Evening star., 1895-02-09
DAMAGE At CAPE BRETON.
Most Destructive of Any Storm In
Thirty Years.


Thirty Years.
HALIFAX, ~ s.. February 9.-The latest
information from Cape Breton indicates
that the recent storm has been the most
destructive experienced there in thirty
years. Great damage was done at South
Igonish and for thirty miles along the
gulf shore. The nineteen houses and three
stores washed away were built on a mar
row rocky penensula called THE beach,"
which divides the sea from the harbor.
There are less than 100 people in the ham,
let The beach is very narrow and low. on
one side being the Atlantic and on the
ether the harbor and it is exposed to the
full fury of the sea when driven in by an
easterly or southeasterly storm.
The houses were small ones occupied by
fishermen. There were three ordinary
stores and boarding houses. Some OF the
houses were vacant, the owners occupy
ing them in summer only. The gale was
accompanied by an unusually high tide
which swept over the beach with great
violence. So great was the force or the
sea that large sized rocks were carried
through the frail houses. The houses were
soon undermined. then wrecked and hoated
out to sea with their contents. Every
thing was lost, but the inhabitants escap-
ed and no lives are known as yet to have
been lost.
Reports from the interior of the state
tell of the continuance of the great storm.
Trains on the Central Hudson are from hve
to twenty-four hours late. The Duanes-
burgh and Mechanicville branches or the
Delaware and Hudson railway have been
entirely abandoned. and no effort Will be
made to open them until the storm abates
The Geneseo branch Of the Erie Is blocked.
the train which left Geneseo at 4:52 this
morning being blocked in snow drift two
miles north No mails have been received
at Geneseo since yesterday.
Several members OF the legislature are
on the stalled train that left this city yes
tertIay morning. No trains have been run
over this road since late Thursday night,
and none are expected to be run before
Monday. Below Bridgeville there IS drllt
half a mile long and ten feet deep.
In Sussex county hundreds of birds, rab-
bits and chickens are being killed by the
cold Funerals had to be postponed on &C
count of the impossible condition OF the
roads.
sixteen miles up the coast is New Haven,
another cove of some thirty families. Here
the houses are built back on the shore, bat
the fish houses and the stores are on ane
beach. These buildings, with their con-
tents valued at $4,000. went. as did those
of South ISonish, being swept out TO sea
with all they contained.
At MiddIehead and other places along the
coast fish houses, huts and fishing gear
were destroyed.
The wind blew with hurricane force,
hacking up the waters of the st. Lawrence
en- the eastern cape Breton coast lIoii
eighteen inches to two feet higher than
the highest spring tides. The whole island
of Cape Breton is blocked with snow and
wires are almost completely Frustrated.
Notes of the Storm.
DENVER, Col, February 9.-Snow began
falling rapidly shortly before midnight
and already several inches are on the
ground. The thermometer has fallen from
% to Is above zero since the storm began.
The local weather observer predicts an i'm
mediate and severe cold wave In colorado
and western Kansas and Nebraska.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. February 9.-The
live stock exchange has appropriated $500
for the destitute farmers, giving S1.oOO to
Kansans $50 each to Oklahoma and Ne
braska sufferers and $1,000 for home char
Ity The money will be distributed i'm
mediately.
HUNTINGTON, Ind, February 9.-Chas.
Reichard and Jacob Flenstein. cigarmak-
ers, started out for a sleigh ride last night,
and at a late hour were found on street
on the edge of the city so badly frozen
that they cannot recover
! wATERTOWN NJ Y, February 9-An
ice bridge has been formed across the ST.
Lawrence river at Louisville. The water
is very swift and the danger OF a gorge
BIZ reason of the bridge Is so great that
dynamite will be used to dislodge the Ice.
THE ice bridge is believed to have been
utilized by smugglers.
PORT CHESTER. N. Y, February o.
The river and harbor about Port Chester
is completely icebound. There is much
| suffering among the poor of this village.
| There is scarcity of coal and provisions
| The market boats remain last In the Ice
| and are likely to continue there for days
to come. Reports received here from the
| towns along the sound are to the erect
| that the sound is completely choked up
with ice from City Island down to White
Stone Long Island. Navigation on the
| sound Is suspended
CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 0.-The
Ohio river closed here today, and is now
| frozen over from the mouth of the Big
Miami near Lawrencburg. Ind, to Four
| Mile Bar above the city. There Is gorge
! reported at Portsmouth and from there to
Pittsburg the river is practically closed.
| ATLANTA, Ca, February 9.-Advices
| from Marshville in the heart Of the peach
| belt are to the effect that the young buds
| have been killed. and that the growers are
uneasy about the consequences OF the
freeze of crop. though they are not yet
known to be serious.