Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
November 6 Page 4
Georgetown, Oct. 5
We really feel incompetent to the task of describing the melancholy effects produced in this
town and the neighborhood, by the late dreadful Hurricane we had intended to give at least, a summary account of
the damage sustained within the town, but it has been so general and the buildings exempt from serious injury,
so few, that we must content ourselves with stating that our town exhibits, at this moment, a scene of ruin and
desolation, never surpassed in this State. The wind appears to have been full as violent as it was at North Inlet
– the tide, however, certainly did not rise so high. The Court house has sustained very serious injury
and many of the records in the Clerks office destroyed.
The Sheriff’s Office had every door and window blown in and the records and papers
destroyed. The chimnies of the Jail have been blown down and the buildings in other respects much injured.
Many of the tiles have been blown down from the roof of the Bank. The Building over the Market, occupied
by the Town Council, is nearly down, every pillar which supports it being fractured. We have yet had no particular
accounts of the injury sustained in the crops, but it must necessarily be very great, as much of the (…?...)
which was harvested, has been blown out of the Barn-yards and dispersed – many negroes have been killed,
and most of the Barns and Mills have been unroofed and otherwise injured, and the banks and trucks torn to pieces.
The schooner Little jack, Captain Thomas Davis, which was up the Waccamaw River, taking in a load of rice, nearly
foundered at her anchors, and when she parted her cables was driven on shore and bilged. From the number
of trees which have been thrown across the roads they are rendered impassable. Planters who have visited their
plantations 8 or 9 miles from Town have been 3 or four hours in reaching them, being obliged to pursue their way
through the woods, the road being literally blocked up. Donated by Nancy Piper
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