Smyrna times., 1878-10-30

schooner loaded with lumber was abandoned on
Clark's Point just below Bowers Beach: The schooI-
er is all right and at high water she IS atlOat She
is anchored. The small boat was found bottom up on
the shore but nothing has been heard OF her crew.
shore between Kits Hammock and the mouth OF St
Jones Creek
DOWN TIE SHORE.
On the shore opposite Milford there is thIce-m4s
ed schooner .imeiiO IrttCtHd, of New York lumDer
laden from Pensacola, for Philadelphia; sunk ne ne
crew all saved. The Milford schooner H. ~
| Lars, owned by i. II. Anderson and Others was
driven the marsh and will have to be dug OH or
| launched distance of over three hundred feet. All
| have been drowned. At the Mispillion lighthouse
the water burst i'll the doors and Hooded the house
drowning some OF Mr. Bells hogs and poultry. Inc
sea broke over the beach in all directions, sweeping
away small houses hay stacks fodder and corn stook
the destruction is terrible. even from the mouth OF
the Delaware Bay to Philadelphia tits believed tht
Bowers Beach the water came up To the hcckN "l
the horses i'll the stable before they could be got out
lost IL whole field Of corn washed away and carried
out The schooner II0 Sisters OF Frcderica Is
ashore the marsh and will have 10 be dug OIL a DIS
tancc of eighty yards There several vessels on
shore sunk between the mouth of the MISplll"l
and Bombay Hook. and the Hawk Nest has steam
schooner llic pierce, of Frederick dragged her am
chorS from the Jersey coast to the Delaware, all'
finally the captain TO keep her from iouIin% ars'
schooner near him, slipped his anchors ana t her g
ashore near DuPOntS powder wharf above Whining
ton. The schooner atcrwad sunk ana az on boar
pcrishcd. The IicD Sisters Will prove tnta los III
owned by = VI. Hall ana otllcIS, ol IIc'teTlc't
, Woodsidc Mills, near Camden, were blown d""I
I though the mill was new and very large They wei
! used IL husk factory.
! The house Of u Mr. Thomas, at IIolandSYiHc, Ken
| county, blown and his furniture all broke
I and mashed. The family were awakened ny u.
storm and left the house before il went over. and thu
I saved their lives They took refuge in StoTchou'
Il | across the street which withstood the storm:
| The sOop IEhH. with 2UD1 bushels Of wheat fro!
! New Castle consigned to +. l.. Rodgers Of Philaie
II phia foundcred in the storm, and vessel and cary
Il were lost.
u The damage to oyster boats has been hnIncn>
o Four OF them We're sunk at Pea Patch Island, 70
/ Delaware.
i The ship house at League Island was blown dow
II by the storm and is wreck 1t viii cost the Cover
1t mCnt S3lOD It. repair the damages.
" AT LITTLE CREEK LANDING
o the tide said to have been feet higher than
u wife on his back, Wading through water four IL
y deep. Joshua McGonigals store was flooded causll
iy the loss of all his sugars. Charles Dcnney had
paTlJr and other ruined. ana the
10 ed out Of one field The stable at MahOns lighthuu
ya was swept away, and horse swan three miles I
his course he came near man, VIM. Hurley. v
" also in flight for his life. He caught the ho
lu and mounted his back and but for the fortunate
CumstanCe of coming across hOating boat into VIII!
he got and thus relieved the horse, he thinks the a
9u could not have made fast land.
n AT DOVER
IN a number of the shade trees were blown down
N, square and minor damage done but the worst dcstr
80 ton was at " FarVicW Park Both the cereal a
en- machinery buildings IL mass of ruins the tr'
I'd was blown out of the grand stand and the pie
=; fence around the track blown out Of position.
~ Association will be injured about 5000 Messr> la
ITS d IeuncWe on the IIillyard farm lost barn \
Wv | Fulton constable; George Nhtakera new cuWSh,
- | George POstlcS. C;rIiage-hOuSc and carriage ii
he Powell Aaron, near IIuZettville, a cowshed.
'aS RA- For adltjonIl Coaty ant StQtc Feots, .
ld pDg.