The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-08-28
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Norfolk bad the eevefest rain storm and to-.
nsdo ever expezienoed. Many buildinp won
unroofed and flooded; trees uprootsd and
shipping damaged. many vessels dragged
ashore. The Boston Steamship compsny'a
warehouses swere severely damaged. The
flooded snd many of the warehouses flooded.
The tide Was the highest ever known in the
vicinity. The loss II estimated 1t from two
70 three hundred thousand dollaxa. The dam
age TO growing crops in the counties adjacent
to Petersburg is very great. In Surrey coun-
| y alone the damage to corn 10 estimated at
fifty per cent.
At Beaufort, N. c., the Atlantic house, the
largest hotel in that part of the country, il
entirely demolished, not . vestige being left.
There were l50 guests in il, and there WAS NO
particle Of clothing saved BY any of them.
People did not begin'to leave until the waves
were literally breaking the hotel to pieces then
there was . stampede; the young men saved
all the ladies .and children 1t the danger of
their own lives. All the baggage, furniture.
etc, went TO destruction. John Hughes, son Of
Mayor Hughes. of Newburn, lost his life in
the wreck of the Atlantic house. The Ocean
View house, the other hotel 1t Beaufort, wa
damaged badly and many private houses are
ruined.
A little son of Mrs. Brown, a widow
lady of Fort Scott, while attempting to jump
fell under the car. His right arm caught un-
der the wheel and was served from his BODY.
The boy il otherwise severely injured, and it is
feared cannot recover. The railroad company
or employees are not to blame, q the boys
jump on carr in violation of city ordinance.
Kansas City had fire on the night of
of the 2lst that did considerable dam
age. burning livery stable containing
several horses, buggies, feed, etc, and damage
IN anvroundinn huil1sn0u
burned, the rest being liberated in time to
save them. Loss from $1,000 to e8,000.
A colored man named Clements Will
liams, while working about . building in
course of erection, corner of Missouri avenue
and Delaware st., Kansas City, was killed on
the 10th by large stone falling from the SEC
ond story and striking him on the head.
On the 18Th Rev. w. r. Tillinghast,
rector of Trinity Episcopal church of Detroit.
camping out on Fox Island, at the mouth of
the Detroit river, was accidentally shot and
killed by the careless handling of revolver
by young man named Wright.
Two coaches of the south bound train
on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta rail-
road, Me-. were thrown An embsnkment near
Columbia by broken rail, Saturday night,
and turned completely over. Sixteen passen-
gers injured, not seriously.
By the fall of rotten bridge over the
Housatonic near Stockbridge, Mass, wagon
and six occupants went into the river. Som
ers Benjamin, aged %, was killed; Aggie Rom
aid and Fannie Willard, seriously wounded;
remainder slightly hurt.
A brakeman named, David Waite, on
the Kansas Central railroad, went into drug
store at Havensville, Saturday night, and
thinking to take . drink from . bottle of
whiskey, took poison and died in . few hours
Charles Bahret, supposed to be a
traveller for house No. Is, Maiden Lane, New
York was found dead in his room at the Bur-
net house Cincinnati on the 18th, having sui
cided by shooting himself.
A tidal wave swept three men and one
woman into the ocean at Fisk's MILL Sonoma
county, on the California coast, on the 2lst,
and all were drowned.
In New York on the 18th Russell &
Johnson's planning mill and two tenement
houses adjoining were burned. Loss, $780,
600.
The house of Mrs. Jacob Marks, a milk
woman living near Chicago, was struck by
lightning and she instantly killed on the 22nd.
John Pross, a brakeman on the NJ, X.
& T., fell from train and was killed on the
23d.