The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
NEWBERN GIVES SUPPLIES
BOAT LOADED WITH PROYIS-
IONS GOES FROM BEAUFORT.
WRECKS STREWN ALONG THE COAST
The Gale off Hatteras Blew at One Time at
the Rate of 1860 Miles an Hour.
More of TIE Losses Of
the People.

lilG cOpiGs
Last night the News and Observer
received the following telegram from
Hon. Julian s. Carr:
Occoneechee Farm via Hillsboro, y.
G.. Aug. 26.--I have just read your ap-
peal for aid for storm swept eastern
North Carolina. | send check for two
hundred dollars.
j. S. CARR.
The Newborn Journal, which has open
ed subscription list, reported yesterday
that various citizens of Newbern had con-
tributed $40.33 in cash and number
of contributions in provisions, which left
Newborn ON the General Thorn yesterday
afternoon. The Beaufort Herald says
that boat load of provisions has been
carried to storm-swept Portsmouth by
party under the direction of MesSrs. Dick
Mason and Henry Noe.
The local papers from the Eastern
part of the State report the destruction
and consequent suffering greater than
was at first supposed. The Beaufort
Herald, received yesterday appeals to the
people to go down into their pockets to
help the losers and says:
PORTSMOUTH WASHED AWAY.
"News from Portsmouth, this county,
says that the whole village was wrecked
by the storm, the most terrible one ever
known there. People had to tear away
the weather boarding on the lower sto-
ries to keep houses from washing away.
Fortunately no one was drowned. Every
boat was washed out to sea. All the
L. H. J~.~ fxy.,
drowned.
!" Aparty under the direction of Messrs.
Dick Mason and Henry Noe solicited a
boat load of provisions and carried 1t
down to Portsmouth by boat. Let every
body send these distressed people some
thing to eat, food, money and the neces-
saries of hfe."
CAPT DAVE STYRONS EXPERT
ENCE.
After telling of his thrilling experience
and escape, Capt. David Styron, who
was at Portsmouth, tells the Newbern
journal:
ssFriday morning / went around and
found everything swept away, not Il
house ba,t what was damaged. many
gone entirely. One house that saw had
only the Ilprights left.
my brother was among the biggest
sufferers. He was among the best well
off ON the banks and says he is npt
worth 10 cents now. His store and
goods were gone, his stock all gone %
ponies and 20 head of cattle and sheep
all drowned | counted fifty-seycn sail
boats when / left. looking for the bodies
of the drowned. heard that when the
four Fulcher brothers were discovered
it was found that they had dashed their
bodies together with ropes in their skiff
and so remained when death overlook,
them / have followed the sea for 10
years and nothing like that has been nv
experience before. | never could tell
the, half. 1t was pitiful to have children
clinging to your knees begging to be
saved and it seemed as il j never saw So
many of them at once"
SOME OF THE LOSSES.
Speaking of the losses, day or tive
after the storm. the Newborn Journ,l
said:
'sOf the loss of property at Portsmouth
and Ocracoke, it can be said that not
house escaped more or less damage.
There was injury to fifty dwellings and
stores at Ocracoke and the Methodist
church South building was entirely
destroyed and the M. E. church North
was wrecked. Hotel Ponder lost lis
rear veranda and the porch ON the front
rear veranda. and the porch ON the front
washed down, and the pier has disap
peaTed. The lay boat is high and dry on
shoal and lis broken i'm two. The beach
towards Hatteras is strewn with Dales Of
cotton from some foualdered steamship
and with lumber cargoes. Diamond
shoals lightship parted her chains and is
up ON the beach. Six vessels are ashore
between Hatteras and New Inlet twenty
miles above and FIVE more are wrecked
above that point with loss of thirty
lives. A British steamer is repo-tcd
ashore near New Inlet. The Life Saving
Crews did noble work. Ten men were
brought ashore ON the line at Ghanl-
icomo."
TEE COAST LINE CHANGED.
The Journal also says:
Reports tell that the whole coast lime
has been greatly damaged by the sweep
of the gale and tide. All around CORA
coke the lines have been shifted. The
water now comes up to the front OF
Hotel Ponder. At Oregon inlet an
Whalebone inlet in Core sound there Is
now 10 feet of water where it was
formerly dry. AT Nag's Head channel
is cut through between the hotel AMI
the cottages three quarters of a mile
long. AT Little Kennekeet and Big
Kennekeet twelve dwellings have dis
appeared. There was much destruction
over i'm Hyde county by tide and winds.
the crops suffering severely and the low
lands flooded"
OFFICIAL REPORT OF STORM.
The Washington papers yesterday con-
tanned an interview with Lieutenant G.
T.. johnson, of the revenue cutter SER
vice, who had just returned from
trip of inspection to the North Carolina
coast. He was sent particularly to in
Hestigate the amount of damage wrought
upon coastwise shipping by the storm.
fThe hurricane attained frightful We