Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-12
AN APRIL BLuxzARD.

BAu hOOuG Oc1ocR yehteIUoy moIuAukS with the wind blowing at the rate of thirty | miles an hour. On the sound 1t blew forty miles an hour but did not do much damage, as most of the craft had kept in the shelter. The regular boats here from New York yesterday morning did not attempt to brave the storm.
 The storm was the combination of two storms, which yesterday morning was cen- tral of the New Jersey coast. and ragged thefs with great force. One of the two uniting storms was over the lake region Tuesday afternoon and the other made its appearance from of the southern coast. One of the storms moved east and the oth- CT moved north, and from their meeting yesterdays storm resulted. Rain and snow fell as far south as Washington. Snow fell ell the morning, tut melted as fast as it fell.
 In the morning the telegraph and tele- phone service was interfered with coneid erably, and in the afternoon the storm in- creased in force, large, heavy fakes falling and began to make the streets slushy and pile up roofs, trees, fences, wires and other objects with white covering. The fire alarm telegraph wires sagged so much that after awhile the city hall and other fire alarm bells rang one or two strokes frequently. The telegraph service ell over this section of the country were so serious fcult with neighboring cities, and in some cases interrupted. No stock reports were obtainsble from New York after 3 p. m aad no telegraph news until late this morning.
 The telephone service was also seriously interrupted. Twenty five poles of the American Telegraph and Telephone com pany in Tyler City and Orange were blown down down. Two big poles on State street, near Cedar Hill, are down, also several poles on Water street. General Superintendent Baker of the Southern New England Telephone com psny said that 1t was the worst storm that the telephone company had had to cope with in three years. It was hard to esti- mate what the total damage throughout the state will be, but 6 rough estimate places the damage at $10, GOO. The electric time circuit also went down, and the clocks stopped short.
 The polics department reported to the Western Union Telegraph officials here that the poles near the BarnesviIle bridge were in danger of falling and that the wires at that point were down.
 The linemen were at once set to work on the fire alarm telegraph circuit and succeeded in repairing the circuit in 8 couple of hours. It at once broke down again.
 The Southern New England Telephone company also put . large force of Hnemen at work and will doubtless have all their circuits restored in 8 short time. A large elm tree in front of Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth's house, corner of Temple and Wall streets, was blown down last night in one of the fereest blasts of tine gale.
 The snow fell to the depth of about four and one half inches. and seemed to be about six or eight from it's adhesive char acter. The street car tracks were we'll l covered, but the cars were not seriously l interfered with, and good time was made on all the lines. Superintendent Graham of the Fair Haven and Westville horse railroad said last night that he had all the | cars running as usual and on time. The appearance of so much snow in the middle of spring, and the blinding gusts of wind laden with snow, were not calcu lated to set the spring poets into ar eo stacy over the etherial mildness topic which was SO prevalent last month. Win ter is evidently 10th to depart this year.
 Trade on Chapel street last evening was confined to very narrow limits and there | "no Oub 1bbic cAOltouoAt U0yOuu tuht pc1- taining to snow-shovelling. The walking was miserably unattractive and but few people comparative were out even early in the evening,
 The street railway tracks at Savin Rock below the grove were submerged last even ing. It was feared that the tide would cause much damage on Beach street. The waves of the sound were dsshiDg against the breakwsters of Beach street with great violence. Several sheds were swept away.
 FIRE AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS.
 The burglar alarm at police hesdquar ters was completely gutted by fire last evening, caused by an electric light wire crossing the burglar alarm wires. The fire came in the police building over the wires and set fire to the woodwork. The flames were, however, promptly extin- guished by the judioious use of little sand.
 l NUMEROUS WIRES DOWN.
 The city was entirely without tho serv- ices of either fire alarm or police alarm service last night. All these wires were rendered useless by the storm.
 The telephone wires throughout the city were also nearly useless, while both tele- phone and telegraph wires between this city and New York were many of them blown down.
 l AT BRIDGEPORT.
 l BRIDGEPORT, April Il None of the steamers of the Bridgeport line left their docks tonight for New York because of the severity of the gale outside. The steamer Nutmeg State did not leave her dock in New York to day. The storm con- tinues in this vicinity tonight and 8 fleet of weatherbound schooners are at anchor in the harbor. Two steamers of the Elm pire Transportation line with large tows of coal barges bound for New Haven came in this afternoon. They were caught in the storm off this harbor and made this harbor with considerable difficulty.
 HIGH LINKS AT HARTFORD.
 HARTFORD, April 11.-A severe north east storm Ia playing high jinks here. Running time of street cars has been shortened. Several of the telegraph poles are shaky and walking is dangerous as we'll as disagreeable. Numerous wires have fallen.
 NEW LoNDoN's SNUG HARBoR.
 NEW LONDON, April 1.-The harbor to- night offers shelter to large fleet of storm bound vessels. The storm continues to- night and high wind Ia blowing. Outside l the wind is bio wing at the rate of fifty miles an hour. None of the Norwich line steamers psssed out tonight on account of the severity of the weather.
 SOUND STEAMERS AT wH1rEsToNE.
 WH1rEsToNE, L. l., April 1.-The hsr- bor here is full of sound steamers and coastipg craft. Several large steamers bound for Boston left New York early this afternoon, but they put in at City Island on account of the high sea which was running. ALrToHFRLD CHURCH sTEKpLE BLOWN DOWN EMAIL BUILDINGS ALSO.
 LIrcHFIELD, April 1.-The storm hae done considerable damage here. The steeple of St. Michael's R. 0. church, for a long time has been conaidered unsafe, | was blown down. The steeple stood thirty feet above the roof of the church snd in falling made thunderous noise. Several buildings on the outskirts were blown down. -.=--..-
 WORST KNOWN TO THE FIREMEN.
 Yesterday's storm was the woret in years as far as the fire department Is concerned. The entire system was disarrangsd and communication could only be had with en- zine houses 4 and 5. Superintendent of Fire Alarm Smith remained on duty all night at fire headquarters and ct daybreak this morning will put largo force at work repairing the damage.
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