The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23

Such Damage in Cuba and Florida.
A severe storm struck the North
Carolina coast yesterday morning at
about o'clock and ragged all of yester-
day doing considerable Iamage but
not as great as was done by the storm
of Il few weeks since. The greatest
damage yesterday was at Southport
and in the recent storm no damage to
speak of was done there. On Wrights-
vile Beach the tide was very high but
owing to the wind not being so high
it is not thought that any damage to
speak of was done. 1t was reported
during the day that the trestle over
the sound had been washed away
again but there was no truth in the
report whatever. AT a late hour last
night the trestle was intact as far as
appearances went and the tide was
falling. Only one car made the trip
to the beach yesterday and that was
at Z o'clock in the morning. It was
not deemed safe after this to run cars
over the trestle. The storm in Will
about noon when the wind attained a
velocity of 3S miles per hour. On the
beach it is said to have been much
higher than this. AT Southport the
storm was very severe and according
to reports the wind attained a velocity
OF between so and 70 miles per hour.
In the storm in September the wind in
Wilmington got as high as SO miles
per hour.
The storm which struck the North
Carolina coast yesterday was the tail
wi the hurrincane which caused such
AfIaVOc in Cuba and off the Florida
coast. From Florida it swept out to
e. sea and then turned to the westward
The manner in which it swept in and
struck the coast was very similar to
the storm during the latter part of
September.
On WrightsviIIe Beach.
For several days past the wind has
been from the northeast and when
such is the case the tide is always very
high. The high northeast wind yes
Gerday morning caused the waves to
wash over the southern end of the
beach and when the car went over at
z O'Clock it was said that the waves
We're sweeping over the beach near
Lumina. Highest tide was at about
10 in the morning and after that it
began to fall. At about noon several
officials of the Consolidated Company
went over to the beach on d hand car
to see what damage had been done
on the beach. Although the waves
came high up on the Beach it is not
thought that any damage of conse-
quence resulted for the wind was not
near as high as it was in the Sep
tember storm. 1t is not thought that
the trestle is damaged and if it is not
cars will be run to the beach today as
usual. An examination will be made
of the trestle this morning to see that
none of the timbers have been washed
out Of place.
When the tide was at its highest it
came into the road in front of the At |
lantic View hotel and in the road is a
great deal of debris. The bridge over |
the arm of the sound where the road |
crosses going to Summer Rest was |
washed away. This withstood the last |
storm.
On Friday afternoon three sharpies |
bound from Morehead City to Miami, |
Fla, put into the Banks channel to |
avoid the storm and when the storm
became so severe yesterday morning |
they came over into the sound off |
Summer Rest. Name of two of the |
Schooners are MARY Belle" and the |
CITY of Morehead."
The work of repairing the trestle |
over Wrightsville sound was completed |
about one week ago and it was very
much feared yesterday that it would
be badly damaged again.
Storm at Southport.
The storm struck Southport yester-
day morning about o'clock and in
creased in intensity until about 10
O'Clock when the wind abated to some |
extent but was quite high during the
remainder of the day. In the harbor
were a number of vessels mostly small
craft and river steamers. These either |
came to Wilmington or went up the
streams near Southport and thus es-
capped the full effect Of the storm. Only
one vessel met with a miShap, the /
steam yacht palm BEACH bound
from New York to Palm Beach, Fla. |
and which put into Southport harbor !
weather before proceeding southwark. |
The Palm Beach in an effort to |
reach Cove creek went aground and |
grave fears were ascerta1ned lest the |
wind should shift to the southwark for |
II such case the vessel would have |
- robably become total loss. The
1rrecking tug Rescue of the Mer- |
ritt-Chapmen Wreck1ng Company,
1ubich was at work raising the steamer
"A+Iantic.,, was reported as being safe.
nurino the early morning it was esti-
-oated that the wind at Southport at
tained a velocity of between 60 and
70 miles per hour. CONSIDERABLE oam-
aeo was done to the wharves and
hreakwaters but all Of the wharves
were not washed away as was re-
ported.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the
steamers from the fisheries came TO
fhe cftv owing to the wind being so
high. The steamer "Sea Gate" was
WING at the wharf of the Ocean fish