The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-03
BLOWING GREAT GUNS.
New York City Visited by the Severest Wind
Storm Ever Known.
Telegraph, Telephone and Electric Light
Wires Blown Down in all Parts of the
Cify-Trayel and Communication
Very Much Delayed.

NEw YoRK, Feb. 27.-Folks who happened to
meet The wind yesterday when it was humping
itself for the eighty fourmile mark felt as il they
had run up against brick wall Eighty-four
miles 10 hurricane speed and means a pressure OF
40 pounds 70 man and more 10 woman, who car
Ties much more sail for the hurricane to work
on. 10 swept along and across the streets and
avenues In fierce gusts, hurting showers OF dust
and gravel IN the faces OF pedestrians; il whisked
hats of heads and hurled them undert he wheels
PEELED eastbOund erosstown ears with such
swiftness that drivers could stop them only by a
vigorous application Of the brake; il pinned the
IL amshed glass in car windows, unhinged
signs and shutters and snapped of
and the light spars of vessels in the harbor were
broken. Unretarted across the desert OF City Hall
Park, the gale madly cav0rted and made exist
corner Of Park Row aud frankfort Streets. So
fierce was the gale there that Pederstians had to
walk Of an angle OF fOTtyhve degrees 10 keep from
being blown down. woman was slammed
against a telegraph pole in front of Ereneh's
Hotel and chung 10 il until policeman rescued
her So immense quantity OF water was DIown
out of the harbOr that at high tide the rivers had
usus11y low. ALLOW water $50 O. clock last even
ing the surface of the rivers was ten, fifteen and
twenty feet from the top OF the piers and the
forty-6ve degrees crowd Of passengers in the
Eighth avenue street car were surprised when
sssd o and sailing 0Gi 0 ove s into centrs
PARK with the helLpuneh attachment trailing be-
hind. Telegraph, telephone and electric light
wires were blown down in all parts of the city.
Messages were received by all telegraph compa-
MES in the city subject to two or three and many
places four hours delay. Repairing the wires
rendered impossible. as the hnemen we're unable
20 stand up on the crOSs-arms OF the poles. Adj
bridge on foot Wished they had not when they
got about halfway over. They were seen by pO-
heemen elinging desperately % the iron work TO
0dlum. The bridge itself was transformed into
huge aeoliaB harp whose tbunderous music
below between shores. Tie Signal Service OBJ
server had been inclined to think the gale would
20 down with the sun, but it Kept up in the live
nsIeer than ever This was beeause the
Air Was sharper BY several ,n degrees .aSR
ranging thirteen degrees. The Signal Service man
said then the greatest force OF the blizzard mad
| city of the wind at Boston was tifty0ne miles,
which is just little more than half as hard as u
resord higher 6s1 pro1d mesoDos Ma
Washington, where IL blew 100 miles The young
prophet said we might expect colder weather and
wave is hatGhing in the northwest to descend
upon us. The telegraph lines were reported badly
crippled at midnight The constant strain of the
gale had weakened poles and insulatOrs and the
wires continually broke. Communication be
| tween New York and sandy Hook and with other
points along the Jersey coast were cut of.
The scenes OF yesterday were repeated to-day.
No serious accidents reported, but ehimneys,
down Ferry travel on the East and North Rivers
Is almost entirely suspended. The wind has
blown so much water out OF the bay that the
docks and ferry brldges are fifteen and twenty
feet above the water The ice is so packed by the
wind on the Brooklyn side of the East River that
number of boats are stuck fast and unable 20 get
out Of the pack. Niger Head, in He'll Gate, was
entirely exposed at low water this morning.
worse than yesterday. The thermometer has
fallen TO e above zero and the wind is blowing
gale at from hfty-one TO ffty-six miles an hour.
<flIf on nj has xod how al
before last, and that required the assistance of
w0 tugs The Day is deserted; no steamers have
arrived, although a number are reported OFF the
BOAST unable 20 MAKE New York harbor against
connection with the surrounding country is in
Even a worse condition than yesterday.
No wires are working 10 Boston or the East, and
Is with great difieulty that anything can be
e1yed from the South. There is absolutely
Communication with points in the interior Of this
STATE A number of houses have been unroofed
this city, but about the only people
injured have been unlucky pedestrians no
we're blown against buildings A large number of
Deh cases were reported the injured being
omen in most cases The chasing of hats has
|eeome useless, for when they leave the head they
% sailing over the hOuse-tops into the suburbs.
natless man shufning along before the gale Is
SHENANDOAH, Pa, Feb, 27.-Tbe wind storm
hieh passed over here yesterday was the severest
On stacks were blown down, which will throw
be eoliieTy Idle for several dsys. The loss is con-
|deFable
ALLENTOWN, Pa Feb. 27-Charles Mckinley
emma passenger train No. II, was instantly killed
st evening near TFeiehler's station. The storm
lew down tree. which fell On the cab, smashing
and crushing Mckinley.
HUNTINGTON, j.. l.. Feb. IA large quantity
uTeekage has been driven ashore along the
zach Nj Sinai.