Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-09-02

ports having had continuation OF heavy
southeast and northeast gales, with tire
mendous high seas. during which the YES
sci labored heavily. causing her to spring
a leak. She sighted the schooner Annie S.
! Conant in distress, bore down to her, res
cued the captain and crew of seven men
and brought them to this port.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. - Reports re-
ceiyed by the weather bureau show that
the hurricane has moved northeast and is
now central near the mouth Of the st.
Lawrence river. The storm covers pear
shaped radius with Montreal at the point
corresponding to the juxtoposition of pear
and stem. Hal flax is on the eastern out
skirts of the hurricanes circumference.
LONDON, Aug 3l.-A dispatch from
Para, Brazil. says that the British steam
ship Justinn, Captain Bison, which sailed
from New York on Aug. 10, arrived ut
Barbados yesterday. She had passed
through series of terrific storms Her
decks were swept day after day. Hersmall
boats, wheelhouse and engine room sky
light were smashed or carried overheard
Her second mate, boatswain and four sea-
men were washed from her decks by the
waves and were lost in the sea.
( PoTTsyiLLE, Aug 30.-The most terrific
storm of many years struck this region,
and continued undated for six hours,
blowing at a rate of sixty miles an hour.
/ Rain fell in sheets during the entire time,
and streams are much swollen. Consider
able damage has been done throughout
/ the entire Schuylkill region Fruit trees
were uprooted in the farming districts and
the corn crop has suffered badly. Much
I damage was done to breakers and colliery
Il a.
/ several collieries are reported as drowned
/ out.
CARLISLE, Aug. s0.-A terrific storm
/ passed over the Cumberland valley, doing
| considerable damage to property and
/ growing crops. Telegraph wires were
/ blown down and communication was cut
off for several hours, The Philadelphia
4 and Reading railroad bridge at Brandts-
vile, this county was struck by lightning
I and totally burned
/ LoNG BRANCH, Aug 30--The storm has
cut Off all railroad communication be
I tween the New Jersey coast resorts and
/ Philadelphia. The railroad tracks Of
4 the Amboy division of the Pennsylvania
railroad are under four feet of water
/ between Bay Head and Berkeley. Trouble
/ is also reported on the same division below
| Chadwick. At As5ury Park and Ocean
1 Grove considerable damage was sustained
I by the terrific storm. About tea feet of
/ the Bond wave power pier has been
washed away, and the loose pilings are
/ being used by the breakers as a battering
ram against the other piers. The big sum-
/ mer pavilion of Founder" James A.
/ Bradley, at the foot of Asbury avenue has
been damaged TO some extent, and fears
are entertained that the next high tide,
I which will be an unusually heavy one,
will cause considerable damage The new
/ fishing pier at Ocean Grove is reported
wrecked
I ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 90.-The storm
passed over this city without doing the
great amount of damage predicted for It.
/ The maximum velocity of the wind
! reached fifty-five miles an hour, though by
/ the time it reached that speed it was com
\ ing from the southwest. About 81 600
worth of the roof of Jackson's pavilion
was blown off, while around town there
are number of fallen trees and wires; no
other serious damage reported
AsBURY PARK, n J., Aug 90 The
Mary f. Kelly, a two masted fishing
schooner from New York, was wrecked
here yesterday and four men were
drowned.
! SOUTHAMPTON, l.. /, Aug. 25-Yester-
| day two vessels, a coal barge and a towing
vessel, were wrecked off the coast at this
/ point. Six men from the towing steamer
reached shore-three alive and three be
4 yond resuscitation. The fifteen other
men of the crews are believed to be
drowned, thus making total loss OF life
/ of eighteen persons.
/ CONEY ISLAND. L. l., Aug 90-The
4 tornado which swept over this island was
the severest that has been experienced
here in many years. Along the beach
everything has been completely wiped
away, and the roofs OF many big buildings
have been carried blocks away
| NEW York, Aug. 25.-The fishing
4 schooners Empire State, with crew of
/ ten men, and Ella NJ johnson, with a
/ crew of eight men, went down Wednesday
night off Manasquan on the Jersey coast,
and all on board were lost These two
vessels were in company with the Chocorua
at midnight, when the storm struck them,
and after beating around all night in some
of the worst weather ever known off the
coast. with the loss OF the captain and her
/ first mate, the Choeoraa tied up late yes
| teVday afternoon, the only survivor OF the
three. She is in charge Of Sailor Dick
| Kelly
! The storm struck the three vessels about
midnight, and Mt l o'clock the johnson
disappeared. About half an hour later
Captain Perry and First Mate Joseph
4 Francis, OF the Chocorua, were swept
/ overheard by gigantic wave The lights
of the Empire State disappeared immedi-
ately afterwards, aud at daybreak her
masts were seen projecting out Of the
water about three feet.
! Stephen Cooper, OF the pilot boat Thomas
/ D. Harrison, reported that twenty miles
off the Highlands he picked up Henry A.
[ Suga, a Portuguese, clinging to the mast
head of sunken wreck. lie proved to he
the only survivor OF the schooner Maria
gansett, Captain Chase. bound from Phila-
delphia for Wareham, Mass coal laden,
4 whiph fpuudered during the hurricane
/ The crew OF five men We're all lost, and be
| survivor was for seven hours on the mast
before being picked up lie was taken
aboard the pilot boat in an exhausted con
/ dition.
The Malinda Wood. small sixty foot
fishing schooner, was picked un by pilot
boat No. o completely dismantled, and
1 with only the captain and two of his crew
left, the other five having been swept over
board during the storm.
/ SOUTHAMPTON. l., l.. Aug. e9.-Another
body was washed ashore at this place yes
terday It is believed to be one Of the
crew Of either Of the i'll fated vessels which
were recently wrecked in the recent storm.
Aryid Johnson's body was found Sunday
night. He was one of the men lost in tho
wreck
BALTIMORE. Aug. 30-Not since the big
food Of iSGs has such deluge Of water
invaded Baltimore as that Of Monday
night Roofs and ehimneys were torn OF
shutters and window panes were smashed
and trees uprooted, Telegraph and tele
phone wires were soon wrecked, aud the
electric lights went out, leaving the greater
I part Of the city ia darkness, On the BAY
mountainous seas were piled up and rolled
high in the basin. The waves spread over
the wharyes and flooded the streets and
/ adjacent buildings
/ MlLFogD, Del. Aug 30 The storm has
4 about ruined the remainder Of the peach
I crop ii this section 10 the extent Of 80 900
baskets. The corn crop IA ale greatly
/ damaged