The evening world., 1894-05-21
scHO0NERs IN DISTRESS.
Two Reported Off seabright Too
Far Out for Life Savers
to Reach Them.
SMALL CRAFT BLOWN LOOSE.
Telegraph Wires Down, Railroads
Submerged. Mails Late and
Steamships Delayed.

This Is a March day in May. and there
Will be no Improvement In the weather
to-day or tomorrow, according to the
Weather Bureau. There are high winds
all along the Middle Atlantic and New
England coasts. and the danger to ship
ping Is increased by fog which covers
the coast like blanket. Only one
steamship had the temerity to brave the
wind. which is blowing a hurricane out
side. and the fog and come into port.
Two vessels are reported. to-day to be
in distress about three miles off Sea-
bright, N. j. They are flying distress
signals. but are SO far of shore that
the life-savers cannot go to their aid.
One Is three-masted schooner and the
other u two-mastcd schooner.
Railroads in New Jersey have suffered
severely from washouts, and on one sec
ton Of the New Jersey Central along the
coast traffic has been abandoned. Great
damage has been done to telegraph wires,
and the service Is crippled to many prin-
cipal points.
by Local Forecast Official Dunn to-day,
give, grounds for apprehension that New
York has not seen the worst Of the
storm. They are as follows:
/
and, Connecticut and New Jersey
Cloudy weather and rain; continued high
and northcasterly winds, with fog along
the coast; stationary temperature"
These indications cover to-day and to-
morrow.
"The storm centre" said Mr.. Dunn,
"covers the country over the Ohio and
Tennessee Valleys 10 the Atlantic coast.
though not as well defined as yester-
day II still continues with high north
easterly winds along the Middle Allan
tic and New England coasts, and the
conditions are made more dangerous by
the fog which prevails along the coast.
The weather is generally clear over the
South Atlantic coast.
The storm covers the entire country
from the lake regions to the coast and
from the Tennessee valley north. and is
accompanied by a generally heavy rain,
four hours ending at o'clock this morn
ing at Philadelphia. There three inches
of rain fell Toronto, Canada, had 2;92
% of an noh and 'T Ern phe OF incb
The rainfall In New York has been .l6
Storm signals are displayed all along
coasts. The velocity Of the wind here
at 6 o'clock this morning was thirty
two miles an hour, 1t was only eighteen
1918, blowing twenty-four miles an
hour. and its velocity IS Increasing. At
s O'Clock the wind was thirty miles an
hour at Philadelphia.
'The snowfall in Kentucky yesterday
was the result OF the cold weather set
thing down behind the storm. To-day
II is growing, warmer. in that region.
1t Is only degrees above freezing at
Marquette. Mich, and only s degrees
above at Chicago. The temperature is
52 here, a at ST. Louis and GO at Wash
ington. II is warmest at Key West
''The wires are down at Sandy Hook
and we have been unable to get the
velocity of the wind at that point. 1t is
Blowing Ihlrty-six miles an hour al Block
along the lower New England coast"
The Western Union Telegraph Com
uany suffered greatly from the storm In
New jersey and Pennsylvania; and the
every direction. Along the New Jersey
coast, the Wire Chief said this morning,
the wires are pretty well wrecked. but
the Company Is not entirely cut of
from the coast.
The principal break Ia at the Raritan
draw bridge, where all OF the wires are
to Philadelphia that are not cut of
from that city. Its interior routes in
New Jersey are not much damaged,
There is n bad wreck OF the Western
Union wires between Lebanon and
Harrisburg. and another between Har-
risburg and Pittsburg, but Ptttshurg is
nott, entirely shut of from New York.
= The most serious damage 70 wires is
by the h1ods In the vicinity Of Williams
port, 10 whicl the Western Union had
only 5ne wire this morning, and that
was working nilnferent!y. The breaks
are pretty well located, and by night the
Company expect to have them all re-
paired,
At the main Office OF the Postal
Telegraph Company II was stated that
they were not experiencing any serious
trouble except to Philadelphia and Har-
risburg.
The only serious delays In mails are
the ppnnlNlNlnia Railroad The
through mails from the West. due here
at 7i2, was three hours late. and the
one due at 7.i2 six hours late.
sion OF the New eJrsey Central Railroad
IN washed out for quite distance be-
tween Seabrlght and Highland Beach.
and sand washed up by the waves which
teen feet high. Normandie station Is