The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-04-19
WRECK AND RUIN.

Terrible Results of the Late storm-The
Virginia Coast strewn with Wrecked Yes
seIs-Many Lives Reported Lost.
NORFOLK, Va, April 9.-The terrible
gale is at end and the weather Is bright
and crispy, but Virginia beach is strewn
with wrecks and many lives have been
! lost.
The four -masted schooner Bergman r.
Poole, of Providence, for Baltimore, is
near Seatick station. The crew were
rescued.
The schooner Emma F. Hart from
Nassau for Boston, is ashore five miles
south of Cape Henry. The crew were res
cued by the Seatick life saving station.
An unknown schooner with both masts
gone is ashore three miles south OF
Seatick. or her crew of five there is only
one survivor.
The steamship William Lawrence re-
ports that the schooner Andrew johnson,
Of Baltimore for Rio, is ashore at York
river. An unknown vessel Is ashore of
Old Point, and tho steamer Chatham from
Boston passed, two miles northwest Of the
Cape Henry lighthouse, the boom of a
schooner moored to wreckage. An UNI
known schooner is on Willoughby Point
with the sea breaking over her.
The schooner Northampton in Cherry
stone creek with q crew of four men was
blown out into the bay Saturday night
and all on board lost.
The schooner W. H. Davis is beached on
Craney island, and the schooner Charles
H. Sinnickson is ashore at Ocean View,
while the schooner Hester A. Waters is
ashore at Nansemond river, and the
schooner George W. Covington has gone
to pieces at the mouth OF Nansemond
river.
The schooners Eva Osborne and James
s. Watson are ashore at Peg point and the
schooners Emily N. Burton and Rising
Sun were thrown up high and dry near
West Norfolk.
The long wharf at SewelPs point is en-.
tirely swept away and an unknown
schooner is ashore between Pegs point
and Craney island.
The Old Dominion steamer, Guyandotte,
reports that when twenty miles of the
Virginia capes she attempted to secure
the crew of four men dashed to the rigging
of an unknown schooner, but was unsuc-
cessfuL The men were so exhausted that
they could not help themselves, and must
have soon persisted afterward. The
schooners, James Bayce and Charles H.
Briggs, were badly damaged at Lambers'
point.
The schooner, Fairwood Suffolk, of
Salisbury. Nd, is ashore at Nansemond
river and the schooners. John w. Coving-
ton and Hester A. Waters, foundered in
Hampton Roads. The crews hoated
ashore on wreckage. Two unknown
schooners are ashore in New York river.
The schooner, Petrol, is sunk off Hampton.
Many buildings at Ocean View were
blown down and the roof Of the Princess
Anne hotel was blown of. The steam tug
Ida is ashore at Portsmouth and the
schooner Watchful is ashore at Pillner's
point.
The front of the naval hospital grounds
was seriously washed and damaged. Sew
eral local bridges in Portsmouth were car
ried away and the western branch draw
bridge is gone. Large portions of the
trestle work of the Seaboari & Roanoke
railroad and Atlantic & Dauville railroad
bridges throughout the county have been
washed away.
The Christian Church in Berkely was
blown to pieces and many houses were
unroofed and otherwise injured.
The schooners Annie F. Clarke. Andy
Healy and Mary A. Irving are ashore
above Berkeley flats and the schooner
Anna is sunk of the flats.
The total damage in this city and vioin-
ity will aggregate 100000 All the
wharves along the Nansemonde river
have been washed away. The store of W.
w. Williamson, at Sleepy Hall, was de-
molished and Clerk Woodward drowned.
An unknown schooner with masts only
visible is sunk off Ocean View and two
unknown vessels are ashore south of
Smithfield creek.
The schooner Godfrey is breaking up in
Nansemond river and the Carrie May is
ashore at Western Branch.
Captain Elijah j. Beech and two sons,
Of Portsmouth, are reported drowned
from their vessel. The steamer Georgia,
which left Norfolk on Friday night, put
into the Rappahannock for safety, but
returned here late last night with her
JOINER work badly strained and the vessel
otherwise strained There was a panic
among her passengers on Saturday night.
MUCH DAMAGE AT FORT MONROE.
FORT MONROE, Va, April 9-The worst
storm ever remembered here set in Satur-
day, lasting forty-eight hours. The tele.
graph wires went down. no boats ventured
out and the tide was foot higher than
ever recorded, doing great damage to
houses on the beach and roadway. A
number of families abandoned their homes
and sought safety in the fort. There was
no damage to shipping in tbs harbor. The
Constellation had her top mssts housed
and both anchors down and rode out the
gale safely.