STORM IN AMERICA.
Shipping interests have suffered severely lately. Eight vessels being reported sunk and twenty-two damaged. By the storm in Philadelphia on 23rd October 384 dwellings and stores were unroofed and otherwise injured. Several were completely demolished, besides which there were br.dly injured thirty-one churches, twenty-three schools, thirty-five factories and warehouses, five hotels, two elevators, and fifty other buildings, such as depots, ferry-hou-res, and railroad offices. The fatal accidents were six, and seriously •wounded thirteen. The southern pari, rf the city known as •' The Neck" was inundated by the river for a distance of nine miles from its usual" course. The inhabitants were taken out of the second stories of the houses in boats sent from the navy yard. Only one man was drowned, but the loss of live stock was very great, and eleven wooden bridges were swept away. It is impossible to estimate the loss in monev. but it is generally believed to be about 2,000,000 dofsl
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Wananga, Volume 5, Issue 49, 7 December 1878, Page 614
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