Show FIV HUNDRED DROWND The Awful Result of the Storm of Sunday GHASTLY REMAINS FOUND Three Hundred and Ninety Dead Bodies Discovered About Beaufort Well Informed People Place the Total Loss of Life at One ThousandProp crty Destroyed Will Aggregate Over S3000COO AUGUSTA Ga Aug 31A special from Beaufort S C says Over three hundred and ninety dead bodies have been found on the islands about Beaufort and Port Royal Over 2000000 worth of property has been wrecked near the same points both tho direct resultfof tho severe storms which swept along tho Atlantic const Sunday night Every one on the fifteen or twenty islands lying around Port Royal and Beaufort are in mourning Those who are at all posted about the country and habits of the people in the storm visited sections are confident in their prediction predic-tion that the death roll will run a high as 500 Some of the best informed people in this section of the state oven place the loss at moro than 1000 There has not been an hour since Monday Mon-day morning that D dead body has not been found at some point on the island As the waters recede and the people move deeper into the wreckage gathered by the storm the ghastly remains are uncovered Great destitution exists among tho 7000 remaining inhabitants of the coast and an urgent appeal is made for provisions pro-visions Special to the Chronicle from Charleston Charles-ton says the steamer Yemacco overdue since Saturday from New York arrived safelv She did not encounter the storm Reliable computation places the dead at 600 Seven thousand negroes who have been driven to Port Royal by the storm are starving They are so destitute tute and so badly in need of something to eat that they have resorted to fighting among themselves them-selves for food Several were killed in u fight for provisions The negroes are getting more and more daring in the struggle to keep their wives and children from starving I is difficult to keep the sufferers in subjection |