New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-02
THE DEATH LIST MOUNTS UP.
Continued from First Page.
the above story covers the path Of the blow in the
State so fully that there is little left untold
CASUALTIES IN WASHINGTON.

Washington. Oct 1.-The Southern hurricane
which swept over this city with such resistless
force on Tuesday night left one fatality and prob
ably several more in its wake here. The manged
body Of James F. Fitzgerald was dug out OF the
ruins Of Charles L. Beattys saloon. No. LIB
Pennsylvania-ave., Northwest. this morning.
Fitzgerald employed in the gun-carrage
shop al the Navy Yard skilled mechanic. and
was sober and industrious man. He was thirty
four years old and a native Of Maine. The police
believe there are at least two more bodies in the
wrecked building
AS part Of the history Of the storm. it is said
that official records show that for forty min
utes from 11:15 o'clock Tuesday night the
wind blew sixty-fve miles an hour. and for one
minute of this time attained the maximum ve-
locity Of eighty miles an hour. For over TWEEN
ty-four hours not a single telephone or tele-
graph wire working from Washington
north. east. south west.
William d. Stewart, killed in Alexandria. Va.
by the hurricane was seventy-tvo years old
and a prominent Freemason. His death oc-
CURED in a blaze of electric flames. caused by
the contact OF telegraph telephone and trolley
wires. Just as this occurred, part of neigh
bors house was blown down upon his residence,
carrying down the roof and second floor with
II. Mr.. Stewart and his sister. Miss Sarah J.
Stewart, sitting at table reading. and
both were caught under the debris Miss Stew
art rescued with broken ankle and 80
we're nervous shock. The rescuers turned their
attention to Mr. Stewart, who was pinioned
under rafter He was in n kneeling posture.
with his body leaning forward. and just
aid reached him he breathed his last
Another death equally distressing was that Of
Mrs. Holt. Her son. r. G. Holt, clerk in the
Navy Department. had just bought a house in
Alexandria, and on Saturday his mother arrived
from North Carolina to make her future home
with her She had retired. and the storm
increased Mr.. Holt went up to his mothers room
and asked her If she would not come downstairs
with his family. She replied that she was not at
all frightened. and the son returned to the lower
floor. BY the time he reached the lower landing
he heard n crash Looking up, he discovered
that the south wall had fallen in. He rushed up
stair!. only find his mother and the bed on
which she was lying buried completely in bricks.
stantly.
The only fatalities in the river or in Chesapeake
Bay thus far reported resulted from the founder
ing Of the little oyster steamer Capital off Sandy
Point. thirty-fve miles down the Potomac. and
the drowning Of Robert Cheseldne, son Of the
owner. one other white man and one colored man
who with him. formed the crew OF the vessel
Raleigh. y. G., oct. 1.-During Tuesday nights
hurricane tree blown upon a house, in
stantly killing Mrs. Trice her husband and two
children escaped. The storm was more severe
at Durham than at any other point yet heard
from. W 7. Carrington's four-story tobacco
house in which were 10000 pounds Of leaf to-
bacco. was wrecked. He estimates his loss at
over 10000 covered by S1J.0OO storm insurance.
other persons IL at least $4,000 Several fac
tories at Durham were unroofed Cotton left un-
picked In the fields was damaged by both wind
and rain.