Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-19
A FIERCE GALE.

GUY yesterday uOIuluS. 1b OoSdA oaiAS in the forenoon and increased until towards noon it resembled young hurricane. The
 waters of the Sound became very turbulent and tossed the vessels about without any re- gard for their safety.
 The average rate of wind as recorded at the government office was twenty eight miles an hour, although there were some short pc | riods when it recorded at the rate of fifty
 miles, then dropping down to twelve. To- wards noon the rate of speed increased so
 that at 12 o'clock thirty miles an hour was the forenoon at 66.
 1 Soon after 12 o'clock the drizzling rain | which had been coming down all the fore
 noon developed into a deluge, two inches | falling between 12 and 1 o'clock.
 The flagstaff on the roof of the custom
 house was blown over, and several loose
 boards on the addition being built by F. M.
 Brown & Go. were taken up and thrown into | the street, but unfortunately no one was in | jured. The telegraph and telephone wires 1 about the city were demoralized. At the Telephone Exchange it was reported at one time that eighty-fve wires were in trouble. l Some of them were broken, but the great
 trouble was in their tapping each other. Men l were sent out soon as the storm subsided, | and the situation began to improve by half | past 3.
 At one time during the storm there was no | communication between Boston and New l York on the Western Union line
 The Baltimore 6 Ohio line was equally
 bad off in comparison with the number of l wires in the line.
 l ALONG THE WATER FRONT. The schooner Mary E. Decker, an oyster l boat plying between Fair Haven and West | Virginia, parted her anchor chains in the harbor, where she was anchored Wednesday
 night, and drifted up to Long Wharf early I in the morning. Just before she got to the 1 wharf the captain let go her other anchor and | stopped further drifting.
 ! Three barges tied up at Belle dock, where 1 the storm had full sweep at them, were in
 danger of sinking at a. m. yesterday. They ! were loaded with coal. Captain Evarts' tug Boyd lowed them into 8 neighboring slip. There were eighteen inches of water in one of l them.
 The Continental, the Old Line boat, came | in on time yesterday morning. She remained
 tied up until 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and | then began her return trip two hours and half behind time.
 Two small schooners. the names of which | could not be learned, are high up on the neck of the jetty in the harbor. There is no
 particular danger that they will be further damaged.
 1 Two barges of the MacWilIiams line be-
 came separated from their tug and were cast | ashore in the little creek between Cox's Surf l house, the other side of Savin Rock and the l Waverly Grove House. The two men | aboard had 8 very narrow escape from ! death.
 l The wind caused considerable excitement | up at the Winchester Arms company, where ! the entire roof of the building set apart for
 annealing purposes was blown of. It will ! take about $500 to repair the damage. No | one was injured, but many of the employees ! were badly scared.
 | Shingles and slates were yanked off the
 roofs of many buildings along the water | front and were sent whizzing along the road ways to the imminent danger of pedestrians, | and several very narrow escapes were re- ported.
 The high wind broke and threw to the | sidewalks in many streets of the city consider able dead wood from the older trees | The roof of ex-Town Clerk Frederick Bots- | fords house on Pearl street received very | severe wrenching. The gale raised the roof about foot. A cornice was blown of a block on Pearl street. Many other houses about town were badly wrenched and consid- erable plaster shaken down. Many lights of glass were broken in different buildings. The lumber yards suffered considerably. Piles of lumber were blown down and heavy piles of lumber were blown about as though l they were only toothpicks. The signal station here received dispatch at 9 o'clock yesterday morning ordering the l cold wave signal up and stating that the tenn perature would fall thirty degrees in twenty hours. The observations taken in reference to the storm show that the wind blew from the south the greater part of the time and southwest the remainder. The storm travel ed all the way from Iowa in twenty-fou hours and was general in the entire country. At II :55 the wind attained it's greatest veloc- Q v-tv w
 miles an hour. During the greater part of the storm the winds rushing was at the rate of twenty-eight miles an hour. One of the most extensive oyster dealers of this State said yesterday that the great blow had undoubtedly done great deal of damage to the oyster beds in this section. The steamer John H. Starin was delayed until 2:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon on ac- count of the storm.
 People stopped on Chapel street at noon to watch the swaying of the new tall telephone poles on the street. They swayed as if un- certain whether to stand up or give way. IN FAIR HAVEN.
 In Fair Haven the storm did not do any particularly serious damage except that it
 scared the majority of the population to a
 degree. A great many limbs were blown from trees, but as the most of them were de- cayed limbs the damage was trifling.
 Shingles were blown from roofs
 rumors last night that several
 chimneys had blown down. A large number of cellars were flooded and many east side people had need of boat to get about hand fly. A rowboat was said to have capsized up the river, but the occupants got safely ashore. The streets on the east side are
 pretty we'll eaten out by the torrents which
 ploughed through them, and take it
 all together the storm had a good many
 chances to do srious damage but as far as
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 been done.
 IN WEST HAVEN.
 Superintendent W. W. Ward said yester-
 terday afternoon it was fortunate the tide
 was not high when the gale was in it's fury,
 as in that case there would have been inevi-
 tably heavy damage along West Haven shore and at Savin Rock. As it was the damage done was slight.
 IN NASHVILLE AND VICINITY.
 The storm was the heaviest known here for years The band stand in Hamilton Park
 was demolished, and many washouts along
 the streets are noticeable. Branches from
 the trees line the walks.
 NORTH HAVEN, Nov. 19.-Not much dam
 age was caused here by the storm with the ex- ception that several trees were blown down and of washouts in roadways. The rain fall was exceedingly heavy, and did considerable damage to unprotected cellars, which were badly flooded. Several buildings were some what Wrenched by the force of the wind STONY CREEK, Nov. 1S.-The shore in front of the Island View Hotel and along the shores of the Thimble Islands is strewn with pieces of lumber and debris. But little dam age was done on shore. A few trees were
 blown down, and shingles and lights of glass blown from buildings about town. BRANFoRD; Nov. 1S.-Many buildings were lightly damaged about town by the storm. Trees were uprooted and broken of, and numerous washouts are found. THE WIND BLOWS AWAY $50 IN BILLS. The wind snatched portmonnaie from womans hands at Simonsville, Waterbury, yesterday morning and blew the contents, $50 in bills, all over that territory. Neigh bors rallied and secured $26 of the money in the heavy rain.
 FROM BRIDGEPoRT-Two CANAL BOATS LOST. BRIDGEPORT, Nov. 18.-On the Sound the steamer Skidmore, hence from New Haven, | with three light canal boats lost two of them and did not discover their loss till reaching