Port
Royal, South Carolina Tornado
August 28, 1893
HUNDRED DEATHS
Later Reports From the Storm Only Increase the
Terror of Its Havoc.
At Least a Hundred Persons, Mostly Colored,
Perished at Port Royal, S.C.
Augusta, Ga., Aug 31.-The news received
direct from Port Royal, S.C., that 100 lives
were lost in the cyclone that burst upon that
town at the rate of 100 miles an hour Monday,
followed by a tidal wave that almost swept the
town away, is reliable. It is furnished by
MR. E. W. AVERILL,
general freight and passenger agent of the
Charleston, Sumter and Northern railroad, who
came up from Port Royal. He says Port Royal is
cut off from the outside world. All telegraph
wires are down and the railroads are washed
away.
MR. AVERILL
was unable to state the exact number of lives
lost, but without overestimating he says he is
certain they will number over 100. The
unfortunates were killed and drowned. He saw 32
dead bodies. Nearly all the drowned were
negroes. So far as reported when MR. AVERILL
came away only six white persons had lost their
lives.
By midnight Sunday the gale was blowing 75 miles
an hour. The furious waves completely submerged
the island of Sullivan. The water was seven feet
deep. Three lives were lost here:
MRS. E. POLLARD, ANDREW
BRYAN and SYLVIA BRYAN colored. A
great many sought refuge from the waters in Fort
Moultrie.
Aberdeen Daily News, Aberdeen, SD 31
Aug 1893
Transcribed by Linda
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