Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-11-28
OUR LAST BLIZZARD.
1t Is Still Blowing Great Guns
Out at Sea.
0JEAN STEAMERS DELAYED.
Enormous Damage Done to Property,
Particularly to Telegraph Wires-A
Pressure of 35.2s Pounds per
Square Foot at Block Island.

NEW YORK, Nov 2S-The great storm is
still central Off this coast, and Weather Clerk
Dunn says it may be day before the last of
it disappears. Meanwhie it is blowing
steadily out to sea, retarding the progress of
incoming vessels and causing intense anxiety
to hundreds in this city who are awaiting the
arrival of friends on any one of half dozen
steamships now from one to three days over
due.
Sergt. Dunn has compiled an interesting
table showing the amount of pressure brought
to bear by the wind during the past few
days For instance, the average velocity
Monday was twenty-five miles an hour in
this city. This was force OF 3. l. pounds
per square foot against any surfaca.
At Block Island it blew eighty-four miles
an hour, bringing force of 35 2S pounds per
square foot anything opposed to it. No living
thing could go against such a wind and it
blew even harder out at sea, so that it is pos
sible that many steamers were blown back
put Of their course.
The greatest velocity of the wind in this
city was thirty EIGHT miles per hour, and
every man, woman and child who was out in
that wind had to make Roadway against
7,22 pounds of solid pressure to the square
foot.
NASoSA
regular employees, Tuesday Not an emil
grant had been landed there since Sunday,
aud the clerks had begun to fear that the
steamers would arrive all at once and keep
them from their Thanksgiving dinners. Su-
perintendent jackson says he does not re-
member such number of steamers to have
been overdue at once before.
Absolutely no news is to be had at the ship
news Office at the Battery. The telegraph
wires from Fire Island and Sandy Hook are
down, and the only source of information
left to those in charge of the ship news Office
are the captains of the ferryboats plying be-
tween the Battery and st. George, S. l.
Superintendent William c. Humstone, of
the Western Union telegraph wire system,
says:
"We are still taking messages, subject to
delay, north, east, south and west. How
soon we will have our wires repaired | can
not say. We have a big force of men at
work all over the eastern country, repairing
damages, and we are in a very fair condition
to do business now.
''The general damage will not be as heavy
as that caused by the blizzard, although our
damage in the Jersey meadows caused by the
present storm will be just as great"
The total damage caused by the great
storm cannot yet be computed. 1t was felt
all along the eastern coast and proved spe-
cially severe in this vicinity.
At the office of the Delaware and Raritan
Towing company the damage caused by
the wreck of the great tow Of coal barges on
Sunday morning is now placed at S42, 900.
Twenty barges and coal chunkers were
wrecked, but as far as known no lives were
lost.
In Jersey the storm ragged with peculiar
violence, and the Oldest residents declare that
they never experienced such a furious gale
at this season of tia year.
Houses were swept away and gutted in the
seaport towns and other severe damage done
Many of the streets in towns along the sea-
shore were completely submerged.
From Boston comes the report Of storm
and wreck inland and at sea. Twenty-four
sailors are known to have been drowned.
PLYMOUTH, Mass, Nov. 2S-The recent
storm made four huge breaches in the outer
beach, consisting of range OF low sand hills
2s miles long and from 100 yards to Il
of a mile wide, which stretches in front
of Plymouth harbor, forming barrier be-
tween the town and the seas Tons of the
sand with its tough mating of beach grass
roots have been swept away. The damage
to Plymouth's natural breakwater amounts
to thousands of dollars
Boston, Nov 28-Hundreds of people Wis
ite1 the Levere and Winthrop shores Monday
afternoon to view the magnificent spe.tacle
presented by the breaking billows. Each
successive tide increased the disaster to bulk
heads, breakwaters and undermined build
ings. Crest avenue at Ocean Spray has been
damaged by the recent gale to a greater ex-
tent than by any previous storm for many
years The bulkhead is shattered and many
cottages suffered. The bridge connecting
Ocean Spray and Winthrop Highlands has
been undermined and is closed to travel
HYANNIs, Mass, Nov. 2S.-The schooner
Susan P Thurlow, Capt Tabbutt, of New
York, from Philadelphia for Portland. Ne.
with $50 tons of soft coal, parted both chains
off Bass River at p. m on the 25th. and
went ashore ON Southwest Ground, off Hy-
annis, at 80 p. m, and bilged The vessel
and cargo win probably be saved.
Boston, Nov. 2S-In East Boston. owing
to the ineficiency of the sewers to carry of
the heavy rainfall, cellars were overfiowed
in all the low land sections, and scores of peo
pse occupying Easements found their house
hold goods afoat. In some cases Easements
were flooded to the height Of four feet. Parts
of the road bed of Bennington street and of
the streets ON the hill at Orient Heights.
" AA1Ath op . atASeAoAls Ns1c DatiAg Bu1lea-
At the Office Of the Philadelphia and Read
ing railroad in this city very little is known
Of thesreported loss Of the coIhpany's steamer
Allentown OF Cohassstty The manager Of
the company here, though without absolute
information that the steamer has been lost.
has telegraphed to headquarters in PhiladeI
phia that he fears the rumor Is founded on
fact, as unmistakable wreckage that could
have belonged only to the Allentown has
been washed ashore in large guam
titles The Allentown was a fine
iron ship Of 1850 tons burden. and carried
On this voyage her full capacity of coal. con-
signed tp Salem DTaszl parties. She sailed
rom PhiIAdsinhih Eos. e. AID Wss dsiz Z