Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-27
Violence Of the Wind in the
Eastern States.
BRITISH OIL STEAMER BLOWN ASHORE
Roof of a Church Crushed in,
Causing a Panic.
ALONG THE JERSEY COAST

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, December 81
There were no disasters to shipping in the
Delaware river along the coast as a re-
suit of last nights severe blow. The Brit
ish oil steamer Chigweu was blown
aground in the river but she will be float
ed without damage at high tide.
Continued but Ten Minutes.
The wind storm which passed over this
portion of the country last night continued
for only about ten minutes. but 1t wrought
much damage while it lasted. In this city
1t reached d velocity of sixty miles an hour,
and houses were unroofed. trees uprooted
and electric wires prostrated, and reports
of a similar character come from various
cities and towns in this state and New Jer-
sey.
In Philadelphia the most serious accident
occurred at the Mariners Church on the
river front, where Christmas celebration
was in progress. The chimney of a tall
building adjoining was blown over on the
roof of the church. The bricks crushed the
roof in, causing panic among those pres
eEt. Women tainted and were trampled
under the feet of the terrified crowd, but
fortunately nobody was seriously hurt.
In Camden and other portions of New
Jersey the storm was severe in is effect.
The Pennsylvania railroad car shop at Pa
Vonia was blown down, causing $4,000
damage. Eight new cars were smashed and
two locomotives were badly damaged. Four
hundred Workmen are temporarily thrown
out of employment by the disaster.
The shed of the Camden and Atlantic rail-
road in Camden was blown down, causing a
loss OF 5000.
In and around Chester, Pa. fully one hun
dred buildings were unroofed Although the
air was full of flying debris for a few min
utes, only few people were hurt, none SER
iously.
At Lebanon. Pa, the wind tore the roof
from the three-story building Of the Leba-
non Match Company, blew down one wall,
and then the wreck caught fire and was
completely destroyed. Loss $2J.UOO
Today the sun is shining brightly. and the
only apparent effect of the destructive
storm, which was cycloaic in it's character,
is the lower temperature. The weather
bureau people here say the storm. which
yesterday morning, Travelled across the
country with railroad speed, and Is today
making Its presence felt in Quebec
BOSTON, December PA storm of wind
sleet and rain began at IL o'clock last
night. and at o'clock this morning was
blowing a forty-mile rate, leveling tele-
phone and telegraph wires, blowing CHM
heys over and breaking windows. Tele-
graphic communication has been seriously
interfered with. The storm and wind sub
SIDED soon after daylight, and the sun rose
in cloudless sky.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, December 81
A severe storm struck this city shortly after
IL O'Clock last night and did considerable
udHndse 10 trees anu wires. n large part or
the city was in darkness for the rest of
the night, the electric wires going down.
due in considerable degree to falling trees
Trolley wires suffered in like manner.
NEW YORK, December 27.-The storm of
last night was the most severe this vicinity
has experienced since the establishment of
the weather bureau. At o'clock the veloc-
ity of the wind was eighty miles an hour,
five miles beyond the highest previous rec
ord for this city. The temperat ature has fall
len degrees in twenty-four hours. At
Long Branch the maximum velocity of the
wind was seventy-two miles an hour, and
at Sandy Hook, ffty-two miles an hour
Heavy rain fell along the path of the
storm, the record here showing 23 100 inch