The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-24
STORM Death TOLL
MOUNTS TO 29 AND
MANY ARE INJURED
Another Large Vessel Is Miss
ing and Fears For Its
Weather Disturbance
CRIPPLED SHIP IN PORT
Two Other Large Vessels Miss
ing and Fears For Their
Fate Are Held
by the Associated Press)

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An entire village Of 800 lying be-
low the dam Of an oyerflowing noun
tain lake in upstate New York was
endangered Thursday as the Atlantic
seaboard's raging storm swept inland,
leaving in its trail at least 20 dead,
many injured and millions In damage.
Inhabitants of Fleischmann's awoke
to find their town half flooded and
the emergency flood gates Of Switzer-
land lake already three feet under
the rushing waters. Frantic efforts
were started to reach the machinery
Additional deaths were added to
the swelling list of those who per-
ished at sea, in train and automobile
accidents and freak mishaps as the
count went forward in affected areas
in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland and Vir-
ginia.
The New Jersey toll reached eight
In the five days of the storm.
Pennsylvania counted at least
three.
Seven Die in Maryland
Maryland recorded seven with re-
ports from some sections still meager
because of faulty communication.
Two of these-an engineer and a
fireman-were killed in the derail-
ment Thursday morning near Tux
edo of the Southern Railways Gre
scent Limited.
Virginia had 10 dead, two OF them
victims of the storm as 1t beat upon
the coastal liner Madison attempt
ing to reach Norfolk
The second mate and the quarter
master were swept overheard when
they went on deck to investigate
damage done by the first huge wave
which struck the ship as she encoun-
tered the hurricane.
New York had at least one dead.
The injured included Is In the
Crescent crash and two aboard the
Madison. In addition, number were
reported missing on small craft un-
accounted for.
From upstate New York to Mary
land reports came of marooned va
cationists and of efforts by coast
guardsmen and others to effect res
cues.
Washington streets were Uttered
with the debris of Wednesday nights
terrific blow; summer cottages in
Virginia were sWamped, and In other
cases cottages along the coast were
washed away.
! One Liner Is Overdue
The City of Norfolk, Chesapeake
Bay line steamer carrying 40 passen-
gers from Baltimore, was more than
"a hours overdue at Norfolk.
Fear the death list might mount
swiftly grew as calls for aid came from
communities beset by raging waves OF
floods resulting from record breaking
rains.
The hurricane-racing far out of the
usual path of such storms-flailed the
coast from the Carolinas northward
but Virginia was perhaps hardest hit
Eight persons are known to have
died Thursday in Virginia alone.
Waterfronts we're inundated, hun
dreds of miles of highways flooded
communities cut off by floods or CON-
munications failure, traffic paralyzed
and crops ruined.
Early Thursday the storm, still
sweeping north. whipped parts Of New
England with. gales that crippled ship
ping and menaced shore communities
Large numbers of men in Salisbury
Nd, a city Of II 900 were called upon
a witness said, to dig ditch to divert
the Wicomico river and save the bus
mess section from floods. Many 9TH
er towns on the lower Demava PENN
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