New-York tribune., 1896-10-01
DAMAGE BY THE STORM.
CITY'S LUCKY ESCAPE FROM
THE WORST PART OF THE GALE.

MrsHAPs TO sHTPPING-THE VOYAGE OF
CRIPPLED BARK
-York's proverbial good luck was In full evil
dence Yesterday when the hurricane that ragged on
Tuesday night in the South Atlantic states which
was working northward directly for this city, and
was scheduled descend upon II In the early
morning hours disappeared mysteriously In Nir-
ginia The extent of the devastation which the
storm was expected to cause here has been par
tally revealed by the few incomplete reports re-
ceived from in and around Savannah, where the
storm ragged dercely Tuesday night There the
damage is reckoncd among the million. and the
loss of life was only little short OF Oxen per-
sons
All the wires of the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph companies south OF Philadelphia were
broken down, and only meagre details OF the
storms destruction have been received from sou'n
of that point. II may be several days before tuli
communication with the South Is re-estabshed'
and the full amount of damage done there learned
The Western Union had succeeded last evening In
getting wire to Washington and Baltimore but
had no communication further south.
The storm that did reach this city In the early
| evening OF Tuesday. which was expected 10 de-
| velop into a hurricane such raging then in
| the South attained its height at between ana
| O'Clock Yesterday morning The wind at that time
was blowing from the northeast at a rate close on
to sixty miles hour. and the rain was coming
down in floods. The storm did not fulh IN IN
tensity the prophecies Of the local weather burtdu
but Il was sufficient. There only trifing dam
age done about the city and to the shipping IN
port The Weather Bureau had given ample warn
ing of the approach Of the storm by hurricane
signals a red flag by day and red lamps and a
searchlight by night, so that mariners were weF
prepared for It. Only one accident reported IL
the ha rbor. that of soop yacht driven from her
moorings at Bay Ridge up TO and upon Bedlow
Island. She was pulled off by the tug Wetherell.
A few vessels from outside. however came limping
into port whose battered condition told of the fury
of the gale they had encountered at sea The most
damaged Of these was the Norwegian bark Rosen-
berg. Captain Thorsen, which left Pensacola on sep
tember with cargo Of lumber. bound for Rio de
Janeiro. When 24O miles off the west coast or Ber-
muda on September %, the Rosenberg ran into a
gale. then calm. and then cyclone, Wnicn sent
the rolling over the vessel. They swept her
from stem to stern. carrying away her deck load
Her fore topmast and topgallantmast went by the
board. her rudder pin snapped ana ner starposrd
vessel was the mercy OF the wind and sea Her
crew mad to lash themselves to the riggins 70 svo,
the captain made this port with temporarily rsged
rudder. , - .o,,,
The Rosenberg had anchored inside Sandy HOOK.
At the height of the blow her port ancaor 9 cnsi
up Quarantine, where she lies. very much the
The British steamship Aloedene. from Hamburg.
the Italian bark Harrington. the British bark Strain,
muir and the British schooner Arthur NJ. Gibson all
The Weather Bureau said that besides the storm.
which originated around Cuba and worked III norm, IN
ward there was another that came down on me tne
lake region from the northwest YESTERDAY this
storm had abated in intensity and seemed 10 10 oe DC
touch NewYork. At the bureau up to II ciocR r. last
night. had received reports from south OF Pnila.
appeared in Virginia The, forecastsr however;
nartIon of + than that which visited this section
early yesterday morning. He said that today would
be partly cloudy. possibly with local showers and
slightly cooler.