The Portland daily press., 1894-10-11

! WIHu was from the east. the ram pOufeu
most of the day in sheets, and the wind
reached a maximum height of AZ
| miles an hour.
The streets were badly washed by the
torrents of rain as the fallen leaves had
choked the cutters and culverts, making
dams to prevent the carrying Off OF the
water. Street Commissioner aStaples esti-
| mates the damage to the streets will be sew
eral thousand dollars.
The wires of the telephone and telegraph
were badly disarranged. Cellars in the
lower parts OF the city were flooded.
A schooner anchored near Fish Point
dragged her ohors, but a tug rescued her.
The new sewer OF Commercial street was
filled.
There was quite feet of fishermen and
small coasters put in for safety, bat there
is also a number of vessels out for whose
safety there are fears.
The Manhattan is at Chatham. and the
Cottage City at Cottage City. The Boston
steamers remained in port. The trains were
delayed somewhat yesterday by the heavy
wind. The storm is reported as having been
quite severe inland. Up along the Grand
Trunk. the rain began to fall in torrents at
eleven O'Clock, the wind blowing a gale.
The same condition of affairs was notice
able along the line of the Maine Central.
The harbor was wild place in the after
noon, the wind blowing straight mp from
the east and screaming through the rig gging
of the many vessels in the harbor. as if they
were laboring with the waves in mid-ocean.
Tho waves shook the wharves and rolled
the ferry boat. The mud digger suspended
work, because the tugs could not take the
scows outside to empty them.
There are still some oottagers on the
ISLANDS and it must have seemed a rather
dreary home-going to those who went down
on the 4.o0 boat. There are three families
on Great Diamond, those of Capt. r. Lewis.
Charles Flagg and Eben Clement, two at
Trefethens, and five or six at Peaks. Some
of them will stay through the month. A
fine day in October is better than fine day
at any other time, and they rather enjoy
the storms. as for the loneliness, that
depends on how one feels about it.
1t is as yet impossible to say what vessels
made this harbor in the early morning yes
terday. Many vessels got in, and it is
hoped that some fishermen were of the
number, but there is but faint chance
that there could have been any Portland
fishermen, for they would have made their
wharves, if once inside. There were some
sensational arrivals. that Is when all the
circ uumstances of tie case are considered.
The little Kingfsher came in when the
storm was at it's widest. They reported
tremendous sea, and a perfect tempest,
and yet despite of these the little vessel
came in and made her wharf in peace.
In the very widest of the storm, when
the fog shut down, making it impossible for
any one outside to have even made out the
slightest sign of land, those who were down
on the wharves were astonished to see a
large schooner suddenly start up out of the
fog. 1t proved to be Rockland schooner,
name only guessed at. Old shippers who
watched her coming with astonishment, not
unmixed with admiration for the remark
able seamanship of her captain, said that
he must have suddenly found himself off
this coast, and then to have been forced to
run for this harbor through the fog. HE
couldn't have made it again in a million
times without going ashore said one old
captain. who added, "but b'gosh it was
mighty pretty thing to do, and that fellow
will have something to brag about as long
as he lives. That fog was as thick as
blanket
There is now no doubt that many, and
perhaps the most of the. vessels -outside,
were taken completely by surprise, and had
no idea of the coming of the southern
visitor. This is not matter of guess work,
but of absolute knowledge, and greatly in
creases the probability that many wrecks
will be reported. Capt. Keen, of the
schooner Hattie Maud was seen at Gust ON
House wharf last evening. He is a we'll
known captain, and succeeded in getting In
without special damage. although of course
not without very close. call. He said that
before Tuesday night shut in ne saw many
schooners, fishermen and coasters, and that
they were sailing in direction to bring
them directly in the. track of the storm.
He said that the storm gave no warning
of its coming. The night was remarkably
clear, and. the sea exceptionally calm, when
the fog shut in. the rain fell in torrents,
and the wind freshened, and gave the first
token of the coming tempest. AT that time
the Hattie = Maud, a remarkably strong
schooner, was fifteen miles off the Cape
Elizabeth coast, and seeing the nature of
the storm a strong and successful effort was
made to reach this port. Good seamanship,
and thesexcellent sailing qualities of the
schooner brought them in. The fog was
very thick, too thick to allow the taking of
the light as bearing, and in the belief of
the captain, others made the same mistake
he himself. regarding the probable nature
of what might be coming, that is he
thought it would be dry wind of little
Importance.
Conc erning the report of the wind at
Block island, he said that it approached
the cyclonespoint, and had according to re-
ports, passed the hurricane pitch. He was
forced to believe that there will be many
wrecks reported. He was also inclined to
think that the storm on the ocean had by
no means abated. The glass was still fall
ing, and it seemedsto him that there were
every indications OF a yet harder tempest.
He said that many of the Gloucester fleet,
perhaps the larger part, is out in the storm.
and many of the sehooners of the Maine
fleet. In that opinion he was joined by J.
W. Trefethen who said last evening that a
large number of the Maine schooners must
have been out. He did not, however. give
up the hope that the majority of them
might have made some other port.
There was no session of the public schools
in afr