The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-08-21
Effects Of the late storm.

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Marine disasters continue to be reported
from the Chesapeake bay and its tributa-
ries. Almost every hour wrecks are towed
up by the steam-tugs. No other loss Of
life is reported.
There is serious apprehension about sew
eral watchmen Of the city, who have not
been heard from since the storm.
The storm on the coast was unprece-
dented. The loss to property in this city
and to the shipping will amount to more
than half million dollars. Hampton Roads
and Elizabeth river are filled with vessels
dismasted. sunk, and otherwise in distress
from the storm. The Minnevia Miles with
the Yacht Club on board) weatbered the
hurricane off Cobb's Island.
FEARS FOR THE SAFETY OF PLYMOUTH YACHTS.
PLYMOUTH, MASS, August 20.-Fiye
yachts left here Sunday night and Monday
morning for Hull and Provincetown, with
between fifteen and twenty persons on
board. No traces OF them can be found
along the coast, and it is feared they were
lost in the severe storm OF Monday night.
DIsHAsTED AND ASHORE.
NORFOLK, August 20.-The Norwegian
bark Oxo, bound from Baltimore to the
continent with Il cargo OF wheat, is dis
masted and ashore at Mill Point, in Chesa-
peake bay. The captain is here for assist
ance.
OTHER DISASTERS IN THE BAY.
NORFOLK, August 20.-The steamer Flor
ida, which arrived from Baltimore to-day,
reports passing schooner tnanc unknown
capsized on the underground OF CheSa-
peake; also y three-masted schooner an
chored in the Roads with two OF her masts
gone, Another schooner was seen anchored,
with her headgear all gone and otherwise
damaged.
The brig Manson, from New York for
Charleston, has put in here dismantled.
BALTIMORE, August 20.-During Mon
days storm in the Chesapeake the schooner
j. G. Henry, OF Philadelphia, foundered off
the mouth of Great Wicomico, and the
captain and his wife were lost. The Bri-
fish brig Northern Star and the Norwegian
brig Tordsnskiod, hence for Bayornc,
have returned completely dsmantled, the
former having lost one man overheard.
A wrecked four-and-aft schooner has
dr,fted in near the Wolf Trap with the body
OF a woman lashed in the rigging.
The Storm at Beaufort and Morehead
City.
MoREHEAD CITY. n. c., August 20-The
Atlantic Hotel was in dimensions seventy
five feet by one hundred and twenty-five,
capable Of holding two hundred and fifty
people comfortably. It was q wood den
building, put up on small wooden piles, and
at ordinary high tide the water was all un-
der the building and within two and half
feet OF the lower floor. The house was
about fifty feet from high-water mark.
There was a billiard saloon on the north
side of the house, whose northern end
reached high land, and north Of the saloon
was a ten-pin alley. At the time OF the
storm there were one hundred and hfty
guests in the house, and about hfty SER
wants, making a total. OF two hundred. AT
5 O'Clock on the morning Of the 18th, the
building, and at that time the bridge con-
Meeting the hotel with the billiard room was
wreck, the waves beating from two to
three feet above the walk.
SAVING THE WOMEN.
The male guests, with the help Of the
good citizens Of the town, secured the walk
with ropes and commenced to save the Wo-
men. The first lady to be carried out was
Miss Gales, OF Raleigh, N. c., daughter OF
the late Seaton Gales, about thirteen years
old. Two gentlemen would take charge OF
a lady. and together they wOuld-under the
most perilous circumstances, the wind blow.
ing a gale and the waves dashing with the
utmost fury against them-make their way
to the billiard saloon, and then the ladies
| would 90 through to be received at the
northern door by two more gentlemen, VINO
| were up TO their waist in water, anu thence
they would be taken to terra .frna. Nearly
three Hourths OF the guests were either Ladies
or children. The children were nearly all
saved BY q colored boatman named james
Davis, and jim tells with great gusto that
Governor Jarvis has promised that he shall
never go to the penitentiary as long as nc is
lGovernor.
THE DROWNED.
Among the gallant gentlemen it would
not do to single out any one for special
praise, but Mr.. John Hughes, the son CT
Major Hughes, OF Newberne, no doubt lost
his life in trying to rescue others. The
body OF Mr.. Hughes has not yet been found,
although every effort has been made By his
agoniZed father in searching for it. 1t is
stated day that Mr.. ". H Coneleton, a
man between thirty-tve and forty years old,
a citizen OF Beaufort, also lost his life; he
was unmarried. 1Ir. Joseph Styron, the
barkeeper, was injured, but not badly. Mr..
Owen Guion and Mr.. Disosway, two young
men from Newberne who came down to
spend pleasant Sunday, were ia the third
story OF the hotel. They threw a mattress
out of the window and jumped on it, and
so saved their lives.
| visited the spot where the hotel stood
to-day, and the waters washed the shore aS
pleasantly and peacefully as II there was nc
danger at all in them. There is not relic
OF the building left, except the remains Of
one chimney, and that is notthree feet above
the ground.
| A SCENE OF TIRE RUIN.
The debris OF the hotel was driven on the
town some three hundred yards to the west
ward, and from that point to the most west
ern extremity the spectacle is most desolate
There are piles upon piles Of lumber, fur
niture. goods, empty barrels, boats, &c.
making the whole OF Front street impassa
bic. The billiard saloon, which wa:
the means OF saving the hVes OF 81
many persons, was swept away oe
fore the hotel, it is said, not ten minutes
after the last lady left it. Tue ten-pin ale!
! was also swept away, and the tide reached
far above Ann street, which IS north U
Front. The roof OF the Ocean House VA
blown entirely off, and also its three Ions
piazzas, and the water was walst-deep OF
the first floor OF that building. Mr.. +. Is
Mace lost all OF his drugs, he having had u
move them few days previous on accoun
of fire, and not having bad time TO unpact
and put them on shelves.
SHIPPING DISASTERS.
i The schooner Seycbell. from Providence
4 Mass. was anchored in the bite OF the cape
= ,,orn She ia NOW hiph ant