Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-14
STORM ALONG THE COAST.
New York City Cut on From the
World.

Reports Of wrecks by the storm a1cng
the Atlantic coast are reaching the life -sav-
ing service here. The first wreck reported
SO far is from Chicamicomico, n. c.. where
the barkentine Ravenswood. from Boston.
Mass, to Georgia ports, stranded at II 80
yesterday morning one-quarter of a mile
south Of the station. The crew Of ten men
was saved by means of the breeches buoy.
For the second time this year the city OF
New York was cut off from quick commu-
nication with practically the whole United
States. Again the Atlantic coast has been
swept by a fierce West Indian hurricane
AT midnight the telegraph companies had
10 report that communication with the
south beyond Philadelphia was entirely
suspended. and that the service to the west
and northwest was SO badly crippl ID as to
De practically Of no avail New England
alone responded promptly to the touch Of
the electric key. ~
Two hours before midnight New York he.
came the scene of the battle of the eie-
, n,er.s says the World 1t seemed all the
worse because Of the sense of loneliness
mat followed the cutting off Of reports
from other places where the storm had
t tsseo REGARDING its results. Judging from
we experience In New York this storm
from the southern seas is even more Sc.
we're ana is likely to leave a wider swatb
OF distress than did even the great August
hurricane from the same region
II Is much the same sort Of a storm o..
.nat winch strewed the coast with wrecks
and carried death to thousands on the $40
iisanos and the lowlands of the South At
Like the storm Of August 1t has been
neraided Tor two days by messages from,
size she southern stations of the government
Sisndi service Now, as then, as the storm
mas swept northward Communicative fror,
tne south has been shut off, LEAVING rom,
AT Ieast, for gloomy forebodings as 10 The
n. .t .iat VIII be told when the telegraph
WIRES pegln to work again.
West Indian Hurricane..
These West Indian hurricanes are the
nercest storms that are experienced IN ,his
country and are productive of the greatest
oisaster. Never before has more than one
OF a serious character been experienced in
single season. while this year there have
been three.
The first was the terrible storm Of An
gust winch carried ruin and death along
the Georgia and South Carolina coast and
the adjacent sea islands
1t is known that over LOCO lives were los.
while 1t ragged, the victims being mostly the
negroes employed on the cotton and rice
plantations on the islands.
The list of known wrecks by that storm
exceeded over 200. the most notable one be-
ing that of the steamships City Of Savan-
nah and the Alvo, and government boats
are yet cruising along the coast and find
Millions Of dollars worth of property was
destroyed in the cities and towns along the
coast. notably in Charleston, and the crops
on the sea islands plantations Were ruined.
This August storm was followed by one of
a milder character a few days later
Hence the hurricane that reached this city
last night was the third this season to
sweep the Atlantic coast. 1t was a storm
born in the same West Indian sea that has
within the past week created such havoc
along the shores of the states bordering
on the Gulf of Mexico.
In August, 1873, there was one of these
West Indian storms which swept the entire
Atlantic coast. 1t is known to have wreck
ed ,233 vessels and to have cost 223 lives
1t was calculated that at least 600 lives
were lost then of which no reports We're ever
received. The loss to the fishing industries
of the United States and Canada alone at
that time was more than IS, 900.
In 1880 there was another hurricane which
struck the coast at Savannah. Four hun
dred lives were lost there, at Tybee. Charlie
ton and other places. More than 81 10000 of
property was destroyed.