The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-17

lit to the depth of six feet. Child mar
lrowly escaped drowning.
ANNIE HINES, Martin street, house
Hooded. Everything she possessed, eX-
Icept one dress, ruined.
DAN WHITE, Martin street, house
three feet deep in water. All he had
was ruined. Children barely escaped.
BETTIE HARRIS, Martin street,
Ihouse three feet in water and three inch
rs in mud. Everything she possessed
ruined.
/ ANNIE WARD, Harrington street.
Her rooms absolutely filed with water
and mud. Much of her property washed
laway.
| SYLVESTER DUNSTON,. South
Mcdowell street, store flooded and well
filled with water.
| LUKE WILLIAMS, Lenoir street,
chimney blown down and household pos
sessions water-soaked.
FRANCIS LUNSFORD. Lenoir
street, water rose in house two feet
deep. She was away from home, and all
she had was ruined
HENRY BOBBITT, South street,
house flooded.
CLAIBORNE BOBBITT. South
street house Hooded and clothing dam
aged
ANNIE OAKLEY, Carroll avenue,
two inches of water in her house
JIM BROWN, Carroll avenue, house
deluged.
| LUCINDA FOWLER, Cannon street,
house flooded and two children nearly
drowned.
| ROXANNA GRAVES. Carroll ave
nue.. house flooded.
:, ROBERT McLENNEIEAN. East lie
noir street, water one foot deep in house
and all clothing ruined.
| SALLIE WHITE, East Lenoir street,
house flooded.
BINEY RANEY, East Martin street,
house flooded.
c. Ii. PERRY. East Davie street.
garden completely destroyed.
| Nearly everyone of the above named
persons lost chickens: some had hogs
drowned. and there is hardly a one Of
them that did not have garden ruined.
At least a thousand chickens must
have been drowned in this city Sunday
night. Some of the negroes lost as high
as thirty-fve, they say: many more lost
/ twenty-five, others ten and five and so
| on.
! Bridges were washed away on East
street at three places; on South street,
| Blount street, lakewood avenue; also at
the city cemetery and ut several other
places i'll the city.
Sidewalks in a great number of places
were practically washed away; curbing
was undermined and tOppled over:
bitches were filled with sand, and debris
| scattered everywhere.
| 1t will cost the city not less than ST 900
/ -. Il. i. a. III
they were before the rain fell.
Telegraph and telephone poles were
struck and torn asunder on several
streets and many fine trees destroyed by
| lightning
No lives were lost though. several
people are known to have been severely
shocked 10y bolts that struck near them
LOSS TO THE FARMERS.
The loss entailed upon the farmers
around Raleigh by the storm of Sunday
night cannot be easily overestiInated.
The volume of water that fell in SO short
a time was simply enormous. Had the
soil been a veritable sponge it could
scarcely have absorbed it as rapidly as
| it descended. As it was look where you
will and you will see the sad evidences
of its work of sDoilation and ruin.
The cotton and corn that had recently
forced their way through the sun-warmed
soil are in the lower places of the fields
/ buried under masses of sand and mire
On the hillsides they were uprooted and
swept away into roaring and swollen
streams. The rounded slopes covered
with springing vegetation are now CASH
ed and torn by gullies that wind aud
ziz-zag adoWn them in unsightly confus-
ion. In many places the whole upper
soil was torn away leaving the hillsides
as bare and hard us rock. Cabbage and
other vegetables lie limp and mud-be-
! spattered. looking as if they had been
boiled. Young oats are crushed into
the mire as if by the tramping pass
age of mighty army. Bridges over
little streams were swept away by the
mad onslaught of the sweeping waters,
while in many places masses of gravel
were thrown into hillocks, and in other
places great well-like hoIIows were
seooped out of the earth, in which the
water still stands in yellow pools.
|
A JUNE GERMAN.