The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-12
THIRTEEN GUESTS HUR
Communication With Wilmington Gu
Off Seven Hours.
NONE OF THE INJURED Fatally HURT
Further Reports Of Damage Wrought by Wind
in the State at Greensboro, Durham,
Goldsboro, High Pom. and
Other Places.
CBy the Associated Press.)

Wilmington, n. c., August During
a terrific wind storm which passed over
Carolina Beach, twenty miles from Will
mington at 9 o'clock last night, the Hotel
Oceanic was raised to the ground and
thirteen guests were more or less in
iured, none perhaps fatally. The injured
are:
MRS. REBECCA EILERS, proprietor
of the hotel, laceration of scalp, contu-
sion of left shoulder, back and ankle.
MISS NETTIE EILERS, broken
ankle. nose and suffering from severe
shock.
MISS ALICE PHILLIPS. broken
ankle, confused back.
CAPTAIN JOHN BARRY, sprain of
both ankles.
MRS. JOHN BARRY, injury to the
left leg and fracture of ankle; also suf-
fering from nervous shock.
CAPTAIN Ohm FITZGERALD, Of
Richmond, Va, confusion of left shout
der and chest; several ribs perhaps
broken.
MIKE II. KELLY, laccration of fore
head.
MRS. OWEN MARTINDALE, contu-
sion and laceration of face and head; in
jury to spinal column and ankle. Her
three months old baby was uninjured.
HAMPTON SMITH, of Fayetteville.
n. c., laceration of scalp and face; Sc
we're confusion of left shoulder, chest and
back and laceration of entile left leg;
also suffering from conclusion of the
brain and may die.
TOBE HOWARD, laceration of scalp
and confusion Of both arms, jaw and
shoulders.
J. f. HAYWOOD, of Mccall, S. c.,
right ankle sprained, left leg broken and
dislocation of ankle and severe confusion
of spine.
]. NJ. RUMLEY, Beaufort, N. c., in
jury to back, left hip and knee.
AS telephone communication was cut
off by the storm and the roads were piled
up with trees and debris, news did not
reach the city of the occurrence until
o'clock this morning, when medical aid
and nurses We're sent down on a special
boat, bringing the injured ones to this
city. The storm at Wrightsville Beach
was Of no
The storm which RACED the Hotel
Oceanic to the ground last night came
up from the northwest and made a path
of destruction through Brunswick county
and the lower half of New Hanover, al
most making a clean sweep of the scanty
coast, forest and doing incalculable in
jury to corn and other growing crops.
The roads through the section visited
are impossible and are piled high with
trees, fences and rubbish. The residence
of Mr.. Over Martindale, four miles from
town, was badly damaged and the chin
ney blown down. The structure was
twisted in such a manner as to crack
and cause the plastering in all the rooaos
to fall.
The cyclone passed below Wrights-
Vile Beach and out to sea.
The only occupants of the wrecked
Oceanic Hotel to escape injury were &
baby, three months old, a little laughter
five-year-old son of Louis Freemuth of
Wilmington. The infant fell from the
second floor on a mattress and the lit
tie son of Mr.. Freemuth, who was also
on the second floor, was found under the
wreck quietly asleep on the sand, as if
nothing had happened.
It was 4:3G O'Clock this morning, after
a ride over fallen trees, before a mes
| sengcr could reach here for physicians.
A special trip of the steamer Wilmington,
the scene about $50 O'Clock and all the
wounded were in the hospital here two
hours later.