Smyrna times., 1878-10-30

Cam pbell was moved from its foundation, o
the waters running through the lower b
rooms and the waves dashing into the b
second story windows. The kitchen was a
moved about so feet from the house. The "
water here was three feet higher than at
any proceeding storm. Samuel Loatman
lives on the highest point of the Island ten ,
or twelve feet above the Bay-level, and the ,
water came up within few feet OF his ;
house. lie had about 700 bushels of corn ;
in the shock which was washed away to- :
gether with his provender and crop OF
wheat of 60 bushels sowing.
A. Brown lost about 1000 bushels Of corn,
% head of sheep, all his hay and provender
and a field of wheat of so bushels sowing
which will be ruined A patch Of potatoes
not taken up, about IS bushels, were
washed out of the ground by the force OF
the current. The newly plowed ground OF
wheat and much of the other land Is
washed as deep as plowed, and i'll many
| places in deep gullcys. The damage to the
! farm lands has been very considerable.
"Fraland" is nearly ruined; all the
! buildings but the main house washed away,
| the beach greatly damaged and many OF
the trees prostrated. a tree fell across
one of the houses occupied by family, |
and the occupants, among which were two |
women, had to wade in water up to their |
chin to a place of safety. The houses |
were lodged against woods two or three
hundred yards distant
George Slaughter lost about 200 bushels |
of corn, 100 of which was stored in the
ballroom, which was carried away.
Nehemiah Jones and Thos. Maloney each
lost some corn but suffered less than the
others. Two fish houses and two ice houses
belonging to Jacob Gosser of Philadelphia
were carried away. Richard FOgg lost
about $50 tons Of hay and five oxen, one
swimming q distance Of four miles to the
main land and was saved. Six men, two
of them from this town, who were helping
Fogg get hay had their shanty stove in and
took refuge in a wild cherry tree for several
: hours, lashing themselves to its branches to
keep from being blown away. One OF these
men was saved from the wreck Of the
= Metropolis last January, and from his
knowledge of such storms took in the
> situation at once, and but for this fact the
whole party would perhaps have been
: lost. He hastily gathered all the ropes he
could tind and wagon, which would soon
. have been swept away, was backed up
y and securely tied to the tree above referred
{. to. lie then mounted the tree and cut the
d top off to better enable it to resist the
o force of the wind. He then lashed him.
IL self to the upper branches and awaited the
= result. The other men stood on the ground
y until the water came up around their
waist, then climbed into the wagon and
Is when driven from that, the tree, finding
IS the rope he had collected necessary to
e secure them against the wind which was
e driving with force of about IS pounds tc
III the square foot.
lie Matthew Holt lost about 200 bushels o.
W corn and all his poultry. Mary A. Collins
ie about IS head of chickens and turkeys
81 John Logan his crop of corn and twenty
IN acres of wheat, but thinks he is fully repaiC
IL by the number of valuable white pine log
IT, and drift corn lodged on his high lands.
ne The estimated loss in corn to the IslanC
OF is between 5000 and 5000 bushels, tn
C. larger part of the poultry, nearly all tn
re- fences, &c. The corn, &C., were first cal
70 ried inland, but the shifting of the win'
hg carried much of it into the bay. Tn
material fioated and lodged on the mai
Ol land is piled up in some places eight an
ny ten feet deep. Thos Maloney says the bi
no "tidal wave" came rolling in like u lo
IN cloud ten or twelve feet high and brok
Gu over the Island just before sun-up. He wa
.re eating breakfast at the time, but, pushin
ir his plate back, remarked to the boys, "n
ne more break kfast for me this morning"
TN was Just at high tide when the storm bic
eu its greatest blast and for few minute
"n he says, person could not stand up befol
it.
-ed At one of the farms which was su
Se' merged, the hogs, after swimming abo
zen awhile, mounted the top of a fodder stac
VI In little while, however, the rolling to
rent bore it away, the hogs sticking to
until it went to pieces in the distance. II
ing most of the turkeys were lost because tn
Of could not stick to their perches. II
aph larger part Of the railroad that crosses t
ug- marsh is damaged so as not to be passb
rn; DUCK CREEK NECEs.
Pe Jacob johnson, near Bombay Hook, h
'ih' all his hay damaged and about 400 BUSH
ORR of corn lost and is fully as much damag
-ey by the hundreds Of loads of dtJrtS-roC
It, It, and various kinds Of filth-deposited in
non non field. Jesse Vane. Samuel Cole and
rL rr"s Umholtz near the above named gent
! ne ne man, met with similar losses, and NJ
oy Mary r. Hoffecker, in white Hail. abe
'eTy 300 bushels of corn. The roof on t
I 1ne residence of John Farrell was blown 0
JOS Matthew Ford's barn unroofed Jacks
'o"' Shows carriage.house and carriage
-, molished; Henry Slaughter barrack a
tne wagon-house $50 feet long, also breaki
an W.. farm implements, &C., loss about $S(
Ine COW house on the farm of the Peters
@ 1HI' heirs, killing a COW belonging to III
res Hobbs; kitchen unroofed on the farm
'ieo. i James G. Robinson; large cow.shed on
n"' " Barren Hope" farm, belonging to Geo.
Cummins; cow.shed and carriage-house
. In the farm of Peter S. Collins, occupied
1;no Sno George Jones.
.ssed THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY.
t up Jas. Moore, Jr., near Blackbird, hac
* to stable blown down and 5000 horse kill
aved Henry Pratt, near Blackiston's Cross Rof
the carriage house blown down and carri
near broken; Thos Moore, near Moore's Corr
They cow-shed blown down, three COWS inJu
5 the and one killed stable, on the farm belc
rouse ing to n. +. Jerman, near Central Chul
iniuring four horses belonging to J'
Green, one of them badly; double
:, and granary, on the farm of Mrs. Su
I the Bell, smashing q new drill belonging
&c Oh JAS Griffin two cow.houses, on the ia
ng as boIorr;n, 70 I p NJ Dennev. at Denn
ne Corner; Mrs Susan Wells, near to
= mas one and John p. Hudson two hay barraC
INC in Blaclkbird hundred, a sloop belongin
lhteu John c.. Cooper was foated a mile from
foach creek and landed in the marsh the
IS not on John Lind's farm, (Mr. Austin, tena
)lash- near Union Meeting House, in Appoql
struc- mink hundred, was blown down and
land. horse killed; John Keller's barn, in
'ham, poouinimink hundred, on the road
and y Townsend to Peterborough, was demo
er up ed; the gable end of a brick barn on
miles farm belonging to d. j. Cummins at
made Oak" was blown in hay barrack OF
Two S. Jones, near Kenton, and cow-shed OF
the Serverson, near Brenford. We hear
)nday number of others whose buildings
OF the moved from their foundation occasion
rham, loss in replacing and there are doub
sue many other casualties not reported