The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-01-04
1895 Goes Out in a Blizzard.

BUFFALO, n. Y, December 31.-This city
was swept by terrific windstorm last night,
which attained a velocity of 10 miles an hour.
Along the water front Easements were mum
dated driving the occduants out into the
storm with such of their household effects as
they could carry. Ryan's floating elevator
broke away from its moorings at the foot of
Ferry street, and drifted down the river.
The roof of the Kellogg Iron Works was
blown off. Strawberry Island and Squaw
Island are completely submerged, and the
waters of Niagara River are seething and
roaring like mountain torrent The Erie
Canal has overi1owed its banks in many
places.
TRENTON, n. j., December 31.-The ter
rife windstorm early this morning did much
damage at Ewing, about two miles from here.
The steeple of the Ewing Presbyterian Church
and about ten tons of stone from the tower on
which the steeple rested were blown down,
falling across the read in front of the edifce.
The damage is about $4,000. Sheds and trees
and large monument in the cemetery adjoin-
ing the church were also blown down.
PITTsBURG, Pa, December 3l.-FOllowing
the heavy rain yesterday, a blizzard struck
Pittsburg about ten O'Clock last night, and
ragged until daylight. The wind attained a
velocity of 80 miles an hour, blowing down
AWNINGS anu OLneT lilseGuTe HAluTtS dboul lht
oity, but doing no great damage. Telegraph
wires were Frustrated, and communication
with the East was entirely cut off until nearly
noon today. The mercury dropped twenty
five degrees in ten hours.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, December 31.-To-
day the river below the Falls was thirty feet
higher than usual, the water reaching the
roofs ofthe houses on the docks. The dock
on the Canadian side was torn from its foun-
dations, and about $500 damages was done
the abntments for the new arch bridge on the
Canadian shores The upper bridge trembled
in the gale in an alarming way, but sustained
no damage as far as observable. When the
wind abated the water began subsiding, and
by evening had reached its common level.
ST. CATHERINE, ONT., December 31.-The
wind blew 80 miles an hour at a. m. The
storm was followed by intense cold.
DUNKIRK,, n. Y, December 31.-A terri
fic windstorm prevailed through Chautauqua
county last night, doing much damage to tel
egraphic and telephone communication be-
tween towns, and in this city almost prostrat-
ing the electric light wires. A heavy snow
fall follows in the wake of the squall.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Dec. 31.-The worst
storm Montreal has suffered for years began
last night. Up to this time no lives have
been lost, but the damage is extensive. Tele-
phone and telegraph wires are down every
where, roofs have been blown off in different
parts of the city, and the tower Of the new
Anglican Church in st. Gabriel came down
at $50 A. NJ. All through the province of
Quebec great damage was done by the storm,
which attained speed of seventy-fve miles
an hour, the greatest experienced here during
twenty-five years. No fatalities have yet been
reported in the country, but at Valois a barn
containing horse was carried quite dis
lance, and at St. Anne de La Parade some
dykes of new bridge we're carried away.
Providence, r. l., December 81. The
effects of the storm last night along the east
ern shore of Narragansett Bay were more
severe than any experienced since the mem
orable September gale of 1869.
At Bristol the gale seemed TO be most severe.
Washodts along the Providence, Warren and
Bristol branch of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad so undermined the
rails that traffic was delayed for several hours.
The government launch Caster was badly
damaged, and the main railway at the HERES
hoffs shipyard was wrecked.
At Buzzards Bay, Mass, the gale was very
severe. The chief damage sustained was that
along the tracks of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad between here and
Bourne.
Along the coast of Maine terrific storm
ragged all night. The wind from southeast
blew gale, and was accompanied by torrents
of rain. The disturbance was followed by
high tide. Wharves were submerged and
cellars of storehouses were flooded.