The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-04-11
STORM DOES
GREAT DAMAGE.
Telegraph Service Crippled
and Incoming Steam.
ships Delayed.
AND THE WORST IS NOT YET.
Weather Forecaster Dunn Sayi
We Are in for a Spell of
Nasty Weather.
NEW YORK THE ONLY SUFFERER
Farmers Unable to Get to Thi:
City with Their Mer-
Chandise.
NEW YORK THE ONLY SUFFERER.

This Is pretty fine April weather. I
don't think" was Weather Forecast'r
Dunns greeting this morning. Then he
Gazed out of his back window at the
weather machines which were bu2zing
away fifty feet above him on their big
iron tower. and sighed.
! II can't stop 'cm, either, until l hear
from the South. and every wire Is down
| in that direction"
At II o'clock Mr. Dunn could not even
| give New Workers the comforting assur-
ance that the worst of the storm had
passed The meagre reports received
at the local weather bureau this fore
| noon tended to show that New York
! Is in for about as uncomfortable a day
as 1t has experienced for many year.
Added to the snow and rain was u
high wind from the north and east,
which hummed along at the rate of
forty miles an hour. At Block Island
the wind measuring machines registered
a velocity Of fifty-six miles an hour, and
at Sandy Hook the Indicator pointed to
| the number which showed that the
northeaster was hustllng by that point
at the rate of siXty-four miles every
sixty minutes.
1.-THE high winds" continued Mr.. Dunn,
are blowing along the whole coast of
the Middle Atlantic and New England
States, but a strange feature of the
storm is that not drop of. rain or a
fake of snow has fallen north OF New
York. Even Block Island and Albany
are dry as a chip.
From what / can learn this morn
ing the storm looks as II 1t was still
| south of us. with the storm centre a
little to the west. There Is a nasty fog
all along the coast, too, which makes 1t
bad for vessels at sea.
| New Workers may get little salts
faction out of life by looking backward.
Last April there was snow and sleet on
the 18th from A. NJ. until p. NJ.
Previous April storms.
ION April 10. 1892, we had snow. and
April g. Of the previous year, there was
quite heavy fall. However, the entire
condition Of this month 80 far has been
The wind and snow have played havoc
with the telegraph wires Of both the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
Companies
Many Wires Down.
Supt. Humstone, of the Western Union,
tons. but that owing to the lack of com
munication he could form no idea of the
full extent Of the trouble. All messages
for the South and West were received
subject to delay.
Manager George H. Usher OF the
Postal Telegraph Company, ran his
hand through his iron-gray locks and
| wires were working.
He said that a wreck of some freight
cars between here and Philadelphia had
knocked down a lot OF poles, and that
there was no communication between
New York and the, Quaker City.
All Western bus ness was interrupted
he said. but North and East the wires
were 30 X" Persons wishing to send
messages South and West were told that
they would be taken subject to delay.
The malls were not so seriously affect
ed by the storm. At least that was what
the Superintendent OF the Mails, at the
Post Office, said at 10 o'clock.
All the malls had been coming in reg
ularly, he said, up to that time. There
was, however. a big Western mail due
at 70 O'Clock, which had not yet been
heard of owing to the fact that the
wires were down.
Steamers Delayed.
There are several big transatlantic
liners which should arrive to-day
should have been sighted at an early
hour this morning.: also the freighter
Tauric, of the same line, Other steamers
which should have Ent In an o. apPearanGe
: from sunderland the Circassia. 10 days
out from Glasgow; the Croft from
del and Kolga out 10. 20 and 81 days re-
spectively from Gibraltar the lydlan
; Monarch, from London. y DAYS out;
? the Mnrtello, Il days from Huh, and the
Red Sea. from Barry, % days out
1t is thought, however, that the steam
I crs are Wing Off shore until the storm
e abates, and will then all come stringing
{ In to port.