Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — FURIOUS GALE. [ARTICLE]

FURIOUS GALE.

ono-Fourth of the Houses in Charleston, S. C., Unroofed by k the Wind. Sullivan’s Island Partially Submerged and a Summer Hotel Leveled to the Ground. [Charleston (S. C.) dispatch.] *" Charleston was struck by a cyclone this morning, and one-fourth of the houses in the city are unroofed. Parts of the spires of St. Michael’s and St. Matthew’s Churches were blown down, and the spire of the Citadel Square Baptist Church is demolished. The wharves and warehouses are badly damaged. At Sullivan’s Island two steamers are aground, and the New Ashley River bridge now constructing is swept away. Four vessels which arrived yesterday are wrecked. . The telegraph wires are down and there are no cars running. ■ ■■■■■— ; t The loss is still estimated at $1,000,000, including wharves and churches. Merchants are already rebuilding. The phosphate works near the city are but little injured, except the Atlantic, which loses its acid chambers. The Norwegian bark Medbor, from Liverpool, was dismasted in the storm, and the German hark H. Peters was driven ashore. The German brig Freiheit Was sunk in collision. The dry-dock schooner William E. Lee was blown ashore and the Norwegian bark Veritas and the Italian brig San Prisco are ashore at Castle Pinckney, with a three-masted schooner, name unknown. No lives were lost. A number of houses on Sullivan's Island were blown away. The New Brighton Hotel.had over a hundred guests, and great fears were entertained for their safety. At 9 o'clock this morning the storm reached its greatest velocity. At that hour, while the hotel people were at breakfast, the Casino fell with a great crash. Fortunately, all the rooms in that building had been vacated. There were grave apprehensions that the dining-room and mam building would soon succumb to the violence of the storm. At 9 o’clock the wind changed from the southeast and the storm increased from the southwest. When the Casino fell it is thought that the maximum of the storm was from sixty-five to seventy miles an hour. The main building of the hotel is intact, having stood the storm without very serious damage. At 1 o'clock it was entirely over. The loss to the New Brighton will be $30,000. There has been very general destruction of property on the is’and. The island was in the main submerged, but when the wind changed the waters receded. In the vicinity of Savannah, Ga., the storm was very severe. At Tybee a dwelling house was blown down, but no one was injured. The Caroline Chalmers went ashore on tho knoll inside of Tybee, and the bark N. Mosher on the north beach, half a mile south of Tybee light. At Mayport, Fla., the Atlantic House was blown down, and Mrs. Gilbert Hunter severely injured. All the guests of the house, about thirty women and children, were exposed for hours to the furious, driving wind and rain. News from Fernaudina shows great damage done to buildings, boats, and shipping, and the guests at the Strathmore House, on the beach, were driven into town for refuge. No lives werp lost there.