Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-10-21
DEATH IN A STORM.

pbla and Othcr Points.
COLUMBIA, 5. c., Oct. 1.-THE West
India cyclone struck Georgetown on
the coast of this state Friday, sweep
ing Magnolia Beach away and killing
many persons. Mrs l.. G Haskell and
q servant are said to be the only sur
vivors. Pawley's island suffered ter
ribly, and many houses were wrecked.
The people sought refuge'in the trees.
Fourteen persons were drowned at
Magnolia Beach
The tide rose above floors of dwellings
on North island and all dwcllers took
refuge in the lighthouse. The most
heartrendering reports come from DR.
j. w. Flagg, who escaped and saved
little Miss Weston 10 years old. They
were clinging to the boughs of a
cedar tree drifting to mainland. His
father and mother were with them on
the same tree. His mother became ex-
hausted and lost her hold upon the
limb, and his father let go to rescue her
and both were drowned before his eyes,
Searching parties were patroling the
beach with the hope of finding bodies.
BUFFALO, Oct 17.-The wind blew at
the rate of go miles an hour on Satur-
day. About 1870 o'clock in the morn
ing the storm caught up a long line of
empty coal cars standing on a siding of
the Nickel Plate road and lifted them
onto the main track, a few miles south
of this city. The midnight passenger
train for Chicago crashed into the cars.
Fireman Lang was killed.
Other fatalities occurred late in the
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the Empire freight line at Louisiana
and Carroll streets collapsed with a
loud crash. The fire and police depart
ments were called out, but before their
arrival the missing men showed up.
They had miraculous escapes and re-
ceived only slight INJURIES. The wreck of
the huge sheds lay in heap, but the
trusses of the roof had for the most part
retained their places and had saved the
men beneath the wreck by leaving room
enough for them to crawl through
Under some debris, with his head
smashed down between his knees, was
Johnnie Flannery. A few feet away
the crushed bodies of Zitz Heinlich, 8
years old, and Johnny Dwyer. only s,
were. All three boys were dead
BALTIMORE, Md, Oct l1.-While the
wind was blowing a gale Friday night
the Brush Electric Light works took
fire and were burned. AS these supply
the city and nearly all the stores and
other buildings in the city with light,
the city for time was plunged into
partial darkness
Sparks from the Brush electric light
works set fire to the city jail
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lected and marched into TIE ward.
Quite number, however, were over
come by smoke and dragged out. The
Jail was completely destroyed. Acor-
don of police was formed about them.
while doctors were working on the
prisoners. Seventy five of them were
taken to the city hospital but none of
them are believed to be fatally injured.
The southern part of the city is flood
ed, and water at the docks is even with
the surface OF the city. In various sec
tions of the city houses were un-
rooted and trees blown down. The
wind and rain swelled the water in the
harbor so that the New York trains
on the Baltimore < Ohio were unable
to cross at Locust Point, at which place
they are ferried across From Annap-
oils and other points reports are multi
piled of damage by the storm.
The damage done by the storm was
the greatest in many years. Especially
was this the case along the water
front, where the tide rose to the level
of the wharves, overhowed into
stores, the cellars of commits
sion merchants and the places occu-
pied by the oyster packers, and COM
pletely destroyed stocks to the amount
of almost sl,OOO,OOO As the dredging
season opened Monday the oyster boats
had beea preparing for the season and
many of them We're badly damaged.
The destruction of property all through
the city was large
The summer resorts on Curtis bay
and the upper Patapsco were ruined.
The entire shore from Francis Cutair's
resort to the Ariel and Neptune clubs
boat houses is devastated. AT Floods
pavilion the damage will reach IS, 900.
GThe wharves and lighthouses of the
rowing clubs are a wreck. Charles
Durm's steam yacht Admiral, George
Kohls steam launch Alice. and num-
ber of fancy sailing yachts at these re-
against the wharves.
The packing houses at Canton, on the
eastern water front, were nearly
washed away. A scow loaded with
$50 cases of fruit belonging to Fait &
Winebrenner went to the bottom.
Hemingways cannery was damaged to
the extent of $4,000. The total loss in
the canning district will reach $50, 900.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17.-The storm
was particularly severe in eastern
Pennsylvania. In this city scores of
houses We're unroofed and the walls
OF many partly-constructed build
ings blown down. The Roman
Catholic church of the Nativ-
ity, which is being constructed
at Belgrade street and Allegheny
avenue, was damaged to the extent OF
$4,000. While the gale was at its
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