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August 28,1893 |
August
27, 1911 | |||||
City, property and wharves $350,000 Fertilizer works 173,500 Charleston Mining Company 5,000 Railroads 30,000 Telephone and telegraph 36,500 Leads work 12,000 Shipping 150,000 Ashley River 60,500 Private property and churches 200,000 Miscellaneous 100,000 |
$150,000 Wharves 200,000 Industries 100,000 Floating property 100,000 Consolidated Company 100,000 Residences 75,000 Stock 50,000 Churches and schools 50,000 Railroads 50,000 Telegraph and telephone 100,000 City and miscellaneous 20,000 Charleston Navy Yard | |||||
| Total $1,162,500 | $995,000 Total | |||||
While the highest recorded velocity of the wind in the 1911 storm was 94 miles an hour - the anemometer having been wrecked - it is estimated that the maximum velocity was from 100 to 125 an hour, or a much higher velocity than the storm of 1893, which did greater damage. The total number of lives lost in the 1911 storm, in Charleston and vicinity, was 20. (courtesy of Frank Moore) | ||||||