The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-03
DAMAGE BY THE STORM.
Reports From Towns Along the Coast
Show it Unprecedented.

The reports of the damage by the
storm of Monday night along the North
Carolina coast are still coming iul Many
points have just become accessible and
no estimate of the loss of life and prop
erty can be made even yet. or the damn
age at Carolina Beach the Wilmington
Messenger says:
1.-The work of demolition with most of
tnt prri,Ftv Cn tn, beach was complete.
Nine houses with their outbuildingS
were entirely carried away, leaving no
yestige of their location. All the other
houses were destroyed, with the excep-
ton Of two or three buildings, and they
were badly damaged. The hotel is
wreck, and its adjoining cottages were
washed to pieces.
THE violence of the storm is perhaps
attested by these few Incidents The
railroad was entirely removed from the
beach, and a large part of 1T carried
across the sound into the woodland,
section of it being actually i'm the trees
The PLATFORM in the rear of the hotel
with its accompanying steps was car
ried intact beyond the sound across a
fence and new lies together with some
of the hotcl furniture, opposite Mr.. Nc
Eachern's cottage, perhaps a quarter of
a mile northward. More of the material
of the cottages and their furniture is to
be found across the sound than on the
beach near their sides. Wonderful evil
dences of the great destruction abound.
''Some of the residents along the sound
told of the fearful scenes they witnessed
during the gradual destruction of the
houses. This occurred entirely between
daylight and O'Clock Tuesday morning,
and was accompanied by loud reports
from the collapsing buildings.
1T was reported at Southport yester-
day afternoon that thirteen human bodies
had been discovered ON Bald Head"
The Star says:
1.-The two masted schooner Stonewall,
bound from Wilmington to Lockwood's
Folly with a full cargo of merchandise,
is believed to be lost with her captain
and crew. Captain Lucien Holden is
master Of the vessel She got into Shall
lotte river during the storm Monday af-
ternoon but was Immediately blown out
TO sea with all ON board.
1.-THE two-masted schooner Spray, own
ed by Captain A. A. Milliken, was total
Iy wrecked in Shallotte river. The two
masted schooner Ruth, J., Capt. X. r.
Willis, at LockwoOd's Folly, was blown
into Capt. Alfred Browns field. about
200 yards beyond highwater mark.
THE two-master schooner Stella Lee
belonging to Mr.. j. W. Brown, and conn
manded by Capt. Williams Williamson. is
missing She left Lockwood's Folly
Monday for Wilmington and that was
the last seen of her"
The Newbem Journal says:
The Il. C.. Dispatch had busy time
tracing UP and reclaiming cotton bales
bales of cotton that went off the dock
were found mp the Trent river and re-
turned by boatsmen who We're paid so
much bale for it, Only - Or 20 bales
are now missing. Twenty-Five barrels of
flour Were found and will be brought
down. The clearing up seems to confirm
the estimate already made that the loss
in this city about $4,000.
"A message to the Journal from
SwanSboro, OnslOw county, received last
night, is as follows:
THE severest storm that Swansboro
ever Witnessed began last might about II
o'clock by the rising tide and heavy
winds from the southeast. The tide was
higher than it has been known by the
oldest citizens, washed down houses
along the water front, blew down trees, |
etc. The fishermen will bear the heav
lest loss, as their boats We're washed to
pieces and their nets and seines were lost. |
MIR. Prettyman lost 100 or 200 logs from
his mill. Mr.. A. j. Pittman's barn blew
down damaging his buggies, etc. The
loss is pretty heavy"