SEVERE STORM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21579, 25 August 1933, Page 11

SEVERE STORM

AMERICAN AREAS COASTAL LINER'S PLIGHT COASTGUARDS TO RESCUE DESTRUCTION ON SHORE WASHINGTON SWEPT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August 2-1, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 23 A raging hurricane, which left in its wake distress at sea, swept inland from Virginia Capes to-day to Washington. The storm seems to be pushing on to Boston. It is preceded by a thick fog. The captain of tho 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 north-east of Chesapeake Light, Virginia. Two coastguard cutters went alongside and all three were hove-to. The deck-houses of the Madison were broken up by tho storm. Tho coastguard vessels also suffered damage. Subsequently, it was reported that the Madison was proceeding under her own power to Norfolk, Virginia, and that tho coastguard cutters were accompanying her. Many trees were uprooted in the residential and down-town sections of Washington as tho first tropical hurricane to reach thero since 1896 began to roar over the city. Wireless operators at tho 3rd Corps area headquarters of the United States Army at I3altimore, picked up a message from Laurel, Delaware, which said that Salisbury, Maryland, had been considerably damaged.