Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-04
THE CYCLONES WORK.
DESTRUCTION AND DEATH.


visited Maryland, Pennsylvania, Della
ware, New Jersey, aud perhaps other
eastern points, this afternoon, and .
vast amount Of damage was done
by wind and rain. Particulars up
to 1880 =. M. are very mesgre,
bat news dispatches and local
reports are much belated. At one
time this afternoon the Western Unisn
company had but single wire working
from Washington TO New York.
BALTIMORE, August 3.--Intelli-
gence has reached this city that Car
roll creek. which flow into the Catocsin
at Frederick City, overhowed its banks
to-day, and all the people living in the
depressed part Of the city have been
driven from their homes, and the de-
struction is considerable.
1t is still raining heavily in Balti-
more. With the inflow Of the tide,
Jopes's Falls was forced beyond its fall,
and the water in Harrison street and
Centre-Market space are fully two feet
above the street surface. The people,
used TO such overflows, have removed
their personal property beyond the
reach of the water. In the western
section OF the city cellars are again
overlooked, and sickness is feared from
the oyerhows, which have occurred
three times within q month.
PHILADELPHIA, August ga ter
rife cyclone sweeping up the Delaware
river this afternoon struck this city
near Greenwich Point, demolishing
portion Of the works of the Pennsylya-
MIA Salt-Manufacturing Company and
iniuring several employees. 1t then
took a course across the river, wreck
ing the river steamboat Major Reybold
and the ferry-boat Peerless. The storm
blew Pilot Emory Townsend and Cap
tain Eugene Reybold, Of the steamboat
Reybold, into the river, drowning
the former and painfully injuring
the Captain. The Peerless was
swept clean, almost to the wa
ter's edge, and 8 horse and wagon
were hurled into the water and sank to-
gether to the bottom. The storm then
passed over to the jersey side, striking
John Dialogues ship-yards below
Kuiehan's Point and destroying the
buildings Of the establishment. 1t then
took course along the New Jersey
riyer-front, demolisAing all the build
ings in its path up to Bridge avenue,
Camden. At this point the cyclone
took an easterly course to Fifth street,
Camden, embracing in its path all that
section Of the city between Second and
Fifth streets to Delaware river, which
washes the northern section of the city,
passing over the river, skirting Petty's
island. The storm passed over to that
part of Twenty fifth ward of Philadel-
phia known as Richmond.
In Camden scores of dwelling-houses
were unroofed and some of them
thrown down, and the damage to bust
ness property along the riyer-front is
enormous. Hundred Of families
were rendered homeless, and
one victim, Charles Dainey, was
killed outright at the Ameri-
can Dredging Company's wharf
Another, Harry Stevens, had his leg
cut off by flying piece of timber, and
will probably die. The path of the
storm through Richmond was marked
with death and destruction.
When the steamer Major ReySold
left her dock ct 3 o'clock for Salem, N.
j., she had on board about fifty passen-
gers, although, as no tickets had been
sold up to the time OF the accident, it is
impossible to ascertain the exact num-
Der. There were also about fourteen
officers and deck hands. OF this num-
Der Of people upon the wrecked boat,
it does not appear that any lives were
lost except that OF the pilot, although 1t
is net impossible that some ofthe passen-
gers were washed off and lost without
any one knowing of the fatal cir
cumstances. A steAm-tug coming
up the river after the disaster
reports that the body Of a woman was
seen for few minutes floating in the
river near the spot where the cyclone
struck the steamboat, but she sank out
of sight and could not be found when
the tug made search for her. This
might have been passenger, and there
NAV be others lost, but no positive
knowledge is at hand to establish such
facts.
Its track was almost due north from
the Port Richmond coal wharves.
About one hundred and fifty dwelling
houses on this side Of the river were
wrecked or so badly damaged as to be
rendered unfit for habitation, and two
hundred families were driven from their
homes, to be cared for by their
neighbors. A number Of people were
seriously and some fatally injured. A
girl of ten years, Lizzie McVeigh, was
killed at her home, 172l Melvale street,
in sight OF her mother, who was her
self pinned to the floor by fallen raft
ers a few feet from her dying child.
READING, PA, August 3.-This
morning the rain was very heavy and
appeared more like cloud-burst.
MANY streets were filled with water
from curb to curb, and the first floors
Of many houses standing low were
flooded. The Schuykill river rose over
foot. The mOnlders in several foun-
dies were driven out by the flood ran
ming into their working apartment.
At Temple, in this county, this
morning, the hurricane uprooted the
Temple Iron Ccmpsny's entire orchard,
blew over the company's stable and
Toulouse, and created general havoc
in the village. Several funerals in the
city and county for to-day were post
poned because Of the storm.
WILMINGTON, DEL, August g.
A special to the NorRiRg News from
Smyrna, Del, says: "A terrible
cyclone visited this section this after
noon, totally destroying property for
miles in \ swath three hundred feet
wide. Stock was killed, and orchards,
corn.felds. ETC., were destroyed. Nc
lives are known to be lost"
LANCASTER, PA, August 3.-rhe
storm Of Saturday and Sunday in this
county was the most destructive foi
many years. Hundreds Of acres OF