, 1888-08-22
ANGRY WATERS.
Another Disastrous Storm in
the South.
Great Damage Done to Rice and
Sugar Crops.
Houses, Bridges and Railroad
Tracks Washed Away.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 21.-Friday even
ing a fresh southerly wind set in which
increased in force, with showers, until
Saturday morning. 1t slackened till even
ing, when it again strengthened and blew
a gale with a great downpour of rain eill
Monday noon. The rainfall throughout
was eight and one-half inches. The wind
blew sixty miles an hour and great dam
age was done in the city and throughout
the sugar belt. From Baton Rouge to
the gulf, including the rice section, much
sugar cane and rice was blown fiat on the
ground and many sugar houses and dwell
ings were damaged. The damage to the
sugar crop is estimated at from 10 to 20
per cent, 10 the rice crop from 20 to so per
cent. In the city many houses were I'M
rooted, fences Frustrated and trees up
rooted. The heavy rain on the night of
the 10th for a time flooded the entire city
and the rear portion of the city is still in
undated. The city was in darkness Mon
day night. The greatest damage about
the city was done on the river front.
Fifty coal boats worth 800, 900 sank
and several small steamers were sunk or
damaged. The Louisville & Nashville
road is submerged for twenty miles with
many washouts. The loss on the coal
barges sunk is estimated at 10000.
Crops along the river for a distance of
over twenty miles were entirely destroyed.
A number of vessels over due have I'M
doubtedly encountered the storm in the
gulf.
News from Morgan City is to the effect
that dozens OF houses were wholly or part
ly unroofed and fully fifty buildings are off
their foundations. The floating elevator
of George Gilchrist was destroyed.
Among the heaviest losers of property
along the river are the coal dealers. The
total loss is $34, 900.
The steamer Keokuk at Baton Rouge
was wrecked, valued at $40, 900. At Pass
Christian trees were uprooted and bath
houses blown down. At Oaklawn eight
cabins and sugar houses were wrecked.
At Tom Scheffer's plantation only three
houses were left standing. AT Franklin
eighteen dwellings were unroofed. In
the Teche country the damage to cane will
exceed one-third of the crop. The steam
er Ward from Truxillo encountered the
storm last night when within four miles of
the pass and was driven seventy miles
beyond Mobile bay.
WHEELING, Aug 2I.-A storm which
in its disastrous effects rivals that of July
19 last, has been in progress here since 3
a. m. and shows no signs of abating.
Wheeling creek in the narrow valley east
Of Wheeling is a foot higher than ever
before, the roads being flooded from two
to six feet and bridges destroyed. The
valley is now one angry flood and the
damage can only be estimated by the
wreckage that dashes through the city
into the river.
At $40 a piece of a Baltimore & Ohio
wooden bridge from ont of the Pittsburg
division struck the Baltimore & Ohio
bridge at Main and Sixteenth streets,
which was destroyed in July and rebuilt,
and it was carried away with the rapidity
of a cannon ball.
The stone bridge 40 feet long over
Wheeling creek at Main street fell with
an awful crash. Over 1000 people had
Just been on the bridge watching the rush
ing water. but were warned in time to
escape. The water, gas and natural gas
mains, sewers, telegraph and telephone
wires, electric light and street car power
conductors were carried down. The losses
will reach $3.50, 900.
Boston, Aug. 2I.-The storm struck
Boston with great fury about s p. M, and
wv Nv a llbICo VI rat ~ lit
at midnight. In the Journal press room
the water is within two inches of the
press blankets and a further rise will pre-
vent the issue of the paper.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 21.-The San has a
dispatch from various points in Southern
Maryland giving particulars of a severe
storm that swept up both sides Of Chesa-
peake bay. Houses and harms were de-
molished and two schooners were over
turned, but no loss of life is yet reported.
Entire fruit orchards were destroyed and
cornfields were in many instances swept
clean.
WILMINGTON, Aug. ola cyclone
passed across this state this afternoon
about six miles below the city, cutting a
path about 200 yards in width, dwelling
trees, orchards and outbuildIngs and doing
damage estimated at $3.50, 900. One per.
son is reported killed. In this city the
buildings of Mablow Bros. IRON works
we're wrecked in an instant. Huge tim
bers were tossed about as though they had
been straws. One workman employed in
the works was killed by flying timbers.
PITTsBURG, Aug. 2l.-lt has been
raining necessarily since IL o'clock last
night and since 8 O'Clock this morning
nearly four inches of rain have fallen,
being the greatest fall in eighteen years,
The same reports are coming in from all
sections Of Western Pennsylvania, Eastern
Ohio and Western Virginia. At Browns
vile, Pa, the water in the Monongahela
river is rising at the rate of three feet an
hour. Great damage has already been
done to railroads leading from this city.
At Uniontown, Pa, nearly five inches. of
rain fell since early this morning. Red
stone creek is higher than ever before and
people living in the lower portion of the
city are moving out of their houses to.
night. Trains on the southwest branch
of the Pennsylvania road and the Com
n~elsville branch of the Baltimore & Ohio
have stopped running.
Failed to Escape.