Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-27
ODD INCIDENTS IN AMERICAN
 HISTORY
SEPTEMBER GALE OF 1915.

Since the, settlement of America this country has been visited by a great many severe storms, but none has reached the extent of the great Septem- Der gale of 1915. It was a most re- markable hurricane, and especially in it's various phenomena of suddenness, severity and power. It took place on September 23, snN prevailed throughout al! New England.
 It was ushered in by a severe rain storm which lasted twenty-four hours. Early on the morning of the 23d the wind shifted to the east, and began to blow in gusts. It continued to change toward the south and to increase in vio- 1 fence while the rain abated Between g and 10 o'clock in the morning it began to excite alarm. Chimneys and trees were blown over
 1 During the storm the air had a pecu- ] liar appearance. It was considerably ! darkened by the excessive agitation and was filled with the leaves of trees and other light substances. which were raised to great height, and whirled about in eddies, inst9s of being directly for ward as in a common storm.
 The rivers ragged and loaned like the sea in a storm, and the spray was raised to the height of sixty or one hundred feet in the form of thin, white clouds, which were driftcd along in a kind of wave-lil1e form like snow in a violent snow storm. It was impossible for a man to stand up-even the stoutest-in 1 a place exposed to the full force of the wind. The pressure was like that of a rapid current of water Pedestrians could, with great difficulty. hear each other speak aI the distance of two or 1 three yards.
 The most calamitous destruction be- fell the trees-orchards and forests ex- hibited 2 scene of desolation the like of which ad never before or since been seen to the same extent in this country Al the roads of New. England were made with trees and other debris.
 Almost all of. the large and beauti- ful trees in Boston nal and in other public parks some of which measured from eight to twelve feet in circumfer Ience, were torn up by the roots and pros. trated. In the town of Dorchester, o only five thousand. inhabitants. seven teen houses wNre unroofed. sixty chim I neys blown down and about forty barn. demolished.
 1 Rhode Island felt the full force of thu remarkable gale. Providence suffered tt the amount of millions of dollars ac
 
 in other places. The wind was so stron: in the harbor that vessels were actual, driven over the wharves and through tn
 streets.
 All WIS confusion and disnav through
 out tts whole of New England. Ever.
 exertio.t to protect property was render ed futile by the violence of the wind I,the rapid rise of the streams and tn falling of trees, and all such cnosidera } ton was soon forgotten in the more i'm
 portant one of self@preservation An
 awful scene was to be observed every
 where.
 Al along the New England coast an , as far sol sh as New York the damag done to the shipping was immense, hun
 dreds of vessels with their cargoes be
 ing wrecked and almost every seapor as well as inland town suffered to som extent
 The gale wae also severely felt of
 Cape Hatteras. in the Gulf Stream. ot s the canes of Delaware. at Sandy Hook V Nantucket Shoals and Cane Ann. A sui :. locating current of air. as from a he bath, accompanied the middle stage c g the tempest. Flocks of eulls from tn < far-off ocean were seen after the storr = hundreds of miles inland throughout Ne7 , England.
 It is universally admitted that ther
 is no account of a storm or gale in a '- respects so renar rkab'e in it's phenon y ena as tnis to be found in the histor e of the United States. Other hurricane
 there have been. laying waste whateve
 came in their way, but they have bee c comparatively limited in their extent an :, destrpetiveness. The centre Or tho lin : its of this great and memorable tempe.
 scientific investigations were unable f
 determine. The sea had washed to sue
 an extent inland that in mu1titudes ( o instances the saltiness of the wells an l. watering places continued unabated fc c six months, or until the end of the fo IS lowing March. For fifty years after il
 occurrence the great September gale wa
 always mentioned with, a shudde+ bv 1T :, New Engianders.
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