Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-13

Reports of the 10th inst, from all
over the country show that the gale
which began on the previous day was
the most severe ever known, and
reached from the Atlantic to the Pa
citic, visiting even the winter resort
states of the South, as we'll as the
more Northern districts. The most
damage was caused along the Atlantic
coast, where the fierce gale and driving
snow made sad havoc among the ship
ping. In New York city the snow was
drifted in the streets to SUCH an ex-
tent that street railway traffic had to
be suspended on some lines. The
velocity of the wind was the highest
on record, and earl y on the morning
of the 9th the instrument used for
marking it was blown to pieces by the
gale The shores in the neigh borhood
are covered with wreckage, the result
of the high wind. In New England the
ricane, accompanied by binding snow,
which was piled up in all directions.
The damage to shipping was
the most serious in years. The
thermometer registered fifteen de-
grees below zero at Boston. The
schooner Juliet, of Ellsworth, Me-,
was running into Boston harbor when
the gale struck her. The snow-storm
that followed completely shut out all
signs of the land, and, Judging the
schooner to be close in, her captain
let 60 his anchors. The terrible sea
and the tremendous wind blowing
caused the vessel to strain and plunge,
and finally snapped the chains, and in
a moment later the schooner was
driven on the rocks. In attempting
to land, the captain, mate and cook
were drowned. One man was rescued,
but in such an exhausted condition
that his recovery seems doubtful. The
three-masted schooner, Joel Cook,
loaded with coal, went ashore at
Scituate, Mass but her crew were res
cued by the aid of the breeches buoy.
The tug Confidence, with lighter in
tow, on which were forty men, left
Boston on the evening of the
9Th, and is supposed to be
lost with all on board. Ali wires were
down along the coast OF Cape Cod, and
no reports were received from that
district. Many vessels in harbors
along the coast of Massachusetts and
Maine parted their cables and were
beached. In Maine, New Hampshire
ard Vermont the storm has been
equally severe. The snow is five feet
deep in some places. Great complaint
from the logging woods of Maine is
voiced by q dispatch from Bangor.
Six schooners were sunk during the
storm in the harbar o. Eastport, Me-,
and it is thought many unreported
wrecks occurred along the coast.
The storm was prevalent all over
the Middle and Western States. the
mercury ranging from eight to thirty
five degrees below. A dispatch from
Galesburg, ILL.,, says a train drawn by
two engines on the narrow gauge was
stuck in a drift near that place, and a
relief engine was also blocked in. The
train had eight cattle-cars, and it is
thought many Of the animals were
frozen. In Iowa the railroad blockade
was the worst in twelve years. At
Creston a teamster named Henry Toi
was frozen SO badly that he died a
short time after being found. In Wis
consin serious blockades are reported
in all directions.
Reports from all parts of the South
are of the same general tenor. The
weather was intensely cold every where,
and snow has fallen in many places.
At Savannah, Ca, it showed on the
9th, for the first time in six years. A
blizzard struck Harrisonburg, Va,
and left ten inches of snow The mer-
curry fell to 10 degrees above zero. No
such weather has been experienced
there since 1880. All trains from the
North were six to eight hours late. If
the cold weather continues stock will
suffer greatly owing to a scarcity of
food. Similar reports come from Nor
folk, Va, Washington, D. c., and
many points in Texas, Alabama,
North Carolina, Florida and the other
Southern states. Fears are freely ex-
pressed for the fate of the orange crop
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