The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 08, 1929, Image 6
Nothing But Name
Left at Hamburg
Aiken, Oct. 28*?-'"Hamburg, S. C?
just across the river from Augusts,
is gone this time for sure," is tne
way the Augusta Herald begins an
editorial under the headline "High
Waters Leave Town with Nothing
but a Name." The article la the
Georgia paper continues as follows:
"The little city that was once famed
throughout the southeast, but
which in a period of a hundred years
dwindles to the point where it rep.
resented nothing more than two fllU
ing stations and some 25 or 30 negro
dwelling houses, a silent tribute
*o the vast strength of the Savannah
river when ijt goes on a rampage.
"Ipupdfttion of the lower floors of
k their hojgies has been almost an annual
experience of this little colony
of negroes. Past freshets compelled
them to move, to the second floor or
to temporarily desert their homes
i. i. * ' ' in, ?
until the Hood*? subsided. Little actual
damage resulted.
"Hut it was a different story in
the recent floods, two of which came
in as many weeks. Speeded up by
the levees they kept the raging waters
from spreading over Augusta,
the "Main Street" of Hamburg was
itself 11 swirling river bed and the
waters lapped about the tops of the
chimneys and pounded against the
shingles of the roofs.
"Jb'rom 12 to 15 houses were entirely
swept awuy and are lost somewhere
in the swamps below Augusta,
An equal number of residences were
left twisted und torn, some of them
being moved a block awuy and leaning
against trees.
" 'Hamburg's done for this time,'
we remarked to an elderly negro who
poked among the ruins for some
truce of his belongings that were
swept away with his home.
" 'Yes, sir," he said, 'Hamburg's
gone now.'
"And his lugubriously suggested
distruction of his little community
was a greater blow than the loss of
any personal belongings.
"A few of the negro families who
have lived in Hamburg for many
years will come buck. Already they
are trying to make a house here arid
there habitable. But the owner* of
this property are not expected to
keep these mud battered and twisted
shack* in livable condition. It would
be sending good money after bud.
"And so it is not difficult to predict
that Hamburg is ready to join
South Carolina's list of 'forgotten
town*.' That is. forgotten except to
the historian, for the fame it made
and enjoyed over a long period of
years will exist for quite a span of
time.
"Piled up against the Southern
railway trestle are the shells of
dwelling houses. In the mass of the
wreckage one may see sections of a
roof, gable ends, sills, doors, window
frames and no end of muddy pieces
of household furniture. In one pile
. . ' '1
1 * | - r-rrrr?t-t frr??
of debris we saw a baby carriage, an
oil stove, old shoes, cooking utenails
and a baby high chafr.
"If Henry Schultz ghost stalks
about those ruins it must be an apparition
that bears a great sorrow.
"There is a far greater monetary
loss on the highway Just a stone's
throw from Hamburg settlement.
Hut it is not so pathetic. It is less
impressive.
".Sherman did not know half as
much about destroying towns as does
the Savannah river when it goes or^
a rampage.
"In some of the houses left standing
one can see household furnishings
stuffed into the atttc, or on the
second floor piled upon tables. This
bears mute testimony to the hope of
Hamburg dwellers that the flool
would not reach them there. But it
did. In most instances the muddy
waters went clear to the roofs, the
silt and slime upon the shingles revealing
the high mark of the overflow.
*
"<0n the toighway-MLJ. S. Route No.
\t some 1,200 feet of All and pavement
are gone. The pavemejit was
either swept into the swamp or pick'
ed up and twisted into blocks and
dumped back again onto the broken
highway. One freight car just below
the All is standing with its heels
turned toward the skies. " When
one looks at the havoc
wrought it is hard to believe that
this way can be made passable by
the time the bridge repairs are completed.
The South Carolina highway
authorities say it will be dope. We
hope they are correct in tneir estimate."
Stolen Navy Fuuda Recovered
Washington, Oct. 29.?Navy department
officials announced t9day
that they had found $47,000 buried
in a chicken yard in southeast Washington
by Lieutenant Charles Musil,
who disappeared from Charleston, S.
C., several weeks ago with a $54,600
payroll. v .
Father of 14, Wed*
Samson, Aia., Oct. 31. -C?pmt,
R. S. Spurlin, 87-year-old command^
of the Samson Camp of Confederals
veterans, and 'Miss Emma Joba**
17, have been married. *
Tha veteran's first wife died six 1
months agp. Then Miss Johnaon and
her grandmother went to live in his
home, the grandmother as housekeep.
er. Recently the grandmother became
too feeble to carry on the work I
and returned to her home. Captain
Spurlin has ii children.
? -Trr*
Car lead of Hogs Shipped
Another car of demonstration fed
hogs,-the fifth this fall, was shipped
to Richmond today by Sumter county
farmers, under tfce direction of county
agent J. M. Eleazer. Twelve far,
mers made up the shipment, whicn
contained 88 hogs, with a total
weight of 16,005 pounds. The ship,
ment netted those taking part fl,.
346.78, -Mr. Eleazer announced.-. '
I Friday's 'Sumter Item.
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