Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-09-25
|SQUALLY times
At HE'LL CATE
Presidents Yacht in Midst Of Tenify-
ing Wind and Rain
Stern
THE VESSEL In IMMINENT DANGER
A Fearful Storm Off Delaware capes.
Schooner Hattie Marsh Dash
ed to Pieces on the Rocks and
Five Men Drowned.
THE VESSEL in IMMINENT DANGER
A Fearful Storm Off Delaware capes

President Roosevelt, while en- route
from Oyster Bay to New York On Sep
TENDER 16, on the naval yacht Sylph,
accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and a
party of guests, passed through ter
rifying wind and rain storm, during
which the vessel was in imminent dan
ger.
When the Sylph weighed anchor the
skies were dark and forbidding, and
as the vessel drew out of the bay a
Hight rain fell. Less than an hour
after the Sylph had entered Long Is
land sound she ran into terrific wind
and rain storm. The storm increased
in severity rapidly and off Fort Schuyl-
| er, it developed into hurricane. The
wind blew, according to an estimate
\ made by Lieutenant Preston, comman-
| der of the Sylph, at the rate of sixty
five mile an hour. The Sylph, com
paratively small vessel, pitched heav-
| lily, and off Willett's Point, listed very
| sharply to starboard. The president
| land his guests had been forced to go
below, and beyond drenching none Of
them suffered Inconvenience The
storm became even more severe as the
vessel neared He'll Gate. The waves
and wind swept the deck, making it
almost impossible for the sailors to re-
main above.
In He'll Gate, quarter of mile off
the port bow of the Sylph, a tug-boat
having in tow large three-masted
schooner, was capsized by the wind
and waves. She sank stern foremost,
but did not settle completely out OF
sight for perhaps Ave minutes. A small
boat from the tug put off with the crew
kept two men, who chung to the bow
until the vessel disappeared 1t ap-
Deared from the Sylph that the two
men were taken aboard the yawl. Lieu
tenant Preston wished to stand by to
render assistance, but Capt william
P. Brainard. an experienced pilot, who
was at the wheel. declared it would be
foolhardy for the Sylph to attempt q
rescue in such storm.
President Roosevelt knew nothing OF
the capsizing of the tug-boat unit
Yearly an hour afterwards. He ther
expressed the wish that some assist
ance might have been rendered this
rev.
Greater New York and its environs
ior several miles in all directions was
Visited by the fiercest wind and raiI
,torm known in years. The combined
nry of the elements wrought damage
IN land and water amounting in the
ggregate to many thousand of dollars.
apparently solid sheets of water drove
across the city drenching the every
Unfortunate caught without shelter and
| he cages at the weather bureau regis,
cred 100 inches precipitation in two,
ours. BY the middle of the Afternoon
| he wind had dropped to mere breezs
| md the sun broke through the clouds
| Several persons were injured and a..
cast thirty were killed in the storm
| which swept the coast and city.
The gale was especially severe a.,
1 ca, causing havoc to the shipping
Town the bay, where many vessels
we're sunk or wrecked. The worst OF
the damage was reported from Staten
island. The entire fleet of the Staten
Island Yacht Club at anchor was either
sunk or wrecked. The pilot boat Her
nit was driven ashore, and there was
la collision between a schooner and q
barkentine. The tug-boat James Kais
was wrecked in Hell Gate. The crew
Escaped. The hurricane burst with
cyclonic force on the centre of the
city loosening the ESQ foot spire of St
Bartholomew Protestant Episcopa
church in Madison avenue.
| The loss to shipping will amount t.
more than $1,000.00O. Five hundred
vessels were wrecked or damaged.
| Gustav Wickman, of Queensborough
was instantly killed during the heav,
part of the storm by being struck b,
a broken trolley WIRE
Mrs. Hunder Sonntagg, Of Cralstadt
N. j., while crossing street in tina