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 The Hurricane with no name. On September 21st, 1938 New England saw a storm like no other.
I will be added more content to this article, so if interested check back often. The storm struck in mid-afternoon and by night fall 312 men, women and children were dead and missing in the state of Rhode Island. As the picture on the right shows, the streets of Providence where buried under more then 10 feet of water. The picture on the right is Exchange Place, looking toward the Biltmore Hotel and the City Hall, just before the water reached its height. The streets and square were literally alive with floating automobiles, and all around in Exchange Place, were strings of swamped trolley cars
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 This is the Washington Park Yacht Club floating in Narraganset Bay.
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 SOMERSET Driven high and dry was this huge tanker and its cargo of 57,000 gallons of gasoline. It was anchored in the Taunton River when the storm broke. The tidal wave and wind carried it five miles upstream and pounded it against the river bank in Somerset. Nine times the vessel washed up on shore, finally coming to rest high up on the bank. Photo taken by Providence Journal, Ball. No first name is known.
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 Pawtuxet: The hurrican and tidal wave sre shown at the height of fury. At the right is the home of Frank Pettis, withstanding the attack, at least for the moment. In front, at the left, is the home of Donald Allen, torn from its foundaton and floating through water that covers the sites of three homes that have smashed and carried away.
Photo by T.F. Wilson Jr
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 Providence: Beauty was sacrificed in the interest of safety immediately after the storm.This steeple atop the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Cranston strret in Providence was dynamited after the wind had torn away the roof and weakened the structure. An alert photographer caught the picture just as the steeple started to topple.
Photo: Winslow
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