SWEPT BY HURRICANE

Evening Star, Issue 22449, 21 September 1936, Page 9

SWEPT BY HURRICANE

ATLANTIC COAST CF AMERICA HIGH SEAS CAUSE HAVOC Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, September 18. Forty-five persons were reported dead or missing to-day as a 75-mile-an-hdur hurricane swept the Atlantic seaboard for .1,000 miles from Gape Fear, South Carolina, to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Most of the casualties were the result of coastal craft foundering. Thirty-five were drowned in one fishing boat. Seashore points along the New Jersey coast were hard hit, high seas destroying a number ot buildings. The maximum force of the gale is expected to strike New York early on Saturday, with heavy damage anticipated. Seaside resorts’ communications have been wrecked in North and South Carolina. A lightship is adrift off Virginia. Ocracoke Island, off North Carolina, was swept by a tidal wave and 400 inhabitants have been evacuated. Owing to power failure Atlantic City is in darkness. Schools and many business' places have been forced to close. Seaside homes as far north as Asbury Park, New Jersey, have been washed into the ocean by mountainous seas. Transatlantic shipping from New York is held in harbour owing to inability to leave. Heavy damage is reported from Cape Hatteras, and scores of communities throughout the area are isolated. ESTIMATED CASUALTY LIST NEW YORK, September 19. The ‘ Times 1 estimates that at least 54 perished early on Saturday. The gale appears to have veered seaward and will probably miss New York.