Did Considerable
Damage Late Saturday Afternoon
Morehead City, Aug. 27—Saturday afternoon and night Morehead
City was visited by one of the severest wind and rain storms in the history of
Eastern North Carolina. Not since the storm that washed away the Atlantic Hotel
in Beaufort August 18th, 1879, has it been equaled in total
destruction to marine property. Few boats in the harbor here escaped some damage
and scores of boats are total wrecks, the water front being the scene of
instances in which anywhere from three to nine boats are piled ujpon each
other. Businesses, commercial and residences, did not escape for several large
stores were unroofed and windows blown out while at the same time homes were
damaged by falling trees as well as their roofs being blown away.
Kinston, Aug. 26—Damage to crops in Lenoir, Greene, Pitt,
and half a dozen other counties in this section from the storm of Saturday
night and yesterday morning totals many thousands of dollars, according to
reports which are coming in today. Wire service has been improved to the extent
that communication with most points is possible. The 80-mile wind did far more
damage than rain. Roads were left in passable condition with few exceptions.
Norfolk, Aug. 28—Fishermen arriving at Beaufort yesterday
morning re-established communication with the mainland and told of the
devastation caused by Saturday’s hurricane among the isolated small islands
which dot the Carolina coast. They say that Ocracoke, Atlantic and Park Islands
suffered most, almost every building on these tiny bits of land being either
damaged or wrecked. Scores of small boats also were pounded to pieces on the
beaches, but there was no loss of life. Numbers of people, however, were injured by flying timbers
while attempting to save their property.
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