The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-30
THE GREAT STORM IN THE
EAST,

tne eh,ire iehS'h vi 'iio -NuhntiV seh-
board, is the heaviest that has been
known for years, and embraced q
very large tract, doing vast damage
all along the coast and especially in
Baltimore, Philadelphia and other
cities and towns. The storm came
from the tropics. It struck the
southern extremity of Florida on
the Goth, on the morning of the ed,
it struck the Atlantic, east of the
Southern portion of Georgia. AT |
midnight of the 22d, il burst with |
its greatest fury over Cape Hatteras,
in North Carolina, and on the Esd,
exertcd its greatest fury over Balti-
more, New York and Philadelphia.
The velocity of the wind varied
from sixty TO one hundred and
twenty miles per hour. Buildings
innumerable were blown down,
bridges carried away, and the whole
shore of the Atlantic, from Key
West to Cape Cod, strewn with
wrecks of schooners, brigs, banks
and other coasting vessels.
| Two first class steamers went
down in the gale, the City of Hous-
ton, of the Houston and New York
line, and .he Express, a first class
steamer of the Washington and Bal
timore line, in Chesapeake bay,
while the Matilda, a bay steamer, is
missing and supposed to he found
cred. usg nft ~ sDIrrslrtU
The damage in wrecks, bridges
washed away, buildings unroofed
and places flooded with water from
the heavy rain which accompanied
the storm. will foot mn into the mil
~. E1.,,,,.,ol,, 10 Los 90 ,;fo
nuns. roi''"a'e'' Wy
is not extremely great wheh1 COM
pared with the vast scope of the
storm. The Messengers of the CITY
80 ua,st.r go aii savoa Tho las
vi iious.oh wcio a'i s"''". no 'o''
oil ths iil-iatea Express III oheas-
peake bay, was unfortunately at
tended with the loss of a large num-
hou al ,ho Iod;oe on hoorJ hoipg
oo'' ~, ."' 1919,
drownded' Inc iost steamer was OF
COS tons burden, and built originally
in the North thirty wears ago: re-
o;,a -, I'm &, poi,;,noro /,
eolso" no" nun III i''. ="
1877. during the war sile was u
government transport on the James
river and Cbeaspeake. Cant. James
nv RI. Ia, ,an,a;, ,,;,,as :, tho
- D"N' "oA o'"' So ~
baiilhiore papers the ioho"lnS
graphic account of her loss, which
CONVEYS a vivid idea of the terrible
a,,r 80 ,ho s,or,, l., anoroI.
"."o VI ". 81. :" -
Again ana again tne herce waves
SWEPT over .he ill-,ateu steamer, anu
az nope was apahuoIeue IIocu.ins
iie-preservers ne lounu Two OF MS
l~u. passengers, Mls. bacon anu NE.
Jones, ana adluslaa them, ne men
carried me Two iaules on aeck anu
placeo ,heni III tne stern OF .he yes
sci, ana warned tiehi that tne steall,
er was ABOUT 70 80 10 pieces, ana
promising 10 Toilie 70 .neir assls,anc ,e
IL posslule. me cap,ali. iasheu us
Young sou 10 ,ne saiooh anu hsain
amrneu ms a.'en iu 70 ms 'essci.
Inc vino Was sun blowing ~ ra'e
tnat wo'iiu io' a,iow any ohe 70 s, .,N.
up " IL, Wniie 'nc on! .iiihg .ila.
couiu pe seen IN lhe pi.cny uarhliess
was .he Wilite ioaili Vi uic raslhs
waters .nat agalh anu mn again swept
over the steamer. ihe scc9nu ila,e,
Joseph Haney, was khoGkeu 9owh D!
fearful sea Wllieh 5oaraeu inc
steamer " ne enueasoreut1 cross ''. iler
ueeh' anu was s"ept ihto ' .ne si,,o ~ :
loie. before nc coulu De rescued tllc
steamer s,i rose on wape nh Gun IN
nlgh anu Pi.cheu heauiois ih.o me
.rousn oi 'ne sea- .ne wnole oi lnc
suGceeuinS WlNe Iusliihs o.er a ncl
anu sweepins her ueeks I,cah' nc
mann Saloon, caDih; anu an ll1e upper
WORKS werc carried away anu ali ,ile
passengers anu crew swept over
9oaru. captain barkcr hearu the
despairing snrieks OF she passengers
above the wiz roar OF the waves as
i ness that followed il was impossible