Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-10
STORM ECHOES.
REPORTS OF DISASTERS STILL coKrNe
IN AT NORFOLK.
The Lose OF Lite-Dsmage to Farms and
Wharves-A Family Ahoat-Ths
Fires WORK, 30.
f,Irrespondence q tho Riehmoaa plspa,ch.l

fD1rrespondence Of tho Richmond Dispaichl
NoRFOIx. April ., 1889
Reports oil disasters from the SUNDAY
ftofm continue 20 come In. The loss OF life
however, l. moi ~ great AZ expected, though
intelligence from the coast + Very mcagTe
ana does not extend further south than
Dam Neck MIN station, on tho Virginia
coast The oyster.bed watchmen At Craney
Island supposed 10 have been drowned
have turned up MI safe. Nothing more has
teen beard of Captain Elijah Benson add
ms two sons, OF Scotrs Greek, and they
probably were lost as reDOried on the OYSTER
rocks AZ he mouth Of james ever There
J. rePor: that Gsbiug crew OF eight men,
while IN their hut below VIRGINIA Beach, were
swept ont 20 sex aud an drowned. The IN.
known vessel that went 10 pieces OF sea-
tack hfe-ssving station wss the fishing
schooner Northampton, NJ Cfisfcld. Md.
Four ont Of the crew Of FIVE were drowned
Tho survivor was q cOiOred man named
John Moody. Of Clisfeld. who Il partly do
lirious, snd little can be learned OF him con-
corning the disaster. The CAPTAIN leaves
family at Crisdeld. None OF the bodies nave
come ashore. The vessel was blown from
heranchorage on the Eastern shore on Ssturs
day night
WIDESPREAD.
The destruction ~ toe country IS wide
spread, snd almost every farmer suffered
more or less dainage 10 property, stock, or
growing crops. The destruction 10 bridges
thr"ugl out Norfolk county, Princes Anne.
and NausoTcnd never was 20 great, ana
corporauors particularly experienced very
lcaNy loss. The railroad WaShouts were
rapidly repaired. Country merchants on
soc Nster. courses were also hesvy losers and
few escaped. The store of Mr.. John fail at
Hrffifre N. hf q 1oefun
merchandise flour, corn, &C.. and twenty
five hogs sud other stock drowned. The
hAfb0r snd creeks are full OF floating lumber
and cord-w God, and foot boalmen are reap
ing harvest
THRILLING ACCOUNT.
The Bay-Lue and Washington steamers
arrived lg.' night shout II O'Clock, having
been 40 me Happ,hanuock river since sun.
usy morning, gud The passengers gave
thrilling account II the rough time on the
BAY TIE steamers we're only slightly dam
aged
The cordiiion Of the bov Charley Marshall,
blown from q housesop on high street, con-
u1ues critical, bat be IS no worse.
1he Whtrves % James liver were badly
damaged as the storm, sud in some in.
stsntt- waShcd away. FerFuson's wharf,
han mile iu length. with fre!ghi-hOuse and
iTamIalwag, was washed away. joneSS
whnt u Sufry, aud Wyanoke wharf, in
Charlie tity. are also gone.
At he navl.yaTd the work OF pumping
out thc sunkcu war~shiD Pensacola COM
nleuoed to-day. The disaster will keep the
Pensacola ~ the ward three months longer.
% her engines Will now have 20 be taken
apart and cleaned and the damages caused
hy sinking repaired. The work OF pumping
ou' the new simpson dry-dock is in pro-
gress ami Will Doe completed tomorrow
The training ship Constellation, In Hampton
Roads. dragged her anchors Tor s hall mile,
but rode out the gse M safety.
AFANnY AFLOAT.
The Keepers house on the Churchland
diawhridre was swept into the river with
Nir. William Myrtle, the keeper, and his
family in %; The house was floating down
20, river and the inmates would have been
drowned hot for a party o. men who al The
ri.A OF their own lives went of I'D boats and
rescued the family.
The shipNrcckcd crews 81 the vessels
wrecked at Virginia Beach have been
brought 10 the city
The barn Of Captain John 4. West, in
Tiess3ut-GroYe district, Norfolk county, YVES
blown down, its contents scattered. and
lot ~ machinery and farming implements
damaged.
WORK OF THE FIRE.
Thirteen hundred bales Of cotton were
burned or damaged by ire and floods, and
the total loS. iu this city is about $4,000,
but there l. no estimating the great amount
Oi loss iu TINS section IN the famous Au.
gust Gale Of 1879 the wind reached a velocity
81 sixty miles an hour. but that gale was Of
about taTHc hours duration, The wind this
tune was uiiy-fSe miles and continued near
" Two DAYS and two nights. Al Cape Hen
~ ihe gale was nearly one hundred miles an
hour. The wrcckers arr all busy to-day get
ting sitardcd vessel, % The shores, and will
have their hands fan for week or more.
1inncrs and carpenters are in demand IN
the city. and all binding operations are sus-
ItufcI tO make repairs.
the Norfolk and Carolina railroad has
Uhc,g ou record ~ the Corporation Court
mortgage % the Central Trust Company OF
Nv York for sj26.2)O TO secure bonds TO
build and equip the road at $4,000 a mile.
a large force Of calkers are TO be taken in
The hayward 10 work on the Pensacola.
John Gibson ,colorcdl, OF Norfolk, an anti
MshDneiio. hs> been appointed msil.sgent
b,twccn ihi. city aud Raleigh. Gibson oc-
Cupod tie position four years ago. G.