The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-18
THE STORM PASSES
1T HAS MOVED UP THE GULF
STREAM TO HATTERAS

Seaside Resorrs-The Highest Tide
Yesterday Afternoon In the Histery Of
WrfghtsviIIe Beach-Ineidenas Of the
Storm
The tropica storm has paid VIII
mington its respects and passed us by
without damage. much to the relief of
our people.
AT s O'Clock yesterday morning, SD
Observer w. H. Fallon, Of the weather
bureau, Informs US, the storm had
slowly passed up the gulf stream and
was opposite Wilmington. AT the hour
named he issued the following bulle-
tin:
The storm area is now central off
North Carolina and has moved further
seward. The wind will continue brisk
northerly in this vicinity during the
next thirty-six hours, with generally
partly cloudy and cool weather"
The storm signals were ordered down
for Wilmington yesterday morning, on
advices from the weather bureau at
sight to look at the flag pole and miss
the red flags that a held out such
ominous warnings the past few Gays.
Observer Fallon forecasts that it will
be clearing today. He calculated that
the storm would be central off Hatteras
today and last night the direction of
the wind indicated as much. AT mid
night the wind had shifted to the
northwest, showing that the disturb
ance has passed US and is going north
wa.d slowly.
LAST BREATH OF THE STORM.
The storm began to subside Tues
day night, and yesterday morning the
observer warned the refugee cottagers
and guests from the beaches that they
could safely return. Consequently a
number of the Carolina beach people
returned and others will go back to-
day. Yesterday mornings 1915 train
on the Wilmington Seacoast railroad
carried back nearly 200 people to
Wrightsville beach and others went
down On the 2:30 p. m. and Ills p. m.
trains. The hotels, which were desert
ed, are, therefore, again filling up.
SAW THE STORM OUT.
A Messenger representative went to
Wrightsville beach yesterday morning
to ascertain Of the storm on Tuesday
and Tuesday night had lone any dam
age. He walked around Moore's inlet,
and to all appearances, the inlet, after
having been nearly closed up by a sand
bar for several months, was washed
out and considerably widened. A stroll
along the entire length Of the beach
from the inlet to Ocean View, revealed
that no damage had been sustained by
any Of the c~ottagers, save the under
mining of a few steps.
Some of the %cottagers had remained
at the beach on Tuesday night to see
the storm out. Those who staid at the
Ocean View hotel, besides some of the
help, were Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Mayo,
Miss Kate Mayo, Captain Joe Lippitt,
Mr.. Johnson Graham, Professor Hook
ey, Of this city, and Mrs. A. j. Cramp-
ton, of Charlotte. They state that it
was a rough night, Of course, but that
they were not alarmed. They went to
bed at l a. m. and slept SOundly and
safely. The tide had reached it's high
est point abou 1 o'clock and began to
recede, with the wind blowing off
shore. The tide reached the board walk
in front of the new Ocean View Hotel
and some times sent it's waves as far as
the steps of the hotel. The tide also
went up under a number of cottages,
but did no damage.
HIGHEST TIDE EVER KNOWN.
The Messenger representative re-
manned at Wrightsville beach till 3:45
p. M. and witnessed the highest tide
ever known on the beach, even exceed
ing that of the great storm of 1893. AT
II a. m when he reached the beach the
tide was coming in n the wind was
blowing from the north at about %
miles velocity, causing a very heavy
surf. If the wind had comes, from the
ocean instead of from the shore, the
ocean and Wrightsville sound would
have united and not a hotel or cottage
would have been left. According to the
photographic almanac the tide should
have been high at 2:30 p. M, but it con-
tinued to roll in till 4 p. m. 1t was con-
Sequently the highest tide in the his
tory Of the beach, within the memory
Of people who have spent the past ten
years there and within the remem-
brance of The Messenger scribe who
was on land and witnessed the high
tide during the great storm of 1893. In
1893 the wind was coming from the sea
an the os-an and sound was rougher
thar Tues ". Yesterday with the
wind coming in with the tide, the beach
would have been wiped out. On the
contrary an very lucki'y it was
against the tide and breced the break
ers. AS it waS the railroad track in
many places was all that kept the wa
ted from the ocean and sound from
mixing. From the Dank S hanne to
Wrightsyille the sound vas a vast
oIccl VI WdlSA Will no IldISH grass 10
be seen. When the 3:45 p. m. train left
for the city, the water in the Banks
Channel and in the sound between the
Hammocks and Wiightsville was with
in four feet of the railroad track across
the trestle. The only damage done by
this high tide was the washing away
of several gangways. if we except the
little one room shantly which stood
on the beach between the old Ocean
View h)tel and the Hewlett house. The
surf undermined the shanty and broke
it to pieces. 1t belonged to the Ocean
View Company and was occupied by
Mr.. A. A. Nathan's servant girl. After
the house dropped into the surf several
men got into the house and saved a
bedstead, several chairs and most of
the occupants effects. In one or two
places the swash of the surf glided
across the beach into the sound. At
Wrightsville, the road or the dam be-
tween Wrightsville and Summer Rest
was several inches under water.
CAROLINA BEACH ALL RIGHT.
The storm passed by without doing
any damage to Carolina beach. Quite a
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