The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-10

Duncan and Harrison avenues We're
covered with sand. Several heavy limbs
Of trees We're blown down on the stretch<
between Harrison and Commu1n. w aye
nues and carried trolley polls win them
A conductor tried to pull aside a branch
that was lying over the trolley Wire az
/ let it remain until wreckers arrived. a
gang of men have been at work all
the morning shovelling sand, but it is
sea For every shovelful they get aside
it seems as if two more are washed back
RAILROAD DAMAGED.
The worlmen and mules engaged in
the construction of the Greenville spur
of the Newark and New York Railroad
Jared badly. and a large part of the
work they have been i, ,engaged upon n dona N
over again. The horses and mules were
sheltered beneath a large tent and the
men have little hut in which they live.
Some time between two and four o'clock
the wind caught the tent and tore It
in shreds. The mules grew excited and
pandemonium reigned. The poor ami
ing to shelter them until seven O'Clock
this morning. when they We're removed
to the. Central Railroad stables at the
foot of Washington street. The mems
hut stood the test and kept them dry
Work on the road will be blocked for
a week, as the ground all about is
but big sea Of mud and makes carting
impracticable until it is thoroughly dried
out. a patrolman from the !, Fifth pre-,
that no streets are stolen.
YACHTS ASHORE.
Considerable damage was done along
sloops drifted from their mornings and
some were badly damaged. nhe sloop
Water Witch, owned by Captain Mitchell,
drifted down to the oil yards channel al
sprung a leak and sank. The Three
Sisters, belonging to CHRISTOPHER. Brown,
and the Avoca, 7. O Brien, captain, drift
ed to the same spot. The Three Sisters
was badly damaged, but not beyond re-
pair. The Avoca was luckier and was
landed by the wind high and dry on the
shore without so much as a board being
sprung. The Pavonia Yacht Club boats
escaped injury.
1t was curious, too, because they lie
pretty thickly off the club house and a
sunken wreck from Richards ship yards
fioated between them and damaged the
sloop, Forsyth, owned by Alexander Roe
Forsythe lay considerably below the Pa
vonia boats The wreck narrowly es-
capped knocking hole in the side of
Van Horn said to a Jersey City News
reporter this morning:-"We will have
to make example of some of these
fellows that leave sunken hulks lying
about They have done great damage
to our boats in the past and are apt to
in the future, unless we do something
to stop it Immediately. We will find the
damage and hold him responsible
CITY'S STATIONERY RUINED.
When Justice Douglass assumed charge
of the Third Criminal Court a new sup
ply of necessary blanks and stationery
were furnished him. Half of them were
taken to the Oakland Avenue Court and
the rest were left for use in the Com
munipaw Avenue Court. The supply in
the latter place was never properly put
away, but was left standing in a pile on
the floor beneath the window The win
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rain beat in, soaking commitments, bail
bonds and warrants, and destroying
IN GREENvILLE
In the Greenville section the storm
created havoc and on every thoroug-
fare this morning there We're evidences
Limbs of trees lay everywhere and on a
number of thoroughfares fences and
signs Were blown down. The; heavy
played a part in the work of rendering
the streets and avenues almost impas-
sable. Only the paved streets and almost
few of them there are, could be crossed
at any point except the crossings. War
ner avenue from Ocean avenue to Rose
avenue was transformed into minia-
ture river which was fed by branch
streams which flowed from the vacant
lots on either side. Ocean avenue from
Contractor Henry Byrne has torn up
the macadam preparatory to paving the
thoroughfare was transformed into a
large pond which could not be crossed
without the aid of rubber boots or row
boats.
WIRES DOWN.
On Ocean avenue near Stegman ave-
nue. where Contractor Byrne is construc-
ting a sewer a large part of the bank
formed by the excavation. caved in.
The only serious damage done by the
storm was the Wrecking of the trolley
line at Danforth avenue AT this point
the road makes short curve and in
order to give the trolley wire the neces-
sary curve three wires are run at diff
ferent angles from the trolley wire to
the pole in front of MitZeniu's store.
The wind playing on these wires caused
strain and the hook fastening them to
the pole snapped off. The trolley wires
together with the side wires dropped to
the ground kissing like snakes, but for
tunately no one was in the neighborhood
at the time. Word was sent to the Fifth
precinct station house and Roundsman
Louis Mcintyre was detailed to warn
pedestrians of the danger of crossing
the street at that point.
Word was also sent to the offices of
the Traction Company and a repairing
wagon and a gang of laborers were soon
on the scene. 1t required an hour and
q halfs time to repair the damage. The 4
delay in the traffic which lasted all this
time made the citizens who were on
their way to business say many un-
pleasant things about the weather The
for the line to be repaired resumed their
tourney on the Central Railroad. No
damage at the New York Bay shore
was reported up to eleven O'Clock this
morning Fortunately for the owners
nearby all of the yachts Of the various