Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — SWEPT BY A HURRICANE. [ARTICLE]

SWEPT BY A HURRICANE.

Frightful Storm from the West Indies Devastates the Atlantic Coast States. One of the most terrific storms that has ever swept the Atlantic States on Wednesday night devastated the coast line from Key West, Fla., to north of Cape Hatteras. Another storm swept eastward from the D&kotas a id Nebraska at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The Atlantic storm origina'ed somewhere in the Caribbean Sea, that most prolific of all storm regions. It swept slowly, but with hurricane force, over the West Indies and up through the Gult of Mexico and broke with full force upon the coast of Florida Tuesday night. Its movement continued northward all of Wednesday and Wednesday night its center was in the neighborhood of Cape Hatteras. From every point along the southern Atlantic coast that was not yet cut off from communication by the leve ing of telegraph wire i carre stories of the destructiveness of the hurricane. At Jacksonville, bla., the observer reported many trees blown down and houses unroofed. All the principal towns aFng the coast from Connecticut to Florida were warned of violent gales and high tides.