Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-10-08


Reports from the coast are meager.
The sea islands along the coast of Geor-
gia and South Carolina had almost rep
etition of the storm of 1893. Almost
every cottage and cabin in the wake of
the storm was destroyed. but the water
was not piled upon them as in 1893, con-
sequently the suffering was not near so
severe. The number of fatalities on the
sea islands is not known, but it is not be-
lieved it will go over 100.
Havoc in Pennsylvania.
The east house of the Temple furnace,
at Temple Station, five miles aboYe Read
ing, Pa. was blown down by the wind
and nearly a dozen workmen were buried
in the ruins. Two were killed. Heavy
washouts are reported on the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad east of Huntington. The
greatest single loss is that of the Penn
sylvania Railroad bridge across the Sus-
quehanna at Columbia, nothing being left
of it but the piers, the iron span in the
middle and the first span at each end.
The bridge was Il mile and n quarter long.
and was said to he the longest covered
bridge in the world. 1t is reported that
two men went down with the bridge, but
no trace of them can be found. The
bridge cost about S1,000,000. Columbia
apears to have suffered more than any
other section of the county. The dam
age in the borough is estimated at $780,
600. The storm destroyed the coal break
er at Natalie, belonging to the Pennsyl-
vania Anthracite Coal Company. Six
tenement houses belonging to the camp
were destroyed by fire, and six children,
inmates, lost their lives. The fire orig
mated from stove overturning in one Of
the summer kitchens from the shaking
by the wind. The damage at Shamokin
will reach $500, 900. The Paterson break.
er is almost Il total wreck, but the debris
was saved from the flames by the down
pour of rain that followed the wind.
Superintendent Vincent places the dam
age to the colliery at $4,000 Fourteen
of the dwelling houses and twenty board
shanties occupied by the mine-workers
were also blown down. and FIVE of the
former were consumed by flames. Two
of the tenants were killed, several injur-
ed and eleven cattle were crushed to death
beneath the dismantled barn.
The windstorm. though furious in New
York City and vicinity, as elsewhere in
the East, did but little damage ashore,
and thus far no disasters on the Long
Island, New Jersey or New England
coast have been reported. The greatest
damage sustained is by the prostration
OF telegraph and telephone wires. The
storm was severe throughout New Jer-
sey. In Buffalo the wind ragged at a
velocity of fifty-eight miles an hour, and
at Syracuse thousands of dollars worth
of damage was done. The big grand
stand at Kirk Driving Park was COM
pletely demolished. The Yates Hotel
was badly damaged by falling cornice,
and the immense plate glass windows
forced outward by the suction of the air.
Storm Around Washington.
Reports received from the suburban
towns about Washington, ID. c., show
that great damage was done throughout
the surrounding country by the storm.
On the outskirts of the city few localities
In Washington the Papal le-
CATION was unroofed and the Chinese
legation was damaged about 81 800. Com
by telegraph and telephone
with the outside world was absolutely
stopped. The White House was slightly
injured by the storm, portion of the
copper roofing being stripped off and
other damage done. The tall flagstaff.
from which the signal is given to the city
that the President is in town. disappeared
In the beautiful grounds sur
the house twenty-five of the
splendid trees, elms, sycamores, walnuts
and magnolias, some Of great age and
IF historical associations. were complete
y leveled, while fully fifty of the surviv-
ing trees suffered the loss of their tops
md principal branches, and are perma-
nently defaced.
The vast pile occupied by the State,
War and Navy Departments was touched
Dn the southern side by the storm. and
ost portions of its roofing and many states,
while a structure erected by the signal
service for the study of clouds was par
tally demolished. The new naval OBJ
servatory building suffered in the same
fashion, TO the extent of about 81 200. At
the Washington navy yard the big ship
house was partially unroofed, and the
gun shops were damaged slightly by the
of the roof. A special bulletin
ssued by the weather bureau states that
Tor one minute the wind reached eighty
niles an hour. The storms damage is
estimated to run from S2J0,OO0 to $780,
)O8
The weather bureau gives this official
history of the storm:
''The storm which passed over Wash
ngton last night was reported on Sept.
20 as a tropical cyclone moving north
west from the Caribbean Sea. it being
hen southeast of Cuba During the
9th 1t passed northwestward into the
southeastern part of the Gulf of Mexico,
md on the 2Sth moved northward west
If Florida. On the Tlorning of the 29th
/ was central over Southern Georgia,
Ind by p. m. of the 29th had advanced
% Southwestern Virginia. The center
passed over Washington about II 80
Tuesday night. the lowest barometer read
ny 1910. During the first three days
he storm appeared to have very little
mercy, but on the 29th developed force
apidly as ii moved northward"
Crew browns at Milwaukee.
The barge Sumatra, consort of the B.
". Arnold, bound down from Chicago,
off the Government pier at
-Four sailors were drowned.
rhe captain, mate and cook were rescued
~ the life-saving crew. The Sumatra
vas bound for Milwaukee loaded with |
abroad iron. The record of the winds |
ury in Chicago harbor was that of
torn almost equaling in fury the great |
hurricane of 1894. Half dozen vessels |
we're sunk. and as many more badly dam
ged. The schooner Seaman broke from |
Ter moorings and raced back and forth, |
bounding the docks and smashing the |
,1. 70 -. Al.
rews were helpless. Capt. McCreary,
4 the Seaman. two Of his men and sew
raj men on board other boats moored in |