Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-18
HUNDREDS IN GREAT DANGER
Storm Sweeps North Carolina Beach and
Cuts Resort OF from Mainland.
MANY ESCAPE ON TROLLEY CARS
Trestle Washed Away Soon After
Last Car Crosses and 200 RE-
maining Are Taken on
in Surf Boats.

WILMINGTON. N. C.. Sept. 17.-For six
or eight hours upward of 200 men, women
and children were cut of from the main
and in imminent peril. while the cottage.
hotel and railroad property was damaged
to the extent of $4,000 by fierce northeast
storm which swept wrightsville Beach,
nine miles east Of Wilmington today. The
storm reach the zenith OF its fury between
and O'Clock this morning. Hundreds of
'cottagers received their first intimation of
danger upon awakening this morning to ind
breakers sweeping clear across the beach TO
the Sound and rolling high up on the main
land. two miles beyond. Five trolley cars
brought a number of early risers across
the sound on the trestle. by which II is
reached, while the waves swept the trestle
Those left at the beach were afraid 10 cross
the trestle, which gave way Immediately
after the last car reached the mainland
The storm increased in fury until noon
when the rescue work was begun.
Surf boats were sent across the channel
at great risk bringing first the women and
children. then later the men, the last of the
number being brought over at o clock this
afternoon Sheriff Frank II. Stedman was
among those caught at the beach and at
once swore in a number of deputies who
closed the barrooms and patroled the beach
tonight to prevent looting of the places
there.
At Carolina Beach, further down the
mainland, there was some damage to cot
tages. but the residents had left there the
day before on notice of falling barometer.
At Southport at the mouth of Cape Fear
river, the harbor craft had a narrow escape
from the storm, several passenger boats
A.s. mi
due here at o'clock this afternoon, had
not arrived at p. m. She probably en-
countered the gale off this coast and put to
sea to escape it's fury.
Tonight the storm abated and no further
damage is expected. Wire communication
with Southport has been cut of since early
today.
Train Service In Abandoned.
NORFOLK. Neb.. Sept. 17.-Heavy rains,
reaching five inches in some places in a
| few hours, filled northeast Nebraska rivers
/ bank full and tore out several miles of
| railroads. On the main line of the Omaha
road between Omaha and Sioux City sew
eral miles OF track are out and on the
branch between Norfolk and Sioux City
several miles and bridge. Train service
on that line is abandoned. 1t cannot be
restored before couple of days. The
bridge went out last night. One train had
a narrow escape from going in. The en-
gineer felt the structure sinking and backed
| up quickly.
| WAYNE. Neb., Sept 17.-Special Tele-
! gram.)-The worst and most destructive
rainstorm ever known in this section OF
the state occurred last night. rain falling
nearly all night. Dogtown. Deer and
Logan creeks were out OF their banks this
morning and the valleys were flooded for
| miles, entailing a loss of thousands of dol
lars TO the farmers and property owners
An immense amount of hay is destroyed
and considerable small grain, cattle and
hogs lost, fences washed away and de-
struction wrought on every hand Ross &
| Fortner lost many hogs, Kerwin Bros
many cattle. and at the brick yards of J.
F. Sheerbahn many thousand brick, ready
to burn, were ruined, besides other dam.
age to the plant. Many bridges on all OF
the creeks are out and miles of the Chi.
cago. St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha's
Bloomfield and Wayne tracks are washed
out to the east and west of Wayne. 1t Is
expected no trains win run for two OF
three days. 1t is impossible to estimate
the loss yet. II will be large to the com
munity and land owners in the territory
deluged.
LINCOLN. Neb., Sept 1.-THE tremen
dous rain which fell in and around Lin
coin last night and today caused heav,
damage, particularly in the country, wher,
hogs were drowned, haystacks fioated away
and railroad trGck washed out. North o.
Valparaiso the Union Pacific had severa
miles of track washed out, and also a lonl
section near Raymond. The Omaha trair
due out OF Lincoln this morning was un
able to proceed. The road also sustained
serious damage to its line in the vicinit.
OF Wahoo. The Northwestern is also
victim of foods. At wahoo the bridge wa
washed away and IL was necessary t.
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