The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-14
ANOTHER BIG STORM.
Beats With Fury All Along the
Atlantic Coast.
MUCH DAMAGE IN THE SOUTH.
Further North Teiegrsphse Service Il
ParaIyxed and . Good Breess
Furnished the Yachts

SEw Yosx, Oct. r. The cyclone which
has been expected for week or more
reached here with q vengeance this even
ing. II began soon after the yacht race
finished, and by dark the wind vas blow
ing gale and heavy rain fall
ing. At 9 o'clock the wind was
blowing 3s miles: at 9:3o, AZ miles: at 10.
IS miles: a. IL ID. 50 miles. The Western
Union Telegraph Company had no COM
municaton with the West from early in
the evening until late hour and then facii-
tiles were limited. Communication with
Washington City was in almost as bad
shape. The storm resembled q cyclone,
aud towards midnight rainfall came that
flooded the streets and Left pools large
enough to float the yachts If it were neces-
sary for them to race again.
ATLANTA. Ca, Oct i3-The wires are
al down beyond Jacksonville, Fla. The
greatest force of the storm was felt on the
east gulf coast. near Tampa, Fla. Charles
ton is two feet under water from Butler
street The damage to the Charleston
water front cannot be estimated yet. It
was covered with cotton. Nothing has
been heard from the islands on the
Carolina coast. All the wires into Charles
ton are down. The storm did little dam
age in Savannah. The lower part of the
city is covered with water. Nothing has
been heard from Tybee island since mid
nigat. when the wind was blowing sixty
miles an hour. Indications are that the
storm spent its greatest fury on the ocean.
Anxiety is felt for the steamship City of
Augusta. due tonight. It is probable she
encountered the storm just of Hunting
island.
ST.. Louis, Oct. 3D. A Republic special
from Jacksonville, Fla, says: Reports of
the storm coming in show that the dam
age is fnnch greater than at first supposed.
Its track along the east coast Is plainly
marked by the devastation caused.
1t is impossible to get de-
tails, as all the wires in the
eastern portion of the state are down.
Railroad traffic is practically suspended
and washouts are numerous. Reports
from New smyrna state that the storm
played havoc there, houses be-
ing blown away and other dam
age done. Mayport, q town at the
mouth Of the st. Johns river, came
near being washed away. Eight houses
on the beach were swept out, and two
white boys are missing. A number of
casualties are reported. but so far
no deaths. The city of St Augustine is
flooded with three feet of water,
many stores and residences being badly
damaged. Shipping in sll ports suffered
greatly. The orange crop in the eastern
portion of the state was considerably in
jured In many places. The losses sus-
tanned will reach into hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars.
WAsHIsoroS CRY, Oct. 13-The West
India cyclone and a storm from the North
| west joined issues this morning East and
| West, and since then Geographic commu-
| nication has been practically at stand
still. After sweeping over the Florida
| peninsula yesterday. the cyclone made
| its way north through Georgia,
| North Carolina and Virginia, and
met the storm from the West somewhere
in Pennsylvania or Ohio. where both were
| diffused over wide area, playing havoc
| with all means of wire communication,
| An attempt was made to work the Asso-
ciated Press circuits by dividing them into
| small sections and relaying, but it was
even then found almost impossible to
carry the important news of the day.
| AT o'clock the Western Union
Company reported all their wires between
Washington City and Harrisburg and
| New York down and communication be-
tween Pittsburg and New York routes
practically useless. At the Postal tele-
| graph Office the same situation obtained,
their Washington City-Chicago wires
being down and the New York wires
being so slow as TO be of no
value whatever. AT the present
| writing one Associated Press wire to
New York via Buffalo is working very
hard. Another has been started South 10
reach Memphis from Chattanooga and
| thence north and south 20 New Orleans.
The copper circuits of the Long Distance
Telephone Company are completely pros
/ trated east of PIttsburg.