HURRICANE FURY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 5

HURRICANE FURY

LOSS OF FIFTY LIVES AMERICAN ESTIMATE ATLANTIC COAST SWEPT SEAS WRECK BUILDINGS (EJec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) NEW YORK, Sept. 19. Forty-five persons were reported dead or missingi yesterday as a hurricane reaching a velocity of 75 miles an hour swept the Atlantic seaboard for 1000 miles from Cape Fear, South Carolina, to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Most of the casualties were the result of coastal craft foundering. Thirty-five persons were drowned in one fishing boat-

Seashore points along the New Jersey coast were hard hit. high seas destroying a number of buildings.

Communications have been wrecked north and south of Carolina. A lightship js adrift off Virginia. ■An island off North Carolina was swept by a tidal wave. The 400 inhabitants have been evacuated owing) to power failure.

Atlantic City is in darkness. Schools and many businesses have been forced to close.

Heavy damage is reported at. Cape Halteras and scores of communities throughout the area are isolated. The New York Times to-day estimates that at least 54 persons perished. Early to-day tbe gale appeared to have veered seaward and will probably miss New York.