People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — DEATH IN A STORM. [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN A STORM.

Foarteeen Live* Lost at Magnolia Bowel*, 8. L'.— Three Boy* Killed at Buffalo Much Damage at Baltimore, Philadelphia and Other Point*. Columbia, 8. C., Oct 17.—The West Ind'-*, cyclone struck Georgetown on the coast of this state Friday, sweeping Magnolia Beach away and killing many persons. Mrs. L. C Haskell and a servant are said to be the only survivors. Pawley’s island suffered terribly, and many houses were wrecked. The people sought refuge in the trees. Fourteen persons were drowned at Magnolia Beach. The tide rose above floors of dwellings on North island and all dwellers took refuge in the lighthouse. The most heartrendering reports come from Dr. J. W. Flagg, who escaped and saved little Miss Weston, 10 years old. They were clinging to the boughs of a cedar tree drifting to mainland. His father and mother were with them on the same tree. His mother became exhausted and lost her hold upon the limb, and his father let go to rescue her and both were drowned before his eyes. Searching parties were patroling the I beach with the hope of finding bodies. Buffalo, Oct 17. —The wind blew at j the rate of 60 miles an hour on Satur- I day. About 1:30 o’clock in the morning the storm caught up a long line of empty coal cars standing on a siding of the Nickel Plate road and lifted them onto the main track, a few miles south of this city. The midnight passenger train for Chicago crashed into the cars. Fireman Lang was killed. Other fatalities occurred late in the afternoon when the mammoth sheds of the Empire freight line at Louisiana and Carroll streets collapsed with a loud crash. The fire and police departments were called out, but before their arrival the aiissing men* showed up. They had miraculous escapes and received only slight injuries. The wreck of the huge sheds lay in a heap, but the trusses of the roof had for the most part retained their places and had saved the men beneath the wreck by leaving room enough for them to crawl through. , Under some debris, with his head ■ smashed down«between his knees, was ' Johnnie Flannery. A few feet away : the crushed bodies of Zitz Heinlich, 9 years old, and Johnny Dwyer, only 8, were. All three boys were dead. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 17.—While the wind was blowing a gale Friday night the Brush Electric Light works took fire and were burned. As these supply the city and nearly all the stores and other buildings in the city with light, the city for a time was plunged into partial darkness. Sparks from the Brush electric light works set fire to the city jaiL The prisoners we*e hurriedly erlleeted and marched into the yard. Quite a number, however, were ov-er- ! come by smoke and dragged out. The I jail was completely destroyed'. Acordon of police was formed about them, while doctors were working on the prisoners. Seventy five of them- were taken to the city hospital, but none of them are believed to be fatally injured. The southern part of the city is flooded, and water at the docks is even; with the surface of the city. In various-sec-tions of the city houses were unI roofed and trees blown down. The I wind and rain swelled the water in the ■ harbor so that the New York trains I on the Baltimore & Ohio were unable | to cross at Locust Point, at which place ; they are ferried across. From Annapi olis and other points reports are multii plied of damage by the storm. The damage done by the storm was the greatest in many years. Especially I was this the case along the water i front, where the tide rose to the level !of the wharves, overflowed into i stores, the cellars of commis- ‘ sion merchants and the places occu- ■ pied by the oyster packers, and com- ■ pletely destroyed stocks to the amount 'of almost 11,000,000. As the dredging ; season opened Monday the oyster boats bad been preparing for the season and many of there were badly damaged; The destruction of property all through th* city was large. : The summer resorts on Curtis bay : and. the upper Patapsco were ruined. The entire shore from Francis Cutair’s

resort to the Ariel and Neptune clubs’ boat houses is devastated. At Flood’s pavilion the damage will reach 18,000. □ The wharves and boathouses of the rowing clubs are a wreck. Charles Dunn's steam yacht Admiral, George Kohl’s steam launch Alice, and a number of fancy sailing yachts at these resents were- sank or beaten to pieces against the wharves. The packing houses at Canton, on the eastern water front, were nearly washed away. A scow loaded with. 250' cases of fruit belonging to Fait <fc Winebreuner went to the bottom., Hemingway’s cannery was damaged to, the-extent of SO,OOO. The total loss im tiie canning district will reach 550,000.. Plbeladelphia, Oct. 17. —The stormi was particularly severe in eastern. Pennsylvania. In this city scores ofi houses were unroofed and the walls of many partly-constructed buildings blown down. The Romans Catholic church of the Nativity, which is being constructed ;at Belgrade street and Alleghany avenue, was damaged to the extent. of S2OIOOO. While the gale was a* its height the stone wall on the east side of the edifice was blown inward and two huge blocks of stone crashed through the roof and into the- basement, smashing the pews and pulpit and reducing to splinters a costly organ.