New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-23
BLOWN DOWN BY THE STORM.
WIND WRECKS PART OF A BUILDING.
RAIN FALLS STEADILY AND THE TIDE RUNS
HIGH.

HIGH.
The storm Yesterday wrecked part of the unfinished
nat house No. 1873 NntaVc., belonging 10 "iIhaAi
EisenburC of 40. I,341 Nintlave and george Moi'
of No. a07 Lexingonave who also arc the Duiiuo''
Ecayer were kept at work on the walls Of the mousse
during the recent frosty weather, ana tnc hoi"',
froze before it had time 10 dry. The rain s01teheu
the frozen mortar Yesterday morning and the walls
were not strong enough to Withstand the pressure Vi
the wind at ! p. M Parts Of the SIDE walls III 'io
middle OF the house fell at that hour le1VlHs saP
twenty feet long and thirty feet nigh. Inc "aiis
had been built up four sOr<s and the break eAue"uu
to the first story. shower OF bricks leh IA '''V
wards of The houses Nos. 1855 Nintllave' anu w
West Eighty frst-st, owned by Mrs. Bcekman VINO
uves in the latter house Rear windows in both
houses were broken by stray bricks ana one orl'h
passed close 10 the head Of Mrs. F. Durahds paos
in her kitchen i'm the rear of No l3oo Nlh'h-aNo'
bodv WAS hurt however, and the damage to Mrs Beeh
mans houses did not exceed 500 III WIS '"'u 49,
uspecor sinclair Of the Buildings Bureau was az 'he
nat-bouse in the forenoon and served holIoc va o'
body TO brace up the walls, but the ponce sau
That no worlmen had been seen about the mousse III
dav Nolodv was I'm the house when the walls leii
and the police warned everybody away from II ao''
The remaining walls above the first story VIII H''o
to be torn down.
The Western Union Telegraph Company appears
lust now TO be sufferer from Ill fate' ~ "a'.
escaped being entirely crippled by the s'or" Va i'
saturday and in the earlier part of the week sae'
90 mon wore engaged in putting up temporary wires
all over the southern and Eastern Divisions, 10 DC useu
until tle regular connection could be pcrhd"e"u. ~
established. But the wind Yesterday swept away '
temporary wires if they had been 50 i"u'" pop
and many Of those which had survived Sr'WuS
storm and still stood, covered with sice' ieIi oo4
the onslaught of Yesterdays small gaze III wv"
ENGLAND the effects of the storm were DISASTROUS
os,acaIlv in the Hartford and NcwliaNen DINlsohS'
and about three fourts of the wires were repolcu "
be down As usual the sandy HOOK WIZ ""' w
of the first to give way, ana that Sta|oH ""' Wv
Off from the rest Of the world early III the aierooi'
In the South the damage was less severe ''ie WI
necon between Philadelphia and Baltimore being mos'
affected AL the telephone companies WHY'S WIZ
reported TO he in good working order
Tho auproach of the storm felt in TINS city All
r1,rourh Wednesday night. The rapid ana steady HS'
I'm the temperature and the gradually increasing "N
ness of the atmosphere made 1t evident tlaV We" '
would suffer on the morrow. Al l"'oiN"'e
-bt drops OF rain were felt but II was not u"'li '
hours after midnight that tie storm broke III Us 'i
fury Fer nearly ten hours the ram came u "
etcadv torrent against which even the stou'es' u"
,oI,,. and hest kind Of macintOshes were iedu'cu
f., iusjcui6cancc The southeast wlnd ui'"H my
the city by tie storm mild ana zephyrHHc ~ ~
character early in the morning. anu al g
reached no higher velocity than eighteen hi'o' an W
,rloo who we're ont in the streets between II d. III an"
~ m undoubtedly bore the brunt Of the storm
AMOR Al noon tho wind had attained twenty -elHn'
milo emit and then in the next hour it 50 rapidly III
creased in strength and force that when 'l'CN ""'
reachod il had ataner its maximum velocity oil lorN
two miles This rate OF speed was maintancl TOT i"
rinutes and at p. m. the turbulent NiS'''i '"
cuieted down TO TWENTY-FIVE miles an hour.
Meanwhile the temperature had gradually mouh'o"
from AZ degrees recorded at A. NJ 10 % "cNIocS'
which WAS reached at = p. m. When AT p H. 'D
raj, ceased If was found that exactly 12o inches ma
fallen in twelve hours.
This storm will remain in New'>ork through 10
night said Sergeant Jesunofsly' Dut ioi ~ ''o'
| expect clear and colder weather.
The high wind caused much inconvenience AL ai'"-
clio ,iver front and at daybreak, when the Tue We
m rs highest the water forced into the cellars o'
Tho bouses on the lower part Of Vests ana INC
troet itself was almost impossible, especially near
Washington Market The sea made clean sweep over
the wall al the Battery and carried away the hoohV
need bv rhe statue of Liberty boat The ferry boas h'
rouoh messages even across the rivers ana those gE
10 staten Island and Bay Ridge tossed about Ill "
manner much too lively for many Of the Piosenges'
some Of whom actually seiaCh' Wiz ni "Itoi.
landed looking pale and uncomioraoc' re" ''
came into port -, .,.,onoo ~ ,ho etorn Tho
AnGded and the Annexed District was plcture ~ w.,
heGone dcsolation. In places Madison, olNth anu
sovnnth AYES were impossible. tie sewers DcihS III
coanhIo of carving oil tho water