The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-10
From Virginia to New
York Winds Rage.
GREAT DAMAGE
ALONG SEABOARD
Wind Accompanied by Heavy
DoWnpour Of Rain.
MANY SMALL VESSELS
WRECKED BY STORM
In New York Rain Was So Heavy as to
Flood Streets and to Tie Up the
Trolley Lines and the Elevated
Roads-Paterson Suffers
GreatIy-Unprece1en
ted Tides in Bay.

Hurricane signals were swung aloft to-
night from the Delaware Breakwater to
New York city, warning OF wild coast
storm sweeping northward-n storm grow
ing in fierce intensity every hour and
threatening to engulf New York-alreadS
swept by terrific rains and destructive
gales. At late hour tonight there was
every indication that the coming coast
storm would descend on New York with
far more rlotious fury than that Of the
lakes storm which deluged the city to-
day
Ealr yin the afternoon the gale which
swept up the Virginia coast had reached
a sustained velocity of sixty miles an
hour.
Severe Rain.
It was accompanied by the severest
rain. Two ships have been reported ashore
on tho Virginia coast, wrecked by the
fury of the hurricane.
In the Chesapeake Bay the flood tides
reached an unprecedented height driven In
from the roaring ocean by the gale, and
at Norfolk the water front of the city
was foot deep in water punting and
surging into the city.
A bulletin from the ashington
Weather Bureau this evening said that
hurricane signals. had been ordered up
from the Delaware Breakwater to ipew
York and that so terrific was the storm
in its increasing fury that 1t was unsafe
for vessels Of any. class to leave port.
t Paterson Suffers.
Paterson, N. j., stricken with disaster
so recently by flood and fire, was threat
ened tonight with flood again-flood of
greater proportion than any previous In
her history.
When night fell the waters Of the Pas
sale River had already reached the hlgh
water mark Of the flood OF year ago
last February, and were rising steadily
at the rate of foot an hour. One life
had been lost, that or a young girl, and
it was 1rumored that others had been
drown ed.s The river fronts were deep IN
water and the people in the lowlands
were fleeing to the hills
Dams have gone down before the pres
sure OF the swollen river and bridges
were covered or carried away. The water
system Of the city was paralyzed and
there was no approach or exit to the
city by railroad.
Did Great Damage.
In New York city tho storm did vast
damage. Business houses closed. Ele-
waited and surface traffic was Interrupted;
suburban traffic by steam and by cleo
tricity was at a standstl, compelling
thousands to stay in the city. unable to
get home, or out Of the city, unable to
get back.
Streets were flooded, sewers broken.
cellars filled. Ten inches of rain fell
during tho course of the storm.
Aside from the discomfort attendant
upon the storm and the check to business.
there has been vast amount of property
damage.
Worst still. 1t is likely that more Is to
follow. Tho rivers of New York and
New Jersey have left their banks and
tho country side Is submerged. All rail-
road lines have been seriously crippled
by washouts and landslide,
Traffic Tied Up.
From early morning to late this eve
ming only one road, the Pennsylvania,
was running suburban trains out OF Jer-
sey city, and Its facilities We're seriously
cripped. Tho Erie. Susquehanna and
Western Jersey Central, West Shore and
other lines were so badly crippled that