The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-04-20

For two days last week the WnOle
Atlantic coast from Boston to Balti-
more was in the clutches OF the worst
storm since the never-to- bs-forgotten
blizzard Of 1889, and not only the
coast, but all the States north OF the
Carolinas and east OF the Allegheny
Mountains, including the whole OF
New York State, sucked i'll the icy
blasts aud drew them as far as Buffalo.
1t was terrific strife of the elements,
and did incalculable damage to life
and property throughout the most
densely populated part OF the country.
For twenty-four hours the winds OF the
ocean rushed furiously past Sandy
Hook, up through He'll Gate, at the
rate OF sixty-nine miles an hour. This
would have been disagreeable and dan
gerous if the wind had no companions,
for such wind not only wrinkles the
sea and makes it tut bllent and peril
Gus to ships and their burdens, but 1t
has power enough to overturn build
ings, to uproot trees, and TO play havoc
with the means of human communica-
tion. But the wind was not alone this
time. 1t was accompanied and assist
ed by snow and sleet, which made
it bitter cold. Together these three
swept the sea and the land, covering
the habitations of men with an icy
veil, heaping the earth high with a
blanket OF snow, playing with mighty
vessels as children play with whitfield
boats, lifting them high. on the crest
of a mighty wave and then plunging
them into an abyss of clurning waters
and crushing them there: breaking
mems limbs AMI beating their lives
out against the jagse rocks, hurrying
through the streets of cities, as q
mountain torrent piunges boiling
through q narrow gorge. tearing down
telegraph poles as If they we tooth
picks, twisting tn icl and heavy wires
like cotton thread, and withal roaring
and bowling in hideous triumph, like
the myria devils OF nightmare.
In some resi- Gets this storm was more
dreadful ana disastrous than the biz
zard which paralyzed New York six
years aSo. That was fiercer, but it did
not diffuse itself over so great an area.
Thursday every foot of ground east OF
Buffalo was covered with thirty inches
of snow, which had been falling for
more than twenty-four hours. Nearly
every tee IRA ph and telephone wire in
New York, New Jersey, Maryland,
Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware
was torn down b. the fury of the blast.
New York was practically isolated.
Baltimore, Boston Philadelphia and
Washington were in similar plight.
Terrible Work OF the Storm.
The work of the storm along the
jersey coast was something terrible.
Furi )us gales of wind and monstrous
seas wro, ght havoc and destruction.
Buildings, trees, telegraph and tele-
phone wires, railway tracks, embank-
ments, wharves and fences all yielded
ID the dest uctive fury of the elements.
Above it AL stands out the loss OF
human life. Many vessels, large and
small, were wrecked. TIE crews of the
Sandy Hook, Sduan and Long Branch
life-saving stations Iut out TO the as
sistance of the disabled vessels as
soon as they were reported ashore,
but it was not known when the first
disI atches were sent out that a single
life hal been saved, as the furious sea
running nd the binding snow pre-
vented any effective work upon the
part of the life-savers.
Atlantic City suffered considerably.
Waves dashed over the board walk,
and at times this fam Us attraction
was threatened with being carried out
TO sea. Gen. Earl's hotel, says q dis
patch, the Observation-Disclosures, Is
likely to be totally wrecked. At Cali
lee the ocean is undermining st. Peters
Church, which the tide will also prob
ably bring down. In Morris, Bergen
and Warren counties roads were i'm
passable. Trains on railroads run
ming into Jersey City and Hoboken
were all delayed. The meadows
between Jersey City and Hoboken
and Newark are several inches
under water and nothing is visible ex-
cept telephone and telegraph poles.
AT Bayonne many boats and boat
houses were washed away. At South
Amboy partially erected house was
blown down, and at New Brunswick
electric light, telegraph ana telephone
wires were levele to the ground. In
calculable damage was done to the
fruit crops. The peach crop suffered
particularly, and it is fearel that the
entire crop will prove a failure.
Farmers throughout the State will be
heavy Sufferers.
Wrecked OF Milwaukee.
A little yav boat, nine feet long,
drifted to the beach, several miles
north OF Milwaukee, bearing the UNI
con cious form of Capt. William b.
Wood, the only survivor of the schooner
Island City. The other two men who
| comprised the crew OF the lost boat were
undoubtedly drowned when the boat
went down. Capt. Wood was so nearly
dead from exposure that ] Q barely
managed to crawl to farmhouse near
the shore and then becaTe unconscious
again He arrived in the city in the
afternoon and told the story Of the less
Of his boat