New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-08
RAIN WIND, HAIL AND SNOW
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yor,oIk. Va. April THE storm OF thunder,
e =. .h.n;no and hail which broke over this city
s.,.,dav morning changed at o'clock last night
s..aa cvclone. the wind blowing ut the rate OF
A,t,four miles an hour until O'CLOCK this morn
,ro The wind came from the northeast ana blew
srto ,he harbor and its tributaries. A tide which
,,as AZ high water this morning at ;86 o'clock,
ros eighteen inches higher than ever recorded
before.
me lower mart of the city was flooded, and fire
-. oUt an Water.st. caused from shaking hme
an the wharf of John o. Gamage q Son The
- hlo,h with the exception OF the store Of
Ca,-aas Son g. Co.. commission merchants, was
a. asmes The old Cotton Exchange Building,
.optaining about 500 bales Of cotton, and the
warehouse of J. W. Perry & Co., containing about
500 bales of cotton were totally destroyed San
tos d Brother, coal dealers, lost everything ex-
cent their Office building. Batchelder d Collins,
coal, lumber and lime, met with damages to the
amount OF $4,000. John A. Gamage's loss in.
1uding the loss on the building, is $4,000. The
loss on building and stock destroyed in this block
is estimated at $4,000, partly insured.
It is probable that the losses sustained by the
wholesale grocery merchants from the water forced
into their warehouses by the unprecedented tide
win nearly equal this amount. Hundreds of bar
rels of sugar and -four and other goods are ruined.
During the storm the roofs of the Opera House,
Masonic Temple and many dwellings were torn
Of, and the Virginia Beach Railroad station is
badly damaged and the track for hundreds of
yards is seriously torn up.
In Portsmouth fire destroyed the lime and lum-
Der yard of Trugie & Hill The United States
ship Pensacola sank in dry dock last night,
- nosn fn, uapc
valves had been opened for inspection and an
other one was being cut. The tide flooded the
dock and she filed with water. and getting off
her keel sank before she could be got in posi-
ton again. A diver will have to be sent down
and her valves stopped up and the ship pumped
out The Simpson Dry Dock was flooded and
the damage may reach $4,000.
> The Pensacola returned home last year from
the European Station where she served as the
flagship of the squadron She is an unarmored
wooden screw steamer Of the second rate. She is
230.s feet between perpendiculars, and has 44.6
feet breadth of beam Her displacement is 5000
tons, and her maximum draft 20 feet Herengines
are Of the simple, back-acting type, and her maxi
mum speed is 1913 knots an hour Her sails are
ship-rigged She was launched in 1858, and
carries two IL inch guns, eighteen 9-ineh smooth
bores and two 60-pound rifles. The Pensacola
served in the bloclxadng squadrons during the war,
and has since been the flagship on several stations
The wires along the coast are all down.
No reports can be had from the shipping
1t is feared that serious damage has been
done, ~ there was no warning of tbe. storm given.
Richmond, Va, April z tSpeciaD.-The storm
Of rain, wind, hail and snow that prevailed
throughout the State yesterday abated about
10 o. m yesterday, but the wind verges upon a
cyclone to-day in this city. The wires have
been greatly damaged, and little news can be
secured as to the injury done in the interior
On the York River Division of the Richmond
and DanvilIe road a freight train dashed into a
large washout in the track and killed fireman
and brakeman and badly scalded the engineer
James Lynch. and damaged the locomotive con-
siderably.
A train on the Eastern Division Of the Chesa-
~eaks and Ohio road ran into fallen trees, but no
one was killed. The locomotive was damaged
Almost every train due here the last Vwe'l'y-
four hours has been greatly delayed.
PHILADELPHIA, April 7.-The barge Sunrise
hound from Norfolk for New-York with coal,
WIS towed to the buoy of the Brown, in Delaware
Raw and was anchored by the tug b. w. Morse
for q barbor yesterday afternoon during heavy
,ale At midnight it foundered and sunk Inc
csntain. his wife and two children and one sea-
man were lost Joseph Coyle the remaining
s.aman. was holding the barge's sfnh alongside
1or his eompanions to escape, when the palnter
partsd and he was unable to reach the barge
again He drifted down with the tide ana the
uale drove his boat ashore near the iron per aU
Delaware Breakwater, where he was Picheu up
bv the Lewes Life Station patrol
baltimore, April (SpeciaD Reports from poIn1s
along Chesapeake Bay show that yeste rdays storm
was the severest Of the winter. Several sinah
crafts were seen floating bottom-upward to-oay'
and it Ia likely that the occupants OF the poatS
were drowned. Bay steamers were unable 70 pro-
ceed because Of the furious gale, which during
Yesterday afternoon and night reached velocity
Of fifty miles an hour Hotels and other buildings
at some of the baysde resorts were unroofed and
badly damaged. The telegraph wires being down
in many places, the details Of the damage cannot
he learned. Thunder and lightning accompanied
the storm in Frederick County, this State and the
strange phenomena caused many to imagine that
the world was coming TO an end The supersti-
tious fears aroused by the earthquake shocks in
that section two weeks ago were increased by
Yesterdays peculiar storm and many of the fright
,ned colored people prostrated themselves and
praved while the wind nearly demolished their
homes. At Adamstown, Frederick County, light
ming struck the belfry of St. Luke's Episcopal
Church, destroying the tower and doing other
damage.
Petersburg Va, April tspeciaD.-The wind
storm which set in here yesterday continued with
out intermission until this morning The wind
biw o perfect gale, and window glasses were
bro,cen and houses badly shaken in different parts
Of the city. Trees were literally taken up BY the
roots and blown across the streets and fences were
kveIled 70 the ground. Snow fen rapidly until
about midnight, followed by rain.
The sncwstorm was the worst expe renced here
this winter. The heavy rains in the upper and
lower counties have caused freshet in all the
streams, and considerable damage has been done
by the washing Of the bridges and dooding OF the
Jowlands number Of washouts are reported
and other damage not yet heard OF has doubtless