A TERRIBLE STORM
CABLE NEWS
i United Press Association— -By "Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
RAGING IN UNITED STATES.
IMMENSE DAMAGE
Received This Morning, 12.45 o'clock
NEW YORK, August 29. \ A great storm is raging in the South ern States. y The water on the Charlton sea front is higher than it has been <> f or twenty years. The tram service is idle, and "the streets impassable through uprooted trees. The people on the Isle of Pines and Sullivan's Island were warned, and so enabled to escape, but it is reported that many were left behind. A schooner was thrown ashore by » the battery at Charlton, but little damage was done to shipping. Five persons are dead. The velocity of the wind wrecked the wind gauge. Low-lying sections of the city .were inundated, and people removed n boats. v A railway engineer was killed in the yard at his master's office. I Flying timbers crashed in through j the windows breaking his neck. , . |
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10407, 30 August 1911, Page 5
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160A TERRIBLE STORM Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10407, 30 August 1911, Page 5
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