"One of the most serious accidents caused 

 by the storm was the breaking of a dam under 

 construction at Lymansville J'lill in North 

 Providence, across the Woonascua tucket River, 

 early yesterday. Although millions of gallons 

 of water were released and a rond formed from 

 Lymansville almost to Allenaale, the waters 

 receded sufficiently by noon to eliminate all 

 danger of a flood. 



"The highest wind velocity recorded during 

 the storm was at Block island where 6I4 m.p.h. was 

 registered at 5 a.m. yesterday. In Providence 

 the highest wind velocity was UO m.p.h., and 3«99 

 inches of rain fell here during the storm." 



t. 21 September 193b . From "The Evening Bulletin", 

 Providence, d. I. 



"At least 125 persons died, many millions 

 of dollars of property damage was wrought, and the 

 normal life of ^^ode island was corapxetely crippled 

 yesterday when a tropical hurricane swept the 

 State, driving before it an incoming tide that 

 piled the waters of Narragansett Bay 10 to 12 

 feet deep in downtown irrovidence. 



"Standing directly in the path of the 76-mile- 

 an-hour fury, this State of all the "^iew ^iigland 

 States bore the brunt of a swift and savage sweep 

 that brought fantastic scenes beyond the wildest 

 imagination to the old streets of Providence and 

 to those towns particularly that line the shores 

 of the Bay. 



"iven and women swam and drowned in water that 

 flooded Irovidence from the foot of Collie Hill 

 to La Salle Scuare, water that >:as lashed to white 

 caps by a wind that tore the roofs from business 

 blocks and dwellings, that uprooted trees of great 

 girth by the hundreds, and lifted coal barges out 

 of the harbor and flung them into Fox Point Square. 



"It was and is the greatest disaster of any 

 nature that < as ever befallen this State, and no 

 2ii-hour attempt can produce in its entirety a 

 picture of the awful devastation of life and 

 property. 



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