Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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,yesterday morning. The dead: Alonzo J. Coburn, Southern Railway engineer, of Charleston. Ida 'Morgan, white. ~osa Robinson, white. Rosa Robinson, white. E. V. Cutter, motorman, of Charles '%on. Rojert E. Smith, of Columbia. Mrs. -M. Goodson, of Waycross, Ga. Charles Goodson, 2 years, of Way cross, Ga. Mrs. G. Richter, of Charleston. Mary Richter, of Charleston. Lilian Stender, of Charleston. 'I wo unAw negro men, of John's Tsland. Two unknown negro men, of- Johns Island. One unknown negress, of Sullivan's Island. It is regarded as almost certain that when the more reniote sea islands can be heard fronl the list of dead will be still further increased. Property Damage. There is yet no way in which an estimate of the damage wrought in the city or in the surrounding districts can be arrived at. Opinion as to the extent of the property loss -in the city varied widely yesterday. All agreed that it was well beyond the half-mil lion dollar mark, and there were many whose business took them through ev ery portion of the city who were cer tain that a conservative estimate would carry the loss over one million of dol ars. Starry Skies Come Again. Charleston this morning at 2 o'clock r(ste<. tranquil under starry skies, the storm gone no man knows whither, Tlie street % 1:eh in the morning prz -sented an almost indescriable appear ance, had ben cleaned up to a great extent witil the g ester portion of the wreckage carried away or piled on one side to allow the resurrected traffic to take ifs course. Erasing Work of Storm. Several car lines commenced opera tions late in the afternoon. The telephone companies announce that at least a portion of its wires would be in operation this morning.. Business in every 'ection of the city picked up wonderfully yesterday 4 an>orning. Everywhere was to be heard the r,e dssuring sound of the hammer and saw. Telegraphic connections with the outside world were established early in the afternoon. Trains ran out of the city on sche - dule time. City Has Recovered. And best of all, the community as a wvhole appears to have entirely recov-t ered from the nude shock it received I at the hands of the storm, and has set . its face to the task of rebuilding the I 'destruction caused by the dreadful e calamity. All are thankful that it was .nott worse. Charleston has passed through ( pestilence and war, fire and water, i and her people have bobbed serenelyi every' time, ready for the fray. A general air of optimism pervades c the entire city. The process of erasing the fearful t markings left by the Storm King have 1 begun and will continue until the last 1 vestige has been removed. Thousand in Charleston and eVery3 section of South Carolina were made i glad yesterday by the tidings carried I in these columns to. the effect that lov-I ed ones cut off from all means of com-1 I munmcation with the main land on Sul livans Island and the Isle of Paltns I bad been rescued and restored to the armis of those who have been awaiting them with fear and trembling as to The outcome of it all. t t F'ive persons were drowned off Wap-F poo Mills, in St. Andrews Parish, in -the storm of Sunday night. The dead1 are as follows: Mrs. Lottie Richter. Mary Richter, Mrs. Martha Goodson. Vt Char.les Goodson and Lillian Stender. .The bodies of Mrs. Richter, Lillian Stender and Charles Goodson were re covered and brought to Charleston yesterday for burial, and diligent search is still being made for the: bodies of Mrs. Goodson and little Mary' Richter. The deathi of these persons was from drowning in the highwaters1 of Wappoo Cut late Sunday night, af ter they had been driven from the' small cottage in which they were hloused. This cottage was the home of B~ennis Cassidy, watchman at Wappoc.F IBoth Cassidy and his wife were saved after a fierce fight with the wind and \aves. It is stated that the father of Mrs. Richter is Policeman Charles Westendorff, of the local force, and that she has many relatives in the city.t ~The Cassidy residence was washed1 -away by the high waters, and those in1 the home who were savled made their escape by floating on top of the roof * and upon a small outhouse. These were rescued by a negro farmer by the name of Ford, who gave them clothes and food and assisted them en their way to Charleston. A necu-J liar feature of this terrible affair was that none of the occupants of the house was clothed at all. They had undressed for bed before the storm broke upon them and what night cloth es they wore were torn from them by the wind and the waters. Sad Story of Tragedy. It is a sad story +hat is told of this drowning. Mrs. Lottie Richter was a young woman, just about 20 years of age, and her little daughter, Mary, who was also drowned, was but a babe of 3 months. Little Lill:an Sten der was about 2 years of age, as was Charles Goodson. Mrs. Goodson, moth er of the young boy, was about 36 vears of age, and resided at Waycross. Ga Tt was a rather Da4he'ic tak that was told the News and Courier report Er last night .by y,ung Douglass Good son an older brother of Charles, and the manner in which he related the exper . nce ,f ;he night were calr-ulat ed to win nothing but sympathy for 1 irr. and for the others, both those who were saved and those who were lost. There was a large crowd in the small cottage that was destroyed, the Cassidys, John Stender, his wife and child, Mr. and Mrs. Richter and their two children and others. How Hard the Wind Blew. According to information received at the weather bureau office in Char leston the highest velocity of wind re corded during the storm was 94 miles an hour at midnight Sunday night. Tie wind may have blown harder, for after midnight hour the anemometer, which records the velocity of the wind, broke and it was 8 o'clock Monday morning before a substitute machine could bel put in operation on top of the custom house. How Columbian and Conductor Lost Their Lives. Among those who lost their lives in the storm was Mr. E. R. Smith, of Co lumbia, connected with the hardware department of Lorick & Lowrance. Mr. Smith was a nativie of Greenville. He inarried Miss Elizabeth Wavra about two years ago. Mr. W. J. Rucker, of Columbia, Mr. ind Mrs. E. R. Smith, Motorman Cut :er of Charleston, who was killed with WIr. Smith, and Mr. Edwin L. Clerc, assistant caishier of the Southern Ex >ress company at Columbia, left the [sle of Palms, as they had been warn ~d of the approach of the storm, hough a,t that tiirne there was no indi ~ation that there was going to be any ~reat danger. Reaching the sheds at ~.30 o'clock. a large cr >wd l,*arded tho ~ars for the boat landiing at Mount' 'leasant, arr'v:ig at 7.30 o'clock The aptain 6f the Lawrence had just re urned from the city a-:vi said he da~r-I d not venture another journey across he bay. The boat was being thrown bout by the waves against the crib f piles and the sea was running high. Vhen the visitors had been told that here would be no chance to get. to iharleston while the storm was rag ng, they hastened to -return to the1 sland. On their retreat-from the water rant, Mrs. Smith discovered the loss if her pocketbook and asked her hus 'and, Mr. Rucker and the motorman o return to the wharf and bring it to 1 ter. She said it had probably beeni tropped near the place where the fer yboat -had been tied up. On their v'ay to the place it was necessary for he party to pass the part of the'bridge ext to the crib, where the ticket of-1 ice was located. As they reached a point' just opposite the ticket office,j section of the bridge gave way, and /Ir. Smith and Mr. Cutter were car ied into the water, the fragments of< >ies and beams from the collapsing restle falline with them and making; hem helpless. Mr. Rucker and Mr., ~lere held on to the timbers that did ot yield and in this way their lives rere saved. The bodies of Messrs.t ~mith and Cutter were recovered .by i earchers in a vapor launch who has ened to the wharf -upon learning of1 he accident.U The power of the storm was illus rated very forcibly, Mr. Rucker said, vhen the top of the ferryboat was dIown off. A steam Pipe exploded and t seemed that the boat was about to. te destroyed. At the time these two teciden.ts happened, the beat was filled vith passengers; many ladies fainted, Lnd strong men turned pale. How Engineer Was Killed. Among the storm casualties was that *of Mr. Alonzo J. Coburn, of 12 Sumter street, Charleston, an engin-I eer of the Southern railway, who was struck by a piece of planking while standing near a window of the yard master's~ office on Line street. Mr. E. S. Flathmann, night yard master of the Southern railway, in an interview with a representative of the News and Courier, gave a very de scriptive account of the unfortunate accident. Mr. Flathmann stated that about 10.40 o'clock. Sunday night, he, with sev!eral other railroad men, were discussing the possibilit of gettin out a train which _1r. Coburn was to run. The engineer at the time of the accident, was standing with his back near the east window trying to repair a broken chair, when suddenly a loud crash was heard, and the small wood en building was jarred as if struck by lightning. In less time than it takes to tell, Mr. Flathmann said, it was all over and the only thing unusual noted at the time was that the frames of the east and west windows were blown away. It was fully five minutes before the excited men recovered their senses. No attention was paid to the absence of Mr. Coburn, as it was thought that during the nerve racking period he had left the office for the round-house. But later developments showed that he was not at the eigine house, and the yard master and his party there fore started out with lanterns in search of their comrade. They had not gone very far when Mr. Flathmann stumbled over the remains of the en gineer. The body was taken into the yard office, and the coroner was immediate ly notffied. The coroner did not view the remains until 11 o'clock yesterday morning. The inquest was held af terwards. The board that struck Mr.' Coburn was part of a twenty-foot piece of roofing torn from a box car, standing on the repair tracks of the car shops. Mr. Flathmann, bears several ugly cuts on his right hand, and thinks that either a piece of the window framing or the shoes of the dead man struck him as he was hurled through the west window, near which Mr. Flath mann had a viery close call. Mr. Coburn is about fifty years old. He was a hard worker and very popu lar in railroad circles. He is survived by a wife fnd one daughter. A Graphic Story. (Story of the storm in News and Courier of Monday morning, written, while the storm was at its height. With the elements raging in a man ner scarcely to be conceived, with the lives of sixty-five thousand people im perilled, with entire roofs of building gone by the board and with every means of communication with the out side world, excepting a stray train orj so, the News and Courier goes to press] this morning in the midst of what may prove to be the most terrific hurricane that has passed over this city since August 4, 1893. Conditions last night made it absolutely impossible to as :>ertain whether.the storm was accom panied by the loss of livles or the crip pling of human bodies, nor was it possible to learn what damage had >een done on the neighboring islands r up in Charleston' Neck., The News and Courier reporters several times risked their lives ,in venturing out up 'n the street to attempt to learn some >f these things, but their efforts were ill in vain. With telegraph service 3ut off, the people of Charleston were' ast night as helpless in communicat ng with each other as if they had been Living in the most primitive,. ages. Wihen this was written the velocity of he wind was 80 xmiles an hour, but~ he baromnter was falling steadly andI t is possible that the wind may' yet go ;o 100 miles an hour. In this case the iurricane may even eclipse the great ~tormn of 1893, which, strange to say, ccurred on August 27, exactly eigh :een years ago. On the Water Front The water front presented a stormy ;cene at 11 o'clock last night. At that ~our the wind was blowing at the rate >f 74 miles an hour and the rain was, alling heav'y. The waves broke South mnd East Battery, and 'these sections vere flooded with water. The boats1 noored along the Cooper river tossed mnd tugged at thMir moorings, while he big Clyde Liner Mohawk rolled at he dock as the .wind broke in gusts Lbout her. The lighthouse tender Cy iress, at the governmient docks, thrw 1er searchlight in all directions, and he long gleams, which in the dist.anse ieemed to be swallowd by the d.rk n-s were the &ily lights visible aJ)ng he water front. The sounding of the ~reat waves as they raced in, white zapped from the sea, caused an omin >us roar, which gave an undertone to the multiplied noise's which increased' with >the battle of the elements. ti oRain and Wid U tomidnight there had beena rainfall of 2.60 inches since midnight of Saturday night. At 11 o'clock last night the barometer was reported go ing up and the wind at only 48 miles an hour. At this time it seemed that the worst had passed, but shortly af ter 11 o'clock the barometer began falling again and immediately the wind velocity increased till by mid night the velocity was 80 miles an hour. Few people ventured forth af ter 9 o'clock, and the few who did carried their lives in their hands. 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