The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-28
NEW YORK'S HURRICANE.
ANUMBER OF MINOR ACCIDENTS,
But NO
Serious Casualties Reported-The
Gale on the Atlantic Clast-
SnOW-Starm'.

SnOW-St0rm'.
NEW YORK, February p. Folks VIII,
happened TO meet the wind Yesterday
when it was humping itself for tn,
eighty-four mile mark, felt MS il the,
had run up against brick wall
| Eighty-tour miles is hurricane speed
and means a pressure of APO pounds
! 10 a man and more 10 a woman, who
carries so much more sail for the hur
ricane to work on. II swept along anC
across the streets and avenues in fierce
gusts, hurting showers of dust and
gravel i'm the faces of pedestrians
1t whisked hats off heads and hurled
them under the wheels of vehicles "a
be crushed or cut 10 pieces. 1t pro-
PEELED east-bOund cross-town cars with
such swiftness thatSdrivers could stop
them only by a visoIOus application
of the brake; IL pinned the drivers OF
west-bound cars against the doors; il
smashedl glass in car windows, UNI
hinged signs sand shutters, and snapped
off poles. Ferry boats were driven
out of their courses, and the light
spars of vessels In the harbOr were
broken. UnretaFded across the desert
of City Hall Park, the gale madly
cavorted and made existence very
lively for the people who passed the
corner of Park Row and Frankfort
street. So fierce was the gale there
that pedestrians had TO walk at an
angle of forty-fye degrees to keep
from being blown down. A woman
was slammed against telegraph pole
in front of French's Hotel, and chung
to it until a policeman rescued her.
So immense a quantity of water was
blown out of the harbor, that at high
tide the rivers had disappearance they
have when
THE TIDE Is USUsALLY Low.
At low water, 3:30o'clock last evening,
the surface of the rivers was ten, fiji
teen and twenty feet from the top of
the piers, and thebfidges at the ferries
ran down at an angle of nearly forty
five degrees. A crowd of passengers
in an Eighth avenue street-car were
surprised when they saw the roof OF
the car suddenly lifted off and sailing
over into Central Park with the bell
punch attachment trailing behind.
Telegraph, telephone and electric
wires were blown down in all parts of
the city. Messages were received by
all telegraph companies in the city
subject to two or three, and many
places, four hours delay. Repairing
the wires was rendered impossible, as
the linemen were unable 20 stand
upon the cross-arms ofthe poles. Adj
venturous people who crossed the
Brooklyn bridge on foot, wished they
had not when they got about half way
over They were seen by policemen
clinging desperately to the ironwork
to keep themselves from inyohntarily
following 0dlum. The bridge was
transformed into huge Eolim harp,
whose Numbered music could be
heard on the ferry-boats that strug
gled below between shores
MINOR ACCIDENTS.
The scenes of yesterday were repeated
to-day. No seri,ias accidents are re-
ported, but chimneys, awnings, signs
and trees continue TO be blown 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
bridges 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 a number of boats
are stuck fast and unable to get ont of
the pack. Niger Head. in Hell Gate,
was entirely exposed at low water this
morning.
STILL BLOWING A GALE.
10 O'Clock AM So far as comfort is
concerned, to-day it is far worse than
yesterday. The thermometer has fall
en- to 70 above zero and the wind is
still blowing gale ut from liity-one to
fifty-siX miles an hour. But one sail
ing vessel has arrived here since night
before last, and that required the as
of two tugs The bay is de-
serted. No steamers have arrived,
a number are reported off
the coast, unable TO make New York
harbor against the terrific gale which
is blowing. Telegraphic connection
with the surrounding country is in
even worse condition than Yesterday.
No wires are working to Boston or the
East, and it is with great difficulty that
can be received from the
south. There is absolutely no com
with points in the interior
If this State. A number of houses
lave been unroofed in this city and |
Brooklyn, but about the only people
INJURED have been unlucky pedestrians
who were blown against buildings. A
arge number OF such cases were re-
ported, the injured being women in
most cases. The chasing of hats has
become useless, as when they leave
he head they go sailing over the
lousetops into the suburbs. A hat
ess man scuhing along before the gale
5 not an uncommon sight.
THE GALE sUBsIDING.
New York. February oS 40 n m -