The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-08-31
STORM ON THE COAST.
AN EAST INDIAN CYCLONE VISITS THE
ATLANTIC sEAB0ARD.
Heavy Damage to Shipping and to Property
Many Miles Inlsnd-Full Extent OF
Damage Cannot be Obtained Because
Of Frustrated Wires.


ing country from midnight until
O'Clock. Its origin was in a cyclon
in the West Indies and it then swep
along the Atlantic coast with tn
storm center we'll inland, reaching gu
in every direction for a distance o
more than 500 miles. From observa
tions i,s1rmised that the storm ha
gone vesGw trd and will probably
make it's Eay out to sea through the
st. Lawrence valley. New York wal
visited by the eastern portion of the
storm. At Philadelphia the velocity
of the wind was S6 miles an hour anc
at Atlantic City 20 miles.
The telegraph wires east from Mt
Vernon, N. Y, are down and all com
munication is shut off. At East
Chester the damage was great. The
long distance telephone between New
York and Boston was badly wrecked
In Pelham Bay three yachts have
gone on the rocks. Reports from City
Island say 75-foot steel yacht is
ashore on Green's Flats and is com
pIete wreck. A 30-foot yacht was
sighted this morning off New Rochelle
shore floating keel up. A. $50 the
wind swept away nine houses in
Blocker street. The houses were un-
occupied. At Grafton street four
-4-story houses were lifted from their
foundations.
Along the Coney Island beach every
thing has been completely wiped
away. On George Tilhouse's grounds
the buildings in which the Bolivian
Indians were sleeping were blown
down. No one was hurt. The south.
east corner of the Sea Beach hotel was
torn off and every pane of glass in the
building was broken. All the amuse-
ment machines were unable to stand
the pressure and fell. The cars on the
Brighton elevated and Marine railway
are not running today on account of
the storm.
All telegraph aud telephone wires
were down and it was very hard to
communicate with the people in the
city. All railroad communication be-
tween the New Jersey coast resorts
and Philadelphia is cut off. The
tracks OF the Ambery division of the
Pennsylvania road is under four feet
of water between Bay Head and
Berkly.
Ten feet OF the iron pier at Long
Branch was swept away. Hundreds
of acres of corn and tomatoes are
ruined. Part of the bond wave pier
at Ocean Grove is washed away. At
-Asbury Park and Ocean Grove the
breakers were the biggest ever wit
messed. In Philadelphia Anthony
Vanderslice and an unknown Italian
iaborer were killed by being struck by
swinging electric wires. A number of
horses were killed by same cause.
IN CONNECTICUT.
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 20. -Heavy
property damage was done by the
storm this morning. The oyster beds
are thought to be entirely ruined.
Hundreds of laborers are engaged in
cleaning the debris from the streets
Telegraphic and telephone commune
cation are almost destroyed Fruit
orchards suffered much damage which
amounts to over 81, 100000.
IN GEoRGIA.
AUGUSTA, Aug 20.-The storm Sun
day did incaculable injury to farming
interests of the southeast No cum
munication has been received from
Charleston, Savannah or Jacksonville
since Sunday afternoon. A dispatch
from Blackvill, s. c., says several
buildings in that town were crushed.
The cotton crop is terribly damaged,
tobacco totally devastated. In
Wayneboro, Ga, and Steven county
the storm did great damage to cotton.
No casualties reported.
AT BRUNSWICK.
BRUNSWICK, Ga, Aug, 30. -Yester-
days storm with heavy rain was fol-
lowed by a gale. Streets impossible.
Oracle, the largest pilot boat here, was
overturned and family of eight mar
rowly escaped drowning. An unknown
schooner is ashore on Jekyl Island.
Damage to tugs is considerable.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The storm
did immense damage to shade trees,
electric light and telephone service in
Alexandria and Georgetown and the
city proper. Telegraph communication
with the South was broken and re-
mains so.
DIED IN THE STORM.
ATLANTA, Aug. 80. - During the
storm at Slillivan's Island, 3. G., A
Bryan and wife were drowned. Mrs
e. Pollard was killed by a falling
tree.
AT CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON, S. G., Aug. 29.-The
Cyclone damage to property here cam
not be yet told. Loss of life is I'M
known.
FATALITIES NEAR SAVANNAH.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 29.-rhe list of IA
talities is gradually growing, and it is
impossible TO eel to what extent it
will grow Several bodies were picked
up, and search is being made for Others
who are missing. Every hour seems
to bring some new style of death as
the result of the storm. a O Ullmer
struck against an outshed when he
jumped from a barn as il was about
blowing down. Miller. his dairyruau,
is missing and is supposed also to be
drowned. Otter fatalities so far as re-
ported Tony Holmes, colored; five nm
known negroes drowned; Lewis Sag