The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-19
TRANCE.
THE STORM

NEW YORK, Aug: l9.-The storm
which yesterday morning was central near
Cape Hatteras, has moved in a northeast
erly path, developing greatly in energy,
and is now central near the east part of
Maine. A heavy rain has fallen in the
New England and Middle Atlantic states.
Newburyport experienced the storm
this morning which was the severest
in ten years. The wind blew a hurricane,
wrecking tour yachts, badly wrenching
steamers and schooners in the harbor and
scattering about twenty small boats.
Trees were stripped and tents on the beach
were levelled or blown into the sea.
At Newport between twenty and thirty
sail boats are sunk or damaged. The
Wanderer and Murrill, of New York, of
the yacht squadron, parted chains and
went ashore. Three yachts were sunk at
the wharf while others dragged anchors,
fouled and were damaged. The crew of
the schooner ashore at Cape May de-
serted the vessel. In the evening their
boat was capsized and the men were
washed ashore in an exhausted condition.
The captain remained on board and the
life savings crew got line out and re-
NAMED on duty all night. The velocity
of the wind was "a miles an hour. The
total rain fall was s 46 100 inches. The
crew of the schooner at Atlantic City were
taken from the rigging at o'clock this
morning, by the life saving crew. The
vessel will be total loss.
| Norfolk had the severest rain storm and
tornado ever experienced. Many buildings
are unroofed and flooded, trees uprooted,
and shipping damaged; many vessels
dragging ashore. The Boston Steamship
| Co.'s warehouses haYe been severely
damaged, the wharves all along the river
front have been flooded. and many of the
warehouses flooded; the tide was higher
than eyer known. In the vicinity oi
Water street, only accessible by boat, the
sight was one unexampled even within
| the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The
handsome spire of the Freeman St. Bap'
| tist church was blown down, and the
stating of Christ Episcopal church anC
the cornice and steeple ornaments of St
Mary's Catholic church were torn off
whilst the beautiful grounds of old St
Pauls are badly wrecked Great anxiety
lprevailed during the prevalence of thC
storm and the mayor ordered out the en-
tire police force and FIRE department
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100000. The damage to growing crops
in counties adjacent to Petersburg is yer.
great. In Surrey county alone, the dam
age to corn is estimated at so per cent.
The Ocean Grove camp grounds, below
Long Branch, suffered severely.
! At Gloucester, Mass, several vessel
dragged ashore last night.
At other points on the New Englan
coast vessels were beached, but thus ia
no loss of life is reported
The storm at Morehead City, Mort
Carolina, was the most violent which eve
visited that place At 6 A, NJ, it blew
: hurricane from the southeast and at mlC
, day hauled to southwest. change whiC
saved Beaufort aud Morehead from entir
destruction. The Atlantic House, th
largest hotel in that part of the country,
lentirely demolished, not vestige beiu
left. There were one hundred and fiji
. guests in it, and there was not a particle
clothing saved by any of them Peep
did not begin to leave until the wavt
were literally breaking the hotel to piece
then there was q stampede. Your
men saved all the ladies and childrt
) at danger of their own lives. All the ba
gage, furniture, ETC., went TO destructio
John Hughes, son of Maj Hughes. of Ne
bern, lost his life 10 the wreck Iof Il
Atlantic House. Front street of Beaufo
>. is strewn with lumber, trunks, and gooC
: aud crowds of people, some bare foote
are trying to identify their property. T
\ Ocean View House, the other hotel
] Beaufort is damaged badly, and ma
private houses ruined. There is not
wharf left in Beaufort, and only two
r three of her hundreds of sail boats are
A' to sail in. Morehead City also suffer
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