Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-20

merry-go round was seriously damaged. big
ravines were cut In the bluff north
of the old iron pier, while the
new iron pier suffered considerably.
Just of the Beach House, at Sea Girt in the
early hours of the morning. thethree-nasted
schooner Albert W. Smith went hard and
fast on the treacherous sand of Squan Beach
and was wrecked. Every man on board was
lost. The mt OF Life Saving Station Five
discovered her and tried to rescue the eight
men who could be dscerned on her, Several
attempts We're made TO shoot the line
safely across her They failed sew
eral times. 4 giant wave finally lifted the
schooner clear OF the sand and landed
was Immediately shot across her. Tho
shot was true, and tho line rat
tied through the rigging and settled on the
deck. This was greeted by q cheer by the
life savers, but the shout was stopped, for at
the same moment the fOremast snapped and
fell, earring the others with it. The schooner
went over on her beam ends and sank.
None of the eight men on board
was seen again. A Newfoundland
dog swan ashore from the wreck
Eight sailors were drowned by the wrecking
of the three-nastsd schooner Kate Markee on
the Jersey coast near Highlands. Captain
Daniel Handy, commander of the schooner.
was one ofthose lost. The names of the Nom.
bers of the crew were not known. When the
storm was at the height Of its fury, shortly
before o'clock a. m, when the at
mosphere was thick with pelting rain
and snow and the wind. blowing
hurricane. was lashing up great combcrs
that beat with terrific force on the Jersey
coast, the operator at the Highlands Station
of the Jersey Central Road A. II. BcrnadOn,
saw the Kate Markee off shore laboriously
working along under trlsails i'll tho
course usually followed by vessels max.
ing for Sandy Hook. In less than two hours
after the schooner went ashore only IL por-
tiOn of her bow, held together by the brac
ings of the forecastle, retained any SOM
blance to a ship. Tnis was thrown over on
its starboard side, and on the port side could
be distinguished the name, Kate Markeo.
No bodies came ashore.
Throughout New York State heavy snow
storm prevailed. The great snow storm in
the Genesee Valley will 90 on record as the
heaviest snowfall in twenty-five years. At
2 o'clock in the afternoon it was twenty
three inches on the level. No wind
was blowing, so the snow level was
even all over the country. Business was
suspended and travel difficult. The weight
of the snow on the trees was immense, the
limbs of fruit, shade and forest trees being
bent nearly to the ground. Snow to the
depth of twenty inches fell at Corn
ing. The roads were blocked
considerably and travel impeded
At Canandaigua the fall was ten inches, and
many small trees succumbed to the heavy
weight of snow The sleighng was fine
Nearly foot of heavy snow fell at Buffalo
Street cars were badly blockaded. The snow
packed on the telegraph and telephone
wires, breaking many of the latter
and demOralizing the service. During the
twenty-four hours Warsaw saw the heaviest
snowstOrm of the season. Eighteen inches
of snow fell at Elmira. Railroad traffic was
considerably delayed and some ofthe electric
surface roads were blocked and others badly
crippled
Nearly foot Of snow fell throughout
Pennsylvania. In the mountains it was
eighteen inches deep.