The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-01
|COaStSucWn With Wrecked
 Yachts, Piers, BrcakWatcrS' In Worst Storm In 30 Years
Telephone Put Out of Business, Trees Up rooted, C o t t a g e s Wrecked, Cities in Darkness From a Storm Accompanied By a Gale of AZ Miles An Hour.

Ten days over due, Connectcut'S Tine" storm swept down upon Long Island Sound last night with fe- rocity unequa1led in 40 years. With a wind velocity that ranged from 42 to 70 miles per hour it lashed the coast of the Sound with waves that ran mountain high, strewed the beaches with wreckage of cottages, yachts, motor boats and dories and forced every craft abroad on the Sound to run for shelter.
 Old Timers racked their brains to- day to recall when the wind had come so quick and when in such short time it had worked such havoc. From Boston to New York the storm shore seems to have received the greatest force of the barrage laid down by Boreas as he charged every helpless thing in his path.
 Officially the wind was recorded as 42 miles per hour but in some To- calities it speeded up and far out ran that mark. Norwalk reported lowed by the highest tide in his tory. The damage to small shipping on the adjacent beaches was very heavy.
 wreckage of every description At Milford telephone wires, light wires and trees suffered heavily though no damage to buildings was reported Ah alIHOSL every SupuIDan community for considerable time during the storm all electric lights were out.
 It was impossibel to communicate with Strat1eld Light as all wires were down.
 Between Westport and Norwa1k the road was strewn in the early morning hours with fallen trees and limbs Many of the beaches main tained all night patrol, to lend any aSS1StqnPa VUh r1o5cr hi y,, Bridgeport had a thrilling time bringing in a Standard Oil steamer which had in tow two tankers. night in and around the harbor, but so far no loss of life has been re- ported.
 Madison beach was strewns with a great quantity of vegetables which gave rise to the apprehension that there may have possibly been a wreck off that point but at noon it had not been verified.
 The telephone company reports that many of their wires were down particularly in the suburbs and repair crews have been out since midnight repairing the damage.
 The tugboat Robert McAI1ister of Bridgeport, which was out on the Sound yesterday, according to Captain David Conrad, weathered the toughest storm in 40 years. The Robert Mo
 
 Stratford shipped a great deal of water and made the trip under great difficulty. The ships eagle and part of the. roof of the pilot house was ripped off by the wind and waves. The eagle fell upon the deck, but the storm was so violent that no one was able to reach it, but the mate, Norman Bennett, who lashed himself to the bits and managed to crawl along the deck. The engine room was partly flooded and the engine was stoked with great trouble. The decks were awash during the trip and the waves were so high that the engine was coated with the white sea salt.
 The Southern New England Te1e- phone company estimated this fore noon that between 1000 and 10000 telephones were put out of comnais- sion by the storm in the state, the principal damage being on the Sound shore and north through Hartford, New Britain and Bristol.