St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-27
90 Cavorting Through the Atlantic States
so Rapidly as Ito Surprise
the Natives.
House Roofs, Church Spires and Telegraph
Poles and Wires BOwled Down by
Boreas' Breath.
AJadv Blown From a Train Between
Erie and Dunkfrk and Seri-
ousIy Injured.
Wind Reaches a Velocity of Eighty
-Four Miles an Hour in
Gotham Town.
Terrific Winds.

CIlTV mas ldllcii over " htBIbcS III Tic past
few hours. and the streets that were del
uged with rain yesterday are covered with
Ice to-day. The wind is blowing a gale,
and it is with the greatest difficulty that
telegraphic communication can be main
tanned with either the East, West or South.
The sea in the bay is unusually high, and
it is feared that the gale will prove almost
as disastrous to shipping as the great storm
of Jan. 9 last. The wind is blowing nifty
three miles per hour. The storm in point
of velocity of the wind is the seyerest in
fifteen years. Fences, signs awnings are
being blown down everywhere Travel on
the elevated roads is greatly delayed.
The terrific gale has rendered the streets
deserted ton ght. The street car lines carry
all persons obliged to be out, it being al
most impossible for other than vigorous
people to breast the gale at all. All OF the
ferry boats are running but much delay is
occasioned by the boats being drifted past
their slips. Trains are reported late owing
TO head winds. No abatement in the
fierceness of the winds was noticeable at
midnight, and reports were being received
from many quarters of the city of more or
less serious damage to buildings, including
the tOpplmg over Of chiInneys.
etc. A number Of women were
injured by being blown down
the streets, or against obstacles, and one or
two persons were hurt by flying missiles,
The signal service observer here said to-
night that a Texas storm and Montana
storm had colided just west Of the city,
and had bulged eastward. The storm
center was 50 near this city that the full
effect was felt here. The wind was steady
from the northeast at an average velocity
of fifty miles per hour. The maximum
velocity was at IL a. III. to-day, when 1t
was eighty-fOur miles per hour, the highest
speed since the New Y Ork station was estab-
Iished, the highest previously being seventy
two miles per hour, in 1876. At midnight
the thermometer marked 121I >. The gale
is passing easterlY along the coast but as it
is blowing of coast. about the only trouble
TO shipping viii be their being blown out to
sea. Only one sailing vessel reached this
port to-day and she was towed in. She
and the tug were smothered in ice. Reports
from adjacent points and points up the
Hudson river are to the effect that much
damage has been done to property. Tele-
graph wires have been greatly tangled and
communication with the outside world has
been almost at a standstill.
A sNARL OF WIRES.
Boston, Feb. 2G.-At 9 o'clock this
morning a huge telegraph pole at the cor
ner of Maryland and Alabama streets was
broken short off by the high winds. Other
poles on either side were broken or pulled
down in quick succession. and several streets
were soon bIockaded with fallen poles and
an inextricable sna1 of wires. Many
horses were entangled, and a panic was
narrowly avegted. The streets were at
once roped of. and large gangs of men were
set at work to clear the wreck. For the
time being freight delivered at the Albany
depot had to be dragged by hand around a
block. No injury 10 life or limb has so far
been reported, but there have been narrow
escapes. A furious blizzard prevailed dur
ing the night in this vicinity, and for long
distance down the eastern coast AT Port
land twenty inches of snow has fallen, and
it is still showing. Business is at a stand
still. The Grand Trunk railway is blocked
at Bethel, and between there and South
Paris is in bad condition. At ST. John. n.
b.. the snow is the heaviest of the season,
and the wind is blowing sixty miles an hour.
At Westtield the Spire of a church was
turned completely over and thrust through
the roof of the building into the audience
from.
SEVEREST OF THE WINTER.
The storm which prevailed throughout
New England to-day is reported as the Sc
verest of the winter. In some sections of
New Hampshire and Vermont fifteen to
twenty-four inches of snow have fallen, ac-
companied by a furious wind, which at
tanned a velocity of fifty to siXty-five miles
per hour. The roads in many places are
blocked, telegraph and telegraph wires are
prOstrated and railroad travel is impeded.
Considerable damage has been reported. but
none serious except to the wires. The
mercury fell during the day and tonight
is reported Sc TO 100 below zero. Mt.
Washington reports terrific winds to-day.
reaching velocity of 40 miles an hour,
with the mercury 25o below at 4:30 p. m.
The barometer fell to 1885, the lowest
record since the signal station was estab-
lished there. A snow storm prevailed until
Il o'clock a. m. Since then the weather
has been foggy.
BLOWN FROM A TRAIN.
BUFFALO, Feb. 26.-One of the heav-
lest gales of the season set in last night
and continued this morning. The wind has
reached a velocity of tifty-seven miles an
hour. At 10 o'clock it moderated to forty
an hour. The temperature is four above.
About 9 last night, while the wind was
blowing strong gale, lady, said to be
the sister of the late eX-GoY. Seymour, was
blown from a Lake shore train between
Erie and Dunkirk. She attempted 10 pass
from the dining car to the sleeper with her
husband. and had no sooner stepped upon
the platform than she was carried swiftly
Oft the train. The train was backed nearly
mile before they found the lady, who had
escaped death but received a deep cash over
her left temple.
UTICA, n. Y, Feb. 26.-Hon. Horatio
Seymour, Jr., says that no sister or relative
OF his was on the Lake Shore road, as re-
ported in the account Of a lady having been
blown from train near Dunkirk
WOKE UP THE QUAKERS.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26.-The wind
has played havoc with hOusetops all over
the city to-day. Shingles were blown in
the air and tin roofs We're torn from their
fastenings and hurled to the ground. A
three-story house opposite the public build
ings was unroofed and the mass of tin was
suspended above in the rear. The spire of
the Arch street Methodist church swayed
omnously this morning, and those who
passed that way gave the building wide
berth. but it still remains in position. The
velocity of the wind to-day reached forty
five miles an hour.
CAvoRTING CHIMNEYs.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb. ga wind
storm of a most disastrous character has
prevailed in this neighbOrhood for the past
twenty-four hours and still continues.
Houses have been unroofed and chimneyS
blown down. This afternoon two of the
large staDdpipes of the Lachiel Iron works
were toppled. one of which crashed into the
works. Fortunately no person was injured.
The damage throughout the country will be
considerable.
HOUSES UNRooFED.
BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 26.-After a
fearful rain storm last night Baltimore and
vicinity was visited by a hurricane more
severe than for several years. In the west