Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-03-23
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10 this country. Not "A train has
moved on the Boston and Albany |
road between Springfield and Alba
ny during the past twenty hours.
One passenger train Is stalled |
twelve miles east of here with sey.
enty.twO passengers, who are sui.
fering extremely for want of food |
and fuel. The Fitchburg road at |
both ends OF the HoOsac tunnel is
blocked. A truckman named John |
O'Brien, OF Piftsfeld, cannot be
found. and it is supposed he has
been frozen TO death.
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPER
TY-LOys OF LIFE REPORTED.
ONANCOCK, VA, March lj.-Re-
ports received here from the re.
gions along the bayslde that were
flooded by the high tide during the
terrible storm last Sunday night
show that a larger area was cover.
ed by the water and greater dam.
age was done by the wind and wa.
ter than ever before in the memory
of man. Parker's Island, near the
mouth OF OnancOck creek, where
large herd OF cattle was wintering,
was entirely submerged and all the
cattle drowned. Many Of the farms
in ChescOnnessex Neck, between
IOnancOck and Chesconnessex
creeks, were flooded all over to the
depth of several feet. The amount
of damages done to the farmers in
that and otner districts similarly
located may be inferred from the
remarkable experience of Charles
Allen, an old resident of Ches.
connessex neck. Mr.. Allen and
his wife live by themselves on
small farm. About midnight they
found the water rising In their
house. Going out Mr.. Allen found
the whole place under water. He
waded through the water to his
stables, and let ont his horse and
COW, and then going back into his
house he cut hole in the floor
and took up some pigs which had
gotten under the house and carried
them upstairs. where he and his
wife remained till nearly noon the
following day without food or fire.
He had Just bedded bis sweet pO.
tatoes and spread all the manure
he had on the land, but the water
washed the manure away, tore his
potato bed to pieces and washed
ont one of the fireplaces in his
dweling-house. The neighbOrlng
farm OF Mrs. Salie Gray was so
completely covered by the water
that man could easily have sailed
a canoe over every part OF it. All
the fences and many Outhouses
we're swept away, and many ami
mails, such as hogs, sheep and
young calves. we're drowned. On
dnnting creek, some distance high.
er mp, all the farms on both sides
OF the creek we're covered with the
tide, which swept away fences and
s,nall buildings and did immense
harm to fields that had been pre-.
pared for coming crops. In this
one locality the amount of damage
done will run up high INTO the
thousands.
Further up on the bayside, in
the MessongO region, the inunda-
dation was even more extensive
and destructive. The tide spread
over a wide expanse of level coun'
try facing the waters of Pocomoke
and Tangier sounds, and spread
destruction in every directiOn.-
The full extent Of the damage done
there has not yet been ascertained,
but it is probably very large. Per
sons arriving here last night from
New Church, in the northern part
of Accomac, bring intelligence that
twenty.elght boats we're capslzed
, in Chincoteague bay daring the
gale. and that the bodies OF IL
sailors have been washed ashore
there, six of them being lashed to
, the rigging. 1t seems now that
when full intelligence has been re,
| ceivod from all points in the Ches
apeake bay it will be found that
the loss of life has been very con
siderable.