesday night's storm in that part of Virginia. They say the lamage was done by Hood rather than by wind and that the llood was caused largely by the bursting of the dam of i lake in the public park at Staunton, 3ausing the loss of several lives at that place, variously stated at from five to sight. The unfortunate people drowned were caught in tne water by the intense darkness. Wm Thomas, rending at the town of Newmarket, below Staunton, was also drowned. lie tvas riding along the river bank when the ground, which had been undermined, gave way, and precipitated joth horse and rider into the swollen stream. Fire In a J'lay House. Aijkrdkkn, Scotland, Sept. 130.? riie .Palace of Varieties, a play house, was burned at the beginning of the oerformance tonight. The perform 11--1 i- ii ? ; ? ~ ?11 ;rs were compeneu lo uy, icuviug mi heir property. The audience was ;hrown into a panic. Many were sampled and crushed in the rush to jet out of the burning building, ana sustained injuries. The music hall in ,he structure was a complete ruin in aalf an hour after the fire was discovered. A search was instituted among ,he ruins after the tire and resulted in -he finding of three corpses, and it is feared that many others did not have -ime to make their escape, so rapid was the lire's headway. It has been ascertained that forty persons are injured by being burned or tramped jpon in the panic. Of these, 13 have serious hurts and others are in the lospital. A Terrible Storm. City ok Mkyico, Mexico, Sept. 23.? The Western coast has been visited jy a terrible storm causing great damige to the town of Altata which was nundated. The waves poured into ,he principal streets of Mazatlan. Aid ;s requested. Flood Suspend* ISmlne**. San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 28.?Business is suspended in the town of San Marcos, just north, the street being fniir In l.wftnfv fpet vvif.h water. Four persons are missing. "7 v l.' 1: : ' . . HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST. AND TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE. Never Before Has Such a Storm VUlted Fair Florida?List of Dead Will be Greatly Increased When Fall Reports Are Received. Jacksonville, Fla., Cht. 2.?The j West India hurrican struck Florida Tuesday, and, though it lasted but I three hours at each point visted, was 4Urs Al A I . ' liio uiuai uisitsirous siorm ever experienced in-Florida. The damage to property in this State alone -will foot up $1,000,000. Fully a hundred lives were lost and perhaps 10,000 people were rendered homeless. The course of the storm was from Cedar Keys on the gulf coast, north by northeast through the hriving town of Lake City. In a path 50 miles wide, few houses are left standing, the wind at times blowing at the rate of 100 miles an hour, averaging 80. In this city, distant from the ofAwm /iar?fma full** KA J OWV1 ui vwunc HAIL J uu 111 1IX 3, tuc VY11114 for a minute blew 100 miles an hour and for five minutes 70 miles an hour. In Jacksonville scores of buildings were unroofed and trees blown down. The storm had the characteristics of a tornado. It skipped some places in its path, bounding over to others where ruin was wrought. Cedar keys was exposed to the full force of its fury. There a score of fishermen on the sponge banks were drowned and their schooners were wrecked. A tidal wave visited the town and inundated it Daring the tidal wave a fire broke out ana an unusual spectacle was witnessed of firemen fighting flames almost shoulder deep in water. Four miles of trestling of the Florida'Central and Peninsular railroad, entering this town, was wrecked. Lake City had almost every tree in town blown /1/vmm fnn f tTTA /lovra CifMofa UUVYU auu 1W1 l/YTU uajr O bUO OMVVH) were impassible. Two people were killed?a prominent lady, Mrs. Frazier, and a negro boy. Here many houses were razed while the roofs of others went whirling through the air. Lake City is in Columbia county, which has great lumber interests. Half of the yellow pine timber was blown down and lumber and turpentine men lost thousands of dollars as the lumber is badly splintered and will soon be attacked by worms. In Baker county, which adjoins Columbia, not a score of houses out of 1,000 were left standing. Grain stored in barns was blown away or destroyed ? by rain, crops in the fields, including cotton, were destroyed and thousands o' cattle were killed. The immense lumber mill of Eppinger & Russell at Olustee was destroyed, including stores and residences and many people were huri, though none killed, the reason being that they sought refuge in a deep ditch traversing the town. At McCleny, in the same county, th? same tale might be told. Sanderson, a few miles distant was almost wiped out. All of the men employed in the turpentine farnfe and lumber mills are not only homeless, but without food and a famine there pending. The prominent citizens of each of these towns have organized relief committees and have issued appeals to the public for aid. Hilliards, in Duvall county, was also devastated and people killed and wounded by the falling of houses upon them. Each of these has issued an appeal for aid. The storm did not touch the orange belt of Florida, but confined itself to the middle section, where the chief industries are lumber, turpentine, cotton raising and general farming. Coming as the storm did, just after harvesting time the people rendered homeless and without food will be a charge upon charity for fully six months. Vessels in port at Jacksonville were warned four days ahead of the probable coming of the storm and did not leave port. Ten of them were due to sail, but their captains heeded the forecast and waited until the storm has passed. Since Tuesday up to tonight Jacksonville, so far as telegraphic communication is concerned, has been shut off from the world. Trains have come through late and in that way news of the outside world was brought in. This state of affairs is unprecedented. Hurricanes have passed over the State before, but wires have not been so badly injured as to shut off communication for more than a day. Every noith going railroad has been compelled to cut hundreds of trees from its treks. The Storm In Waabington. Washington, Sept. 30.?The West Indies tornado, which struck Washington between 11 p. m. and midnight last night respected neither official nor diplomatic proprieties. It ripped off some of the cop?ng of the White House and lay most of the historic trees in the White House grounds, including the elm tree which Lincoln planted (and this gave the relic fanatics a fruitful field for their operation,) it carried away part of the roof of the state department, where the official documents are stored, but fortunately left them uninjured. The costly roof of the patent office was picked up and distributed all around the neighborhood and skylights haif an inch thick were remorsely beaten in. The naval observatory, and in fact every other public building was more or less damaged. Churches and theatres suffered alike. The slate roof of the Church of the Covenant, where Presi dent Harrison used to worship, was blown down and each square slate, by a curious freak, planted itself upright in the grass parking which surrounds the edifice. Still more disastrous was the fate of the New York Avenue Presbyterian church which Bryan recently attended, sitting in Lincoln's pe>v. The whole tower of the edifice was reduced to matchwood and persons in search of souveniers had no dilliculty in obtaining them. Nearly every other church in the city suffered more or less and their antipodes, the theatres, were equally visited. The total destruction of property in Washington city by the storm is estimated at nearly half a million dollars. More Moslem Massacres. London, Sept. 28.?A dispatch to the Times from Candia, Island of *m ? * * 1 Crete, says ttiat a oanu 01 aroieu juuhammedans, which left there by permission of the Governor, looted and burned the villages of Drapte, Kalyvin and Kastelliana, in the district of Monofatsi, and destroyed the church at ] [agio Apostoloi. The Vice Consuls warned the Governor and the Mohamedan leaders that a renewal of the outrages would have serious consequences. .