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LOSS OF LIFE
IN STORM HEAVY
Death Follows IN the Igs'as} Ig9as} o.
Southern iiuITiC a..
PROPERTY LOSS 100000
Coast of North Carolina Swept by
Fierce Gale and Thousands of Dol.
lars Damage Done to Shipping.

Washinton, N. c., Sept. 6.-Property
valued at more than S3,000,000 is re
ported to have been destroyed and
rumors are current of a heavy loss oi
life as the result of the destructive
storm which swept along the North
Carolina coast.
No confirmation was obtainable Of
the reported loss of 500 lives at Ocra
coke island off the Carolina coast
Unsubstantiated rumors continued to
be current that all inhabitants of the
island had perished when heavy waves
swept their homes. Efforts to reach
even the coast towns near Ocracoke
failed, wires being down over the ad
jacent section and wireless stations
presumably wrecked by the storm, IT.
responsive to their calls.
While direct communication was
lacking, travellers arriving from the
southeastern portions of the state said
they did not believe Ocracoke caught
the most severe part of the blow, and
there was every probability that the
loss of life on the island, if any, was
small.
The greatest damage to property oc-
Cured in Beaufort county, and havoc
was wrought among the fishing craft
in the Pamlico river. In Washington
business houses and manufacturing
plants along the water front were par
TALLY destroyed The total damage in
this county alone is estimated at
$2,000,O00
The fury of the gale was centered
upon the towns along the Pamlico
sound, among these being Morehead
City, Beaufort, Newbern, Washington,
Bayboro, Belhaven and a score OF
smaller places. A deluge of rain ac-
companied the wind and the tide in
Pamlico sound was many feet above
the ordinary high water mark.
The six-masted schooner George w.
Wells, which went ashore south OF
Hatteras, has gone to pieces. The
twenty men, two women and two in
fants rescued from the schooner
Wells. after great difficulty by the life
savers, are being temporarily cared
for in the vicinity of the Ocracoke in
let and Durant life saving stations.
The schooner reported ashore three
miles north of Ocracoke is believed
to have been the sG65on6r Annie r.
Heidritter, heretofore reported drift.
ing helplessly eight miles southwest
of Diamond shoals with her rudder
broken and otherwise disabled - The
revenue cutter Seminole is proceeding
to the schooner's assistance.
An unknown oil ship reported
ashore below Ocracoke was still
unidentified. The United States sea
coast telegraph lines from Cape Henry
are working only as far south as Hat
teras, and no information had reached
that point which would lead to
the identity of the steamer.
At Beaufort, N. c., many small craft
were capsized or smashed against the
harbor breakwater, over which the
seas were running. Mail boats from
Core sound reported that all wharves
twenty-five miles along the shore had
been destroyed, many houses blown
down and hundreds of cattle and
horses drowned.
No loss of life was reported in that
section.
Ocracoke island is narrow key Of
the group that shuts off Pamlico sound
from the Atlantic. 1t lies twenty miles
southeast off Bluff Point N. c. Its