The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-02-23
HURRICANE WIND GETS
TO TO MILES An HOUR
At So Miles for Five Minutes
Many Hurt, Endless DAM
age All Over Town.
VICIOUS WEATHER NEAR BY
Philadelphia Suffefed--Much Snow in
1ndiana--NO Warmer Till To
morrow It's Said.

| city yesterday morning so wildly that th'
experts on the weather job on top Of thu
Whitehall building wondered why the cup'
T: OF the thermometer were not carried away
/. The wind. the swiftest ever recorded her,
since the establishment OF the Weather
Bureau forty-two years 90, for one minute
attained the marvellous speed Of iiO miles
For five minutes-aRd all winds ar,
officially recorded II they maintain forct
for that period-the wind avera ged ninety
six miles. In one minute Of that period
ending at 100 O'Clock in the morning the
record was 40 miles. Foreoaster James
Scarr. who il familiar with the swift
breezes Of Kansas. where he lived many
years. marvelled over the incident. The
stiffest wind. which was from the west
hitherto felt in this district set the cup
spinning at eighty-three miles. on April
z. 1909. The marvel of the blast Of yester
day. which was from the sout Invest. was
that II did not smash more windows and
that the skyscrapers were unaffected by
it's tremendous force
Even after the stupendous spurt of Ii(
miles. the wind did not settle down 10
ordinary gale force until last night All
through the day it blew from seventy to
eighty-tw miles. The cause OF the visi.
tation was the flight to the mort thesst Of
the Texas-bred storm that drag gged into
it's nav the secondary disturbance cen.
tral in Washington on Wednesday night
The two created for this neighborhood
the extremely low barometer Of 2s 50 in
ches. exceeded only thrss times in the
met cor illogical history Of the city. The
low OF the secondary storm. almost a. in
tense as the original Texan soreecher
passed this neighborhood in coalescing &
with the great wbirl about ? o'clock yes.
terday morning.
To I'LL the vacuum create d by SO steep
a gradient the air had to do some travel
ling. and that is why there was wind The
united storms went swiftly on their course
and at s o'clock yesterday morning were
central over Montreal. bound seaward
to hamper navigators. The barometer
at Montreal was 2s.eO. which beats any
thing that ever has been measured here
about and indicated that folks afloat
in the steamship lane are going to have
trouble for the next several days.
After the wind had smashed records
it shifted quickly and came, still bowling.
out Of the northwest. There were snow
and sleet squalls for q few minutes and
u few flashes Of lightning. The tenn
perature. which had been at 4S, dropped
quickly and it was below freezing before
daylight. The eject Of the storm. al
though far away from this latitude at
o'clock last night. was still felt here,
the barometer measuring then 2s.78
inches. but rising. The wind then was
fifty-two miles, which is considered
pretty swift under ordinary cir cum
stances.
Washington predicted last night:
Fair weather on Friday and probably
Saturday; rising tempcra lure on Saturday.
diminishing west winds, becoming varia-
ble"
There was no disturbance OF any con-
sequence on the weather map last night
The barometer was rising and the local
prophets said that a high in the South
was scheduled TO give us what Washing
ton says we may have, The wind at II
o'clock was fifty miles from the north
west and the temperature IS degrees
81 Last night sent more wanderers to the
Municipal Lodging House on East
Twenty fifth street than has any other
Even the record of the sharp cold Of early
January was beaten. There are about
7OO beds in the lodging house used for its
guests, and they were all taken early
in the evening. The overflow was di-
rect ed to the pier at the foot Of East
Twenty fifth street to seek lodgings
on the steamer Thomas Brennan, moored
there. About 425 were sent to the pier,
and at midnight there wore still seventy
Ave or hundred standing in line wait.
ing their turn.
Down the bay yesterday morning. when
the wind. roaring through rigging at a
mile rate. was churning up
the whitecaps. two big steamships,
both Of the North German Lloyd fleet.
the Berlin from the Mediterranean and
the George Warrington. biggest Of Ger
man packets from Bremen dropped both
bowers to hold them against dragging.
They were listed heavily to port by the
force Of the gale.
The Royal Mail steamship Arcadian.
from Bermuda. Capt. CustanCe. while
coming from Bermuda on Wednesday
night ran into tho ferment that smote
US yesterday morning The skipper said
the wind blew more than 100 miles and
that he suddenly ran from a temperature
of sixty degrees to ono below freezing.
so that he came in frosted from water line
TO truck.
Frank Conyn hydroaeroplane. made
fast on float in the yacht basin at the
was torn loose at o'clock in the
and was DANA ged before it was
secured. The float broke in two and the
was dashed against the seawall.
The tail and the lower right wing were
carried away
Men of the fire boat force from the Bat
terry Park station helped to haul the plane
to safety.
Trains OF the New York Central from
points west of Buffalo were delayed by the
severe storms and many trains due las
evening weren't expected until early
this morning
The second section Of the Eastern Ex-
press from Chicago due at s:33 o'clock last
night. wasn't in until I O'Clock this morn
ing. The Chicago exrrGss. due at i:4s P.
NJ. got in at 7:i5 P. NJ; the Lake Shore
Limited didn't arrive until O'Clock this
and the Knickerbocker SpecIa
due at $40 O'Clock last evening got here At
) O'Clock this morning. a. did the New
York Central Limited.
The New York and New England Ex-
press due at 3:45 o'clock yesterday after
noon. came along at as o clock this morn
ing and the Metropolitan Express, due at
81 Ia ss,