The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-10
YESTERDAYS GREAT GALE.
DIh<0B AND DISCOMFORT CAUSED
By ITS FURIOUS FORCE.


Water Weather Bexinnins Di.ss,rousiy-A
Life Lost In n Frustrated EIevstor-A WIDE
spread Storm-uevoc In the City Wrecks
Marrow Escapes-The storm Elsewhere.
The Signal Service prediction o. "oold
and cloudy weather. with rain or snow, followed
by high wind" was funled yesterday. The
pnow amounted in the city only to an early
BURY. and the cold was fourteen degrees above
heso at the lowest, but the wind was . gale,
commencing at about four o'clock In the morn
Ing, and blowing furlously all day. The greatest
velocity was atty miles an hour In gusts, and
from thirty to forty most OF the time. At Sandy
Hook, and other places on this part OF the
ocean coast, as high as seventy-nvo was reached
Tho cautionary signal had been displayed from
the signal station at the too OF the Equitable
building on thei previous evening, and the MARI
hno Association bsd:been Informed that dan
rsrous weather was at hand. The shipping In
she barbor was roughly blown about, and sea-
sickness was common among passengers on the
Staten Island ferry boats. Vessels dragged their
anchors, and rigging was rudev tested.
The air phenomena included an electrical
storm, not felt by ordinary observers, but mani
fest to teieRraphers. Communication by wire
was interrupted in all dlrectione, and lightning
flashed from teeeraphic Instruments In way
that reminded operators OF cases OF lives being
taken by such strokes. The sudden cold Is sup
Of the atmosphere.
The news received at the signal station In the
Equitable building from other United States
observatories was that snow had IA len heavily
IN the Northwest. Temperature was recorded
as follows early In the day: Fort Garry, % de-
-recs below zero; breckenridge, 50 b, low; Du-
Iutb, 80 below st. Paul. "a below Lacrosse, "a
below; Milwaukee, 10 below Chic 20, Il below
Indianapolis, Is below ; keokuk. 10 below; IS
canada, 0 below; Omaha, 8 below Cincinnati,
sboiow; st. Louis. 8 below Louisville. below;
Pittsburgh. below; Cleveland. below: Cairo,
sero; Grand Haven. zero; Leavenworth. 2
above; Rrie. nbove Detroit, Q above; Rocbes-
ter, above; Washington, above; Baltimore,
above; Albany. IA owe; Oswceo, IL above; ;
Nushyille, above; Philadelphia, u above; and
The city prsnks Of the furious wind-bes,des
the more serious results described below-wcre
aseomforins yet sometimes s finn Pedes,
wbiried dirt into treir red faces. Il slammed
:huttens threw down sisns broke limbs t from from
inss, made the water-hoisting wiDdmils go so
fast that they ae% apart ss s Snssss asa
horses into running away. ana did other sorts OF
misehief. Moe noticeahiy than ANYTHING else
u blew on hats. Looking N any erection.
At almost any time, q a. hat might be
stiil and some body else will chase" was proved
by the writer to be a true saying. An escaping
hat Invariably eIcites interest, ana is chased
with all the VIM Of buntsmer after fox. Its
owner need only wait and say " hank YOU,
when the successful pursuer returns l.. Broad
way on Saturday afternoon is ordinarily a. Its
Gayest. Women crowd the sidewalks on shop
ping errands or going 10 or from matinee enter
tsinment. Yesterday those VINO went out did
so OF necessity; and at the cost q great discom-
fort. The wind helped the Brooklyn disaster In
1essening the attendance at the theatres, and the
stores, although the holiday season Is well under
An old tree In waverley place was broken on
just above the ground.
The figure Of liberty on the city Hall loet an
nJm. and the hag STAN that II held.
Horses fell in great number. the wind and the
aippery stones making their footing insecure.
"A window 10 the Fifth avenue cathedral was
blown IN.
The perks were strewn with limbs from trecs.
A small sail boat Was upset on West Thirtieth
street, and Two men one named James Daily.
The police had n suffering day, wearing thin
gloves ecause toe winter ones had not been
The gale was very severely felt along the New
jersey coast around sandy Hook. Many vessels
had hard work to avoid being driven ashore, and
Others. iess fortunate, were unable to avert the
catastrophe.
Tho schooner Herschel was lying at theiraii-
road dock at II orsesnoe In the afternoon, laden
With full cargo OF coal. The tempest tore her
from her moorinRs, and she drifted ashore, sus-
Another small schooner. whose name could
not be ascertained, was also driven ashore
near the Herschel and may become total
Week.
Later still, In the same locality, the coast sur
veying schooner Drift was seen attempting to
creep away from tue coast, ana Tying signals Of
distress.
, Me-, for Baltimore, NTH steam dredge In tow,
went ashore inside Of Sandy Hook.
persons to the CITY Prison for shelter. Warden
Quinn received all the shivering applicants VINO
begged for admission and food. large batch
were sent. at their own reguest, to the work.
bOuse on Dlackwells Island. During he week
over $50 persons have asked to be sent there.
smsn, who was Identified as having been IN
aen. erGsmstsn nee nnasr me Tweed , ~ h III
place where shall not freeze and where can
get something 10 eat.
The canvas awning In front OF Bowery was
blown into ribbons bS the wind
No sailing vessels passed east or west through
He'll Gate yesterday on account OF the heavy
When the wind was rapidly rising into gale
a. about O'clock yesteraay morning. morn Jona
Iooney were sitting in the grain elevator in
West snatieta street ana the stI h was
tempest. Edward Looney loft his companions,
and started 10 60 around me elevator 10 Ins
hsd been gone but few seconds when
They ran out with their lanterns, and,
after a short search found that one OF the
towers Of the elevator had fallen from its posi-
lion, two hundred feet above the foundation,
and had crushed LDUney beneath its debns. A
large log lay across TIE mans neck and he
wife and SIX CHILDREN, one OF them only two
The schooner NJ. +. webb, Capt stillman. Of
New London, while at anchor of CImmu-
nipaw, yesterday, slipped her cable, the
beam ends. The capta,n's vile was IN the cabin,
and there were aisn aboard John =. stillman,
Lewis 5. SiilmAn, john {. S'ilimau, aud Arthur
ID. Sweet A = soon IA the craft ospszed the
waves dashed over her exposed side md
the crew laehod themselves 10 the rigging
\ under the shelter Uf the Uulwarks. lhey,
nevertheless, were thoroughly drsnched with
water The schooner drifted, almost as rapidly
rs N she was under sail Oh the rocks OF she
Battery just below Castle Garden. When the
sch oOner struck, the waves made clean breaches
over her anu sent clouds Of spray over a rescu-
tpg party, commanded by Officer Flannery.
Ropes ere got out ~ those On board the wreck
aud soon all were landed almost frozen They
were cared for IN Castle Garden. The schooner
partially ri.hted after strikn. the rocss and she
lies there.
Tue steamer city Of Boston, Of the New Lon
don line when III Cnptiau Island, Long Island
Sound, az A. NJ. yesterday. during heavy
snow squat, ran down an unknown canal
schooner and sunk her. No lives are reported
being lost.
In BROOKLYN. ign on the front Of Stiebei's
fancy goods store al g7 Fulton street blew
down, and crashed through the large plate glass,
valued at 500. Five houses IN course Of eIec-
tion sixth avenue and Twentieth
street were levelled 10 the ground. Tho
property belonged 10 A.. &. sqnires three
story unoccuped frame dwelling house ~ Troy
avenue and II rgen street. owned by owen Nc
Harnev. was blown down. Loss <bOO. An un
ned nd