Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-06
THE STORM.
h ports Of Damage from all
Quarters.
HEAVY LOSSES ON LAND and
Sc ious Damage to Crops in
Virginia.
SERIOUS DAMAGE TO LAKE SHIP.
PING.
Synopsis of the Storm.
NO FURTHER DAMAGE TO THEPA-
TENT OFFICE.

New YORK. October 5. The steamer City OF
Norfolk from this city for Norfolk, Ct. became
disabled this morning of Sands Point, and went
| ashore at seven o'clock. She was got off at ten
o'clock by the steamer Amerlcus and towed to
| this port
| The mails to and from all points are detained
| by the storm.
northwest squall struck there at 80 this morning
| and continued blowing during the forenoon.
There is fleet inside of two hundred vessels, and
| several steamers in the harbor. Several small
fishing vessels were driven ashore, and one yacht,
supposed to be the Ray of Portland, bound to
| New York.
| special from Chicago states that re ports begin
| to come in with news Of serious damage TO lake
shipping, from the blow of the past two days. No
great di' aser has occurred but numerous small &C
cidents are reported. Scarcely vessel out Of
port, escaped injury.
The steamer Carolina from Norfolk arrived this
morning at Baltimore, and reports heavy weather
coming up the bay last night, but heard Of no DIS
| asteI.
Considerable damage wa, done in Williamsburg
last night. The Locust Hill Oil Works were
flooded, causing oil to be hoated into the furnace
fire, when it caught fire, and the flames spread to
| the stills, and thence to the large thanks. Loss
$4,000
In New Haven a new sewer was torn to pieces,
and the lower part of the city is flooded The
horse car tracks were washed away, and great
damage done.
A Richmond, Virginia, despatch says some
trestlcs and small bridges on the Virginia Mid
land, were damaged and trains delayed by slides
between Colwell and Livingston. Ia many
places the bottom lands ste inundated aud crops
injured.
despatch from Lynchburg says the bridge
| near Gishes on the Atlantic. Mississippi & Ohio
| railroad, was carried away, and the bridge near
Bsnsacks on the same road rendered impossible.
| The james river is ten feet above its level, and
| rising six inches hour.
| A Charlottesville, Va. despatch says the Rivan-
| ma river has risen eight feet higher than since
| 1870. The crops on the bottom lands swept
| away or seriously damaged.
| No damage on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
| west.
The schooner Brunette of Sesrsport, arrived to-
day, reports loss Of headgear and jibs during the
gale, and that G. T. Hsdley, seaman, of Mantle,
Ct, WAS washed overheard and lost.
The storm on the Hudson river last night was
the heaviest known for many years.
A Poughkeepsie despatch says the steamer
Mary Powell did not reach there till three o'clock
| Friday morning, eight hours behind time. The
Thomas Cornell arrived at four o'clock, nine hours
late. The Poughkeepsie boat, John l.. Has.
brouck, has not yet arrived.
An accident on the Hudson River Railroad at
| Rverdale last night was caused by the falling OF
a wall. An engine was upset and three cars piled
upon it. The track was cleared this morning, and
| all the trains are running regularly.
| The losses by tae storm reported in Brooklyn,
amount to fifty thousand dollars.
| WASHINGTON, October 5, Synopsis for the
past twenty-four hours The storm of Yesterday
had the lowest pressure south of Maine to Nova
Scotia. The center of the cyclone of the Gulf
passed yesterday midway between Norfolk and
Washington, left the coast near Cape May, and
will probably proceed northessterly about one
| hundred miles from the coast. The winds in gen.
| eral are northerly.
Although there are no visible signs of further
damage to portions of the Patent Office immed-
| late y adjoining the northeast portico. barriers
| have been erected and guards employed to warn
and prevent persons from passing on the side
| walk.
Last nights storm did great damage in this vi
| cinity. Crozer's Mills at Upland was flooded by
the bursting of West Branch and Know lton 5
dams in Chester Creek. Several hundred mill
hands will be thrown out Of work.
The trains on the Baltimore Central railroad
were greatly delayed by washouts. and telegraph
ic communication with them broken.
A number of vessels were wrecked at the mouth
of Chester Creek.
Several mills in this city we're damaged. Loss
roughly estimated from twenty thousand to thirty
| thousand dollars.