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Breakfast in Charleston, S.C. has been for generations a high social rite. At 8:00 one morning last week, custom in Charleston was interrupted. At 8:07 a. m., 31 victims lay dead or dying (including one Arthur Pinckney, Negro, but no others of great name or lineage). Honored walls and lovely trees were down or damaged. To the Bombardments of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Great Gale of 1804, the Earthquake of 1886, had been added Charleston's Three Tornadoes...
...Charleston's tornadoes in trio were not unusual, nor were they related to the hurricane which struck farther up the northern Atlantic Coast last fortnight. Blowing up from some 25 miles in the interior, the first twister knocked down a row of Negroes' houses near the Ashley River. Within seven minutes, another twister licked down Meeting Street, along the Cooper River, wrecked more ancient hovels of the poor, flattened many a garden of the native gentry and rich Yankee interlopers. Sadly battered but not ruined were palmettos, oaks in famed White Point Gardens, known to millions of tourists...
Because old places are living things in time-soaked Charleston, it was not in human for the city to count its casualties in terms of history. Unroofed or other wise seriously injured were "the only Huguenot Church in America" (1681); St. Philip's Church, in whose graveyard lie the bones of Statesman John C. Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed...
CAROLINE P. MEANS Charleston...
...Charleston, S. C.--Soldiers of the regular army and National Guardsmen tonight patrolled 30 debris strewn blocks of this historic old southern city where two rapid -fire tornadoes had killed more than a score of persons, injured 350 and piled up property damage estimated to exceed...