The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-14
WINDS UP AND WIRES DOWN.
THE SOUTHERN CYCLONE HITS US WITH
IT'S NORTHEAST EDGE

Little from the west-wind 40 Miles M
Hour In Town and SS Mt Sandy Hook
The Storm Centre Apparently at Wash
inGton mt II r. NJ. and Coming This way
Heavy Rain ne Hvrn n- Fn-iou. windr
The weather demon who has been display
ing pernicious activity In the South. failed to
reach this region in time to spoil yesterday 8
race or even to chase the returning craft
homeward. But when he did get here he
! vented his spite upon this city in u most un-
| pleasant fashion. s."
| Alta little after @ o'clock Yesterday evening
he sent little nineteen miles an hour pun OF
wind whlstling through the streets. Then he
| tossed down q modcum Of rain But those
were only samples OF the goods which he fur
nished later on. There were more small puf1s
| and showers: then the brisk southeast wind
that had been blowing along the coast all the
afternoon suddenly waSed great. and swept
! down upon this city. bringing with It n driving
| rain.
| BY @ o'clock the wind was blowing moro thar
| forty miles an hour. and the rain was coming
| in big sheets. 1t was a very good time to stay
| indoors. The man without an umbrella was
a ritiable object. and the man with one was
still moro ptiable. for not only did he get
soaked by the rain and bufreted by the wind.
but he lost his umbrella. Broadway looked
ike u tnOTOuSnlHTe III inc IcEloub'
For some time the electric lights went down
to mere sparks. and in tho dim light dark
figures could be seen scudding up the street.
aided and Allotted by the wind as,ern. while
the cable cars ploughed along through the
drive and drift Of the gale like fiery demons.
The worst OF the gale was its entire uncer-
tainty. A man would be walking. or. rather.
be carried along. with the wind blowing bnb:
t es ntS SIDE street FOR Shelter only catch
another blast apparently quite independent
Fl the ess IN ali four
tors and met In the middle and the man who
was in their meeting place was fortunate II he
the E EH buiidns At ii cost the Wind
inch Of rain had fallen The barometer. which
had at o'clock registered H,7. had fallen by
getting Gei more wind than New YORK as at o:So
the wind was blowing flfty-hve miles an hour
there.
Owing to the destruction Of telegra ph com.
almost all points further south. the weather
experts could tell very little about the storms
The cyclone came up from the West Indies.
its centre inland over Georgia at i o'clock
yesterday morning. and then proceeded nearly
due north bearing heavy ruins Nth it and
warning constwise shipping. An official warn
press associations. the telephone and tele.
graph companies, and many Postmasters Of
seas and winds in tho following twenty. four
hours. The harometric pressure was very low
in the storm centre-a condition favorable to
AS near as can be learned the storm centrent
eleven o'clock was at Washington. where the
an hour. and the rain 50 far recorded 1.OS2
inches. between here and there the storm
down. Imperfect com m un lcation with Wash.
ington., as with the few points south
sy in As9 City kent
the northeast edge Of the storm. and the pros |
pect was that she would be drenched and but !
least. The weather experts thought that the |!
storm should be over by afternoon. |
wind. Pittsburgh had / LOO INCHES OF rain
at 8 o'clock with wind only ten miles mn hour. |
hsnyy ran nrS sheFs
and Chicago and probably all along the At
catch it to-day. West Of tie Mississippi there ere
was fair weather. At Jacksonville the barom-
that the storm had assed there. The weather
people suppose that we are not on the extreme
some distance out to sea.
The storm began to cut New York Off from
on with the South
the lines. and BY O'clock the Western Unions
VIRUS VI Sou'c' tHiouEH Idll-
OF up to Washington, Then Baltimore was vas
dsphia could be reacSed Next the Wires vi ei bs
gan TO give out south and west of Pittsburgh
until line after line to the West was made
;, At II O'Clock a few wires could be used to
Chicago and r GiiLncinIRaati through Buffalo but
through those Geographic centres
There was no interference with the working
Of tho wires to the Eastern States A window
on the eighth floor OF the Western Union
AIdridee an operator, breaEins . his cn1iar
4 few minutes after the second act began at
er from it's hinges. The shutter fell in BAL
.ony aisle which had been crowded a few mo
alarmed the audience for minute. The per-
ormance was not interrupted.
II West Thirty seventh street. was Blown clown
own.
HOUSES USRooFED IN BROOKLYN.
The storm swept over Brooklyn with great
orce Trees and fences were blown down In
u dfectllon nj "a. ana az some points the fallen
trolley sad
e outlying wards were unroofed and %n the te j.
Gra ira systems , we're more or less disturbed.
ne ,s and Park place, which had Just been com
erious accident was reported. ,
IND BLOWING 80 MILES AN HOUR IN NEW
JERSEY.
SoMERvILLE. n. j.. Oct. 13--A gale OF wind s
by rain Ia bowling through this ,
art of New Jersey Tonight and much dam ,
ge is being done. Trees have been uprooted.
or the past two hours tho rain has fallen In c
heets. and the streets are flooded to a depth ,
I from two to three inches. All trains coming
'om theiWest are late from two to four hours I
t IL o'clock tho wind was estimated to be I
lowing at tho rate OF ilfty miles an hour n
1t is reported that n brakeman was blown
'om the tor OF n freight car on the Central {
ailrond OF New Jersey near the junction | /
back Of North Branch was blown
yer. At LaminGton the church steeple was t
lown down for the second time within a year. g
he Tartan River is rising very rapidly