The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-10
WINTER N IF EASI
WIND BLEW sEVENTY-Two MILES
AN HOUR IN NEW YORK
CITY
SNOW IN NORTHERN new YORK
FIRST APPRECTABLE FALL is
NOTED IN THE ADIRONDACK
REGION
SMALL SHIPPING IS DAMAGED
Tide at COney Island Was the High
est on Record-TeIegraph
Service Is BADLY
Crippled.


NEW YORK, Nov. 9.--The first touch
of wintry weather came to town today
in the trail of west wind, which, at
II o'clock this morning, was blowing at
the rate of seVenty-tWo miles an hour
1t made a sluiceWay Of Lower Broad
way and the narrow downtown streets
lifting off hats and playing a thousand
and one pranks with the unwary pedes-
trians who rounded corners incaut;oesly
AT the top of the skyscrapers windows
ratified and papers blew around at a
lively rate.
AS the day advanced the wind became
stronger, until along in the afternoon
1t had reached a velocity OF sixty-five
miles. Up to 10 o'clock tonight no loss
Of life had been reported in New York
city Or Brooklyn, but stories of dam
ages to buildings in the city and suburbs
were numerous.
Sing Sing reports a. severe gale accom-
panied by rain all over Westchester coun-
ty. Many row boats and small yachts
anchored In the Hudson were swamped
or drifted away. The river ran very
high and the waves, breaking against
the stone wall along the tracks of the
Hudson River railroad,, drenched the
cars and dashed the spray in heavy
ing the tinid women folks jump back
in tlAeir seats. Telegraph and te!e-
phone wires were broken down all over
the county by falling branches of trees,
some Of the limbs being the main por-
ton of the original tree. Some trees
were uprooted and toppled over.
HURRICANE FORCE.
The wind blew with the force of a
hurricane over Staten Island. Signs,
trees and wires were laid low, and The
trolley service was stopped for some
time.
The United States mails to and from
Shelter Island are held UP, as the ferry
boats are unable to cross this island
to Greenport. A number of business
men from Shelter Island and the schol-
ars at the high school who live here
and cross daily to Greenport could not
get home.
The slcop Gypsey, Capt. Fordham, is
beached on Shelter Island. and in running
ashore went upon a rock and stove big
hole ir her hull The sle,5p Minnie, Capt.
Cotton, went out with cIose-reefed aSlSs
and had them torn out Of her.-She drift
ed helplessly for q time, but finally
ran irto sheltered spot, and Capt Cot
tom succeeded in anchOring and is safe.
Several steamers of the American Fish
cries company the Manhaden fishers,
ran into port here today FOR shelter, and
are riding out the storm in safety.
The Staten Island ferry boats were
tossed about like chips, and many Of the
women passengers were seasick. The
boats were unable to make schedule time
and were late on all of their trips. Big
tows of barges, in tow of the Leigh Val
ley railroad, the Amber Towing company
and others, being unable to make any
progress in the face of the gale, sought
shelter by tying up at their tows at the
Standard Oil company docks at Bay
onne, awaiting the gales abatement
Garbage tows from Manhattan We're un-
able to go to sea and are tied up safely
at Tompkinsville, s. I.
SNOW IN THE ADIRONDACKS.
1t is much colder than yesterday, and
in Northern New York snow storms are
reported. Throughout the Adirondack
district and in Saratoga there was mole
than an inch Of snow on the ground at
noon today.
On the coast the wind became so high
that the marine observer, In the Sandy
Hook tower was forced to leave his post
because the building swayed so much
that he feared it would collapse.
All telegraphic service out of New
York was badly crippled by the storm,
and the telegrams and press dispatches
moved very slowly.
The gale caused high tides at Coney ISL
and, said to be the highest ever known
there. The entire meadows in the rear
of the island were one sheet of water,
which reached up to the old Gravesend
road, fully one mile from Coney Island
An old shell road between Coney Island
and Gravesend was four feet deep In