New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-27
A STORM ALONG THE COAST.
SNOW FROM VIRGINIA TO MAINE.


this city yesterday evening. All day long
there was snow in the air and a few flakes
fell but by o'clock there was enough
snow on the ground to cause the horses
attached to the street cars to be
doubled. The furious gale, which came gen.
orally from the northeast, drifted the snow
badly. On Long Island the trains were
delayed. A collision took place on the
East River between ferryboat and a
brig. the pilot of the ferrybOat being
blinded by the snow and the darkness.
Snow has also fallen heavily from Virginia
TO Maine, being in some places foot deep.
The small steamer Wanderer was wrecked at
Lewes Delaware. The arrival Of another
storm from the West is foretold for to-day.
THE DAY IN AND ABOUT The CITY.
GREAT EFFORTS TO SNOW AND A FINAL SUCCESS
THE PRIvILEGETO STAY INDOORS A2PRECIAIED
-ITFoRMArON AT THE SIGNAL SERVICE OFFICE
THE STORM on LONG ISLAND.
If nature had contracted especially to furnish
thoroughly dIsagreeable day. it could hardly have
succeeded better than it did yesterday. In the
morning there was light snow. which half covered
the ground like ragged frayed-out garment but
as the day grow older, the snow partly melted and
sush, half mud. half snow. that made walking any
thing but pleasant. Early in the afternoon there
seemed to be strong disposition on the part of
certain OF the elements to give the word a snow
storm, but it was of avail. The snow fakes
started all right but long before they were near the
ground the winds caught them and blew
them sideways and whired them around
until they became dizzy, forgot their
direction, wandered amcssy then hasitated for
a while and were lost, only a few of the strongest
of them apparently reaching the ground at all. The
temperature not particularly low. but there
was damp chill in the air that seemed to penetrate
ones bones. Late in the afternoon strong. sharp
gale laden with biting. binding seet, added 10 the
general discomfort There few persons on the
streets at any time and the city seemed particularly
cheerless The attendance aJ the places of publIc
worship was considerably less than it would have
been had the weather been fairly good although
some Of the churches which held special Christmas
services or had special Christmas music were well
filed But to those not pOus it easy to remain
IN the house all day.
About 6 o'clock in the evening the snow seemed |
to get over It's disccuragemens Of the daytime. nd
the flakes fell thick and fast, so that by o'clock |
nearly three inches of snow was the ground. |
There was still a heavy northeast wIEd and the
weather gradually grew colder. Before 8 o'clock
sey raj of the street ear companies doubled the
number Of horses to each car.
A TRIBUNE reportc visited the United States Sig
nal It .tlon on the Equitable BuldInQ 1T af-past |
O'Clock, when the wind was so strOng thatIJ was DIT
Gcult to keep from being blown away. BY tho
latest official report for this city the barometer
was 29.SO-having fallen Is in cignt hours.
The thermometer registered 80, fall of = in
eight hours; the humidity 20 per cent, and
he wind was northeast, with a velocity of 20
niles an hour. The maximum veocities attained
" the wind az different times in the day were as
ollows From 1912 a. ~. TO 1912 a. m. 20 miles
rom 11:12 a. m. to Z a. M. SO miles. The wind was
rom the northeast. At $3.50 .. m. the wind had
hanged to the north, vergug toward the north
vest, its velocity then beng u miles an hour.
The barometer has been falling ever since noon
N Christmas Day" said the officer IN charge of the
tlice. Ii has fallen IN that time 20 of an inch.
ne snow began at 1915 a. N. to-day, and up to
10 p. IN. there had been fall Of about half an
ach. THIS evening so far, there has been an extra
all of about three inches | do not believe it will
outinue to snow all night, however. The storm
eutre. think, is just about passing over us now,
nd it viii likely up North and strike the At
,ntic Ocean near Easfport, Me"
When and where did this storm start ~
." 1t began just west of The Gulf yesterday fore
Don. The storm signals were Oriered up at noon
II Saturday. The storm centre then at Mont
omery, Ala. moving northeast, with heavy north
lst winds Signals ordered up also al Sandy '
ook Btrnegat, Atlantic City, Cape May, Break :
ater. Wilmington, Smithve and Norfolk The :
fshore signals were ordered for Norfolk. Cape g
tnry, Kitty Hawk. Hatteras. Lookout Whining /
N and Smitbve at 1915 this forenoon The storm
ntrc was then near Cape Henry, moving north :
ist Dangerous winds were reported for the Middle
&ntf "a Ia nj lie -
up signals ordered for Ed5tport and it was =
rophcSled that the storm would be very severe Oh 4
le New England coast. AZ $50 p. m. tne Ctf-shoTe
gualS were ordered TO be ho,Sed. and at 800 p. NJ
telegram reported ott-shOre signals ordered ar "a
ldianOla and Galveston as 4 heavy N0rther' was II
lprcted Tor Monday =,
The weather throughout the country. as reported ~
3; ~ p. H., was generally cloudy aad unsettled.
eayy SHOWS were reported iOr Chicago, ILL.,. Du-
tn, Minn. ard ~. Paul. Minn. light SHOWS for
,cauaba, La Crosse. WIS, New-lork and Toledo,
mo. Al Boston the wea her " threatening"
hougn the direction of the threats not gwen. II
1e greatest wind VelOcltles were reported as fol
VS.: Boston. Mass forty miles an hour; East | III
lrt Ne, thrty-l0nr miles Omaha. NeD.. twenty -
e miles ana Yankton, D. T.. forty miles. AT III
nCy HOOK the velocity WAS az high as siNty-clgt
!lcs an hour between II 4. m. and p. in. "
% What are The prospects Tor tomorrow asked g'
- On Monday there Will probable be high wind a
gale from The uOr,uw ct. wI.u q uucL colder ! ~
mpcrature. 1derc viii not likely De- much more y.
ow. Inc present storm n confined 10 tine coast
i side at the Ailegha Ies and will sOgI at
AZ there Is another storm, coming cast by @ay of
.lc GO which VIII soon reach u The SNOW
rms az Chicago and other points early to-day
ere local, and have not been attended with par
ularly heavy WlIds Inc winds in the West arr
~ from the n0rjlNt It mostly, and the northwest lei
nj Is not generally accompanied by much snow, IA
L IS cold dry wind. which rapidly reduces c'
g temperature, Tie northeast what viii follow su
present low barometer. When our
'rm centre has passed us, this wind viii como IN.
e reason think the has almost left us is iu'
it the wind Is ranging toward the northwest. and lb
IS rapidly growing colder We may hdye much 10.
IYier gale tomorrow than we had to-day, and IA m,
II will probably DO much more severe, from It's 49,
l"Ient nature" T,
Fac Of unusual Gritty at the east -
/ of Loug Island, the wind blowing the snow aud ~
most filing the cuts on the Long lslWd Railroad by
1t were opened on Tuesday aud Wednesday last.
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