The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-04-19

! Score 0f Lives Lost.
For two days last week the whole
Atlantic coast from Boston to Balti-
more was in the clutches OF the worst
storm since the never-to- ba-f orgotten
blizzard OF 1881, and not only the
coast, but all the States north Of the
Carolinas and east Of the Allegheny
Mountains, including the whole of
New York State. sucked in the icy
blasts and drew them as far as Buffalo.
1t was terrific strife of the elements,
and did incalculable damage to life
and property throughout the most
1ensely populated part of the country.
For twenty-four hours the winds of the
ocean rushed furiously past Sandy
Hook, up through He'll Gate, at the
rate of sixty miles an hour. This
would have been disagreeable and dan
gerous if the wind had no companions,
for such a wind not only wrinkles the
sea and makes it tut bllent and peril
Gus to ships and t 1eir burdens, but it
has power enough t, Overturn build
lngS, to uprOOt trees, and to pay havoc
with the means Oh human comnunica-
ton. But the wind was not alone this
time. 1t was accompanied and assist
ed by snow and slcet. which made
it bitter cold. Together these three
swept the sea ana the land, covering
the habitations of men with an icy
veil. heaplng The earth high with a
blanket of snow. playing with mighty
vessels as children play with Whitfield
boats lifting them hieh on the crest
of mighty wave and then plunying
them into an abyss of churning waters
and crushing them there: breaking
mems limbs AMI beating their lives
out against the jagged rocks, hurrying
through the streets of cities, rs q
mountain torrent piunees boiling
through u narrow gorge. tearing down
telegraph poles as if they we tooth
picks, twisting tn lex and heavy wires
like cotton thread. ;nl withal roaring
and bowling in h;deous triumph, like
the myria devils of a nightmare.
In some resi- Gets this storm was moro
dreadful anu disastrous than the bliz-
zard which paralyzed New York six
years ago. That was tiercer, but it did
not dltfuse itself over SO great an area.
Thursday every foot Of ground east of
Buffalo was covered with thirty inches
Of snow. which had hecn falling for
more than twenty-four hours. Nearly
every teIe IRA IN and telephone wire in
New York, New Jersey. Maryland,
Eastern PENNSYLVANIA and Delaware
was torn down b. the fury of the blast.
New York was practically Isolated.
Baltimore. Boston Philadelphia and
Washington were in a similar plight.
Terrible Work OF the storm.
; The work of the storm along the
Jersey coast was something terrible.
furi Jus gales of wind and mOnstrous
sea, wro. gnt havoc and destruction.
Buildings, trees, telegraph and tele-
phone wires, railway tracks. embank-
ments. wharves and fences all yielded
to the dest -uctive fury of the elements.
Above it all stands out the loss of
human life. Many vessels, large and
small. were wrecked. The crews of the
Sandy Hook, Suuan and Long Branch
life-saving stations tut out to the as
sistance Of the disabled vessels as
soon Us they were reported ashore,
but it was not known when the first
disl atches were seat out that single
life hal been saved. as the furious sea
running ind the blind ng snow pre-
vented any effective work upon the
part of the life-savers.
Atlantic City suffered considerably.
Waves dashed over the board walk,
and at times this fam us attraction
was threatened with being carried out
| W Scd 1ClI. I-StIl DOlCI, says
patch, the Normandie- -the-Sea. Is
likely to be totally wrecked. At Cali
lee the ocean is undermining st. Peter s
Church. which the tide will also prob.
: ably bring down. In Morris, BergeE
, and Warren counties roads were i'm.
passable. Trains on railroads run.
ming into Jersey City and Hoboken
r were all delayed. The meadows
between Jersey City and Hobokeu
and Newark are several inches
under water and nothing is visible ex.
4 cept telephone and telegraph poles.
: At Bayonne many boats and boat
houses were washed away. At South
Amboy q partially erected house was
: electric light, telegraph and telephone
t wires were levele to the ground. In
1 calculable damage was done to the
Z fruit crops. The peach crop suffered
1 particularly, and it is feared that the
entire crop will prove q failure
3 Farmers throughout the State viii be
l heavy sufferers.
}. Wrecked OF Milwaukee.
:, A little yaxl beat, nine feet long,
: drifted to the beach, several mile.
:. north of Milwaukee, bearing the un'
= con -cious form Of Capt. William b
Wood, the only survivor of the schooner
:, Island City. The other two men who
comprised the crew OF the lost boat were
n undoubtedly drowned when the boa,
y went down. Capt. Wood was SO nearl,
dead from exposure that . barely
4 managed to crawl to a farmhouse neal
= the shore and then becaT unconsciou.
\ again He arrived in the city in the
afternoon and told the story of the les
= of his boat
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