Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-04-09
FIRE, FLOOD And WIND
Norfolk, Va, Il Prey 10 Destructive
Elements.
A FIERCE CONFEDERATION.
Property 10 the Value of n Million and a
Half Goes UP in smoke at savannah,
Ga.-Half a Million in Aches
MT pittsburg.

NORFOLK, Va, April s.-The storm
here Saturday night was terrific. 1t
occurred after midnight. and exceeded
in severity the famous August gale of
1879. All Water street and intersecting
streets. on the wharf front were under
water Mt an early hour, and it nearly
reached up the west end of Main street
and the custom house. The wharves
and ware houses all along the southern
and southwestern portion of the city
were deeply submerged, and the dam
age is great all around the harbor,
reaching, il is thought, fully a half mil
lion dollars.
The lime warehouse along Water
street took fire and spread to stables
and sheds, and her to the ware houses
Of Batchelder & Collins, j.. w. Perry &
Co, r. w. Pantos & CO., and John G..
Canine, all succumbing to the flames.
These we're followed by the old Cotton
Exchange and adjacent buildings, and
about /, 900 bales Of cotton and other
stuff were burned.
The gale carried away the roof of the
opera house on Church street, the yir-
ginia Beach depot and various build
ing in the city. There was considerable
damage in this respect.
AT Dio'clock there was ten inches of
water in the station house cells, and the
prisoners arrested during the night had
to be taken out. In the jail there was
a still greater flood, and the prisoners
had to be removed from the lower cells,
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The wood and lumber yards suffered
great damage from submergence, and
q. number of vessels dragged their
anchors and were driven ashore. One
schooner was badly damaged by fire
from the cotton exchange on the harbor.
On the Portsmouth side of the river
the lime warehouses of Traut, Terugin
& CO.. and other buildings were
destroyed.
AT the navy yard the Pensacola was
sunk in dry dock and the new Simp.
son dock was overlooked and very badly
wrecked. The Marine barracks and
other buildings OF the yard were in.
jnred by the rain mt wind. The in
surance companies lost heavily on the
freight stored in the transportation
warehouses and at the railroad depots,
damaged by overflow.
Women and children from houses or
Water street We're placed ON bales OF
cotton and loated to dry land. Several
sick persons were also rescued by this
method. None of the outgoing steamers
were able to go as far as Old Point dur
ing Sunday. The storm struck the
steamers in Ham pton Roads and they
were forced to return. The storm was
terrific on the coast. Serious disasters
are apprehended in that section, but all
the government wires are down and
nothing can be heard.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, April s.-The Bal
timore steamer Sue reached here ahead
of time, having been prevented by the
storm from making her usual landings
on the Potomac, and SO came straigh,
up the river. Capt. Geoghegap report.
that he never saw before such a sea il
the Potomac river. Capt. Mckinney.
fishing schooner Daniel Augusta wa,
wrecked IN the ledge of rocks at the
mouth of Quantico creek. Almost all
the fish were swept away on the Poto
mac. No loss of life.
WEST POINT. Va, April S.-A fata
wreck occurred on the York river
branch of the Richmond and Danville
railroad about two miles above thii
place. The heavy rains of yesterday
washed out a culvert and a part of the
dam between the tank pond and tht
river, n an engine and seven freight
cars plunged into the washout. Two
men, n colored brakeman and the fire
man, u young man named Dnrvin, wert
buried under the cars and killed. Til,
body Of the fireman has been gotten GU
but the colored man has not yet beer
found. The engineer was badly scalded
During yesterday a thunder storm raget
here while the wind blew a gale and til,
rain poured. The high tide ~submerget
the lower part of the town and did con
siderable damage to property.