Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-10-19
DELAWARE GAZETTE AND STATE JOURNAL-WILMING

ever known. At Pocomoke City all the
wharves were submerged.
The storm was one of the most violent |
ever known in Dorchester county. Con-
siderable damage was done 20 shipping. |
A puugy belonging to Levin S. Nc |
Namara was sunk in Cambridge harbor.
The sloop NJ. NJ. Trayers, Captain
Mcssick, broke from moorings in the
Choptank river and collided with fleet
Of vessels, sustaining $3.50 damage. The
vessel belongs to John G.. Harley of
Cambridge. The oyster boat Genesta,
owned by Joseph johnson of Cam
bridge, lost an anchor and dredges
valued at $50. The tide was six inches
higher than the famous tide of 1876, and
much of the land in the lower districts
was submerged.
The highest tide known in many
years overfiowed the banks of the Chop
tank, at Denton, Caroline county, Sat-
urday, inundatiug the wharves of the
| steamboat company and damaging and
carrying away lumber and other things.
| The cRuseway between Denton and the
river was covered in Q feet of water.
There was great destruction to vessel
property in the waters of Somerset
county. At Deals Island @. @. Disha-
room lost two boats, worth s 900 each;
Samuel Bird lost one boat, valued at
| $500; Charles Gibson lost one worth
5000, and William Homer lost one worth
S75. These vessels are known to have
gone to pieces and great many more
have been missed and gone ashore. Part
of the Deals Island bridge and every
small bridge between the island and IL,
Peters were blown away. AT Fair
mount Captain John t. Paise lost one
boat worth $500, and number of other
vessels are missing. 1t is feared that
some lives were lost at Deals Island.
Captain Veasey of the steamer Enoch
Pratt, at Salisbury, Sunday, reports
great damage all along his route from
Baltimore. He says that off Hooper's
bar, in Hooper's straits, there was o
boat sunk, supposed to be a sloop, with
one mast standing out of water and sail
all set. The vessel is supposed to have
foundered with all on board. At Win
gates Point large bugeye ran against
the steamboat company's wharf ano
sank. As there was no one on board hi
} says the crew must have abandoned the
vessel and saved themselves by the small
boats.
done. Craft Of all kinds were driver
ashore and badly damaged. Six vessel
! at this point dragged their anchors ant
went out into the sound. Five wer'
caught and sayed from destruction, bu
/ one large vessel with full crew ha
not been heard from since and is sup
a posed to have sunk with all on board. 4
! large bugeye foated ashore at Deal
i Island bottom up and was hauled Oh
: the beach by the sailors around tn
p wharf AS no one was on board, an,
a all the effects of the crew were in thei
8 lockers, the crew is supposed to hay
o been lost.
g Captain Veasey thinks great damag
a has been done around the bay islands
Q but says the property of the Marylan
Steamboat Company along the rout
was not damaged. He says the view
d Lake district, Dorchester county, froi
D Wingate Point, is deplorable one. A
e far as he could sec with the aid of hi
Ie marine glass the entire section was undt
Ie water, and in many places the house
s. must have been submerged. at one {
n the highest points water covers Il
ID entire place. He says that cattle, hol
5. and all kinds of stock must have bee
IS drowned.