The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12
THE PROPHETS FAILURE.
Wiggins's Prediction of a Disastrous
Storm Not Verified.
a Heavy Gale at Halifax. Causing but Little
Damage clustering March Weather
in Various Sections.

HALIFAX, March lU-Wlnd west ana mod
crate. Cloudy. Thermometer 240.
9l5 P M.-Water is breaking over some
of the wharves and is on level with others
In half an hour it will probably reach
lower Water street. The wind is blow
ing with terrible violence and the rain is
still falling. Great excitement prevails,
and fears for property on the water line in
creases.
Reports from the Eastern province states
that the storm is commencing in that region.
The storm drum is on the citadel staff
The fishing schooner Agnes, thought to
have been foundcred in last Tuesday nights
storm, arrived at Herring Cove to-day.
During the morning the sky was overcast,
with light southwest wind and mild temper
AZURE. Shortly after noon the breeze shifted
to the southeast quarter, and gradually grew
in force A few minutes after one storm sig
nal was up at the Citadel Station, and people
began to prepare for a storm. Steamers and
sailing vessels in docks were secured to
wharves with extra hawsers and merchan-
disc in places of insecurity was removed to
higher and safer quarters. No remarkable
change occurred the following two hours,
but about o'clock the' wind quickened,
light rain and hail commenced to fall, and
| the clouds overhead grew enormously dark.
Half an hour later the wind had
increased doubly in strength, and rain
and hail were falling quite heavily. The
following two hours this state of affairs
continued, the breeze increasing to a
gale and bowling overhead. The fear began
! to grow greater among wharf-owners and
proprietors of property on the water-line,
and great excitement prevailed. At o'clock
/ ferry steamers to Dartmouth ceased their
| trips the last one occupying four times the
usual time, and it being made with great
| difficulty. From that hour until o'clock
| the gale blew with terrible fury, causing
vessels in the docks to strain their fastenings,
and almost tear from them and drive into
harbor. Only one, however, is reported to
have broken from her moorings, the
schooner Four Brothers, lying at Market
wharf smashing her boysprit and tear
ing some planking from the wharf The
vessel was again secured. The tide
rose during the blow the highest known
here since the Saxby gale. At o'clock
it was nearly on level with the
wharves, and at 8, when the highest sea
washed over, many barrels of flour, meal
and other merchandise in exposed places
| were swept about, but no serious damage re-
suited. Steamers in port held well to their
| fastenings and weathered the blow without
injury. Considerable fear was felt for the
safety of the steamer Newfoundland, which
sailed from ST. Johns, N. F., for this port
| Tuesday, and was due to-day. Between s
! ana y o ClOCk, Wnen tine StOTIn was al llS
| highest the barometer, which in the morn
! ing registered 80 40, and at in the afternoon
| 80 10, stood 30 SO, and was yet falling rapidly.
| The wind was then blowing at the rate of
| thrty-seven miles an hour and apparently
| gaining in velocity About 8, however, it
Gained suddenly down, and the feeling of
property-owners and people began to
be more confident A breeze again
sprang up from a more easterly direction,
| though not with as great strength as before.
The tide is now falling, and no more heavy
weather is expected tonight; but in the
morning it is said by old fishermen and OBJ
servers of the weather, with the incoming
| tide the wind will rise again and blow with
| equal if not greater violence.
The steamer sighted off Sambro, early this
morning, was the steamer Castaia, from New
| York. There is no sign of the City of Ches-
| ter
HALIFAX, March 11-2 A. MA slight
breeze is blowing from the southeast, but it
appears at times to increase somewhat in
strength and then subside. The high tide has
gone completely down, and vessels ride easily
| in their docks.
The effects of last evenings storm prove
not as serious as expected. At the south
end of the city, the wharf on which Howells
foundry formerly stood was blown away;
the other wharves and property on the water
line suffered only slightly. The chatting of
vessels was quite bad, and the heaving up of
| few planks in the wharves make up almost
all the other damage. The vessels at anchor
in the harbor rode the gale with trifing in
jury. Elsewhere in Nova Scotia nothing I'M
usual was noted.