The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
WIND and WAVE.
Great Damage Wrought by a
Storm on the Southern Coast.
Buildings Ruined, Vessels Wrecked
and Numerous Lives Lost.


ravaged the South Atlantic coast are given
in dispatches as follows
A Jacksonville telegram states that the
roast line of Florida was ravaged by a storm
of unusual violence. The gale, which had
been blowing all day from the south, in
creased in severity in the afternoon, and at
3 O'Clock reached the proportions of hur-
ricane, which wrought great disaster to the
coast towns The little village of May
port at the mouth of the river, twenty-five
miles below Jacksonville, suffered most. At
this point the large and wel-filled Atlantic
hotel was lifted from its foundations and
dropped upon the beach, demolishing its
porches and greatly damaging the house.
| Mrs. Gilbert Hunter, wealthy Jacksonville
lady, standing on the front stoop, was lifted
by sudden gust of wind and dashed upon the
| ground breaking her right leg above the knee
and inhicting other painful injuries Other
| guests of the hotel escaped without serious in
| jury. The Jetty house was blown to pieces,
the Convent Cottage hotel blown away, three
| lighters, laden with stone and merchandise
were sunk, the house of Louis Arnan was
blown down and the handsome ocean steam
ship City of Monticello seriously injured by
pounding against the DOCKS which were de-
molished Nearly every house in the village
was unroofed and the damage and discomfort
are enormous in proportion to the size of the
town. Fortunately no lives were lost
At St Augustine, Fla, the storm ragged
with great fury. The roof of the ancient
odst church was turned entirely over and the
| streets was strewn with sashes and shutters
and doors blown from the houses A car at
the depot was blown from the track and set
! down in the marsh.
At Fernandina. Fla, the storm almost
! amounted to a cyclone. Among the houses
| demolished are the Colored Mems hall the
nearly completed handsome residence of Mr.
| Smith, the photograph gallery, the oil she'd
| and u dozen smaller houses. Hoyt's large
| 1nrnnfp1
| glass window on the main street was blown in.
! 1t is estimated that nearly IA hundred small
! boats We're destroyed in the harbor. Persons
| from the StrathmOre hotel on the beach say
| the scene was terrific and beggars descrip-
ton. The surf rolled mountain high and
| broke over the beach with loud and resound-
ing roars in its wild fury The storm center
| seemed to be more inland and eliminated
| about Fernandina.
The total damage along the Florida coast
is estimated at $4,000. Reports from Lake
| City, Palatka and other points throughout
| the State indicate some damage to orange
! trees, but none to property.
a Charleston Is. c. dispatch says; Charles
ton was struck by a tornado this morning,
and ne-fourth of the houses in the city are
unroofed, parts of the spires of st. Michaels
and st. Matthews churches are blown
down and the spire of the Cita-
molished. The wharves and warehouses
are badly damaged. Four vessels which ar
rived yesterday are wrecked. The telegraph
wires are down, and there are no cars rum
| ming The loss is estimated at 81 600, 600
The work of restoration has already begun.
The hurricane last night and this morning
was terrific, says Sulivan's Island IS. c.
telegram. A number of houses on Sullivan's
Island were blown away. The New Brighton
| hotel had over 100 guests, and great fears
were entertained for their safety. About
9 o'clock this morning the storm reached
its greatest velocity. At that hour,
while the hotel people were at
breakfast, the Casino fell with a great
crash. Fortunately all the rooms In that
building had been vacated, but there Wore
grave apprehensions that the dining room
and main building would soon succumb to
the violence of the storm. At O'clock
the storm increased from south.
west. When the Casino fell !: is
thought that the velocity of the storm was
! from sixty-iive to seventy miles an hour The
main building of the hotel is intact, having
stood the storm without very serious damage
1t is said that the present storm was the most
violent in thirty years. The loss to the New
Brighton viii he $50 0J0,
A Savannah Ga dispatch says: Early
| last evening "A stiff breeze sprang up in this
city, which increased in violence until at 4
o'clock this morning it was blowing sixty
miles an hour Hundreds of trees were lev
eled or stripped of their branches, and fenc-
ing WAS LAID low in every direction, In
front of the Pavilion hotel large svca-
III 'lc lIct Was SuhpIt'i WI ilhc Il l)IlltSltlll
and hurled against the house carry
| ing away the roof of the porch AMI battering
| in several windows, almost causing a STAN
| pede among the terrOr-striclen guests The
| storm was not furious until A, M, but after
| that hour very little seep was obtained.
Hundreds of terrified people were up and
dressed in every part OF the city, momen-
tarily expecting a recurrence of the terrible
| experience Of 1881.
The warehouse of George w. Parish was
nnrpofal and a sl1pl hloNvn Io,Vn
| The roofs of many houses We're wholly or in
part blown oil. Along the wharveS the gale
was even more terrific. At the Exchange
dock the saiboat Alec Brown of Beaufort
was run into and sunk by the slOop Pet, an I!
three other sloops suffered the same fate
AT a. NJ the water was running over the
wharves. and captains had all they cnuli y"
to keep their vessels from being dashed to
pieces. Several small sailing craft which
ply between the city and adjacent Islands
were seen floating out to sea bottom up, and
it is feared that many negro vegetable
dealers have been drowned. ono body has
already been washed ashore at Schuetzen
Park At Tybee Island, at the entrance
to the river the gale was even worse than in
this city. The wind attained a velocity of
eighty-fou miles an hour, and everybody on
the island expected to be blown out to sea or
drowned by big, wave. The summer resi-
dence of Charles Carroll was leveled with the
ground Mrs, Carroll, who was alone in the
house, escaped Just in time to save her life.
The house and its contents were worth sJi,-
GOO.
The British steamship Marion, from the
Cape Verde Islands for Savannah, in ballast,
which had been lying in quarantine for a
week. dragged her anchor and was lifted into
the marsh. She was gotten of tonight. ME
coming up the river to night the steamer Ma
rion collided with the river steamer Bridge
ton, and the latter was sunk. No lives are
known to have been lost The British bark
N. Mosler, lying off Tybee, dragged her
anchor and went ashore on the beach oppo-
site Tybee lighthouse She was in ballast
from Belfast Ireland, to Savannah for char
ter. She is partly filled with water, and lies
in a position which will probably result III
her destruction unless she can be gotten OIL
tonight.
Later dispatches state that three pilot
boats and fourteen members of their crew,
were lost oil Beaufort, S C., durin-
the cyclone The revised esti
mate of the losses by the storm
at Charleston is II $50 OJl. including 500 OO(