Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-04-10
The Storm of last Saturday.
DAMAGE AT NoRFoLI

Inc Storm OF last SATURDAY
DAMAGE AT NORFOLK.
Aspecial dispatch last Sunday night from
Norfolk, tn the Baltimore Sun, said ''The
storm here last night was terrific, and Oc
Cured after midnight. 1t exceeded in
severity the famous August gale of 1879 -
All Water street and intersectipg streets on
the wharf front were under water az an
early hour, and nearly reached up the west
end of Main street and the custom. house.
The wharves and ware houses all along
the southern ard southwestern portion of
the city were deeply submerged, and the
damage ia great all around the harbor.
reaching, it is thought. fully half million
dollars The lime warehouses along Water
street first took fire this morning and spread
to stables and sheds. and then the ware
house Of Batchelder & Collins, ]. w Perry
& Co., R W Santos & Co, and John c.
G.mage succumbed to the fl smes, and was
followed by the old Cotton Exchange and
adjacent buildings and about fourteen
hundred bales of cotton and other stuff =
The gale carried away the roof of the
Opera House ON Church street, the Vrr-
ginia Beach depot, the Masonic Temple
and various buildings about the city,
There was considerable damage in this re-
spect. At 10 O'Clock there was ten inches
of WAFER in the 81 alton house cells, and the
prisoners arrested during The night had to
be- taken out. In the Jail WAS a still greater
1md, and the prisoners had to be removed
from the lower to upper cells, Causing great
excitement among them. The wood aud
lumber yards suffered great damage from
submergeuce, and a plumber of vessels
dragged their anchors and were driven
ashore. One schooner was b ably damaged
by fire from the cotton exchange on the
hsrbor.
On the Portsmouth side of the river the
lime warehouses of Trugie 6 Hill and
'olher buildings were destroyed. At the
navy-yard the Pensacola was sunk in tho
dry dock, and the new Simpson DICK was
overfnwed and badly wrecked and dam
aged. The Pensacola was being repaired
FIR sea. Her sea-valves had been opened
for iuspec' ion and another one was being
cut. The tide flooded tine deck and she
filled with water, and, getting off her keel.
sank before she could be gotten in position
again. A diver will have to be sent down
and her valves stop ed mp and the ship
pumped out. the dam, ge to the Simpson
dry dock may reach $40 GOO. The marine
barracks aud other buildings of the yard
were injured by the rain and wind. The
insurance companies have lost heavily on
the freight stored in the transportation
warehouses and at the railroad depo's,
damaged by overflow. Women and chill
dren from houses on Water street were
placed on bales of cotton and flpated to dry
land. Several sick persons we're also res
cued by this method. None of the outgoing
steamers were able to 90 as far as Old
Point last night or to-day. They struck
the sto m 10 Hampton Raids and wer-
forced to return. The Storm was terrific
on the coast Serious disasters are apple
hended in that section, but all the govern
ment wires are down and nothing can be
heard"
IN OTHER PARTS OF VIRGINIA.
Dispatches from various parts m Virgin
ia give particulars of the manifestations of
the storm. A. Charlottesville the snowfall.
which began Sunday, cont pued through
the night. The telegraph wires were ted
iy br, ken down along the Chesapeake &
Ohio and The Richmond g. Danville Rail.
roads. and all trains we're delay ed-thnuder
and lightning also prevailed. Fourteen
il es was the depth Of the snow at Win
chester, as much as fell during the whole of
the past winter. While it vas falling rap
idly citizens were star led by loud clap of
thunder in the southeast sky. The thun
der and lightning were accompaniment of
the bail, rain, snow and high winds az r CHI
nond. Lyuchburg and Charlestowu, W. Va.
The steamer Helen. of the E tstern Snnre
Line, due at OuaDcock, Va, from B4lri-
more, Sunday morning, VAS driven ashore
in Onancock creek, below Finley's Wharf,
Va, and has not yet gotten off.
DRIFTS IN THE MOUNTAIN.
At Gettysburg, Pa, where the tempera-
t,I,e hal lint tha
fell heavily and reached a depth of over
foot on Sou mount ain, about ten miles
distant. II was eighteen inches to two feet
deep in the Allegh tnies aad eight
inches at Prtsburg, Pa Al trains were
delayed. The depths in the mountains were
due to the snow drifting under the heavy
wind