The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-07

a cyclone. suddenly bounced upon the
CITY. 4 heavy cloud burst over head
and there was fierce lightning and ter
rife thunder. Rain came down in
sheets. for a while hail from the
size of a pea to a marble ratified down.
TREES UPROOTED AND HOUSES
HOUSES DAMAGED.
The storm was in the nature of a
cyclone the wind blowed with i'm
mense force from the northwest, cir
cling to the south and then north
Hundreds of shade thees on the
streets were blown down or stripped OF
limbs, causing n streets to look a
sight.
Numbers of fences were blown down
and the wires OF the Southern Bell Tel
ephOne Company, the Interstate Tele-
phone Company, and of the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph Compa
mics were blown down and broken In
all parts of the city The linemen
were busy all the afternoon making
repairs. The wires of the fire alarm
system were also blown down in many
places and Superintendent Yates and his
Iinemen were busy till night making
repairs.
WAREHOUSE UNROOOFED.
During the storm one hundred feet
of tin roofing was blown from The bulk
warehouse of the Seaboard Air Line,
on the wharf. The tin and timber were
hurled against a freight car andln
on the track and the end of the car
was ruShe in. The damage Was
about $500.
The roof of the cooper shop OF the
George l.. Morton Company WAS. blown
off and the flying mass OF tin STRUCK
and broke down two poles, one belong
ing TO the Southern Bell
Ho tho
The damage TO the cooper house VIII
probably DOT up 5000
The roof of the RheinStein Dry GOODS
Company's building on North Front
street was damaged and a flood of wa
ter youred in, but little damage was
done.
a SCHOONER DISMASTED
During the height of the storm, the
schooner Sarah D. Fell, which was
mOored to the Atlantic Coast Lines
wharf at the foot of Brunswick street,
drifted away and pulled off the cap OF
the wharf. Her bow swung around
and her jibboOm n bOwSprit raked
the two maSted schooner Joseph, Gap
tain A. d. Ward, lying at the wharf
of the 'tWaterland Depot OF Messrs-
Hall & PearSall. Both of the Josephs
masts were snapped in two and fell
out across the wharf. Captain Ward
came within an ace of being Killed by
one of the failing masts. HIS 1auneT'
MIR. w. w. Ward and a negro hand,
who were on board the Joseph, also
made a. narrow escape. The damage
TO the Joseph will amount to $500 or
$500. The schooner Fell suffered very
little damage.
The Joseph Is owned by Mr.. Joseph
Foster, of Jacksonville, N. 7. Her
master, Captain Ward, resides at
Eneed's Ferry. OnSlow county, and his
z:--I- --;lI 1ha nlad m know that he
made such a miraculous escape. He
saws it is a wonder that everybody on
board wa not killed.
OTHER DAMAGE.
The streets were turned into rivers
by the great floods, and considerable
damage was done by the washing away
of the surface of h streets. water
poured through the floor to the depth
of four inches at the store OF MIR. +.
III Krahnke, 113 Princess street.
The roof of the BonitZ house was
either struck by lightning or was dam
aged by wind, letting in a great nooo
of water that poured through the halls
and stairways from the third TO
the first floors. Several sewers
volume of water pouring through them
and where there were the
water soputed Up three feet hlgn.
There was a high tide at the time and
cellars as high as Front street were
flooded with water. The cellers OF sew
eral stroes were two to fourf eet deep
in water but very little damage "aS
done to merchandise.
Two telephone poles on Sixth street
between Dock and Orange street WERE
blown down, and a cople of poles on
Carolina beach line just outside the
city were also blown down.
Several lighters broke from their
-ooor;npc ond driftad I'M the river.
A tree was blown across the street
railway track at Ninth and DOCK
streets, temporarily stopping the cars.
An immense flood of water poured
through Jacobs Run sewer on Inlrd
street between Market and
carrying away the fill on h south
sid of Mr.. D.. l.. Gore's lot near MT.
p. H. Hayden's shop, n WASHING
down twenty feet of the brick retain
ing wall.
The lightning was very sharp during
the storm and struck in several places.
An oak tree on Eighth street
Princess and Chestnut streets, was
stripped.
while the storm was in its fury,
lightning struck and ran into the At
iantic Coast Line building Settlng nre
to the sleeper above but the employees
hbout the building subdued the names.
lightning also struck a Wire TO an
nIeatric fan in the residence of Mr.. H.
p. West and set fire to the curtains
and furniture. When the fire was dis,
covered by Mr.. West, 1T had cameo
such headway that it was a hand TASK
to extinguish the f1ames.only then after
considerable damage had been done 10
the room and furniture. Nh. West
caught hold Of the wire and as 1T was
''alive," he was severely shocked and
got his hand burned He states THAT
the sensation was the most pecuildr
that ne w experienced.
The hail broke a large pane OF glass
In the window on the second story on
the court house, and a six-foot heavy
plate glass was broken by h clam
ing to of a door. PaneS of glass We're
broken in numerous residences.
III is hard Ito estimate n damage
in the city but it will probably a
$1,000.
NARROW ESCAPE OF TWO BOYS.
while the storm was raging, master
Iessie West, son of Mr.. Will West, and
Master Herbert Strickland, son OF Mrs.
Mary Strickland, were on q Pase-.
- 4bo residence OF MI. oscar