The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-11
BROOKLYN BRIDGE DESERTED
Accident on the Pfl2rim-Tug Boat
Sunk In Brooklyn.

Accident on the Pu%rim-Tug Boat
Sunk In Brooklyn.
NEW YORK. April IL, 1S94.--In no spot in
this vicinity was the gale felt with greater
force than on the Brooklyn Bridge. The i'm
mense structure groaned and swayed
from the force of the hurricane
and the noise of the wind sweep
ing through the stays sounded like the
shrill shrieking of Thousand locomotive
whistles A few hardy pedestrians who at
tempted to make the passage afoot were
blown along like straws, and practically the
foot road was deserted.
An accident caused by the gale created
considerable excitement among the passen-
gers of tie Fall River boat Pilgrim Just as
she was entering her dock at $50 o'clock
today. A gang of men were hauling
at heavy line that had
steamer to the dock. when the pressure 81 caus
ed by the wind caused the heavy
hauser to suddenly part with report like
that of small cannon. The men were
thrown violently to the deck, and
were entangled in the rapidly running line
For a moment the vessel swung off be-
fore the gale, and seemed in peril of a
collision with a neighboring dock, but
the GOODNESS of the officers averted this
danger Meanwhile some of the passengers
ran to the assistance of the men who had
been thrown to the deck, and it was found
that Second Mate Thomas Kelly and
Deckhands William Condor, Henry Hanson
and John McHardy had received severe
contusions. When the. boat was docked
Policeman Finnerty, who was on duty at
the landing, rang up an ambulance, and the
injured men were taken to the Chambers
Street Hospital.
The high wind had marked influence on
the tide 1t had reached an unusually high
stage at ten o'clock this morning. Boatmen
along the water front said the tide was
never so high, except when driven in by
some terrific storm
Along the Battery front the water of the
bay was almost on level with the top of the
stone wall The water, however,
under the influence of the snow storm,
was comparatively calm. Along
the East River it was almost on level
with the street. It lifted up the scores Of
sailing vessels and steamships in their berths
along South street, SO that curious picture
was presented along the roadway At a dis
tance 1t looked as though the vessels were
actually on the street, as the jibbooms and
spars of many projected half way across the
street.
Many cellars along the water front were
flooded by the invading sea water, which
backed in through sewers and drainage pipes.
Ocean tug Underwater was sunk as she
was trying to make landing at the dock at
Watsons stores, Brooklyn.
The Underwater was just entering her
slip, pier 8, at half past ten A. M, when
big wave jammed her port bow against the
end of the stringpiece which jutted out, and
knocked big hole in her hold.
The tide was high and running very strong
at the time. Captain Clifford and the crew
of sixteen men were aboard, and as soon as
they saw the ship sinking some scrambled up
on the deck and others got aboard tug
lying near by. No one was hurt.
The Underwater has a registry of 327
tons, and was built in Philadelphia in 1868
She recently came from Boston, and belongs
to the Boston Towboat Company. Usually
she carries crew of fifteen men.
The storm did great damage to telegraph
wires, especially between this city and Phila-
delphia and between Buffalo and Albany.
Many wires and poles were blown down.
A Gale at Quarantine.
QUARANTINE, s. l., April II, 1s94--A
heavy northeast gale is blowing here. The
shore is Uttered with driftwood and light
wreckage No steamers have passed in this
morning. The big Hamburg American
liner Columbia, from Genoa, which anchored
here last night, was cleared this morning
and proceeded to Hoboken. At midnight
the wind was reported to be blowing at the
rate of sixty miles an hour, and at three
A. M the instrument registered sixty-nine
miles per hour. At half past nine the wind
has a force Of fully forty miles The tide
fell barely two feet, and an extremely high
tide is expected at about noon. No wrecks
are as vet reported on the Staten Island
shore. A number of pilot boats, sailing yes
sells and one steamer are storm-bound and at
anchor off Stapleton. The storm appears to
be moderating, but the food tide creates a
nasty short sea.
Fall of Ten Inches.
ROCHESTER,, F. Y, April II, 1894. The
ground and forests throughout Genesee VAL
and heavy snow which is still falling. At
Canandaigua the fall is ten inches, and many
small trees have succumbed to the heavy
weight of snow The sIeighing is fine.