Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-17
YESTERDAYS GALE.


MILES An Hour-A Remarkably High
Tfde-A Large Part OF KeIsey,s
wharf swept Ayyay-Many Bath
Houses AHoat-TAe Damages I'm The
Harbor-Oyster Shops Flooded I'm
Fair Haven-Damage Elsewhere
Wires Damaged.
The easterly gale yesterday was ore of the
fercest known in this vicinity for years. The
| wind ragged at velocity of from forty to
fifty miles an hour houses shook, the tide
| was very high, cellars and oyster shops were
| flooded, chimneys toppled and fell, scuttles
were blown away, fences blown down and
| mischief was done generally.
DAMAGE AT WEST HAVEN SHORE.
Kelseys wharf, West Haven, which has
withstood the ice and storms of a dozen or
| more years, gave way before the violence of
| the gale and the fury of the waves yesterday
| and long section of it from ex-Chief of
Police Aliens summer pagoda out to the
| ''bend, a distance of about 900 feet, is
s'gone where the woodbine twineth, /" or, in
| other words, has mostly disappeared. The
wharf will not probably be repaired. It was
| built by Mr. George R. Kelsey, of West Ha-
| ven, and is about as widely known any
| wharf in Connecticut, owing to the numer-
| GUS picnics from all sections of the State
| that have visited Railroad Grove" near the
| wharf and owing to the notoriety given it in
the Jennie Cramer case. The bath houses
also on the West Haven shore suffered, a
| half dozen or more having been demolished
and knocked to pieces. The main driveway
along shore was damaged also, principally
near the Savin Rock hill. The damage done
all along shore is estimated at about So, 900.
A large portion of the roof of one of
Frenchs coal sheds in the borough, near the
| shipya1d, was blown off
THE TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE WIRES.
The violent wind made it lively for the
telephone and telegraph wires. About one
hundred and fifty telephone wires were more
OF less damaged or interfered with SO that tenn
porarily they were useless, while one hundred
telegraph poles, as far as heard from, were
blown down along the New York and New
Haven, the Hartford and the Shore Line rail
roads, interfering materially with the rams
mission of dispatches.
No communication by telephone could be
had last evening between this city and any
outside town. The damage done the tele-
phone wires and service of the Southern New
England company amounts, it is roughly es-
tlmated, to over S0,OUO.
THE DAMAGE ELSEwHERE-THE HARBoR.
From all parts of the city reports come ir
of chi1nneys and parts of chimneys blown
down. fences laid fat, roofs set to leaking,
and other minor damages, such are in
cident to q severe storm of rain accompanied
by gale
In the harbor the Water was very rough.
Seldom are the waves more violent. The
tide yesterday noon was one of the highest
known for years, and the water was full of
floating timber and debris washed from the
docks and along shore The breaking up of the
| ice added another element to the difficulties
| of navigators The harbor and rivers were
| full of heavy floating ice. The tide was at
its highest three OF four feet above high
water mark.
Along Munson street out Dixwell avenue
| the cellars of number of houses were flood
ed
In Fair Haven the ground floors of num-
Der of oyster shops along the Quinnipiac
| river were flooded.
The steamer Continental left yesterday
morning at a much earlier hour than usual
| in order to make the passage at He'll Gate
under the most favorable circumstances pos
sible.
A sharp lookout had to be kept on the yes
sells in the harbor in order to provide against
the vessels being damaged or sunk by the
floating ice. In several cases vessels were
damaged somewhat by the ice crushing in
about them.
Seldom do the North Haven meadows pre-
sent such an unbroken expanse of water as
they did yesterday when the tide was at its
highest point.
Someone judging from his observations on
the subject estimated that two hundred UNI
brellas were wrecked or ruined in the city
yesterday by being caught in some untimely
blast.
OTHER SHOW WINDOWS.
The plate glass show windows in the res
taurant opposite Demarest's carriage manu-
factory on Chapel street seem to be evil
fated. Another was broken yesterday owing
to the violence of the wind This makes the
third show window broken accidentally at the
establishment in about six months. They
cost about $50 each. The building is owned
by the Middletown Savings bank.
The large plate glass show window at
Platts' cigar store, Church street, was swayed
by the wind so much yesterday at one time
that it was in imminent danger of being
wrecked, but prompt measures taken pre-
vented.
During the storm yesterday afternoon the
wind blew in large show window in Reilly's
block, at the corner of Congress avenue and
Lafayette street, on the Lafayette street side,
breaking the glass to atoms. This is the
same window that was broken in a gale a
few weeks ago, when something was blown
from a building directly through it.
IN BRIDGEPORT.
BRIDGEPORT, Feb. 16.-Rodgers & Nor
ford, the wholesale grocers at the foot of
Wall street, had their cellar stored with a
large stock of goods and on making an in
vestigation this noon found the stock sub
merged in IS inches of water. At the Rose
dale dock all the freight of a perishable
nature was removed to place of safety as
the waves rolled in fer distance of 10 feet.
A number of people went down to Seaside
Park to see the breakers which washed over
the sea wall and out into the roadway for
distance of % feet.
IN MIDDLETowN.
MIDDLETowN, Feb. 16-The wind played
havoc with the telegraph wires here. The
roof of the tower of the town clock was torn
in pieces and workman who ventured up to
repair the damage made hasty retreat hay
ing narrowly escaped being blown off.
THE DAMAGE IN NEW LONDON.
New LONDON, Feb. 16.-A heavy gale has
prevailed all day, causing much damage.
The roof of the New London wooden mills
was blown off this afternoon, entailing a loss
at 81 200. No one was injured.
WaIlingferd.
WALLINGFoRD. Feb. 16.-samuel Whitta-
ker has sold his property on Prince street to
Dennis Morris.
L. Tynneson, the Cony House bartender,
goes to Great Darlington, Mass, this week
on a vacation.
The ladies OF st. Paul's guild Melted about |
$50 by their recent supper in Town hall.
The 7. A. B. and L. society hold their reg
ular meeting on Tuesday evening
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