The New York herald., 1873-08-14


Against = Repetition OF It's Effects.
The rain storm, which yesterday commenced
its progress through the Middle States, appears
to have been very general and to have been
marked by ON excessive rainfall, capable Of
doing both much good and much harm. The
reports represent it as reaching from Lake
Erie to Virginia and bringing with it some
severer winds than have been felt since the
1st of July. 1t is said that the amount OF rain
in the Middle States near the coast has
been deficient as compared with last
month, but yesterdays and to-day's
precipitation will be likely to make up
such deficiency. It is barely possible
that this northeastern indicates breaking
up of the Summer and the introduction of
Autumnal weather. 1t will at once greatly
relieve the severity of Summer, and by delug-
ing our seaboard cities wash out their filthy
streets and improve the sanitary prospects.
A general storm of this kind, with such
heavy and torrential rains, is to be dreaded
along our railway and canal lines, and already
the telegraph announces many bridges washed
away and trains delayed and endangered
This storm was reported as likely to occur in
the shape of number of local storms and
rains, but they seem to have suddenly mar
shalled their forces for the production of
considerable and widespread meteor. The
rising barometer or aerial wave Of high pres
sure and low temperature which was
reported yesterday is intimately con-
nected with the formation of all our dan
gerous storms, because they are supplied
from its crest with high winds, and its coldair
serves to chill and condense into torrents Of
rain the vapor which the previous southerly
winds have stored away in the atmospheric
reservoirs. The great difficulty Of our meteo-
rologists foreseeing such gale as we had yes
terday lies in the fact that these cold storms
breeding air waves descend upon us from the
country lying north of the lakes and steal
unobserved southwardly over region which as
vet is closed to the weather sentinels. 1t is evil
dent that Unnecessary, the government should
enter into some international arrangement by
which the outposts Of our signal system might
be pushed northward even to the vicinity
of Hudson Bay. The storm and its effects
will probably be felt for the rest of to-day,
and it is to be hoped that our railroad au-
thorities will exert the utmost vigilance to
avert the accidents and delays that are sure
to follow such heavy rains II, as it is proba-
ble the gale emerges from the land into the
Atlantic this morning, it may be expected to
| increase in violence, and will no doubt be
dangerous to our coasting vessels from the
Chesapeake Bay to Cape Cod.
Tho telegraph brings us important intel
ligence Of the effects of the storm which has
just ragged along the coast. At Long Branch
the waves dashed against the bluff compelling
removal of the bathing houses. and on the
railroad which passes through that we'll
known Summer resort the track was washed
away in several places. A number of discon-
solate pilgrims from the Ocean Grove Camp
Meeting sought refuge in the halls of gayety
and pleasure at the Branch from the merciless
rain which drenohed them and the fierce wind
which made shuttlecocks of their tents. The
worst, we fear, has not come yet, as such q
storm is likely to have been attended with dis
astrous results along the coast among the ship
ping. The Lower Bay was in ferment yes
terday, and sea sickness was the rule, not the
exception, among pleasure seekers What
must it be on the broad Atlantic, with lee
shore in the distance and damaged gear alone
available to keep a ship off jagged rocks and
treacherous sandbars?
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