The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-13
No Incoming Tide Feature Of Storm
 In This Vicinity All Navigation Hereabouts Effected By Hurricane
 Winds and Big Seas Clam Diggers Reaping liar vest in Local Water Beds
 -Temperature Drops

! -Temperature Drops
 With a gale blowing which at times
 exceeded sixty miles an hour and the 1 thermometers throughout the state registering from 26 below to 10 above
 zero, Connecticut is still in the grip i of the sudden cold which had it's be- ginning yesterday. Aside from the cold which came with it, causing
 much suffering, the gale did consider able damage. Outside of Long Island Mall steamer Cobequid bound for
 Halifax with 8 number of passengers
 are reported lost or aground.
 One crew of captain and six men are missing and their craft sunk. i In Hartford, the spire of the new
 Fourth Congregational church was
 sent crashing to the ground by the
 gale, while the steamer Hartford Was
 blown ashore at Haddam and, pulIe..
 off this morning by tugs. will go into
 dry dock at Hobpken for the winter
 it's trip being abandoned.
 Wires are down throughout the state and much damage is reported from the rural sections, which will i undoubtedly be increased when full
 reports are received.
 I Preceding the cold snap which cov- ! cred the city yesterday and increased l to almost the zero point about the l city early this morning, most unusual ] meteorological conditions obtafHea 1 For the drsd time within tis reem,- I ory or the oldest inIiabftant fAessE has
 been able to walk to Penfield4 reef at
 high tide. s
 Small and lightly laden tug-boatf 4 lying at the city;s docks were grounds 1 ed upon bottom usually covered by at I least 12 feet of water
 CIaan- -diggers have been able to
 a1rs Y16 ! along the waterfront large industries 1 have been forced to abandon their condenser systems and work boilers
 under high pressure.
 I The storm yesterday overturned 1 houses and barns at Fairfield Beach l and on Putney road, Stratford, up- rooted giant, century old elms, as well as tunbling ch1mneys about the
 caves and roofs of country houses. In Bridgeport, show windows, cases, l and signs were blown about the streets | promiscuously, and much damage | done. Fires in the Fairfield section l of Bridgeport and at Milford were | stayed in their course by the quick response of local departments | Although 1t had been expected that
 snow would accompany the rush | of the cold, this fortunately did not | happen and reports. from maintenance Idepartments of traction and tele-- l phone companies report put few wires l broken by the storm in this vicinity For the first time this year the hearts Of the ice-consumers are glad dened-also some dealers-ands the l Eousatonic is frozen across north of l Stratford. Small boys in various out l lying towns are rejoicing, TOT they are able to skate not only on minor ponds but in vacant lot depressionS and pud- dles adjoining the roadways.
 Oppositely the Ordinary pedestrian l clothed in city garments, and the au- | tornobi1e demonstration, who with his 1 speed is compelled to intensity the icy blast some 40 to 90 per cent, | mourns the coming of the Boreass frieid breath, while the poorer and unemployed about the city are sub 1 feet to the most excruciating misery l through the lack of proper fuel The 1 local charity department has been ap- piled to for necessities and other in ,iependent organizations will mal e special eAfort to contribute such warmth and sustenance as will mit1- 1 gate the sudden depression Of the 1 temperature
 Local enterprises for the amuse- nnent Of the public generally felt the sting of the weather last night, l though audiences were considered fn- 1 vorab1e to the unexpected weather conditions.
 All traffic is tied up along the Sound. neither the Park City. which l ,1s11a1lv make the trip resardless of weather. from Port Jefferson. or other Sound craft being able TO enter the port The tug James McWi1lfarns.' i which ventured out beyond the light | house this morning to dump ashes, | was compelled to run for the harbor.
 reporting that the off-sliore wind was l-icling1 up a monstrous sea which threw water down the srnolzestack and coated her superstructure and decks
 deep1v with ice. Local harbor and watereide men ex-
 pr eHsed the opinion that seldom if ever have such tide conditions been ob- served in this vicinity. The condi- ton was ascribed to combination Of two causes first the excessive ana
 prolonged off-ehore wind and the fact that the moon WAS at apogec, which is it's farthest point from the carth's surface.
 Al inc power plant Of the local
 Traction company. supt. Chapman re- racrte7 +hat no water could he secured 1 for the condeneers and consequently much difficulty had been experienced
 in running the boilers under high pressure This did not affect the traf- fc schedule, and few wires had been reported as broken. Construttion work had been abandoned earlier in the