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ISTABLISED 1NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER_6,1893. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR "A TALE OF TROY" Ofrered for the Study of Adults-SugC4ied by "Grandva's" Story Pub'i8hed in Her.d and News. BY DAVID JONES, OF 0110. (Concuded frorn 'a.t week.) If Grandpa had been properly inter ested in the temperanee question now -agitating the people of South Carolina, he might have given "Francis and the other good children," the story of Ulys ses's subsequent adventure with Paly phemus, the one-eyed Giant who dwelt in the land of the Cyclops; it being an instance of the terrible consequences sometimes resulting from drunkenness. When Ulysses with twelve compan ions started to explore that strange land or island, his strange forebodings (he says) caused him "To take a goat-skin filled with pre cious wine, The gift of Maron of Evanthus' line." They find Polyphemus' (ave, sup plied with cheese. etc., but the giant is absent with his flock. Ulysses, instead of taking necessary supplies and leav ing, as his followers advised, rashly re mains with them to behold th.e mon ster man when he should return. He comes in the evening, drives in his sheep and goats closing the door with a monstrous rock. After his evening labors are performed he starts a fire and by its light discovers Ulysies and his followers, two of whim he slays and eats after holding savage colloquy with their ler.der. Next morning he eats two others, drives out hiq filocks and leaves the living men Imprisoned. Ulysses then,who in the first line of the Odyssey is called "The man for wis dom's various arts renowned",employs that wisdom to extricate himself and remaining men from the dreadful fate that evident.ly awaited them. He had deceived the giant once already by tell ing him their ship was wrecked, thereby saving it from his clutches; and must deceive him again. more than once too, if they would avoid being also eaten by him. He cuts six feet from the giant's war club with .,hich to put out his eye after he should have made him drunk on the delicious wine he had brought. The next evening the Cyclop returns, goes through the same roatine of milking his flocks, &c.. after which he devours two more men making half 6f them. Ulysses then approaches him with his wine, praises it, and th-n offers to bring him more if he would permit their return home. What the (ziani said ani did is so graphic tiat I must give it in the language of the traus.at,r: -He -heard, he took, an-] poured down his throat, Delighted. swille' the large luxurious draught. More, give me more, he cried, the boon he thine, Whoe'er thou art that hea-rest celestial wine, Declare thy name; not mortal is this juice, Sueh as the umluest Cyclopean climes produce; (Though sure our viue, the cluster yields, And Jove's scorned thunder serves to drench our fields;) But this descended ttom t he blest abodes, -A ril of Nectar stre aing from the Godls. Now he takes anothe-r swill. * He said, and greedy graspedi the heady bowl, Thrice drained aund poured thbe deluge .on his soui; His sense lay covered with dozy fume, * Whbile thus my fraudful speech I reas same; Th~y promised boou, 0 Cyclop, now I cI: And pl..ad my title: Nomuan is my name: By that, distinguished from my tender years, 'Tis what my parents call me, and my peers. The giant, then, our promised grace receive, The hospitable boon we mean to give: When all the wretched crew have felt my power, Noman wvill be the last I will dlevour. He said: and nodding with the fumes of wine, Dropped his huge head, and snoring lay supine, Hsneck obliquely o'er his shoulder hung, Pressed by the weight of sleep that tames the strong. There belch'd the mingled streams of wine and blood, And hu'man flesh, his undigested food. Sudden, I stir the embers and inspire With animating breath, the seeds of fire: Eac-h drooping spirit with liold words repair, And urge my train the noble deed to dare. The stake nowv glowed beneath the burning bed, (Green as it was' and sparkled fiery red; . Then forth the vengetul instrument I bring; With beatiug hearts my fellows form a ring, U4ged by some present God, they swift let faii The pointed torment ou his visional balls: Myself above thzem, from a rising grountd Guiide the sharp stake and twirl it round and round, As when a shipwright stands his work men o er Who ply the w!mz~ble, some huge beam to bore; Urged on all hands it nimbly spins about: The giant, deelp piercing. 'til it scoops it out; In his broad eye so whirls the fiery romi the pie'r(-ed pupil spo'uts the boil ingr blood: Sing - his b,rows; the burning lids grow ack, The jelly but.M, and the fibres crack. * And as when arm'~rers temper in the ford The keen edged pole axe or the shinzing sword The red hot metal hiss-s in the lake, Thus in his e.e'al h:issed the pinuog ing stake.'' -Eaougi of the rhapsodies anid now -for brief pro,e. IXiyphlemus was awak . ened and sobered b-y the terrible inlic u,,m He greatd, dashed the gory brand upon the ground, and called tne other (,iants to the door of his cave. They demand the cause of his call. He tells them that Noman is afflictitig him. They reply, if No Man hurts him, the Gods do it, and be must pray for help to Jove and his father Nept- .>e. They then leave the cave, and Ulysses and his men escpe by his shrewd lie. rhe giant gropes to find them, comes to the door, removes the stone and sets in the niids'. with extended arms to seize tbem as they go out. Here U lysses's wisdom is again called into service. He binds the sheep in threes with strips from the giant's bed; the midmost carries a man, and the blind Cyclop feeling only of the out side ones sutered them to escape, and Ulysses succeeds by the aid of his favor ite ram. The joyful meo drive the giant's flocks to their ship, take them aboard and leave the shore. When at a dis tance Ulysses calls to the giant, re proaches him for his cruelty, tells him his real name, and taunts him with the loss of his eye. The enraged Cyclop not only hurls rocks by which he al most sinks their ship, but expresses great regret that he (Ulysses) had thus ruined him, "not by strength, but by wine.'' The marvelous history of wise Ulys ses I will follow no farther, but will callthe attention of the readers of "The Herald and News" to the above story as an illustration of the direful results of drunkenness, niot stopping at the ruin of eyes, it daily causes murders, as the papers abundantly show, while the indescribable Pufferings of wives and children are borne mainly in solitude and silence. * "Their blood cries as from the ground," but is unheeded by the two great political parties who knavelV tell us that we caunot reform men by law, so we ought to rely upon moral suasion. True, we cannot reform but we can restrain. When we build sheep folds we do not expect to reform the wolf but to save the sheep. The man who deliberately weighs human life and happiness against gold and makes go!d preponderate, is about as unreachable by "moral suasion" as the wolf or the tiger; so restrictive laws only can govern him. He claims the privilege of liquor making and selling as a iight of personal liberty (which prohibitionists never claim), unmind ful of the fact that "personal liberty" as viewed by~all moralists, permits no man to follow a calling detrimental to his fellows. Like Moloch, the liquor power must have its human vic.ims or sacrifices, but worse than that blood stained god (that brought immediate death to his victims), it destro,' s the m',st of them by long continuous tor ture. Givig -le liquor maker and ven dor the full benefit of their argument that "men and women are not com pelled to drink," they shall not escape the force of the fact that the wives and chidren of their patrons are often com pelled to endure-woes and sorrows in describable: leaving out its demoraliza tion, its destruetion of labor, and costs to the State in a greatly enlarged po lice, in trials for crimes resulting from drunkenness, in the furnishing of alms to its unhappy victims, etc. This vast and uzscrupulous power, like the horse leech's daugh ters, is continually crying "give, give, it is not enough." It recognizes no law, human or divine, that opposes it, but by compulsion. It demands both the night and the Sab bath for its nefarious business; it de mands a high position in the govern ment and at the world's fair; it assas sinates editors and ministers who use all their strength to stop its progress; it has the temerity to es*ablish presses justifying its course; it cajoles the States and nation by the money it puts in their treasuries, when the fact is ap parent to every comipeten t investigator that is contributions are like those of the hypocrite as described by Pollok: "With one hand he put, A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out." It is well known that the rum power will not follow an unprofitable business, and such its vast wealth testifies. That power expresses neither joy nor regret at the alternating success of the Repub lian and Democratic pate.Having them by the thrctat, they dare not of fend it for fear of losing its yet divided support. They virtually say to it, "Pay us past ure rent and you may turn loose the ox that is wont to push with his horns," leaving it to us to look after his gored victims upon the high ways. Though Moses in his law commanded that such oxen and their owners should be stoned; your money shalf secure you immunity from us. I have given the rumseller the strength of his argument, that liquor drinking-is voluntary; co.ssequently he is not responsible for it. Let us try the strength of this argument. The Bible (whieb I trust the readers of your paper believe) says, "Cursed is he who put teth thbe boti le to his neigh bor's mouth, and manketh him drunken." Now what is "putting the bottle," &c., but placing the temptation in his way. 'an the uilded saloon with all its at trctons escape this curse. If so, where can it be placed. Poor inebri ates, who wanted to reform, have told me that they wished no such places existed, that th"ir love of the bowvl was so great that they could scarcely see such places without being overcome. Such are to he pitied, and every friend of his race should strive to banish the saloon. As a further illustration of the responsibility incurred by those who pace temptations b'etore the unwary, I append the following poem from "The fast anchored isle'' which is gzretly sutTering unik r the drink curse. It is intended mainly for the female reaers of The Herald and News. Alone, in a cold dark street: And he led him to a palace fair, Where music circled sweet. And light and warmth cheered the poor man's heart From cold and darkness screened; 'Ti! his brain grew mad beneath the joy, And he worshipped before the fiend. Sb: well had be never worshirped that fiend, - J?or a taskmaster griI was he, And he said one-half of thy life on earth, I enjoin thee to yield to me: And when from morning 'til setof sun, Thou toilest in beat or snow. Thy gains must on my altars be laid, And the poor man ne'er said: No: This pror man at that time bad health Stout bones and muscles strong; That never feeble or weary grew, Though he toiled, the summer day long: Tb-!L-nd cried out both shrill and loud, 'hy strength, thou must forego, Or thou, no follower art of mine; And the poor man ne'er said: No! Three children graced this poor man's - home Little angels, dropped to earth, Then the fiend bebeld their bright blue eyes And he laughed with fearful mirth. Bring forth, cried he,thy children three, My godhead wills it so; That they should an offering be to me, And the poor man ne'er said: No! A young wife sat by this poor man's fire; Vho, since she had become a bride. Had heightened hisjoys and sweetened his cares, His gu:.rdian friend and guide. Fall foul of her, then cried the flend, Fill up her cup of woe; Make her drain the cup to the very d regs, And the poor man ne'er said: No! Ah! misery now to this poor man, Ab! worse than misery; His godlike reason the iend next took, And with the beasts fed he; And when his reason and all were gone, He pilfered his soul also, But marvel of marvels, he murmured not. This poor man ne'er said: No! Now men and maidens, one and all, Children and grandsires old: Come, listen with both heart and ear; While I this tale unfold: Come listen 'til your brain turns round, And your hearts are sick to think, That in England's isle this all befell, And the name of that fiend was DRINK." When I see the temperance people of South Carolina striving so hard to rid their State of the drink curse, I feel ad ditional mortification that imy State is so far behind in thaL noble work. Party fealty is so powei ful in t.a North and West that the South, itseems, will be the leader in this great reformation. The Acts of your last Legislature somewhat disappointed the temperance people who knew the basis upon which they, the members, were elected. When State authority conducts the liquor traffie it gives, if not moral, at least legal, sanction to it and thus far strengthen which every Prohibi tionist con s. It is to be hoped, however, that the results of the .Dis pensary may make some advance in the cause of temperance; that the ex ample of your noble citizen, Francis Marion, (who once sprang through a a window to avoid being almost forci bly put in the condition of his maudlin companions,) may be more and more followed by your'people; that the per sistent temperance labors of H on. John B. O'Neall, J.-N. Whitner, Andrew Wallace, H. J. Dean, A. Rhett, Robert Brice, Gilbert T. Snowden, John Glass, A. W. Leland, D. D., John Bryce, M. C. Shaffer, Henry Muller, George Howe, D. D., John F. Marshall, Henry Summer, and others, "may, like bread (seed) cast upon the waters, be seen after many days" in the banishment of the liquor traffic from the intelli gent, magnanimous and heroic State of South Carolina. WVest-Milton, 0., June 5th, 18933. From Head to Foot you feel the good that's done by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It purifies the blood. And through the blood, it cleanses, repairs, and invig orates the whole system. In recovering from "La Grippe,'' or in convalescense from pneumonia, fevers or any other wasting diseases, nothing can equal it as an appetizing, restorative tonic to build up needed flesh and strength. It arouses every organ into natural action, promotes all the bodily functions, and restores health andl vigor. For every disease that comes from a torpid liver or impure blood, Dyspep sia, Indigestion, Billiousness, and the most stuoborn Skin, Scalp, or Scrofu loun affections, the "Discovery" is the only remedy so certain that it can be guaranteed. If it doesn't benefit or cure, in every case, you have your money back. For a perfect and permanent cure for Catarrh, take Dr. Sage's Catarrh Rem edy. Its proprietors offer $504) reward for an incurable case of Catarrh. Those se1lh Chicagoans. Mrs. Muggins : "How did you enjoy your visit to the World's Fair?" Mrs. Puggins : "The Fair wa good enough, but I don't think they had any business to charge extra for the gondolas and side shows and things. Seems to me the price of admission was enough to cover it all and give a free lunch besides, but it didn't. I never saw such selfish, money-saving~ creatures as them C'hicago people. The worst of the tro;ubles. though, came at night. That was awful:' We were nacked four in a room sometimes, and one night the children had to sleep on the sofas. I never felt so annoyed in m y li fe." "Were vou at a hotel T "No, we wvas visitin' relatives, and other relatives kept comin'." IMany people not aware of the dangers of constip)ation, neglect the p)roper remedy tii the habit becomes chronic, or iniammation or stoppage results., A dose or two of Ayer's Pills in the be THE CHARLESTON CYCLONE. Fan Story of the )irt IPtaster-The Watei Fronits of the City Corn pletely Wr#-cked The Fury of the Storm on Sul l1van's4 Iland. LSpecial to The State.] CHARLESTON, August 29.-The ey. clone of August 27, M).3, will long tE remembered as one of the m:)st disas trous of the numerous disasters with which Charleston has been visited in many, many years. The cyclone began to creep upon us as early as Saturday, the wind increasing in velocity nearly every hour. At daybreak on Sunday it had reached about twenty-eight miles an hour, increasing rapidly. About 6 p. m. there was an abatement. Then the barometer began to fall and the wind began to regain steadily in velo city, until about midnight, when the cyclone seems to have reached its height. The final break in the torm did not occur till the turn or the tide Monday morning. The rain, which had poured in torrents nearly the entire night, slackened up, and by uoon the weather had cleared up enough to bring out hundreds or persons to view the ruins. The west and east water fronts are badly wrecked, and all throughout the streets of the city the debris of bricks, stones, lumber, telegraph wires, etc., blockades the way. On many of the streets there are rolls and rolls of tin roofing which were swept away during the night. The tides on the east and west fronts were forced up into the neighboring streets to the depth of from five to six (and in some places even ten) feet, making it almost impos sible for occupants of the houses tW communicate with the heart of the city. Numbers of private residences are injured, and among the churches, Flynn's, the CitadelSquare,Bethel, and St. Joseph's, have been reported as damaged to some extent. About half a dozen vessels were stranded, and along the entire east front there is but one pier-that of the custom house, which is constructed of stone-in a condition to be used. A steam launch, the Frolic, belonging to Mr. Chisholm, was lifted bodily by the wind and waves and landed over on the East Shore Terminal railway track, apparently uninjured. The numerous dainty little pleasure boats anchored in the West End Lake were washed ashore, and, when the tide ran out, were found on the pave ments around the lake. The fashior) able resort is an utter ruin-trees and benches all overturned and washed away by the waves. Be .afain, Rut ledge and the other streets in this vicinity are still pretty we!! submerged. The most distressing sight is pre sented at the Battery. Here the angry waves swept everything before them, and the water rose to the very doors of the handsome mansions which face on East and South Battery. Tbe magnifi cent promanade known as the High~ Battery, which was perfected after the cyclone of 18S5, yielded to the elements, and lies a mass of ruins. The flagstones which were used for paving weighed a ton each. It is a sad sigh t. Business was almost entirely sus pended yesterday. The butchers report heavy losses of cattle,:and all the poul try has perished. It is generally conceded that the cy clone of Sunday nigh t was even worse than that of 1885; but this, of course, is a matter of dispute, and the actnal damage in dollars has not yet been computed. The electric lights and the gas meters got out of order, and this only added to the dreariness of the night. The following details and incidents of the storm in and around the city and on Sullivan's Island are taken fro-m the News and Conrier of this morn ig: THlE LOSS OF LIFE. The lose of life has been remarkably slight, considering the fearful damage which was done to property in every quarter of the city. The total death rate numbers six persons, three of whom met their death in the city and three on the Islanri. MIary Barnwell, colored, was killed Sunday afternoon on Kramer's farm, on Charleston Neck, near the Five mile House. She was in a two-story wooden house with some other persons. When the cyclone struck the place it was wrecked in an instance. A dash for safety was made Iiy everyone in the building, and most of the eight persons in the house escaped unharmed. 31ary Barn well was crushed to death by the falling chimney. Ella and William Boble, both colored, were severely cut and bruised about the head at.d face. During the en tire day this was be lieved to be the only death which had been occasioned by the storm in the city. Late in the afternoon, however, invesigation of one of the numnerous rumors which were afloat developed the fact that a man and a child were drowneri about S::10 p. m. Sunday night in Younizs lot, at the foot of Tradd street. On Young's lot wvere living in a small shanty, a negro fami ly composed of a mani named Jones, and his wife and three children. At8~ o'clock some of their neighbors, whc heard their cries for help, went to their assistance. The wom:-n and' 'wo of the children were gotten into a saife place, but while a negro man named Robert Simumons wa trying to save the third child, a boy n.'.med James, both of them were swept off of the causeway by the rush ing waters. The body of the child was recovered yesterday afternoon but the bcd of Simmons h.s not yet been dis covered. Notwithstanding the nume rous vague rumors to the contrary these were the only deaths in the city. wyn:cK OF T 1E NEW BRIDGE. The bridge of the Charleston Bridge Company over the Ashley Itiver is al most a total wreck. The story of the disaster as told by Mr. James. L. Jones, the assistant bridge keeper, who was on duty, is as follows: The bridge, he said, was carried away about 11 o'clock; three hundred feet of the wood work planking leading from the Charleston causeway was washed away. Then another hundred feet and the two iron spans are gone, while there ic another gap on the St. An drews side. The draw is completely wrecked, one end of it hanging in the river. There were three schooners, a barge and the Pregnall pile driver Maud S, in collision with' the bridge during the night. The 'Maud S, which was lying near the Charleston side, was completely wrecked, the fragments be ing scattered on both sides. The three masted schooner .N. Luella Wood was in a collision near the centre. She bumped repeatedly and had a big hole punched in her stern. The two masted schooner Emma S. and another three master, whose name has not yet been learned, were also in co'Ysion, as was also Mr. C. C' Pinckney's barge. The destruction was not confined to the bridge structure ; the causeways on both sides of the river are badly washed, and the bri4ge-keeper's house was -lso wrecked. The keeper, who remained in the house all night, states that the flood arose over three feet from the floor. The tool house and other outbuildings were also wrecked. The causeway on this side of the river is piled with the wreckage of timber and lumber, enough almost to rebuild the bridge. The loss of the bridge is a very serious blow to the people of St. Andrew's. Thq loss is roughly estimated at from $30,000 to G0,000. The work of repairing will doubtless be commenced at as early a day as practicable. TIE STORM ON THE ISLAND-1oW MOULTRIEVILLE PASSED THROUG H THE JAWS OF DEATH. God has b en merciful to the thou sands of souls who live on Sullivan's Island. Three poor lives were cut short during a night of anxiety, trial and suffering, which was more than enough to try men's hearts. It was a night of terror and fear and little did many dream that when the sui arose yester day morning all of their dear ones would be alive. How those poor, ter ror-stricken people survived this su preme test of their courage and their faith no one can ever tell. How they prayed for the dawn of day, and with it hope, may be im agined. Water, deep water, was on every band, and with anxious fore boding the end was awaited. Those who could do so sought refuge in the fort, or some kind friend's home that s.tood on higher ground than their own, but how many lives were saved will never be told. Brave, noble and manly deeds were performed on Sunday night. Women and children, white and colored, were taken out of their houses in boats and borne by strong arms to some place of Yesterday morning brought to the Islanders a scene of ruin and destruc tion on every hand. The storm king had not only carried terror to the souls of the helpless people, but, to make his work complete, he had swept away some houses and crushed many others under his mighty blasts, hurled logs against houses, moved whole banks of sand, and gloried in his resistless powver. A TERRIBLE PICTURE:. Here a house in ruins, there a struc ture about to break to piecas, over the way a stricken family without shelter, the streets filled with debris and cattle roaming about the streets witbhout a herder. Even those who saw it could not realize what damage had been done. Yesterday was no time for con sidering losses with Islanders,t hey were all too glad to be numbered among the living. When the Island was reached it did not take more than a general survey to see that terrible damage had been done. As to its extent it would be useless to speculate. Not much could be seen in the hour that the passengers of the Kate Cannon hadl on the Island. The Sappho wvas lyiug at the remrnants of the Ferry Company's dock. The wharf had beeni almost completely washed away and like it most o,f the other wharves on the Island. The dock of the jetty contractors had fallen to the groun d and the passengers had to climb over logs and broken piers and through mud to get to the solid sand of MIoul trieville. Strange, is it not, but just as soon as the passeugers landed they were asked how Charleston fared, and then begged for a copy of the Newvs and Courier. There was no special regard for dress, and not a few of those who came down to the wharf still had on their night gowxa; a!! else had been destroyed. On every hand there were signs of destruction. The street car line, and with it the bridga and houses on every hand, were wrecked. Main street, as far as the eye could reach, was strcwn with wreckage, and looked as if it had been a beach where the ruin of shipwrecks had been cast. A few hundred yards up the streets were several large boats, alongside of them be~ds and bedding, and next to them d (ead poultry and ice boxes. That was the kind of wreckage that lined 3Main * ireet frm the Point nn to the fort The plank road had been washed away and where was once an even roadbed was a tangle of timber, household fur niture and everything else. THREE LIVES LOST. Naturally the first inquiry of all was whether anyone was killed. The an swer came, "Yes, three." How so few precious lives were lost, with such a terrific wind and water covering every part of the island, seems almost miraculous. It is in a measure accounted for by the bravery and hero isin of those who saw the desperate situation. Quick, cool work had to be done, and it was executed with phe nomenal success. Inquiry showed'that the killed were: Mrs. E. Polland. "Uncle Andrew" Bryan, colored. Sylvia Bryan, colored. Bryan and his wife lived in a cottage on the "back" beach. Yesterday morn ing their bodies were found on the beach. What had become of their home no one knew. The piles on which it stood were the only evidence of the spot where it stood, and they told that the house had gone to sea. Bryan and his wife had evidently been drowned in their efforts to escape. Mrs. Polland had been living on the island in a little cottage near Keenan's store. Her house was razed by the wind about II o'clock yesterday morn- I ing and she was found crushed to i death in her bed room. She had evi- i dently just been trying to leave her room when she lost her life. Inten dant Riecker had the body taken out of the house and will see that it is properly cared for. BRAVE DEEDS ON SUNDAY NIGHT. The brave deeds of Sunday night on Sullivau's Island will go down into his tory, taking place with any that have been told in song or story. It was with difficulty that any detailed account of them could be had, but the few stories that were told will tend to illustrate now nobly the men did work to save human life, and how miraculous lives were saved. This reads like fiction, perhaps, but it is true, every word of it, and it hardly tells the half of the tale.' It shows, however, of what stuff Alderman Johnson is made. It shows how will ing hands and hearts went to his assis tance to save human life. During the evening Mr. Johnson brought his boat up into his yard for safe-keeping. Lit tle did he dream that before the night was over it would be the means of sav ing dozens of lives. At about 11 o'clock he started out on a tour of help. His first visit was to Capt. James F. Red ding. There he found the family, twelve in number, in a state of wild alarm. An immense log had shattered the foundation of the house and the waves were rushing through the dining and sitting reoms. The Redding family were soon aboard the Johnson relief boat and wvere takien to Mrs. Hunt's house, the highest in the neighbor hood. Then Capt. Redding joined in the work of rescue. The boat was directed to the Diefenbach boarding house and how timely and providential the trip was, those who were saved can testify. The house was seven or eight feet in water and trembled in the storm. There was no time to be lost. It was about to break to pieces, it had already been crushed all the way down the centre. Willing hands went at work and soon there were twenty souls aboard the relief boat, all of them, ex cepting the crew, women and children. The excitement of the passengers was so great and their desire to get to a place of refuge so intense that all come near being lost. Just as the boat was nearing the Hunt house, too many of the women got on one side. The boat turned over. Down went the women aud children. The two Diefenbachs, Capt. Redding, Alderman Jobnson went to the rescue. There was only one thing to do-haul the women up to the house. No time could be lost. A :-pe was found and fixed to the posts of the piazza. The women were made to catch hold of the rope and hauled up into the house by main force. It was not long before the party of twenty were saved and thanking God that they had been saved. There were a number of babies on board, but none came nearer death than the little child of Mrs. Frank Myers. It went down in the wreck and when picked up was unconscious, but by prompt attention was restored. Then the Johnson relief party con tin ued its work. It went to the Two hills and everyone who wa disposed to leave his home was taken to the Hunt house. The work of rescuing was kept up as long as there was any thing to do. The inmates of the Point House had ~to betaken out by a rope. One of the men swam with his rope to a neigh boring house, tied it, and on that the inmates were taken to a place of safety. YOUNG BUIST'S BRAVE DEED. The first man who met the News and Courier reporter yesterday was Nicholas John, who, with tears in his eyes, said, "I've lost everything in this world. Over there is where my house used to stand. Young Mr. Buist, Pinkie Buist, saved me and my wife. He took us on his shoulder and like a advatWhat Do You Take Medicine for? Because you are sick an atto get well, or because you] wishi to prevent illness. Then remem her that Hood's Sarsaparilla CURES all 1 diseases caused by impure blood and I debility of the system. It is not what I its proprietors say but what Hood's I Sarsaparilla DOEs, that tells the story of its merit. Be sure to get H{ood'd, I and only Hood's. ood man carried us out of danger. WVe would have been drowned had he aot come for us." What a simple and invarnshed story. But just such in .idents were numberless in that night )f trial and bravery. Then young Mr. H. Bequest went )ut to save lives and do heroic work, nd he did it. From house to house ie went giving aid. At Mrs. Gads len's he found his services most in de nand and like a Trojan ho led the adies to places of safety, having to :arry the last one through the surging )illows. Messrs. George Connor and D.O'Neill Llso deserve medals for the splendid ray in which they rscued Mrs. Welch. 3ut this roll of honor might be con inued an infinitum. It, however, tells what was done, and when it is known hat such incidents were frequent the rue situation of Sunday night on the sland may be realized. WHEN THE STORM STARTED. Sullivan's Island has no Farmer resunofsky, but the whole population )f Moultrieville were special observers. Che situation they report was nuevent 'ul until about 7- o'clock. Then the wind reached a high velocity, some ay to a velocity of 125 miles an hour. 't was from the northeast. Before nidnight it shifted to the east, by day ight it was southwest. It rained dur ng the whole night, and how it (lid -ain! It poured in torrents and notb ng could protect the people. The vorst of the storm was between I and o'clock, it was said. Yesterday the wind was strong and he sand as it blew in the face pricked ike pins. How the wind blew on unday night may be estimated when t is said that there is not today a sand iill on Sullivan's Island. Mounds hat were ten, twenty and twenty-five eet high are as level as ever was-any )art of Middle street. Not a sand hill s 'eft. Everything is swept clean. Che car tracks are covered. THE ISLAND UNDER WATER. What about the water? It was every where. The inhabitants say that every oot of Sullivan's Island was under rater at midnight Sunday. Down by he fort and lower down it was as much ts seven feet deep. Higher up it graded ff, and at the hotel it is said to have eached a depth of about four feet. The waters from the front and back beaches net, and a perfect ocean was formed. The force of the wind was so great as :o carry the heavy pile-driver of Mr. ,rouch upon the island as far as Alder nan Johnson's home, which it wrecked luring his absence with the party of escuers. SOUGHT SHELTER IN THE FORT. The fort was the haven of very many )f the Islanders. It was not damaged >y the waves, although the water ame in through the entrance. The. >eople out of the Mikell, Bird and 2eighboring cottages all songht refuge n the old castle and made themselves is comfortable as possible under the :ircumstances. Children 'were carried :losely wrapped in blankets and made somfortable in the bombproofs. Not many were free from water, but those ;hat were held as many as could possibly >e crowded into them. The men carried anterns and a few had the precaution ;o carry coffee pots. It was a dark and reary place to seek shelter, but under ;he circumstances the hundreds who went there were as well off as any on ;he Island. There was no little trouble in getting he women in the fort. Some ingenu ty was shown in getting them there. 'fr. Keenan kindly loaned his wagon md load after load of pJ ecious human 'reight was pulled from house to house >y the men to the fort. It was slow work, but it was the very best that sould be done. After the terrible night, through which none could have slept, the dawn >f the day brought great hope. The wind had changed its bourse and havoc, md the women and children began to et more confident. Those who had ;aved anything got to gathering it up md making ready to move to the city. -Ne ws and Courier. A ROUGH ESTIMATE OF TH E LOSSES BY THE CYCLONE. It is, of course, impossible at this ime to inake anything like an accurate stimate of the losses caused by yester lay's cyclone. According to the most vailable sources of information the 'ollowing figures may be taken asap >roxi mately correct: iity property...............$ 100,000 ertilizer works.............. 173,500 iharleston Mining Company 50,000 Railroads..................... 30,000 Celephone Exchange......... 6,000 eegraphic companies....... 30,000 ead works................... 12,000 Yharves..................... 250,000 hipping..................... 50,000 ishley river bridge........... 60,000 hurches..................... .. 50,000 Private property............ 200,000 tIiscellaneous.................. 100,000 Total........ .............$1,111,500 -News and Courier. Auditor of Edgesield. [Special to News and Courier.j EDGEFIEL1>, August 2.5.-The vote f the primary election on the 2.3d ustant to fill the office of auditor made racant by the resignation of Mr. Davis vas tabulated by the executive coin nittee to-day. Tlhe total vote cast was ,540. J. B. Haltiwanger received 380, and J. B. Adams received 263-these wo candidates having received the iighest number of votes will make the ace over. The second primary will be ield on the 6th of next month. & The people quickly recognize merit, nd this is the reason thesales of Hood's ~arsaparilla are continually increasing. SIX HUNDRED LIVES LOST. Seven Thousand Persons Totally Destitute -Sorely Stricken Sea Islanders-Gover nor Tillman Issues- His Proclawa tion--An Appeal to the Charitable -A Heart-Rending Story of Death and Devastation Wrought by the Storm Around Beaufort and Port Royal. [The State, Sept. 1st.] * Many people had thought that the returns from the hurricane had come in sufficiently to show that the loss of life in South Carolina was not so seri ous as was supposed before any point had been heard from, and the people were resting easier. But it all seems to have been a false reckoning, based upon the rports from all points heard from. A brief but very startling message came ticking into the Western Union office last night from a far-off section of the State w.'ich had not been heard from, and was soon after delivered to Governor Tillman, being the first offi cial intelligence to reach him upon his return from Chicago. Upon its receipt, he acted promptly, as the following proclamation, issued at 11 o'clock last night, shows. It con tains the information furnished in the telegram: STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, EXECUTIVE CHAMBEE. COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 31, 1893. Proclamation. Having received the following tele gram from J. H. Averill, receiver of the Port Royal and Augusta Railroad Com pany, conveying the startling intelli gence of an appalling loss of life and a terrible state of destitution upon the islands on the coast of this State result iag from the terrible hurricane which the Almighty in His judgment has visited upon the people of the South Atlantic States, causing universal suf fering: "YEMASSEE, S. C., Aug. 31. "To Hon. B. R. Tillman, "Governor of South Carolina: "The loss of life by the recent cyclone on the islands adjacent" to Beaufort and Port Royal will number not less than 600 people. There are 7,000 peo ple on the islands entirely destitute of provisions, all they had being washed away and their crops entirely lost. Great destitution will prevail among them unless they have speedy relief. I am working night and day to open up communication, and nope to have trains into Beaufort not later than Monday next. Please address any re ply you have to me at Yemassee, from which point it will oe forwarded by railroad. J. H. AVERILL." Now, I, B. R. Tillman, Governor of the State of South Carolina, acting my official capacity, and for the best interests of the people of this common wealth, do issue this, my proclamation, and call upon the people throughout the length and breadth of the State to come to the aid of their suffering-fellow citizens. The fact that these are poor colored farmers, whose homes have been ruined and crops destroyed, appeals with pecu liar force to every right-thinking per son. The general loss in Charleston and elsewhere is great, but other com munities can take care of themselves. Contributions can be made in money, food, clothing and other necessaries of life sufficient to.meet the present emer gency. Money contributions can be, sent to the Bank of Beaufort, subject to the draft of a general relief commit tee, which I will appoint at the earliest possible moment with headquarters at Port royaL. I call upon all classes of people, both white and colored, to'come hastily to the relief of these unfortunate people. I would suggest that church, charit able and philanthropic organizations collect their contributions at the vari ous railway stations, to be shipped to Port Royal as soon as the railroad is Full irections will be given through the press later on; and remember, "He gives twice who gives quickly," under these circumstances. B. R. TILLMAN, Governor of South Carolina. Governor Tillman has telegraphed Mr. Averill that prompt measures for the relief of the sufferers will be taken and asking him to suggest seven per sons of Beaufort and Port Royal, two at least of whom shall be negroes, whom he can appoint at once on the general relief committee. APPALLING STORY OF THE SITUATION ON THE SEA ISLANDS. A UGUSTA, GA., August 31.-A special to the Chronicle from Beaufort, S. C., says: Over three hundred and niriety dead bodies-have been f!z.d on thie islands about Bessiort and Port Royal. Over two million dollars worth of prop erty has been wrecked near the same points. Both of these are the direct result of the severe storm which swept along the Atlantic coast Sunday night. Every one of the fifteen or twenty islands lying around Port Royal andi Beaufort are steeped in sorrow. Oz.a every door knob there is a bunch of crepe, and upon every hillside there are fresh made graves, some already filled, while others are awaiting the bodies that will be deposited in them just as soon as some one can be found to perfor m the kind Christian act of shoveling the dirt upon the coffin. The beaches, the undergrowth, trets and shrubbery, the marshes and the inlets are turning up new bodies every time an investigation is made. Of the many disasters and devastations which have visited this section of the country, none have been half so horrible as those which camne Sunday. Already more than 200 bodies have been found, and those who are at all posted- about tbe country and the habits of the people in the storm visited sections are confident in their prediction that the death roll will run as high as 500. Some of the people-and they are among the best people of this section of the State-even place the loss at more than one thou sand. There has not been an hour of any day since the early hours of Monday morning that a dead body has not been found at some point on one of the many islands. As the waters recede and the people move deep,er into the wreckage grathered by the storm, the grhastly pie