The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30

partially blown down and the roofs were
lifted from two rows of operatives cot
tages. No one was injured.
CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. 29.-Chicago was
tonight drenched with rain, which began
falling early in the afternoon, and at
Midnight continued to fall with a per-
sistency that promises to cause much in
convenience to electric communication
with outside cities.
AT the East great storm is reported
over territory extending from Pittsburg
to Washington and New YORK. The West
ern Union Telegraph Company reports the
loss OF many wires east and south and in
consequences telegraphic business was
greatly hampered and delayed, if not en-
tirely abandoned in some districts.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Sept. %. - Heavy
rainfall during the day and to- night has
wrought havoc with the telegraph lines
east of here, no communication having
been had WITH Washington since IL o'clock
or with Harrisburg or Philadelphia since
midnight. East of the mountains the rain
IS reported to have been accompanied by
high wind, to which the prostration of
telegraph lines is probably due. In the
absence OF telegraph communication it is
almost impossible to obtain any informa-
ton in regard to the damage done by the
storm. Severe foods are reported along
the southern border of this State and be-
tween Cum berland, Nd, and Grafton, W,
Va, where bridges were reported to have
been washed away, but no particulars are
obtainable.
EVERETT, Pa, Sept ga heavy
flood followed the steady downpour to-
night and the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road bridge was washed away. All teIe-
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of the town is inundated. Traffic on the
Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain
Railroad is suspended because of SUBJ
merged tracks. The water rushed down
narrow gap and rose at an alarming rate.
Everett is directly east of Bedford, the
county seat OF Bedford County. All noun
tain streams are raging torrents. Their
narrow passes are choking the floods.
The loss TO farmers and in villages along
the lower lands will be heavy.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Sept. pa severe
southeast hurricane struck this city at IL
o'clock tonight. Houses were unroofed,
wires Frustrated, windows smashed and
signboards blown from their fastenings.
The high wind forced the water in the
harbor up into the bed of the streets and
almost the entire northern water front is
submerged. Several schooners that were
tied up at Pratt-street wharf broke from
their moorings and are resting in Pratt
street.
The lower floors of many warehouses
are flooded. The storm, accom- panied by
heavy downpour of rain, arrived at the
time OF closing of the theaters. Several
streetcar lines were rendered useless and
many belated passengers were drenched
while seeking places of shelter or trans
erring TO the more fortunate car lines.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
reports at midnight that their wires are
down in all directions.
NEW YORK, n. Y, Sept. ga furious
wind, accompanied by heavy rain, swept
this city tonight, and it is likely to con-
tinue with unabated force for some hours
to morrow. The storm was threatening
all day to-day, but the first intimation
that hurricane was approaching came
in the shape of a dispatch from the Wash
ington Weather Bureau in the afternoon
to local Forecaster Dunn, informing him
to hoist storm signals on the weather
bureau tower and warn shipping that it
would be dangerous to leave port.
Incoming vessels continue to bring re-
ports of storms at sea. All that arrived
to-day experienced gales, while several
suffered damage. The British steamer
AlodeDe. from Hamburg, ran into q strong
westerly gale September % and was
boarded by huge sea, which swept the
whole length of the vessel.
1t smashed the jolly-boat, badly dam
aged the lifeboat, shattered the engine
room skylight, broke the ventilators
flooded the galleys and did minor damage
about the decks.
The Italian bark Harrington on Septem-
ber % in tue Gulf stream was struck by a
gale from the north-northeast which
lasted fourteen hours. She lost some sails
and had others split.
The British schooner Arthur NJ. Gibson
arrived via He'll Gate. She reported losing
her foretopmast during a heavy north
northwest wind off Prince Edward Island.