The record-union., 1896-09-30
Water Forced From the Bed of the
River Into the Streets,
A Great Storm Reported at the East,
Extending From Pittsburg to New
York-fIavOC Played With Tele-
graph WireS-The Lower Part of
Everett, Pennsylvania, Flooded.


southeast hurricane struck this city at
IL o'clock tonight. Houses were un-
rooted, wires prostrated, windows
smashed and signboards blown from
their fastenings. The high wind forced
the water in the harbor up into the bed
of streets, and almost the entire north
ern water front is submerged. Several
schoOners that were tied up at Pratt
street wharf broke from their moor
ings and are resting in Pratt street.
The floors of many warehouses are
flooded Several street car lines were
rendered useless, and many belated
passengers were drenched while seek
ing places of shelter or transferring to
the more fortunate car lines.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany reports at midnight that their
wires are down in all directions.
HEAVY RAINFALL AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Sept 29-Chicago was
tonight drenched with rain which be-
gan falling early in the afternoon, and
at midnight continued to fall with a
persistency that promises to cause
much inconvenience to electric COM
munication with other cities.
AT the East a great storm is reported
over a territory extending from Pitts
bGle to Washington and New York
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany reports the loss Of many wires
East and South, and In consequence
telegraphic business was greatly ham
pered and delayed If not entirely
abandoned in some districts.
HAVOC PLAYED WITH WIRES
PITTSBURG, Sept. 9.-Heavy rain fell
during the day and tonight, and has
east of here, no communication having
been had with Washington since IL
O'Clock. or with Harrisburg and Phila-
delphia 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 tele-
graph communication it is almost i'm
possible to obtain any information of
the damage done by the floods. Severe
damage is reported along the southern
border of the State, and at Cumberland,
Maryland and Grafton. Pa, where
bridees are gone and other damage
done
EVERETT FLOODED.
EVERETT Pa), Sept. 29.-A heavy
flood followed the steady downpour to-
night and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road bridge was washed away. All tel
egraphic lines are down. The lower part
of the town is inundated. Traffic on the
Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain
is suspended, because of submerged
tracks. The water rushed down a mar
row gap and rose at an alarming rate.
Everett is directly east of Bedford, the
county seat of Bedford County. All
mountain streams are raging torrents.
Their narrow passes are choking the
floods. The loss to farmers and in vii
lagos along the lower lands will be
heavy.
FURIOUS GALE AT NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-A furious
wind, accompanied by heavy rain
swept this city tonight. and it is
likely to continue with unabated force
for some hours tomorrow. The storm
was threatening all day to-day, but the
first intimation that a hurricane was
approaching came in the shape of a
dispatch from the Washington Weather
Bureau in the afternoon to local Fore
caster Dunn, informing him to hoist
storm signals on the Weather Bureau
and warn shipping that it would be
dangerous to leave port.
Incoming vessels continue to bring re-
ports Of storms at sea. All that ar
rived to-day experienced gales while
several suffered damage. The British
steamship Alodene, from Hamburg, ran
into a Strong westerly gale September
23d, and was boarded by a huge sea
which swept the whole length cf the
vessel 1t smashed the jollyboat. badly
damaged the lifeboat. shattered the en-
gine-room skylight, broke the ventila-
tors, flooded the galleys and did minor
damage about the decks. The italian
bark Harrington, on September 23d,
in the Gulf stream. was struck by q
gale from the north northeast. which
lasted fourteen hours. She lost some
sail and had others split. The British
schooner Arthur A. Gibson arrived via
He'll Gate. She reported losing her fore
| topmast during a heavy north-north-
west wind off Prince Edwards Island