RAGING HURRICANE IN AMERICAN STATES
Coastal Liner Calls For Help WASHINGTON (TTY SWEPT. New York, Aug. 23. A raging hurricane, which left it its wake distress at sea, swept Inland from Virginia Capes to-day to Washington. The storm seems to he pushing on to Boston. It is preceded by a thick f°g- .. '• ■:/ The captain of the Eastern Steamship Co.’s coastal liner Madison, with about 100 persons, including passengers and crew, on board, sent out calls for help from 20 miles northeast of Chesapeake Light, Virginia. Tfo coastguard cutters were alongside and all three were hove-to. The deck-houses of the Madison were broken up by the storm. The coastguard vessels also suffered damage. Subsequently, it was reported that the Madison was proceeding under her own power to Norfolk, Virginia, and that the coastguard cutters were accompanying her. , Many trees were uprooted In the residential and down-town sections of Washington as the first tropical hurricane to reach there since IS9'6 began to roar over the city. Wireles operators at the 3rd Corps area headquarters of the United States Army at Baltimore, picked up a message from Laurel, Delaware, which said that Salisbury, Maryland, had been considerably damaged.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 11201, 25 August 1933, Page 3
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