DISASTROUS CYOLONE.
Thirty Shipwrecks. Seven Hundred Lives Lost. [Special to Pesss Association."! WASHINGTON, August 31. The cyclone did terrible havoc in Charleston, where seventy churches were injured. The tidal wave which followed submerged the city, and has rendered thousands of people homeless. Baltimore was flooded, and suffered heavily. New York and New England escaped serious damage. The Nantucket and Kearsarge have got back to port much knocked about. The cyclone devastated the Atlantic seaboard from Florida to New England. The death-list in killed and drowned is now swollen to seven hundred. Thirty shipwrecks are known so far. Charleston is com. pletely ruined.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4738, 1 September 1893, Page 3
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