The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-05
BAD WEATHER EAST.

BAD WEATHER EAST.
Rivers Swollen by Heavy Rainfalis-Two
Vessels Sunk in n Gale
NEW YORK, May 4-This city was visit
cd by heavy transform last night. and
this morning 1t passed off east at forty
eight-mile gait. bat reports from surround
ing sections Of the country indicate that
1t has left IN IN pheasant mark. 1t started
in Texas and moved northeastward, IN
creasing in it's. fury as it came along. Its
route was along the coast. and it was at
tended by heavy rainfalls. breaking the
drought in Georgia, Alabama and the
Carolinas. The center was directly over
New York at 8 O'clock this morn.
ing. and gave New York the low
est barometer ever recorded In the
New York weather bureau. The barome-
ter recorded 29.12. The rainfall accompany
ing the storm was over three inches III this
city at 10 O'clock this morning. and gener.
ally from two to three inches along the
coast. The rainfall extended into the
interior of the country about 2O0 miles,
The winds velocity this morning at Block
Island was forty-eight miles an hour, and
here forty-two. 1t came from the north
east but turned to the northwest. from
which point IL blew at 10 o'clock. The
whole territory north of eastern New York
was drenched by the heavy rain, and all
streams are swollen above their banks
At Fort Edward and Glens Falls the
Hudson river is two feet above it's usual
nigh-vater mark OF spring freshets, and
mills at both places are unable TO run. AZ
White Hall the north wind has driven the
water up the lake SO that the docks are
flooded, and Wood creek covers the flats
for twelve miles south. The high water in
Champ plain canal will prevent the running
of boats tomorrow, when il was expected
that navigation would have been declared
open. Superintendent Hannen, of the
State Department of Public Works. re-
ceived several dispatches from along
the line Of the Erie canal, saying the
heavy storm threatened severe damage,
particularly on the Tong level between
Utica and Syracuse. The streams aud
feeders are swollen enormously and over
flowing their banks,
The storm ragged throughout Pennsylva-
MIA. The town of Shenandoah is greatly
excited by the discovery to-day of large
cracks in the largest of the four dams STU
ated above the Kelley Run colliery, in the
northeastern part of the town. The people
residing In the eastern part or the town
were warned during the forenoon TO leave
and immediately commenced TO move their
goods and have fled to the hills. The COL
IierIes along the creek ordered their men
out and have hoisted their mules. All the
collieries above Shenandoah. from Yates
ing the Decker collieries. will be
disastrously affected should the dam burst
besides the entire Mahanoy valley will
suffer great loss. Streams throughout the
Schuylkill coal regions are much swollen,
and pumps at the different collieries are be.
ing put to the utmost strain to keep the
mines in working condition. 1t Is feared
work Will have to cease at many of the
mines. In the ShamOkin region the heavy
rains of last night caused the stoppage of
rlr n, ,iv,v of tha
John Dierwichter of Ephrata W as drow ned
in Cocalico creek this morning While tryi In q
TO recover a wagon which was being swept
away by tie food. A section of the Will
Transport boom broke this afternoon. About
fifteen million feet of logs escaped through
the break and are passing down the river.
A dispatch from Atlantic City says: This
mornings terrific windstorm sent down
another vessel off the treacherous Bryan
tine shoals. Two three-masted schooners
laboring about three miles Oft the station
sIgnaled for assistance but the sea was so
high that 1t was Impossible for the life
saving crew TO get out a boat. Before any
help could be rendered one of the vessels
went down suddedly in about six fathoms
of water, nothing but her mast. with the
colors still flying. showing above the
waves. The other vessel managed to get
out of the difficulty. and continued on her
way up the coast. Nothing 10 known of
the fate of the crew of the Inflated vessel.
New England also felt the storm. Train
men on the Fitchburg road report eleven
bad landslides and four washouts on the
road between Bardw and Sbelbourne
Falls. Some of the ndslIdes are said to be
ninety feet long and the mud and clay on
the tracks ten feet deep. At Zoar another
bad break is reported. Deerfield river has
overlooked lite banks and much wreckage
is going down on the rushing waters with
the speed of race horses.
From Newburyport, Mass. comes the
story that q tw ma sted schooner supposed
TO be the Bravo. of Deer Isle, Me-, went
ashore about one-third of mile north
of Knobs life-saving station, Plum
island, to-day. The life-saving crew
shot, q line on board the craft. A heavy
sea, however. swept the rope ont of the
hands of the GROW. who were IN the rig
ging. and IL was then seen that they were
with them four men, who are supposed TO
be all there were on board. The wreck Is
completely broken to pieces.
Old residents of Rutland say so severe @
wind has not prevailed there IN two years.
Nearly all of the roo: of the shirt factory
wac torn of, while about twenty-five feet
of the roof of the Bates House was taken
up bodily and carried some distance.
Hardly dwelling house ESCAPED injury,
blinds windows and chImDsys being de-
stroyed. Telephone and telegraph wires
suffered badly and many valuable trees
were blown down in the heart of the city.
On the outskirts of the city many barns
are flat
Dispatches from many other points tell
of floods and wind damage. No lives are
reported lost ashore.