A SERIOUS STORM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3310, 31 August 1911, Page 5

A SERIOUS STORM.

HIGHEST FOB TWENTY YEARS. LIVES LOST AND PROPERTY DAMAGED. TUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, August 29. A great storm is raging in the Southern States, . , The water on the Charlton sea front is higher than for twenty years. The tram service is idle, and the streets are impassable owing to uprooted. trees. , The people on the Isle of Pines and on Sullivan's Island were warned, so as to enable them to escape, but it is reported that many were left behind. A schooner was thrown ashore near the battery at Charlton. . . There is little damage t-o shipping, but five people are said to be dead. The velocity of the wind wrecked the wind guage. . . _ LI ~ Low-lying sections m the city aie inundated, and the people have been removed by means of boats . \ railway engineer was killed m tne Yard at Messrs Masters ’office, owing to flying timbers, which 'crashed m the windows, breaking his neck.

TORPEDO BOATS ASHORE. SEVENTY-FIVE PERSONS MAROONED. NEW YORK, August 29. Six torpedo boats were driven ashore bv the storm at Charleston, and a score of other small vessels were wrecked The whole of the lower part or the town is still under water. Telephone and telegraph communication has been destroyed. Seventy-five persons have been marooned on the Isle of Palms, and are suffering from hunger and thirst.

THE DEATH ROLL. FLOOD WATERS SUBSIDING. (Received August 31. 12.20 a.m.) LONDON, August 30. During, the. hurricane at Charleston, tix torped'oi boats were tossed bight on to the beach by the violence of the waves. The navy yards suffered considerably. The total death roll is eleven. Scores of launches and small craft have been broken into fragments, and the _ property damage amounts 1 to a million dollars. The water is now subsiding in the streets, and efforts are being made to resume traffic.