SMITTEN BY STORM

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 7

SMITTEN BY STORM

ATLANTIC SEABOARD

INLAND STATES SUFFER

HAVOC AND TERROR

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 25, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 24. Death, terror, and destruction rode with the maddest storm to strike the Atlantic seaboard for many years, which, after Wednesday's fury, roared up into New York State and the Great Lakes region on Thursday as a fifty mile gale with driving rain. The deaths number well over a dozen, and the damage will amount to millions of dollars. The s.b. Madison limped into Norfolk, Virginia, on. Thursday under her own power reporting that the second mate and quartermaster were swept overboard on Wednesday when they went on deck to investigate damage by the first wave of the hurricane. Captain William Heath said that the wave was the greatest he ever saw. It tore away the forward house and wrecked much of the superstructure. There were 109, all told, on the Madison. The haggard -passengers disembarked after a sleepless night wearing lifebelts. A Southern Railway train, the Crescent Limited, en route from New York to New Orleans, hurtled through a rainsoaked bridge spanning the Anacostia River near Washington early on Thursday, killing the engineer and fireman and injuring thirteen passengers. Eight persons were killed in Virginia. The damage to the Virginia Beach alone is estimated at a million dollars. The s'/orm smashed seashore resorts and marooned communities. Wreckage of small craft dotted the Atlantic coastline. There were serious traffic jams in New York City as the result of flooded highways and railway tracks. ' Trees strewed the streets.