Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-16
A LITTLE BLIZZARD.
New York and Vicinity Swept
by a Heavy Snow Storm.
It's Effects Felt ALI Along the
Atlantic Coast.

struck New York and vicinity the other
morning more closely resembled the great
blizzard OF 1855 than any weather disturb
ance that has happened in that locality since
that memorable occasion. In less degree
there were the same Observation-Disclosures
Gus winds bearing downfall of fine, cutting
snow, low temperature and general dis
comfort to man and beast, whether indoors
or out
The wind seemed to have no particular di-
rection after it had struck the streets While
it was generally from the northeast, there
were many localities in the city where it was
exceedingly difficult to tell from what quar-
ter the wind came or whittier it blew. There
was succession of eddies and whirlwinds
that caught the unsuspecting traveller
from every quarter and played havoc
with his habiliments At one
moment the wind seemed to come from the
north. at the next it blew furiously from the
east, and then, striking the buildings on
either side of the street, it whirled and
swirled until no one could tell what it was
trying to do in its seeming ly mad attempt to
tear up the streets generally. All the while
it was showing heavily.
Toward evening the snow changed into
rain for short time, and then changed again
into sleet. This was probably the most dis
agreeable part of the whole day, for the icy
particles came down with such force and
were beaten with such strength by the wind
into the faces of travellers that it required
a pretty tough cuticle to Withstand the on
slaught.
The effect of the storm on trade generally
was severe The shops did little or nothing
the women for the most part being kept in
doors The result was that the big dry goods
establishments, toy shops, and other places
where such crowds have been seen all through
the holiday season, were practically de-
serted.
Down around the river front locomotion
was greatly impeded. The heavy trucking
that is done in this neigborhood was blocked
and retarded, and so were the street cars,
which circle the lower part of the city
Shipping was jeopardized, for the storm
blew severely off shore, and the ships that
could withstand it had to be stanch and
strong.
The storm originated in the South, and on
its way north centred at Norfolk, Va, early
in the morning, while later in the day it was
central in New Y ork. Toward o'clock at
night it began to move slowly in north
easterly direction, and late reports from the
Signal Service Office said that it was showing
hard all along the New England coast The
Signal Service Officer looked for the storm
to spend its force in the Gulf of Newfound-
land as it was accompanied by high north
east wind.
High winds prevailed from Norfolk to Bos-
ton. The greatest velocity obtained at Block
Island, where the rate was forty-four miles
thirty-four miles an hour, decreasing grad
ually until 10 o'clock at night the wind had
fallen to twenty-four miles an hour. South of
Norfolk and extending all along the coast and
almost throughout the South the storm was
accompanied by heavy fall of rain. Two
and a half inches Of snow were reported
from Norfolk, one inch from Lynch
burg, one and quarter from Atlanta, and
one and half inches from Mobile. The
rain area extended over the entire South
east and included the southeastern por-
ton of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida. The snowfall was general in all the
States north of the thirty-seventh parallel
of latitude and east of the Mississippi River
The heaviest fall of snow was throughout
Virginia, Ohio and New YORK.
The area Of the greatest cold was in Can
ada, that is, the centre of cold was there.
The lowest temperature reported from any
point in Canada was "a degrees below zero
at Rockliff. At Montreal it was - degrees
below zero, and at Perry Sound it was zero.
At PASSPORT, Me-, the mercury stood de-
grees below zero. At Portland, Me, it was
2 degrees above; at Boston. IA; at
Philadelphia, 20; at Washington, %;
at Cincinnati, "A: at Chicago. %;
at ST. Louis, &c; at Mobile, 40 At Lyndon
vile, Vt, the mercury was lower than it was
anywhere else in the United States the
thermometer showing a record of 80 degrees
below zero at : A. NJ The highest registry
of the mercury was "a degrees at Key West,
Fla. The greatest velocity of wind in the
United States was at st. Vincent, Mimi,
where the rate was fifty-four miles an hour.
At Bismarck, n. D., the rate forty
eight miles an hour, while at Fort BufOrd, IN
the same State it reached thirty-six miles
an hour. At Fort Sully and Rapid City, s..
D., the rate was twenty-four miles an hour.
This was less than the rate at Sandy HOOK,
n. j. which at eight o'clOcl- in the morning
was thirty-siX miles an hour.
Considerable damage to shipping was done
by the storm as 1t swept along the Atlantic
coast. Near Deal Beach, n. J :. the three
masted schooner Yale from Boston, bound
for Baltimore, was wrecked, but her crew OF
eight men were saved with the aid Of life
line by the men Of the Life-Saving Station.
The three-nasted schooner Bill Stowe
came ashore near Narragansett Pier, 4. l..
The vessel struck 1000 feet off shore and
pounded in $50 feet. The pier Iife-savfng
crew shot a line over her, and with the aid
of residents, including Ex-Governor Sprague
rescued the crew of six men in the breeches
buoy.
these were no sooner landed than news OF
another schooner in distress was received,
and the crew loaded their apparatus and
plunged through drifted snow three miles to
Black Point. There the three-masted scnoon-
err A. II. Hurlburt. of Gloucester, Captain
VIM. Thurston, with 400 tons of ice for New
York was in peril. Within twenty minutes
every mast had fallen, and Captain Thurs.
ton Steward Hammond and Seaman Law,
renee were knocked overheard by falling
spars and drowned. Mate John Rooney
jumped overheard and was hauled out, and
by the life savers. Both vessels were
| wrecked.
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