Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-10-25

F. J. Stone; Quartermasters, John
Douglas, James Douglas Lookout
man, Fillmore Rice; Steward, Thos
Darlington; Walters, Nat. Caring
ton and Geo. Walker; Chamber
maid, Matilda -, colored, Willie
Barker and five deck hands; Fire,
men, Robert Hawkins and Dick
Wythe.
The signal corps station at Cape
Henry reports that the American
ship A. S. Davis, of Searsport,
Maine, loaded with guano from
Callao, and bound for Hampton
Roads and Norfolk, ran ashore at
2 o'clock on the morning of the
23d, eight miles south of the sta
ton; the vessel and cargo are a
total loss. The crew consisted of
nineteen men, and were all lost with
one exception. He is now at No. 2
Station. The vessel was 1899
tons, and the cargo was consigned
to Hobson, Hurtalata & Co. Nine
bodies were washed ashore last night
one and a half miles south of the
station. The life-saving crew will
bury them. Different articles and
pieces of the wreck are being CON-
stantly washed ashore, and the crew
of Life saving Station No. 2 are on
duty guarding the debris. The
body Of man supposed to be of
the late crew of the Davis, was
washed ashore at 2 o'clock this
evening and turned over to the life
saving crew. Damages by the
storm are reported from Harrisburg
and Wilkesbarre, Pa, Absecom, N.
j., and Albany, n. Y.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. ga
tempestuous gale of unprecedented
severity swept over the city at an
early this morning, commencing
about 2:30 and reaching It's greatest
hight between 6 and 1880 a. m.
During these brief morning hours
incalculable damage was done by
wind, which at 2:45 was blowing at
the rate of twenty-five miles an
hour in a westerly direction. 1t
gradually increased in fury and
obtained a velocity of seventy-two
miles an hour. Not in many years,
if ever before, has there been so
much damage done in the streets,
public squares and along the river
fronts. Many public school build
ings are damaged and the public
squars devastated. Over 40 churches,
all denominations, are more or less
damaged by the demolition of
steeples, &c. The shed for departs
ing trains at the Pennsylvania rail
road depot in West Philadelphia
was demolished, involving a loss of
from forty to fifty thousand dollars.
The large depot of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad,
at Washington avenue wharf, was
reduced to ruins, and the south side
of the Pennsylvania grain elevator,
in the immeiate vicinity, blown in.
Two spans of the falls of Schuyl-
kill bridge on the Reading railroad
fell in, stopping all travel. Numer-
Gus disasters to shipping are re-
ported. Seven persons were killed
in this city and about seventy-fve
injured.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Oct. 23.-Ar-
rivals from down the Bay this morn
ing bring in a few particulars of
disasters on the Chesapeake. The
steamer Express, Captain Barker
commander, which left this port
Tuesday afternoon for Washington
and landings on the Potomac, foun-
dered Tuesday night near No Point,
st. Louis county, short distance
above the mouth of the Potomac.
Capt. Barker was rescued from the
fragments of the boats by pungy,
and taken to Cirsfeld, and arrived
here this morning on the steamer
Maggie. He reports some of the
crew and passengers probably lost.
The Shirley, of the York River
Line, is ashore at Barren Island.
The steamer Massachusetts, is in
Patuxent river, supposed to be
ashore. The steamer Theodore
Weems was towed into Cirsfield |
with the loss of the upper and some
of her joiner work, by the steamer
Tangier. The Tangier lost an an>
chor chain and some of her joiner
work. The Louise, of the York
River Line, arrived here safe last
night. The Highland Light and
Georgianna, running to Choptack
river, also escaped the worst of the
gale and came up at their usual
time this morning,