Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-12
hEUS H 1tlt6RlPn From All Quarters. WORST STORM IN YEARS. Fully as Disastrous as the
 Great Blizzard. SAILORS SWEPT FROM VESSELS. One Made a Gallant Fight
 But Was Drowned.
 RIOTS IN COKE MINES RENEWED. Workers Forced to Join
 the Ugly Mob.
SAILORS SWEPT FROM VESSELS.
RIOTS IN COKE MINES RENEWED.
AD1sAsrRous STORM.

Hts Similarity to the Blizzard of
 Six Years Ago-Damage Caused
 By the High Wind - Telegraph
 Wires Down in Every Direction
 Steamers Delayed. +G
 NEW YORK, April 11.-Tho storm of wind, snow, sleet, and rain that prevailed last night and this morning was the worst this section of the country has experienced since the fsrce and destructive storms in August of last year. In its movements 1t had all the characteristics of the great blizzard of March, 1888 Like that storm it came from the northwest, and like 1t, broke in two over the lake regions, Its southern part moving southward and then northward, meeting again on the Jersey coast and producing. unexpectedly great force of wind and quantity of rain. The wind in this city reached velocity of forty miles an hour this morning, making 1t al- most impossible to hold up an umbrella. At sea 1t was decidedly fercer, blowing at Sandy Hook at the rate of sixty-five miles an hour at 10 o'clock this morning. A dense fog Icy over the water, making con- ditions doubly dangerous for shipping, ss the wind blew on shore. It is feared that many disasters have occurred to ships as result.
 Only the Hamburg steamer Columbia ar- rived to-day of the many steamers that are due. The others probably waited out ct sea.
 Great damage is reported along the Jer- sey coast. At Ssabright 1t was said that @ part of the Hotel Normandie was going to pieces, and that the whole beach from Sea Beach for three miles north was under water.
 The effect of the storm upon the tele- graph service has been disastrous. At the office of the Western Union Telegraph company it was said this morning:
 "Our wires are down everywhere, are literally torn up frem end to end, in con- sequence of the high winds and the sleet. We have only total of six or eight wires up between Philadelphia and Baltimore West we have three wires between Albany tween forty and fifty. We are in fair shape in tho east. The wires are down between Scranton and Williameport. Be- tween New York and Philadelphia we have twenty wires in service, where we ought to have about one hundred and fifty. Our worst break is bstween Philadelphia and Baltimore, where the storm has worked havoc with the wires, and big punches of poles are down between those cities, and 1t will require a great deal of work to repair the damage"
 The Postal Telegraph company this morning were receiving all their southern and western messages subject to delay, as their wires were down between Phila- delphia and New York, and a wreck be- tween these cities increased the trouble caused by the storm.
 WILMINGTON. Del, April 1.-The peach buds that lived through the severe freeze of the last week of March have apparently been finished by the present storm of snow and sleet. The storm extended all over the peninsula. Reports from all sections this morning are uniform in expressing the opinion that peach crop prospects have been ruined and that there is little chance of any considerable crop of berries.