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roofs and glass an shutters from windows was almos afening. Many doors to business h were blown open and great loss .ill be suffered from rain beating in and flooding the stocks of goods. Yesterday evening at about 8 o'clock the entire trolley car. system of the city was interrupted by breaks in the wires. Shortly afterwards the lights in every portion of the city glimmered out and everything was in total dark ness for several minutes until house holders found their way to the gas jets. The crews of the dark trolley cars remained with their cars until late in the night in the hope of wit nessing an 'abatement of the storm and thus being able to run their cars into the sheds. But as the storm continual ly grew worse, the men were called off duty and with difficulty made their way to their homes. At an early hour this morning it was impossible to walk on the streets facing the two water fronts of the city. The wind, blowing at a velocity estimated from 75 to 80 miles an hour, swept the streets clear. The rain, falling in tor rents at times, poured down strong enough to beat in windows and plate glass doors. Big tin roafs, torn from their. moorin s on buildings situated in_ the expos portions of the city, sailed through the streets for hun dreds of feet without touching the 11L ground. At one time East Bay street, near Queen, was literally barricaded by a mass of tin roofs, broken pieces' of wood and fine gravel. City Cut Off. The city was cut off from all com munication at about 9.30 o'clock. The Western Union and Postal telegraph Oompanies reported that all means of communication leadiiig out of the ci%y had ben closed upon by the hurricane, which literally mowed down wires in all directions. The municipal tele phone service was out of commission early in the evening. The railroad telegraph service was also interrupted, and it was reported at the postoffice late in the evening that trains had ced-operation out of the city. Trees Uprooted. Hundreds of trees, both large and small, in evry part of the city, were ~broken or uprooted, and telegraph -and telephone poles every'where impeded progress on the streets and sidewalks.1 Especiaaly great was the damages among trees and poles in the outskirts of the city. Thousands of windows were smashed by flying pieces of wood and stone or pushed in by the fury of the wind. A Bad Night. The night was a creepy on,e. The wind roaring over ithe city, the opase less rattle of slates and tins wrenched from roofs, the crash of chimneys fall ing into the streets or alleys, the inky blackness, the awe-inspiring thunder of the waves in the harbor as they dashed furiously against the wharves and the sea walls, and worst of all the' uncertainty of 'it all, were enough to Vmake the stoutest heart quail Islanders Warned. Forecaster Cole lost no time In pending out advices for the people -on the islands to come over to - the main land, especially if they lived near the - water front With the, advice he gave notice that the tides were expected to be high late in the evening as the wind was from the east. There were fifteen hundred Sunday excu.rsionists on the Isle of Palms. No one took any note of the elements in til the early afternoon, whefr the storm began to take on a serious aspect. The ffirst afternoon boat left thekiland at 5 o'clock, carrying about 800 people, mostly excursionists who had come in from other cities. Lawrenee's Rough Passage. From the mainland many watched with intense interest the passage' of the big ferry boat, the Lawrence. The ' ind was blowing 45 miles an hour and the harbor presented a rough sea. The ferry boat swung down the Cooper river and those on land thought that Fshe would come to dock about the Southern railway piers. Three-quar ters of the way across she headed southwest and made the ferry wharf in good order. The passengers had had a rough passage and as soon as the platform of the boat was coupled with the gang plank they made a wild brea?l for terra firma. A Number of Accidents. In the rush from the boat a number of women were overcome and several fainted in the press of the crowd. Chil dren screamed out with fright, and others with pain, as their toes were trampled on in the mad rush. Three ' hundred and fifty people still remained on the island and Superintendent Pas sailaigue, of the Consolidated, was anxious to get them to mainland, for he had received word direct from the Sweather office to exercise his best ef forts in getting the crowds off the is land. The sea was so rough that Mr. Passailaigue told the master of the bat+ to e his: judg-ment-'- > not to risk the trip uniess he felt safe in doing so. The Last Passenger. It was supposed that the ferry boat had been emptied of all its passengers and the whistle was sounded for the start on the return trip. Just then' a lady rushed out to the end of the low er deck, and though the boat had separated from the pontoon by several feet, made an effort to step off. The efforts of the officers on deck to stop *her were futile, and she fell between the boat and the landing place. For tunately she was caught by a gentle man, who happened to be standing at the beach, and saved from the water. Just then the sea tossed the boat against the pontoon and one of the lady's limbs was caught. Her leg was severely bruised and she suffered the loss of a slipper, but no bones were broken. Could Not Come Back. It was an extremely perilous voyage the Lawrence undertook on the return trip. The wind was increasing in velo city and the waves were getting high er and higher every moment. The 'driving raino-covered the bay as with a canopy of thick smoke and the boat was soon lost to view. With Little Warning. The storm came unexpected. Char lestonians went to bed Saturday night with clear skies above and the -stars keeping watch in the heavens. Shortly before midnight clouds began to cover the eastern portion of the skies, and by midnight rain was falling. The barometer ordinarily falls in the night time between 10 o'clock and 4 p. m., after which it begins to rise again. Saturday night it fell till 4 a. m., but instead of rising it continued to fall steadily. The morning dawned cool, with about thirty miles an hour of wind and a driving rain. - APACHE AERIVES SAFE. Clyde Steamer in Port After Trying Experience-Terrible Storm Weathered. Charleston, Aug. 29.--Plunging to wards apparent destruction' on the beach of Hunting Island in the midst of the hurricane,\that seyept the Caro lina coast on Sunday night and Mon day, the Clyde liner Apache, with 125 passengers aboard, was opportunely saved by a sudden change in the wind and came into Charleston harbor this morning badly wrecked by wind andI sea, but -not seriously damaged. For a tense five minutes the passengers of the Apache stood on the lower deck with life, preservers around their bodies waiting for the vessel to strike and determined to make a grim fight for their lives. Driven along by a wind the speed of which was estimat&d by Capt. Wil liam Staples of the liner at 100 miles an hour, the big steamer found 'her self helpless about 1.30 o'clock -on Monday afternoon. She was bound south from New York and had been blown past the mouth of the harbor to a point off Hunting Island. The gale swept in shore and its force was irpesistible. Full speed ahead into tIe teeth of the storm could not drive the liner forward and when two an iors were put overboard the chains snapped like cords. Hurled Toward Shore. 'Helpless in the grasp of the hurri cane, the ship was being literally hurl ed towards the Hunting. Island break ers, and the passengers, with life pre servers on, had well nigh given up hiopc when suddenly the wind shifted and the vessel was saved. MADE COMPULSORY. Army Officers and Men Must be Vac cinated Against Typhoid. Washington, Aug. 28.-Vaccination against typhoid fever was made corn p'lsory today for every officer and enlisted man in the United States army under 45 years of age. The only ex ceptions allowed by the war depart ment's order in the matter are those who have had the diseas4, or who hav'e already been vaccinated. This action was ftaken by the secre tary of war on the recommendation 'of Surgeon General Torney. The army physicians are enthusiastic over the efficacy of the anti-phoid inoculation. 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