Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-10
ARD STILL The STORY UEFoLDs.
Many More DetaiIs-scbOOners nigh
and prS-UroWneG.

Especial telegram to the Dlspatch.l
NofrOLK, VA, April 9-Tbe Clyde Line
stearsnip EQUATOR, Captsln Hines, from
Philadelphia to this port and Richmond, ar
rived here this morning with her cargo
shifted aud somewhat damaged. A survey
VS. held on the steamer which ordered her
20 discharge her cargo. The vessel is unin-
iurld
The schooner J. B. Clayton, light. from
New York 10 the Chickahominy river for
cargo Of pine wood, is reported high and dry
on Pigs Point
The schooner Ney. Captain Chase, from
Washington city with cargo OF cement,
faundered during the late gale % Wind
Nin polut in Chesapeake hay. Her captain
and crew took 10 the yaWlbOst and were
picked up 10y the schooner Ida b. Gibson
md transferred to the pllot-bOst William
Sarkey, winch brought them up TO the city
t)-dly.
The schooner Louisa Waters, Captain
G1fiih, from James river 10 Washington
with lumber, IL ashore oil Creighton's Point,
mouth OF Pagan creek, ADD Is high and dry
with her cargo intact. The captain reports
gr OYSTER schooner and = urgeon-Gshing
schooner ashore near the same place. tue lat
ter gone TO pieces.
The schooner John /. J.. Hopkins, Captain
Humphries. hence TO Georgetown, ID. c.,
with shingles, il high and dry below the
mouth OF Western branch.
Il il reported that three scbooners are
s,hore on Curriuck beach.
Captain TAYLOR, Of the schooner Mary
Caiilard, stated that six oysteT.schooners,
the Annie :. iear being one Of them, sailed
from York river FOR New York With oysters.
sud were passed by sn Incoming vessel
nsrih Of Cape Charles last saturday night.
- sl..rV . fls.. Ersa hrrn
bred feet Of The roadway gone, but the
pier.hesd Is left. A. Sleepy Hole the en-
tire wharf aud ireight-house. with the store
Of u. Williamson, are swept away.
The Fsrry.Pont wharf, belonging to W.
J. sullivan, j. gone to the pier>head.
The sloop Uncle JET, belonging 70 Paul
Everett, OF Nsnsenond, and q schooner be-
lougug TO ". II. Britton, Of the same
county, were iiited by the water on the
wharf ana capsizeG. The cabin Ct the
sioOp has been carried away.
The wharf OF Captain Thomas Il. Gaskins
has been washed away aud he has one
schooner and two sloops ashore hign and
dry.
The wbsri and storehouse OF W. j. Lee
are gone aud hi slOOp Music Is sunk haf
mile below Sleepy Hole. Twenty acres OF
bis land have been washed away and his
shore u stTewo with driited lumber.
A schooner. nSnc unknown. loaded at
suGoh With lumber, Il high and dry IN Ben.
nolt's creek WITH hsr docS-load still on.
Captain Noah Thomas, OF Chuckatuek
creek, states that toere is quantity OF bed
clothes, pillows. &C., Strewn about bis farm,
aud that A Is reported that the house Occu-
pied by william Bumphries. bis wife, and
two children is gone, aud that clothes be-
lo0ging 70 the children have been found;
sisO that Mack Lsnk, OF Jones Creek, MAS
orowDed 10 his store.
Webb Adams b9rey escaped With his wife
sud children, toe house being swept Of
everything by the next morning..
Two men in boat flosfed to Captain
Thomsss residence aud were rescued IN
40 Klmost exhausted condition by bis wife.
Another man IN boat was rescued next
morning, after having clung 10 a cedar.tree
al night
On Tanners creek the sloops Blanche and
Rlchel and Lula are ASHORE.
The water and wind. besides ipluring the
draw Of Indian toli-bridge, carried away
two piles Of lumber wnich were 10 have
been used In repairing the bridge. house
oil Of sawed lumber, owned By captain !
Thomas Wasp, and a scafold Ia the creek, |
used for raising bosts, were carried away. !