The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-14
FOURTH FOURTH EDITION
IN THE swErr OF A GALE.

Genuine southeastcr Strikes VIII
mington = Damage VIII Exceed SIO,-
OO0-The Tail oil the Cyclone Strikes
this City l.nst Night-Oid Boreas Tears
Roots from Houses, Levels to the
Ground Trees and Fences-No One
Seriously Injured Cattle Perish In the
Flood A Drenching Rain = Clear
Weather Follows in the Storm's
Wake.
Wind and rain played havoc In Will
mington last night. These elements
constituted tho cyclone which started
along the southern coast Thursday
and which was predicted would strike
Wilmington Friday night. Old
Boress arrived on scheduled time, ard
blowing gale at a 50.mlle-an-hour
CLIP He was an unwelcome visitor,
but remained during the night, all the
an hour.
With such q bowling wind no one
was seriously injured, but probably
over two hundred dwelling houses
were damaged, and hundreds OF signs.
WINDOWS and shutters were damaged.
Many trees were also blown down,
and both electric and telephone wires
were damaged by the raging elements.
10 btosuN silIH5 10 anu ITO
they were his Legitimate friends.
The wind was regular old south
easter. Along with II came heavy
rain storm, which the wind blew into
sheets. Umbrellas were useless and
those who happened to lie out In tho
storm had to grin and bear it II took
but one minutes time to completely
saturate these with the falling rain.
IL was indeed arouRh night, and one
Al N FfENn nj a ,.t a..
experience again. II had not been
equalled since the cyclone OF August
81, 1881
| CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE.
The damage done by the wind was
heavy. Hundreds OF buildings wsre
damaged. the principal ones having
their roofs taken OIL
| The stormed seemed to have center
ed about East Lake. as there were IL
houses there uhroofed. Beyoni .ev-
enth stree bridge there were 8 houses
unroofed. and on Lincoln street at
sixteenth ve OH II houses wore un-
| rooted. There are two unroofed
houses ut :ond and Scott ST. ets,
four at Ninth aud Dupont streets, four
at Third and Woodlawn avenue.
! The houses over 18th street bridge
are sltunto Mt Lodge and Claymont
streets. Ii NUM- er Of the hou ;es and
by whom occupied arc as follows: No
1871 Ciaymont street. John Mullin; No.
1929. vacant; No. 1927, John Popkepsi;
No. 1873, William Bratten; No. 1928
vacant; No III, Patrick Conner No
1919 vacant. The only oEe injured
was John Popkepsi. lilo, his wife and
child were lying In bed. Popkep
was hit lr Il ing brick, which cut
30 81 sh h hea'. His wound Is
n serious. All Of the families were
O cd for Ey Mrs. Forrest at Lodge
ah @laymont streets. The houses are
owneh 10y William Iuige mud son
At Ea Lake the roo's 4 tho houses
are lying about 200 ieet from where
they were once Lart OF the houses
They ARC situated on Madison street
between Twenty.ninth Aid Ihirteth
streets
The damage was done shortly before
10 O'Clock and most OF the people in
that new addition to tho city had gone
TO bed. At the time tho wind was
blowing gale, but the people there
did not think 1t would get more severe
acd so they had gone to sleep, not
fearing any harm.
While they were asleep the wind sud-
denly became more violent and with
out warning the roofs were lifted from
the houses and carried away. People
hurried from their houses, but there
was very little excitement. Each man
thought the roof of his own house
had not been blown Off and SO there
| was no panic. Tho women were also
quet and took matters in calm mat
ter -of-fact way. They were surprised
to learn that every house with four ex-
ceptions had been unroofed and the
| buildings damaged.
10 add to the de struction there was
no light to assist in the removing OF
goods TO places OF shelter. The houses
damaged were those Of George Stew.
art, Charles Shellinger. George Daw-
son, George brennan. +. Il. Hnmmitt.
John Eanniio George Grier, w. Il.
JHnnings, Wilmer linrris and +. Il.
Wtbb, on Madison street, and of N. j.
Boyd on Iwenty-nlnth street.
The family of James Grier had II Q
naTrowest escape from injury. Mr. :,
Gr!er was i'll and was confined TO heI.
bod when the accident occurred. MIR,
Grier was sitting on the side of the
bed talking to her while Mrs Grlers
mother was sitting near by. Without
| warning the roof was lifted of and the
plaster from the ceiling, the laths
and soiAo of the rnfters fell upon the
he'd where Mrs. Grirr was lying, and
covering 6ll who were in the room
with the debris. Mr.. Grier sprang to
his feet and carried his wifn down
stairs out of harms way. The roof
stars above could be seen from the
front room upstairs
The damage done there will am ount
TO $500.
Tho unroofed houses on Lincoln
street anu by whom occupied are as
follows; No. 1901, John Timer: No.
lgO3, Charles Miles; No. 1905 Joseph
kranz; No. 1907 John +. kr0nz; No
1909 Charles Shafer All of tie occu-
pants eE capped uninjured
The unroofed houses on DUPONT are
occupied thus: No. 800. Lewis c.
Young; No. 81, Daniel W. Deputy;
No. Sl3, Harry b. Cotton. None OF the
occupants were injured.
| While tho storm was In progress the
sloop yacht Nanon was lying at an
Choir in the Chrlstiana Creek, She was
blown against the p, W. " b. Railroad
hrldEe. Sho became fastened there.
and Tor several hours travel was block.
ed on the cutoff.
NOTES OF THE STORM.
horse wac drowned near the marsh
beyond Market street bridge.
The fence about school house No Ii
was blown down. \ fence at Fourth
and West streets was also blown down.
Tho roofs of six houses ut Sixth aud
Union streets were blown of An
electric light wire on Sixth near Uni
on blew down and the lights in the
vicinity were blown down.
The tops OF tho city gas and gaso.
line lamps all over the city we're blown
OIL and broken and lights extinguished
4, by the peiting rain and fierce wind,
There were several roofs blown off oil
dwelling houses Mt Delu ware avenue
} and Clayton streets
: The roofs of numerous sheds were
) blown oil In the vicinity OF sixth anf
. iuion streets. The uyVuinT Of Ilnnrias
W. Gooding at his store corner o.
Eighth and Madison streets wus blown
J. into shreds and tine awning posts BON
rs the force OF the wind.
HASevernl roufs of wagon shops ant
e barns were blown oil and damaged b,