The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-04-11
STORM DOES
GREAT DAMAGE.
Telegraph Service Crippled
and Incoming Steam.
ships Delayed.
AND THE WORST IS NOT YET,
Weather Forecaster Dunn Says
We Are in for a Spell Of
Nasty Weather.
NEW YORK THE ONLY SUFFERER.
Farmers Unable TO Get to This
City with Their Mer-
chandise.

"rhis Is pretty fine April weather, I
don't think" was Weather Forecaster
Dunn's greeting this morning. Then he
gaZed out of his back window at the
weather machines. which were buzzing
away fifty feet above him on their big
iron tower, and sighed.
II can't stop 'em. either, until hear
from the South, and every wire is down
In that direction"
At II o'clock Mr. Dunn could not even
give New Workers the comforting assur-
ance that the worst of the storm had
passed. The meagre reports received
at the local weather bureau this fore
noon tended to show that New York
is In for about as uncomfortable day
| as 1t has experienced for many a year.
Added to the snow and rain was a
high wind from the north and east.
which hummed along at the rate OF
| forty miles an hour. At Block Island
tlie wind measuring machines registered
la vetoctty of nifty six miles an hour, and
at Sandy Hook the indicator pointed tc
the number which showed that the
northeaster was hustling by that point
at the rate of sixty-four miles every
sixty minutes
THE high winds" continued Mr.. Dunn.
''are blowing along the whole coast of
the Middle Atlantic and New England
States, but a strange feature Of the
storm is that not a drop OF rain or a
flake OF snow has fallen north of New
York. Even Block Island and Albany
are dry as a chip.
| From what I can learn this morn
ing the storm looks as II 1t was still
south OF us, with the storm centre a
little to the west There is a nasty fog
all along the coast. too, which makes II
bad fol- vessels at sea.
New Workers. may get little salts
faction out of life by looking backward
Last April there was snow and sleet on
the It'll from A. NJ. until p. NJ.
Previous April storms.
ION April Is, 1892, we had snow, ant
April 8, of the previous year. there wal
quite a heavy fall. However, the entir,
condition of this month so far has beer
exceptionally cold"
The wind and snow have played havoc
with the telegraph wires of both tht
Companies.
Many Wires Down.
Supt. Humstone, of the Western Union
lions, but that owing 10 the lack Of com
munication he could form no idea of the
full extent of the trouble. All message!
for the South and West were received
Manager George H. Usher, OF tbs
hand through his iron-gray locks ant
looked worried when asked how hi
wires were working.
He said that n wreck Of some freight
cars between here, and Philadelphia haC
4 la. 81 49,.
there was no, communication between
New York and the Quaker City.
All Western business was interrupted
We said and w Eat the to w sap
messages South and West were told tina
they would be taken subject to delay.
The mails were not so seriously affect.
ed by the storm. At least that was wha'
the Superintendent of the Mails. at th'
Post-Ofiice, said at 10 o'clock.
All the mails had been coming In reg
ularly, he said up to that time: There
at II o'clock. which had not yet been
heard OF owing to the fact that the
wires We're down.
Steamers Delayed.
There are several big transa tlanti,
liners which should arrive TODAY,
The White Star steamer Majestic
should have been sighted at an earl,
hour this morning; also the freiThte
Tauric, OF the same line. Other steamer
which should have put in an appearance
to-day are the Britannia, 20 days GU
from Sunderland the Circassia, 10 day
out from Glasgow; the Croft, from
Dundee. 20 days out: the Pontiac, Han
del and Kolga, out 49, 90 and p DAYS re
! spectively from Gibraltar; the Lydial
Monarch, from London, IS days out
the Martello II days from Hull, and th
Red Sea, from Barry, % days out.
, 1t is thought, however that the steam
ers are lying on shore until the storm
. nbates. and will then all come stringini
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