The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-02-26
WIRES DOWN
FROM STORM
High Wind Strikes San
Francisco.
SHIPS BREAK M00RNGS
The Bay Stirred Into a Tenn
pestu0us, Sea.
Many Tents at the Prssidio Lsvsled
by the wind-Trees, Fences,
Awnings and Chimneys
- Are Frustrated.

heaviest southwest storms that has been
experienced in many years struck this
city this morning. The wind attained
great velocity. blowing forty-hve miles
an hour In the city, while at Point Reyes
1t reached sixty miles at 7t3o o'clock.
Ships dragged their anchors or broke
their moorings at their docks. a fishing
boat was capsized, the telephone and
electric wires were blown down and
awnings, shade trees and fences were
wrecked and pedestrians were greatly
inconvenienced. reIesraphic communica.
ton with the outside world was cut OF.
The full force Of the storm was felt on
the bay and the bar was 20 rough that
vessels were unable to leave port North
of the ferries craft Of all sorts was tossed
about like eggsheils. The violent south
winds stirred the bay into q rolling tenn
pestuous sea, against which anchors
were almost futile. Swell after swell.
each apparently heavier than the one
preceding, pounded the vessels from the
southerly direction and sent them drift
ing in dangerous proximity to one an
other, drove them close to the piers and
to the islands. anu kept the tow boats
busily engaged in efforts to prevent dis
aster.
Ship Like Drunken Sailor.
The transport Soiace. with nothing but
800 tons Of coal to keep her down, broke
from her anchorage of Beale Street and
careened about the bay like drunken
sailor. She drifted broadside on until q
collision with the Government steamer
Albtaross seemed imminent, but she
veered on In the nick Of time. The wind
and thu swell caused her to drift help
Iessiy, sending her finally toward the
transport wharf at Folsom Street. The
officers OF the service gathered on the
pier, fully expecting the Solace 70 crash
Into the wharf. Fortunately the direc-
ton of the swell carried the transport
around until she Just cleared the buffer
and swung out into the stream.
The transports Hancock and Rosecrans,
which arrived from Manila last night.
remained in the stream. No effort was
made to land their passengers.
The San Francisco lightship, No. 70. To-
Gated seven miles from Point Lobos,
parted her moorings during the height Of
the storm and was soon drifting toward
the harbor. which she finally made.
At the time she went astray, the wind
was blowing at the rate of seventy miles
an hour.
Three three-story houses were blown
down in the Mission district. The gale
as II swept over The Preside reserva-
ton left in it's trail wreck and ruin. The
signal officers of the reservation say that
one time during the morning the wind
was blowing at the rate OF sixty miles
an hour.
Tents Blown Away.
Dozens Of tents were wrenched from
n,.1 fad
high in the air were landed yards away
where they were afterwards gathered up
by the rain soaked soldiers who had
fought so hard to save them. The ma
jority of the tents simply collapsed under
the pressure of the wind. To the SOL
diers the wreck of the tents was a seri-
GUS affair for the majority Of them had
all their possessions under the tents and
before they could collect their belong
ings they were thoroughly soaked by rain
In the residence portion of the city,
bordering on the military reservation.
much damage was done to high fences
and lofty chimneys.
Professor A. c. McAdie Of the Weather
Bureau, made the following statement:
AT 5 a. m. the pressure at Neah Bay
was 20 inches, which is the lowest record
ed this year. The pressure as far south
as Roseburg, Oregon, was 29.10, thus
showing for over four hundred miles
along the northern coast pressure sell
dom indicated on the barometric map.
'At $3.50 at the Weather Bureau. the
barometer read 2S35 inches which re-
duced to sea level. gives 29.5i inches, the
lowest noted here for a long time. The
lowest pressure previously recorded at
the Weather Bureau was thirty-one
years ago. a pressure of 29.1o inches be-
ing recorded on February %. 1871.
Near Galveston Storm Record.
'Today's recorded pressure is barely
on inch more than that at the time Of
the Galveston storm year ago The
pressure at that time was 2S.4S which
is the lowest ever recorded in the United
States.
1.-THE wind at 9:45 this morning was
blowing at the rate of forty-four miles
an hour and the direction was south
east
The storm will spread over the entire
country west of tho Rock Mountains.
Southeast storm warnings were hoisted
this morning along the entire coast from
Eureka to Santiago.
81 am afraid that the storm will do
considerable mischief at sea and there
NAV be danger also along the rising
rivers" concluded Professor Meade.