Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-10-26
STORM AFTER STORM.
1906 a Record Breaker for Rain,
Storms and Earthquakes.

St0rW9 dnu earthquakes.
Poor naked wretches. wheresoe'er you are.
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm.
How shall your houseless heads, and unfed SIDES |
Your looped and Widowed rsggedness. dsiend yoa |
From seasons such as thesef Oh! have ts'en
Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp:
Expose thyseif TO feel what wretches feet;
That thou mayest shake the superfux to them,
And show the heavens more Just.
King Lear.
Following closely upon the disastrous
storm of two weeks ago, came another
Worcester last week working up the
Atlantic coast, leaving disaster and
death in its wake. It's fiercest touch
was in Cuba and Florida, though several
other Southern States, as high up as
South Carolina, were ravaged. Vir-
ginia and North Carolina got the edge
of it, and that was pretty bad.
The Rappahannock river at Freder-
icksburg rose 15a feet, to within foot
of the second story of the steamboat
wharf. This freshet is excelled once
only since the Johnstown flood. Balti-
more steamers were unable to reach
Fredericksburg for several days. At
the junction of the Rapidan and Rap
pahannock rivers, on the Spotsylvania
border, a large farmhouse on knoll,
with its inmates-men, women and
children-was swept into the river, be-
ing carried down with the raging cur
rent some distance and landing upon a
sandbar, where the inmates were res
cued.
The whale-back barge, Berkshire,
with crew of six, broke loose from a
tug off the Virginia Capes but was re-
covered after weathering the storm
at anchor. The steamer George Far
well from Florida, went ashore near
Cape Henry on Saturday evening and
her bones are left to bleach there.
The crew of the Virginia Beach and
Cape Henry life saving stations got a
line to her, ran out the breeches buoy
and brought to shore safely the mas
ter, Capt. J. d. Chisholm, his crew of
fifteen and their personal effects. Sec
ond-engineer Hampton is we'll known
in this section.
In Havana the hurricane left one
hundred dead; u. S. Cruiser Brooklyn
was torn from her mornings ndwashed
ashore; more than 1000 tents in Camp
Columbia blown down; buildings shaken
as by an earthquake, street cars washed
from tracks, and roofs, windows and
doors blown away like paper, great
waves engulfed lighters and smashed
them at their wharves.
For ten days the tempest ragged in
San Salvador. Many people were killed,
and the topography of various depart
ments changed by incessant rains. The
losses are described as incalculable. In
Guatemala and Honduras the damage
will amount to many millions of dollars.
A cyclone crossed from the Caribbean
and swept through Havana and Pinar
del Ria provinces, in Cuba; then passed
to the north and crossed Florida, going
northeast.
A tidal wave engulfed Eillot's Key,
twenty-five miles south of Miami,
Florida, and the entire population, con-
sisting of $50 persons, lost their lives.
The same wave crushed the steamer
st. Lucie, resulting in the death of
twenty-eight persons and the injury of
of sixty others. A barge containing
100 people was torn from it's mornings
and swept to sea. Fifty were drowned.
A Dutch steamer was lost between Gu
racoa and La Guayra, Miles of railroad
in Venezuela were torn up.
This is only few instances of the
fearful diseaster in Mexico Central and
South America, Cuba and the Gulf
States of this Union.