The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-28
A WILD AND FIERCE STORM.
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Considerable Damage at Savin R"ck-Aisu at asbrsok Point. wondm Int and any | other Pisess-A Farmer Drowned a, | Madison.
 Rain and sieet aiternated yesterday making walking ana driving very ditii, cult. Early in the myfning the SnUS changed to hail and the wind was htny. lest. By noon. however. it became calmer. The sleet interfered greatly | with the electric railways. the sylvan avenue and Winchester avenue lines having much trouble. The State street road had some difficulty in the forenoon also on account of the coating of Ice on the tracks. The Fair Haven and West ville railroad had the least trouble. The large sweeper of the company had been out al the night preNio.s and the tracks were in fairy good condition. On the Edgewood road travel was much de- layed.
 The storm is not the heaviest of the season. being exceeded by the gale of November 5. which damaged electric systems so generally
 The storm was fierce and wild on the sound and greatly hindered navigation. At midnight the wind was blowing for ty miles an hour. At { o'clock 1t had increased to fifty. Last night was cold, but calm, and boats ran as usual. The Richard Peck arrived here last evening only little late.
 The storm began In Montana. It will be followed by cold snap.
 DAMAGE AT sAvIN ROCK.
 Reports of the damage by the storm received from the shore places near New Haven shows that property at the shore resorts suffered extensive ly by the storm. People who are living down along the west shore during the winter months say that the storm We'd nesday night was the worst that they have ever experienced. The wind blew at furious rate all the night and was accompanied by heavy fall of snow. At midnight the wind was blowing a gale and about o'clock yes. erday morning several buildings directly on the water front were blown down and carried out into the sound. At 3:30 o'clock the big pavilion owned by P. Hihman, proprietor of the Hinman house on Beach street at Savin Rock, was struck by the wind and went down with terrific crash. The building was two stories high and occupied space about 100 by 60 feet. It was formerly used as a paddock, but a year ago 1t was remodeled and fitted up for a pa- vilton. The building was blown out into the sound, and nothing remains now but 8 floating mass of timber. The sea tides were unusually high, and yes- terday morning Beach street, upon which all the hotels and summer resi- dences are situated, was two and three feet under water. The waves broke over the bulkhead constructed in front of the shore residences and flooded many of the cellars. The inmates at the Keeley institute, which is on Beach street, passed B. very uneasy night, and the patients were up nearly all of the night.
 MATT KANE OF MADISON DROWNED.
 Clinton, Dec. 27.-The storm last night and to-day in this vicinity has been the most severe that has been experi- enced here since the blizzard. From Madison to this place the roads are three or four feet under water from the numerous creeks and rivers which are overflowing. This afternoon a farmer named Matthew Kane, forty years old, was driving to his home and when near a bridge yer the East river near Mad ison Kane drove the horse off the road way into the river, and with the horse was drowned. It seems that the water overfowing from the river had com pletely covered the bridge over the river and hid it from view. Kane supposed evidently that he was on the road, but instead the horse had got off on the meadows and finally went down in the deepest part of the river. It was late this afternoon when the horse was found floating in the river near the bridge. A party from Clinton identi- fled the turnout as that belonging to Kane and a further search led to the finding of Kane's body. The unfortu- nate farmer was fished out of the river and his body taken to his home this evening. Kane was on his way home from attending his brothers funeral in Guilford. He had another brother, Mi- chael Kane of New Haven.
 DOWN AT GROVE BEACH
 The storm was quite severe and num- Der of bath houses belonging to the summer residents, most of whom are Hartford people, were. washed away. The pier in front of the cottage of Pres- ident Hurst of the Pond Extract com pany of Clinton was wrecked complete ly by the high seas, which were running all day. The wind blew at the rate of about forty miles an hour at 4 o'clock this morning, and nearly every small building on the water front was ripped from it's foundation and carried out into the sound. This afternoon there was a mass of the wreckage floating about in the sound near here. The total damage to property in this vicinity caused by the storm of last night, 1t is estimated, will reach 5000. AT WOoDMONT--OLD LIGHTsHIP TORN TO