Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EX Fare f: From Goo< Friday Ask / J.S. E Phe 18 PERISHED IN STOR~M. uits of the Texas Hurricane Being Estimated.-Others Seriously Hurt. ew Orleans, La..July 22.-Eighteen sons dead, and sixteen seriously t, and property damage exceeding illion dollars, as far as can be as :ained at a late hour to-night, is the nri record resulting from the de strtive sweep of the hurricane along bLouisiana and Texas coasts. Whole Towns Devastated. ouston. Tex., July 22.-The West nian hurricane whici swept f'rom eend of the Texas Gulf coast to the ter yesterday. claimed a toll of l ve human lives, fatally injuring r others and seriously wounding ;xeen, according to the details of the s-m, which began to arrive here late t-ay and to-night. Whole towns ere devastated and t-he wreck and in to property will amount to hun rds of thousands of dollars. torm Centre Around Bay City. he territory around Bay City ses to have been the centre of the tom which moved southwest from aveston. For four hours there a eenty-mile wind swept across the ontry, carrying everything before it. ~aso. a small to'wn near Bay City, sreported demolished, but with no osof life and none injured. Every bulding was unroofed, or partly de oished and the town to-night is in ou feet :of water. People are escap gin boats from Colorado River, a ie away. eports from the special train, on ic General Manager W. G. Van veck of the Southern Pacific Rail rod, left Houston this morning, in diate that the lower coast country ufered greatly. The loss will total husands of dollars. and in some dis rrits reports state t.hat the storm was wose than the disaster of 1900, which eastated Galveston. Eagle Lake seems to have suffered a parity with Bay City, but very w houses escaping tihe fury of the The same situation is reported from sie Nowat;a and East Bernard, -,l-h thwr no fatalities are report VIA rom Columbia inards to Lal i Returning, R , July 30, Iea~ Agents, phon [CHBERGER, T. P. A, S. A. L no 514, Columbia, ~OBINSON, Ticke At Glidden, a round house is entire y demolished, and a well derrick is sea.ttered over the town. At Wilitiger part of the railroad station and office was unroofed as was the Allenton depot and East Bernard station. It is impossible to estimate t-be t@ tal damage. Desolation Complete. Along the Brownsville road from Kinsvile,in parts, the desolation wasnealycomplete. Corn fields were swept to the ground and harvesting will have to be done by a hay -rake. Tihe cotton, however, withstood the storm well. At El Campo. the electrie light1 plant is wrecked, all elevators are badly damaged and almost every church in town is .either demolished r wrecked. In the oil field around Markham, derricks were blown down and wells stripped of their machinery. The iron ware house of the Markham Mercan tile Company, the Brown Grain com aany ware house and the Enterprise restaurant were entirely demolisihed. The new building of the Coast Tele phone Company was lifted from its foundations and probably will be a total wreck. At Bay City, about 50 per cent. of the business section was damaged, in cluding the opera house, one bank, the ourt house, the new high school building and the city jail. In the jail,t the cages were left standing and the prisoners were exposed to view, but wer? sa fe. Six Prisoners Escape. Six prisoners escaped from the jail at Ricbmond, when the windows had been blown in and while the guards1 were repairing the damage. At Galveston Bay the situation is ot as bad as at first reported. No art of the railroad bridge which( spans the arm of the bay betweent the island and Virginia Point was washed away, but some fifty feet of the structure was th-rown badly out of alignment by a huge barge and other< small craft, whicilh were was.hed fromt their moorings and pounded against he piling. Cotton Benefited. IAustin, Texas. July 22.-Central nd Southern Texas were enveloped by one of the worst wind and rain C.N. & to Gary, Inc Lrens, Inclusi Julyi egular Trains ing Atlanta I Sor write a%C t Agt., New berr torms last night and to-day, that has ver visited this section. The wind a.t times -reached a veloci y of seventy miles an hour. Numer 1s5 small houses were overturned and i some instances the inmates were ightly injured, but no fatalities are ported. One of t.he city 's big eleetric light-. g towers was blown down, falling on small house and cut.ting it in two. ihere were five persons in the house, ut none of them was even bruised. n the business section of Austin, 3 late glass windows were blown in, nd inasmuch as a terrific rain accom )aed the storm. the water caused .eat damage to goods. Signs were' lown down like so much waste paper. While the eity suffered a property oss estimated at between $30,000 d $75.000, this entire section, from Lcrop standpoint, has been benefited a most marked degree by the storm. [e cotton crop in Central, Sout;h and orth Middle Texas was in a distress g condition on account of the rought. Last night's rain extended rom the Gulf to the lower part of the m-Handle, right through the cotton et of Central.'and Middle East Tex ,and farmers are elated over the )obaiity of good yields. Further Reports of Storm Damage. Houston, Texas, July 23.-Other han to add several hundred t-housand t'he monetary loss, to-night 's dis .tehes from the storm swept coast ections of Louisiana and Texas and uto the interior for a hundred miles d but little to the destruction al ead attributed to the hurricane of ednesday. To-night the number of lled is conservatively estimated at 3. twice as many more or less se iously inja-red, and the property loss estimated at approximately .$1.000, 00. While belated reports may add othe list of casualties and t-he prop rty damage, other than the isolated >oints. communication :has been re tored. Late dispatches add the towns f Rock Island, Wharton and Weimer othose which suffered to an extent rom the sweep of the wind. At Rock slanl nine of the largest b)uildinlgs ~re either razed or partially de royed. the damage being estimated it$75,000. Fifty .houses were blown cwn at WVeimer and the p)rop)erty loss :nl apprm;oxiat 00000. Wharton rOAl! L. and S lusive - ve - - ~,up toand i 2:25 P. M., E Pho y, S. -C. suffered more than from the storm of 1900. The streets are blocked with debris and a shortage of labor is de laying the restoring of normal con ditions. For'est Area of the South. The South, with twenty-seven per cent. of the total area of the United States, contains about forty-two per cent. of the total forest area of tihe country. The forest area by states is as "follows: Alabama, 20,000,000 acres; Arkansas, 24,200,000; Florida, 20,000,000; Georgia, 22,300,000; Ken tuky, 10,000,000; Louisiana, 16,500, 000; Maryland, 2,200,000; Mississippi, 17,500,000; Noarth Carolina, 10,600, 000; South Carolina, 12,000,000; Ten nessee, 15,000,000; Texas, 30,000,000; Virginia, 14,000,000 and West Vir-' ginia, -9,100,000. The South, it will be seen, has still much of the virgin forest of the coun try. This forest must be used of ourse, in order to meet the steadily expanding wants of this section. It must be used in such a manner, how ever, that the very most may be made from its annual cut, while at the~ same time this cut is being replaced by new growth. In this way its timber will remain a source of perpetual wealth. The importance of forest conserva tion to southern interests is clearly understood by the people of the South. The future of the South is more nearly bound up in -the plan of forest preseTvation, with its accompa nying protection to watersheds, pow er-streams, and wood-working indus tries than is anything now before the pople of this part of the country. Not only is the protection of the wa tersheds, which will some day furnish the power to run all manufacturing establishments in the entire South, an important matter to the South, but the industries depending upon the, forest products will also be benefited by the protection thrown about the] remaining timbered area. Had Piles 14 Years. Cured by Tetterine The Shuptrine Co., Savannah, Ga.-I had such a bad case of itching piles that for five years I ould not lie on my back, and for weeks I never lay down at all A Chicago druggist sold me aboxc of TETTERINE, and I did not use but half the box before I was cured. That was five months ago, and there are no signs of its returning. It is good aftAr fourteen years' suffering to find a cure.. 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