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 Saws
We Are in for Spell Of
Nasty Weather.
NEW YORK THE ONLY SUFFERER.
Farmers Unable to Get to This
City with Their &er-
chandise.
NEW YORK THE ONLY SUFFERER.

"This Is pretty fine April weather, I
don't think" was Weather Foreccster
Dunn's greeting this morning. Then he
gazcd out OF his back window at the
weather machines. which were buzzing
away fifty feet above him on their big
iron tower. and sighed.
81 can't stop 'em, either. until I 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 Ind
passed. The meagre reports received
at the LEGAL 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 a
nigh wind from the north and east,
which hummca along at the rate Of
forty miles an hour. At Block Island
the wird measuring machines registered
n velocity Of ffty-slx miles an hour. and
at Sandy Hook the Indicator pointed to
the number which showed that the
northeaster was hustlng by that point
at the rate OF slNty-four miles every
sixty minutes.
THE high winds" continued Mr. Dunn,
ARE blowing along the whole coast Of
the Middle Atlantic and New England
States, but strange feature OF the
storm is that not q drop OF rain or a
flake OF snow has fallen north of New
York. Even Block Island and Albany
are dry as chip.
From what | can learn this morn
ing the storm looks as II 1t was still
south of us, with the storm centre.
little TO the west. There Is nasty fog
all along the coast, too, which makes II
bad for vessels at sea.
New Workers may get a little salts
faction our OF life by looking backward:
the It'll from A. NJ. until l p M.
Previous April storms.
ION April 10. 1892, we had snow. and
quite a heavy fall. However. the entire
condition Of this month so far has been
exceptionally cold"
with the telegraph wires of both the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
Companies.
Many Wires Down.
Supt Humstone. OF the Western Union.
said that they were crippled In all direc-
lions. but that owing to the lack OF COM
fnIl sxta1t OF as the trouble All messages
for the South and West were received
subiec to delay.
Manager George Il. Usher, of the
hand through his iron-gray locks and
looked worried when asked how his
wires were working.
He said that wreck OF some freight
cars between here and Philadelphia had
knocked down lot OF poles, and that
there was no communication between
New York and the Quaker City.
All Western business interrupted.
he said but North and East the wires
were 80. X" Persons wishing to send
messages South and West We're told that
they would be taken subject to delay.
ed by the storm. AT least that was the
Post Once. said at 10 o'clock.
All the malls had been coming in reg
at il 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 whichs hould Grrive to-day.
Tie White Star steamer Majestic
should ,h have SsSn Sets sd al sSty
Tauric, OF the same III e, Other steanerN
which should have put IN an appearance
to-day are the ,Brltann:c, 20 days out
Dundee. % days out; the Pontiac, Han,
lei and Kolga, out Is, go and q days "
spectively from Gibraltar; the LydiaH
| the Martello. II days from Hull, and the
Red Sea from Barry, % days out
| 1t is thought, however, that the steam
abates, and will then all come strlnging
in 10 port.