Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-02-13
WROUGHT MUCH HAVOC.
Detailed Account of the Great Dam
age Done by the
Waves.

Halifax, n. S., Feb. 9.--The latest in
formation from Cape Breton indicates
that the storm has been the most de-
structiye experienced there in thirty
years. Great damage was done at South
1ngonish and for thirty miles along the
gulf shore. The nineteen houses and
three stores washed away were built on
narrow, rocky peninsula called 1.-THE
beach," which divides the sea from the
harbor. There are less than 100 people
In the hamlet. The beach is very mar
row and low, on one side being the At
lantic and on the other the harbor, and
it is exposed to the full fury of the sea
when driven IN by an easterly or south
easterly storm. The houses were small
ones occupied by fishermen. There were
three ordinary stores and boarding
houses. Some of the houses were va
cant, the owners occupying them in sum-
mer only.
The gale was accompanied by an IN
usually high tide, which was swept over
the beach with great violence. So great
was the force that large rocks were car
rjed through the frail houses. The
houses were soon undermined, then
wrecked and foated out to sea with their
contents. Everything was lost, but the
inhabitants escaped and no lives are as
yet known to be lost. Sixteen miles up
the coast is New Haven, another cove
with some thirty families. Here the
houses are built back on the shore, but the
beach. These buildings with their con-
tents valued at $4,000 went as did those
of South Ingonish, being swept out to
sea with all they contained.
At Middle Head and other places along
the coast fish houses, huts and fishing
gear were destroyed. The wind blew
with hurricane force, bringing up the
for Of hn Law f.
ern Cape Brenton coast from eighteen
inches to two feet higher than the high
est spring tides. The whole island of
Cape Brenton is blocked with snow and
wires are almost completely Frustrated.
Pittsburg. Pa, Feb. 9-The lowest
point reached by the thermometer at the
weather bureau last night was 4 degrees
below zero, but private thermometers
registered as low as degrees below.
The blizzard swept over this section furi-
ously all night and caused great suffering
among the poor. Trains are running IT.
regularly on all the roads east Of here
and one train on the Pennsylvania road
from New York which was due yesterday
morning arrived this morning at 7:3O.
All Western trains are from one to four
hours late. A number of people were
picked up on the streets and rescued from
death by freezing, but no fatalities have
been reported. The mercury still hOVerS
about zero this morning and the local OBJ
server has little of comfort to offer in the
way Of predictions for the next twelve
hours.
Philadelphia, Pa, Feb "a passenger
train, which left here shortly after 4
o'clock on the Pennsylvania railroad this
morning, had a head-end collision with
locomotive 1T Paoli wrecking and derail-
ing the latter and disabling the engine
drawing the train. Several passengers
were injured. Only about a dozen mar
ketmen reached here today and butter,
which had been selling at % cents, went
up to 81 a pound. Ninety cents is asked
for q dozen eggs