Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-12

| ing the sky was overcast, with light south
west wind and mild temperature. A few
| minutes after o'clock the storm signal was
up at the Citadel station and people began to
prepare for a storm. Steamers and sailing
vessels in the docks were secured to the
wharves with extra hswsers, and merchandise
was removed to higher and safer quarters.
No remarkable change occurred during the
following two hours, bat about 4 p Ii. the
wind quickened, light rain and hail COM
mencad to fall, and the clouds overhead grew
more ominously dark. Half an hour later
the wind had increased doubly in strength
and the rain and hail were falling quite
hesvily. During the following two hours this
state Of affairs continued, the breeze increas-
ing to gale and bowling overhead. Fear
began to become greater among wharf-owners
and proprietors of property on the water line,
and great excitement prevailed. At o'clock
the ferry steamers to Dartmouth ceased their
trips, the last one occupying four times the
usual time and being made with great Diff
Guilty. From that h1ur until o'clock the
gale blew with crest fury, causing vessels in
docks to strain their fastenings and almost
tear from them and drive into the harbor.
Only one, however, is reported to have
broken her mooriugs-the schooner -Four
Brothers, lying at Market-street wharf. The
vessel broke her bowsprit, and. tearing some
planking from the wharf, was only after great
difficulty again secured.
FLOODED wHARvEs.
The tide rose during the blow and wss the
highest known here since the Saxby gale. At
S o'clock it was nearly on level with the
wharves, and at o'clock, when il was high
est, the ses washed over many barrels of -four,
meal and other merchandise in exposed
places and swept them away, but no serious
damage resulted. The steamers in port held
well to their fastenings and weathered the
blow without injury. Considerable fear is
felt for the safety of the steamer Newfoand.
land, which sailed from ST. johns for this port
Tuesday and was due to-day. Between and
8 o'clock, when the storm was at it's hight, the
barometer, which in the morning registered
80 40 and st P N. 80 10, stood 30 So and
was yet falling rapidly. The wind was then
blowing at the rate Of thirty-sever miles an
hour and apparently gaining in velocity.
About 9 O'Clock, however, it suddenly calmed
down, and property owners and the people
began to feel more confident. The breeze
again spreng up frem more easterly direc-
tion, although not with as great strength as
before. The tide is now falling and no mora
heavy weather is expected tonight, but in
the morning it is said By old fishermen and
observers of the weather that with the in
coming tide the wind will rise sgsin and blow
with equal, ii not greater violence.
Reports from the eastern provinces state
that the storm is commencing in thst region.
THE ST. LAWRENCE RISING.
MONTREAL. March 10sh.-There is great
danger of heavy floods. The st. Lawrence
is rising rapidly. and should rain follow the
present heavy snow-storm nothing can pre-
vent an overflow. People on the lowlands
are seriously alarmed.
RIVAL OF wIGGINs.
KANSAS CITT, March 10sh.-In a private
letter received in this city Tice, st. Louis
weather prophet, ridicules Virgins claims as
forecaster Of the weather. Tice states that
his own almanac predicts a severe storm be-
tween the 10sh and 14sh OF March, but he
apprehends TO general disaster.
wIGGINs SATISFIED.
New YORK, March 11th.-The Suns cor
respondent at Ottawa interviewed Virgins
yesterday, who declared that his predictions
had been verified. He said My advice
that ships Of sll nations should be in safe
| harbors by the 9TH. am happy 70 say, has
been acted upon, and it was on tSe 6sh that
the arm of the great storm struck the At
lantic coast. The storm this afternoon came
| from the southeast exactly as | said, both as
| TO its period of arrival and It's direction. The
| storm of the 7th and Sth exactly followed the
course I marked out fo- the great storm, and
| General Hazen, in his critie;zra OF my letters
to the President, stated that no storm ever
| took that course. This is for him defeat"
EARTHQUAKES BY WAY OF VARIETY.
WATERLOO (Quebecl, March 11th.-The
severest storm known for years is in progress.
Snow began falling yesterday afternoon, and
continued unabated through the night, the
wind blowing a gale all day. The snow is
piled almost mountain high, making traffic of
all kids absolutely impossible. Between 10
and II o'clock this morning two distinct
shocks of earthquake were felt, the wave
passing east to west.
HIGH WATER.
QUEBEC, March 11th.-There is high water
to. DAY in the st. Louis and ST. Charles
rivers. The whsrves and Champlain market
place are flooded, as well as the houses in st.
Rocb's, near the st. Charles river, and in the
village on the opposite side.
MISCELLANEOUS.
OTTAWA, March 10sh-10 p. M.-Heavy
snow-storms prevsilh here.
ST. JOHN IN. b., March 10sh-1O:3OP
1t is raining and blowing hard But few
people are on the streets. Many of the stores
closed early. Ali small vessels have been
hauled into slips and put into additional
fsstsnings. On the bay the gale is very stiff.
ST. JOHNS IN. FL, March 10sh.-The
northern division of the sealipg-heet sailed for
the ice. felds to-day. The steamship Aurora
arrived, thirty days from Dundee.
Fierce westerly gales have prevailed all
day. The feet will be ready to sail for the
sealing grounds tomorrow. The Arctic is
now the only ship in the Dundee fact not
arrived.
ST. LOUIS, March 1Otb.-The fear of Wig
gins storm has reached here. About $50
fishermen are operating on the Mississippi
and Illinois rivers from st. Louis to Peoria.
and they are said to have all taken their nets
out of the river until Wednesday next. The
weather is cloudy, with rather high and
gusty wind.
NEWPORT, March 10th.-There is a tire.
mendous sea here. The tides are very high
and now reach to the top of the wharf plates.
Many people are extremely nervous. The
beach roars as it has not done for years, and
Spouting Rock is sending columns Of water to
On unusual hight A telegram from High
land light gives the wind southeast aud
fresh. Observations show indications that
heavy gale is coming on from Boston.
PLYMOUTH Mass J, March 10;h.-A storm
has begun. Il is now raining hard and the
wind blowing violently and increasing from
the nortneasC.
ELMIRA IN. ", March 1Oth.-It has been
showing since early this morning.
WORCESTER Mass March 10.h.-The
twenty-6fth snow. storm of the season began
this forenoon. 1t is showing rapidly, more
than during any storm this season. The ba-
rometer is lower than for year.
CAsTINE (Me.l, March I0sh.-The revenue
steamer Woodbury. arrived in the driving
storm. She assisted four vessels TO shelter
to-day, and was sent to relieve schooner
seen drifting out, bus could not roach her ia
the storm.
NKw YoRK, March 10shL-In Jamaica.
Hampstead and Great South Bay. l.. l., tbe
tide was higher st noon to-day than for many
years. The lowlards are covered with water.
So far as could be learned there has been no
serious damage TO property or less of life.
At Flushing the water ID three feet deep in
the streets.
BosroN, March 10sh.-The last report from
Thstcher's leland says the wind is blowing
at the rate Of foriy-six miles an hour, and
increasing.
Somewhat Of en- unusually high tide oc-
Cured at noon to-day, and alarming predic-
tious as TO the next high water led 20 expec.
tations of freshet along the river front to.
night, which investigation at 12:45 o'clock
fafled n verifV tha risa ha;nu roafftz lass than