The record-union., 1894-04-12
Gales All Along the New England
and Middle Atlantic States.
THE WIND BLOWS NEARLY SEVENTY
MILES AN HOUR
The Heaviest Snowstorm at Buffalo,
New York, Known in Years-Great
Damage Done to Fruit Trees in the
State-Tremendous Gale Reported
at Sea-A Vessel Goes to Pieces, and
Three Sailors Drowned.
Special to the REcoRD-Uxros.

Three Sailors Drowned.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
NEW YORK, April I.-As severe a
storm as has been experienced for years
prevailed here to-day. 1t centered on the
Jersey coast, moving rapidly to the
northward. 1t was attended by danger
Gus northeasterly gales all along the New
England and Middle Atlantic States.
The wind at 3 o'clock at Block island
was blowing at the rate of sixty miles an
hour. At Sandy Hook, forty miles away,
it was little stronger. Here it was blow
ing at the rate of sixty miles an hour at
s o'clock, and at 1915 it had increased to
sixty-eight miles an hour. In this i'm
mediate vicinity and south there was
both snow and rain, which is still con-
tinuing.
Notice was given yesterday of the ap-
preaching storm, and signals were dis
played last night and to-day along the
coast.
Accompanying the gale was a very
dense fog all along the coast that was
dangerous to navigation. Fortunately
the fog did not cover the harbor, or it
might have been responsible for an unus-
ual amount of trouble among the craft of
every description which ply the harbor
and East and North Rivers, and would
have probably caused some accidents.
The ferries are always more or less af-
fected by this kind of weather, as traffic
is in general increased.
At Warsaw, n. Y, the snow is thirty
inches deep on the level, and is still fall
Ing.
The beach is under water for three
miles north of Normandie Hill, and there
is terrible loss. Telegraph poles were
blown down at Highlands.
Many steamers overdue are probably
caught In the storm.
The water has risen within two feet of
the barge office at the Battery.
The tug Underwriters was sunk while
entering slip. All hands were saved.
A vessel went to pieces near Highlands,
and three persons were drowned. An
other vessel is ashore off quarantine. The
entire crew OF twelve men were drowned.
Both vessels are complete wrecks. The
furious sea and binding storm prevents
effective work of life-saving crews.
The local weather officer at Buffalo re-
ports that this is the heaviest snowstorm
since the bureau was established, about
twenty years ago.
TELEGRAPH COMPANIES SUFFER-
NEW YORK, April IL. = Among the
great sufferers by the terrific storm which
has held nearly the entire country east of
the Allegheny Mountains in its clutches
for the past twenty-four hours were the
telegraph companies. The wire reports
from Superintendents of the companies
reported an almost complete prostration
of the telegraph service. Few people
therefore realize the extremities went to
to obtain information as to the effects of
the storm, as we'll as the general news of
the day. Throughout New England the
task was not so difficult, owing to the
superb construction of the Postal Tele-
graph Company's network of wires in
that locality. The same company early
in the day furnished the Associated Press
to Chicago, while the Western Union
performed a like service by way
of Washington and Pittsburg, tapping
the various cities in the vast system
of the Associated Press. 1t was by this
system that the entire country is familiar
with the details of the hurricane, which
has thus far caused the loss of many lives
on the Jersey coast, and of thousands of
dollars worth of property on land and
sea- On the routes that ordinarily con-
tain hundreds of wires, possibly two or
three were working. This was especially
true of the Western Union, between this
city and Washington, and between here
and PittSburg on the Western. The tele-
graph companies suffered mostly through
the southern route through New Jersey.
Despite these drawbacks, the telegraph
have acted so effectively with the Asso-
ciated Press, so far as the news gathering
service was concerned, that the public
have experienced no inconvenience, and
were, throughout the day, provided with
the news nearly as full as usual, under
the most advantageous circumstances.
Tonight the circuits are still hampered.
LEFT THEIR MARK ALONG THE COAST.
MANIQUAN On. j., April H. The
beach far down the coast is strewn with
wreckage. The wind has blown full
gale all day, the high seas roaring and
bounding. The three masted schooner
Albert was driven ashore, at point mid
way between Seagirt and Mansquan.
Within half an hour after she struck she
was pounded into kindling wood. Eight
men composed the crew, of which not
one has been seen since, and il is likely
that not one man of them has survived to
tell the tale of their experiences in the
awful gale.
The wreck was reported this morning
by Joe Green of the Squan Life-saving
Station Captain Longstreet and several
of his men went out this evening to the
spot where the stranded schooner lay.
The wind at that time, according to the
CAPTAIN, was seventy 1niloS al nOuT. Inc
sand which it lifted up cut the flesh, and
it was with difficulty that the party could
keep their feet.
All along the beach was scattered the
wreckage of the ill-fated craft, and her
battered hull was rolled and splintered
with every billow that broke over it. The
beach for hundred yards was foam
crested. and the surf as far as one could
see was mountain rising and falling
with fearful roar.
Captain Longstreet related the follow
ing story of the wreck: "Green went out
to cast his eyes down the beach early this
morning, during the binding snow and
when the storm was at its hight. lie saw
the outlines of boat which was strug-
Cling with the breakers above the station.
Two masts were standing at that time,
but there were no topmasts. We got our
men out at once and endeavored to lower
lifeboat, but by the time we got to her
ONLY one mast was standing. short
time afterward she broke.
.rhere was no sign OF living person
on her when we got to her. The wreck