New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-25

NARROW ESCAPES REPORTED-NEARLY FoUA
INCHES OF RAINFALL IN TWELVE HoURs-THD
PARKS SUFFER FROM THE FIERCE GALE
BIRDS KILLED BY THE HUNDRED-A
CHIMNEY CRASHES THROUGH A TENE
MEyTHoUsE ROOF MAILS DELAYED
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS IN.
rERRUPTED-wINDows BLOWN IN
The whirlwind was reaped yesterday by reaper
whose name was Death. The summer wind, which
at this season Of the year usually lisps nom
sense among the trees and along the beaches, bc-
came demon of destruction. 1t crushed out
human lives sent vessels TO the bottom, unroofed
dwellings uprootcd trees, destroyed railroad tracks
and cast down electric wires. IL came in thunder,
lightning and in rain. II swept over the city early
Yesterday morning at the rate Of nearly forty
miles an hour, and is now blazing path OF
destruction along the shores Of New-England. IL
came not like a thief in the night.
The storm was heralded hours in advance, and
its coming was announced by skirmishing rain
drops Warning signals were displayed on Wedncs'
day morning, and the landsmen and mariners knew
OF the approach of the tempest. At p m. on
Wednesday the first drops OF rain began to fill
and then came the rushing of mighty winds. The
velocity Of the air currents increased the night
wore on The wind became a gale, the gale
a storm and the storm tornado. At a. IN.
yesterday the winds descended upon these coasts
like West India hurricane. The rain fell In
torrents. The wind blew the hurrying raindrops
into sheets, or sent them whrling in sprals
through the air. The water flooded the cutters,
roared through bursting sewers and poured In
a. nsI-x. oh md aak
THE STORM AT ITS HEIGHT.
Like an Attila the storm king rode rough shod
through the town. He uprooted trees, pried
roofs from the houses, cast chimneys into the
street, and caused the earth to crumble. The
winds fell tooth and nail upon the waters OF tho
bay and harbor The waves rolled high and the
white caps covered the sea as though myriad OF
water sprites had crawled from the beds below
to peer into the blacl<ness. Out beyond Sandy
Hook the ocean rose in mountains Of green water,
buffeted the iron sides of big liners, sent great
ships reeling before the Storm sank schooners and
fishing smacks and beached small craft by the
hundred.
The fall Of rain exceeds all records for con-
tinuous downpour Of twelve hours From p. n.
on Wednesday, until a. m. yesterday 3.sl inches
Of water were precipitated. The best previous
record was 6.17 inches Of rain on Sept. ~,
1882, when the suiceways of the skies were open
tr twenty-four hours. This bombardment Of the
heavens, this wanton charge of the squadrons Of
the storm was picturesque to look upon. h
hardly seemed that this tourney Of the elements
eould carry with it SO much of woe and d
struction
Twenty-Five lives are known TO have been
lost upon the sea yesterday. line OF crpph0
craft limped into port and told about it, Racked l.
in every timber, disrnasted by the cyclone and
eakng through many seam, they came hero
for shelter They left their dead AZ
oa. The fishing schooner Chocorus crept into
,er berth down at Fulton Market last evening.
She met the hurricane of Barnegat at 10 p. N.
IN Wednesday. Her poles were barred, and sae
went scudding along. lashcd by waves and driven
bv the wind. All hands were called on deck.
The seas swept over her in a tremendous surge
md the men stood knee deep in the rushing watef'
SWEPT From THE SCHOONER.
TIL. main boom snapped like a rotten twig ana
broke adrift Skipper John r. Perry First Mate
Joseph Francis and Joseph Silva, seaman, trieo
% secure the boom. 1t was then a. m Inc
skinner turned to his men and shouted some uh-
n,elleible command He was never se"n a9aiil.
lhe nav of the sea devoured skipper and mat.
The great wave which swept the decks also bot
Joseph Silva from his feet, but he became en-
tangled in some rigging and was saved his
shoulder was spraned and his back was badly
bruised Seaman Kelly took command OF the
schooner, and ordered the men to rig the pumps.
The valves did not work fast enough. The water
flooded hold and cabin. A hole was cut in the
forccastle, and buckets were let down. AZ
q. m. the weather became more moderate. The
yplintcred boom was cast adrift. sail was made
and the schooner reached Barnegat at a. m
YESTERDAY She were her ensign as . badge OF
when battered and bruised she rested
last evening at her pier near Fulton Market. Inc
crones Of the dead skipper gather about. ano'
heard the story Of how Captain Pc died.
lie was good man. they sal. Then they
went away Captain Perry lived in New-london'
Conn., in Main-st lie was unmarried The
nate of the Chocorua was his brother-in-law'
The fishing schooner Empire State with her
crew of ten men was lost. The schooner a. \.
Rowe yesterday morning sighted the topmast o.
the sunken vessel off Manasquan Beaci. "'s"'
.u,noscd 10 he one of the crew OF the Emp're
S,,,c uos s;ynted floating on piece Of hatch oy
the fishing schooner John Feeney Yesterday 'norn-
inc Tho sca was 80 hich that the rev OF tho
schooner were unable 70 go TO his '' i"ey
tossed a halt trb to him which he aole 70
roach IT,. skipper OF the Empire STATE was
,o,, t,rn,sb Most Of the men werr Portuguese.
,V"m ,nno ,hnm were three brothers by the name cf
,,.o 1,,e crew werc from Provincctowns
Mass o,; sohooro.s ,vh,,h -.
-, down near Fulton Market. There Is
ra,ab;ne Water her joy turned tn sorrow
h~, masts gone: the John Feeney, battered
'..a torn. Chocorua, with her ensign at half
.as, the A. A. Rowe. with sides chafed and
,;aGan,sl and the W. w Story. stripped Of
go and stove in amidships. The John Feercy
,ras anchored OF Manasquan Beach when the
blew her sails TO ribbons, and almost
sent her upon the beach. The A. A. Rowe lost
one anchor and her sails were split. When
entering her slip yesterday she added
to her stock of calamity by running
her bowsprit into the ship Charmer.
The W. W. Story dragged her anchors