Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-16
THE RECENT STORM.

and vicinity on FRIDAY nlght mas pass
ed to sea by way of the st. Lawrence
river. The rapidity of its movement i
surprising. Friday morning it was OF
the coast OF the South Atlantic States
aud in twenty-four hours it had skip
ped across the country to the lakes
where its influence was felt as far ives
as Minnesota, as we'll as from the Gull
along the Atlantic coast to Maine
! Vessels on Lake Erie suffered from the
terrible weather almost as much q:
craft in eastern waters. Wires were
Frustrated by the wind, and reports o
the damage done were belated. Nc
wires were working from the south OIL
Friday night, and only meagre report:
from that territory were received up tc
yesterday. Much damage was done tc
shipping, many small vessels being
dashed to pieces by the force of the
gale.
The damage along the east coast O
Florida was severe. All along Indian
and Hillsboro rivers the wind reached
a velocity of sky miles an hour
Towns along the banks were flooded
wharves swept away, and houses un'
rooted, and from 10 to Is per cent. o.
the oranges blown from the trees. The
wind blew the water in Indian river
southwark, backing it up at the south
end, leaving almost dry ground at the
north end. Steamboats, went along
with the high water.
A dispatch from Georgetown, S. c.,
tells terrible story of devastation and
death wrought by the hurricane in and
around that city and on the adjacent
sea islands. The entire water front Of
Georgetown was flooded, and much
damage was done to merchandise stored
| in warehouses. At Magnolia Beach al
most every house was washed away
and thirteen white and six colored PEG.
pie We're drowned. y number escaped
watery graves by taking refuge in trees.
| All the wharves were under water, and
the food swept through the lower floors
of warehouses. Ghe city FIRE wharves
were washed up, and the wharf Oh the
north side Of the dock was landed bodi-
! IL on Water street.
At Wilmington, y. c., the oldest in
habitant was forced 10 admit that the
terrific outburst of wind and wave that
swept through the city surpassed any
storm in his day. The tide was the
! highest known, being sixteen inches
above the high-water mark registered
and recorded in 1858.
In parts of Virginia, Maryland and
/ Delaware the wind and rain were VIC
/ lent. Vessels sank or were torn from
their moorings, houses were unroofed
or blown down, stores and other
business establishments were flooded
and trees were uprooted.
At the mouth of the Nansemond riv-
er during the heavy gale on Friday af-
ternoon a fleet of thirty oyster boats,
more or less loaded, were driven ashore,
and some Of them are yet in the corn
field near Chuckatuck and Candy
islands. At Petersburg residences,
stores, and other buildings, were up.
rooted, and shade trees, which had
stood the fury of other storms, were
forced to succumb. Telegraph wires
were blown down in every direction,
aud otter 10 o'clock Friday night Peters.
burg had no telegrapbic communication
with the outside word. In the ada
cent counties, where the wind attained
cyclonic proportions, dwellings were
unroofed and barns and other out
houses were leveled to the ground.
At Roanoke the river was higher than it
has been since 1858, and number of
houses were flooded ia the city. At Ell
liston, twenty-one miles from there, the
town was flooded by the river. The
storm was the heaviest for many years
in the Page valley. The Hawksbill,
which flows through Luray was higher
than it was in the great flood of 1870,
and many families had TO quit their
homes in Luray All along this stream
field after field of corn in the shock is
gone, and for miles every fence is wash
cd away Two trestles on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad, just below
town, are gone, and travel on this road
was stopped for thirty-six hours. The
Shenandoah rose to great height, and
the damage on it is thought to be
heavy.
The storm was particularly severe in
eastern Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia
scores of houses were unroofed, and the
walls of many partially constructed
buildings blown down. The ship Ivy,
of Bath, broke from her moorings, and
crashing into q stone pier at the old
navy yard, was badly damaged. In the
vicinity of Lancaster nearly all the
roads were blocked with fallen trees.
The wind blew with terrific force and
demolished tobacco sheds aud outbuild-
ings by the score. The storm did great
damage in Wilmington, Del, and vi
cinitv. In East Lake, suburb, seven
houses were unroofed. The banks Of
the Christiana creek gave way and the
southern section of the city was flood
ed. In South Wilmington the occu
pants of number of houses were res
cued by boats from the second-story
windows of their submerged houses.
Along the Jersey coast the wind blew
with great fury doing considerable
damage to late crops, and fences, out
buildings, trees and telegraph and tele
phone wires aud poles were blown
down in every section. The losses
other sources will also reach large
amount.
At Cape May the big pavilion was
lifted from its support by the wind and
dropped into the sea.
At Asbury Park the sea was raised
mountain hight and rs each breaker
would strike the piers and pavilions Of
the board walks, the foam from them