The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-12-04
SWEPT BY STORM.
Muc:i Damage Done by Wind aud Rain
Along tie Ohio River.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 26.-The rain
which began here Friday stopped at
midnight after having precipitated
two and Il half inches of water. A
high wind cleared the sky and de-
scending, proceeded to clear the earth.
it came in series of hurricane puffs
from various directions. These blows
followed in quick succession, and they
were as capriciols about where they
struck as they were in the direction
which they took. The circle Of hills
protected the business section of the
city. yet the storm swooped down and
played havoc with fences, roofs, signs,
windows, telegraph and telephone
wires and many late pedestrians had
to dodge flying shutters and signs.
But it was on the river that the
havoc was greatest. There the wind
had free course. About 1880 the first
hard blow came. 1t did It's best for
two Or three minutes, straining the ca
bles of the vessels moored along II
miles Of river front. At l o'clock it
came still stronger and stayed longer
than before This time it got its wild
est work in among the boats. Only
the mischief on the immediate river
front was ascertainable because the
telephone and telegraph wires were
down. Down the river near Riverdale
were moored the John X. Speed,
big New Orleans boat, the Buckeye
State. and the large towbot, w. W.
O'Neill.
The first report from there was that
the W. w. O'Neill and the John X.
Speed had been blown together and
wrecked. Investigation shows that
the O'Neill is unscathed and that the
Speed and Buckeye State had beer
blown across the river and moored
without damage.
A little later, at the public landing
near the Newport bridge, the steamers
+. J. O'Connell and Rob Roy were
torn from their moorings and blown
out of sight at a terrible pace up the
river, and at daylight they had not
been heard from. Anxiety for their
fate is increasing by the fact that each
has watchman aboard.
The same hurricane was encounter
ed at the same landing by the Pitts
burg packet, II. K. Bedford, which
was steaming in loaded with passen-
gers. The Bedford was driven toward
the big stone piers of the Louisville
and Nashville bridge with ominous
speed. For long timesteam strug-
gled against the storm for the safety
of the. panic stricken passengers, and
finally triunphed, landing the human
freight not 100 feet from the big stone
pier that had threatened to dash the
frail craft to pieces At the same time
the Hercules Carroll, a powerful tow
boat. and the Bonanza parted their
cables and We're sent spinning up the
river in very irregular course.
The big Carroll was finally stranded
high and dry on the landing at the
foot of Main street. The fitful hurri-
cane drove the Bonanza with crash
against the Memphis wharfboat. a
cable was made fast to the iron cap
stan OF the wharf and she was saved.
How coalbarges and steamboats, far
ther up and down the river Jared is
not known at this writing and the an
xiety of river men will lnot be relieved
until definite news is received.
While there was widespread dam
age in the city, it was all in small
way. No loss OF life or bodily injury
is reported. The eastern fence OF the
league baseball park was blown down.
4 portion of the roofs of Odd Fellows
temple and OF St. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal church were blown off. a
cabman who was driving through
Newport was shocked into unconsci-
business bya live electric light wire
falling on him. His horse Jared
worse, it was killed.