The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-08-19
Especial telegram TO the Dlspatcb.|

This morning the outWafd.Donnd passenger
train from Portsmouth ran into a cufvcrt-
wash near Suffolk. w. W. Weymouth, the
engineer, was killed, the colored fireman
had leg broken, and the express messen-
ger was slightly injured. The mail-ngent
saved himself by jumping fromthe train.
No train either way since 10 O'Clock this
morning. They cannot pass the washout.
All the telegraph.wires are Frustrated.
Norfolk and p Portsmouth are completely iso-
lated. a st.' ~' .H.i'...'t. .r.',' ~. ~.
Two and halt inches Of rain fell here
since midnight. It has now stopped rain
ing, but is cloudy. ,~s, ,,a... II .,G4....
The town and summer resort OF Beaufort,
n. c., was totally destroyed By tide last
night. Both hotels were swept to, sea.
one hundred and fifty guests escaped in
their nisbt-clothes. All baggage lost, but
fortunately no lives lost. IT .@.} -,
[Second Dispatch.l ..
WELDON, n. G., August 1S.-The report
about Beaufort came by telegraph, and is
authentic. About one third Of the town is
Destroyed hotels gone. The inhab-
itants fed TO high ground to save them
selves. No lives reported lost yet, but sew
eral vessels were wrecked in sight OF Beau
fort Details are hard to get.
beaufort is Il town and port OF entry in
Carteret county, n. c., and is situated at
the mouth OF Newport river, n few miles
from the sea, eleven miles northwest Of
Cape Lookout, and one hundred and thirty
miles southeast of Raleigh. The popula.
ton in 1870 was 2,430. Its harber has al
ways been considered the best in the State.
Mo.ehead City, the telegraph station, is
across the river from Beaufort, and is a
thriving town..
confirmation OF trae Beaufort News.
Especial telegram TO the Dlspatch.l
NnwBERN, August 1S.-The communities
ton with Morehead City and Beaufort
is uncertain and difficult. owing TO the
damage done the telegraph line by the
storm; but from the most authentic &C
counts received while the wires were work
| ing, it seems that the storm. in its greatest
violence, struck this coast about l A. NJ,
the wind blowing hurricane from the east,
! finally vccrng TO the southwest, thereby
saving Beaufort and Morehead City from
total destruction. AS it is, $4,000 will
scarcely cover the loss at the former, and
$780, 900 at the latter.
HOTEL BEAT TO PIECES BY THE WAVES.
The Atlantic House. the largest hotel in
this part of the country, was entirely de-
molished-not vestige left. There were
one hundred and fifty guests in the hotel,
and there was not particle OF clothing
saved by any OF them. The people there
did not begin to leave until the waves were
| literally breaking the building to pieces,
| and then such Il stampede as only fearful
danger will make took place.
The young men saved all the ladies and
children. Though all the baggage and fur
niture was destroyed, not a life was lost.
STORES WRECKED.
The stores OF Messrs. l.. A. Willis, Hen
| ~ Clawson, Samuel Gabriel, William Sobis-
| ton, and Chadwick & Jones, were totally
destroyed, and most Of their goods carried
off by the sea.
To-day the front Of Beaufort is strewn
with lumber, trunks, and goods. Crowds
of people, some barefooted, are trying to
gather the fragments of their property.
Governor Jarvis and family, Hon. Joseph
Davis, and many other prominent people,
were at the Atlantic, ard lost their clothes.
Colonel Faisou, OF Raleigh, it is said, lost
$500 in money.
The Ocean View House, the other hotel,
is damaged badly. Many privates houses
are ruined. There is not wharf left.
DAMAGE AT MOREHEAD CITY.
Morehead City suffered terribly. One
thousand yards OF the road-bed OF the A.
n. C. railroad was moved from its place be-
tween the town and the depot, and a chan
mel Of scvcnty-iye yards in width cut
through one part Of it. The large platform
| OF the warehouse is entirely gone.
The town lost its market.h house, school
| house, large wharf, and the colorcd Meth
odist Episcopal church. w. L. Arendell
lost tish-house, bath-house, and 900 terra
pins from bis pen; D. Bell, fish.house and
three boats badly damaged, two wind-mills,
and, in connection with Mr.. Virgins, 5000
! terrapns. There were twelve dwelling
| houses blown down.
THE LATEST-MAN LOST.
1t Is now reported that Mr.. John Hughes,
The son of Major John Hughes, OF New
bern, lost his life in the Atlantic. He was a
young man OF great promise. S..