The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1877, Page 3

THE CYCLONE. An Awful Blast of Death and Destruction. DREADFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. An Excursion Train Leaps Down an Embankment. SEVEN KILLED-—-THIRTY-THREE INJURED. A Train at Milford, Pa., Dashes Into a Rushing Stream. Sad Loss of Life on the Water—Nearly One Huadred Vessels Sunk and Damaged, SINKING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS Seamen Reported Drowned in Delaware Bay. {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] of ov PHGNIXVILLE, Oct. 5, 1877. An accident that will never be forgoiten in this Reighborhood occurred last evening, between six and ¥e?ea o'clock, on the Pickering Valley Railroad, aboct four milés from this piace. But great as was the lows df life, it seems miraculous that out of 125 buman beings but seven were kille!. Thirty-three were Injured, Some ot them it is feared were hurt fatally. PASSENGRES KILLED. WILLIAM HOLM aN. Mrs. HOLMAN, ISAAC JUStL JONES JUSTIN. WILLIAM PENNYPACKER KMPLOYES KILLER FRANK KINNEY, engineer, GEORGE GRIFFI(H, treman, PASSENGERS INJUR ‘W. A. MOORE, frce cut and bruise PRANE MOORS, Jace cut and bruised, OLIE PRIZER, leg broken aad badly bruised, J.J. JUSTIN, fractured thigh. HARMAN ANDERSON, badiy bruised about the head ind face, L, H. EVANS, bruised head and face, JOSEPH ANDERSON bruised head and face, E. F. PRARCE, badly bruised Mrs, PEARCE, bruised, WILMER PENNYPACKER, jaw broxen and badly bruised about the head, MATTHIAS ANDERSON, bruised head and face, ELIZABEIH ANDERSON. bruised face and head, ISAAC HARIMAN, badly bruised and injured in- yernaily, Mrs, MAGGIE HARTMAN, bruised, PETER DANFIELD, head badly bruised. JOHN LATSHAW, leg broken. JACOB LATSHAW, bruised, HORACE LATSHAW, head cut. Mrs. GEORGE PENNYPACKER, jaw broken. Mrs, ALBERT PENNYPACKER, injured internally and bruised. HARMAN PENNYPACKER, arm broken, Mrs. HARMAN PENNY?PACKER, broken ribs, HOSEA MOSES AND WIFE, silghtly bruised, SEPTIMUS J. JUSTIN AND WIFE, brawsed, Mra. J. J. JUSIIN, bruresd, Miss MAGGIE PENNYPACKER, bruised, JACOB EMERY and WIFE, bruised. J. B. MCCLELLAN CLEVENSSINE, arm broken, ABRAHAM PENNYPACKER, broken leg. RICHARD 8, RICHARDS, slightly braised. AN UNLUCKY ROAD, The Pickering Valley Railroad, named after the valiey through which it runs, is @ branch of the Philadelphia and Reading road, and connects Phosnix- ville with Byers, (bo last station on the line, 1: wa: built to 1872, and, strange to say, the first engine that fan the length of the road, only eleven milvs, failed to Goso without causing # lose of life. The engineer sired to show the specd vf bis iron hors And accompished the ruo im tourteen minutes, but unfortunately when he wanted to stup, bis steed bud, touse au equine phrase, tuken the bit between his teeth and ran till the station built at Byers was ‘lered in a very aucermonious manuer, and so sud- feviy that the dreman, wno occapied av ou! oo, was literally squeezed io death, Waru the engineer bimself was killed, but since that sime, with ‘ue exception of the usual crossroad acci- dents, no lives have been lost on tue line, A SAD EXCURSION OF PRNNYPACKERS. Last eveuing, uuforuuately, the travel was unosu- ally heavy. From the nuwber of passengers wuich the train contained at the time of the uccident it ‘would appear that the country throagh whieh the road fups was thickly populated, but suco ia not the case, and totve Peauypacker reunion, held at Schwenks. Alig yesterday, is due the beavy freight and conse- quently the grvat loss of life. The Pennypackers in this reziou, like the Smith family in New Jersey, de \ermined to have a family gathering, aod as a tra.ition {p the jamily bath it that about this seusou of the your 100 years ago Washington camped at Pennypacker’s mili tt Was unanimously decided to celebrate the cen- Jennial aouiversary of that event. From tar aud near the fawily flocked to Schwenksvilic, and alter Spending the day im vell-glorification, &c., the party broke up and were returned to tueir various homes, The famuy i this vicinity, with 1s most intimate (nends, numbers adout one huadred and thirty, ang these, upon reaching Phoenixville, took the Pickering Valiey aix o’cleck train for home, 4 TERRE WasHour, It had been raining terribly during the evening, but doward 8x o’ciock the foodgutes of heaveh seewed to daue been opeued, 80 heavy and continuous was tue Jownpour, The railroad, at the sceue of the accident, ® bolt against the side of # mountain, ind the embaukment facing the valley ts about 1ixty \eet in aepth, and mate of louse, sandy soil, bout any rockeor woodwork to give i strength, and (he space vetween it and the mountain becomiay floudes, the water gradusily worked its way through the treacherous 4 apparently solid bi Vo it, until, whe every: ihing was io condfiion for the awiul accideut tbat oc. purr The embankment, to a depth of tbiriy- anda width of wixiy feet, bad been washed away, leaving the bare rails spanning the horrid abyss, RUSHING DOWN THE EMBANKMENT The train, with its burden of happy reunionists, left Phoaixviile and sturted on the journey tbat tor some of them was toend wm etornity, The night was puch dark and tho wind howled and blew with such terrific force that (he occupants of the cars Were glad to close the Windows aud Wish their trip ended, Nutathvught of danger crossed the mind of the engineer as with eyes xed upon tue rail+, which, by the glure of the head. light, ould Le seen glittering in Lhe darkness, te veared bis deaibved, W tuous 4 moment » warning, the engine dropped & disiauce of thirty-five jees irom the truck, and with the bow! of the wind were minglod the , groans ond cries of the Uoforiunate passengers. The engine iu falling turned parually on one side, Tho Grat passen; car feil squarely upon it, crushing the unlortuuate engineer to death, The second passenger car iollowed {ts leader aud tore the ent.re roof ull the forward car, und them crusbod through it, but the eud Pprotuaing above Sar irom following aod adding to tho ioss of life that occurred, ‘AN AWPUL BOENE. The scene that followed is tuaescribable, The cara falling upon the engine caused the boiler of the later to burst, end the snrick of the escaping steam helped te awell he cry of agony that afose trom « hundred NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. dred wore winglod io throats, Men, wowen and One writhing. tinguishable mase Strong men in the agony of suffocation tramplyd upon their weaker brethren in tuetr efforts to escape death, and women ‘with their little ones forges te impiore pity tn their desperate endesVors to obtain but a breath of air. 4 BRAYE coxpucToR. The fret man to extricate himself from the wreck was the conductor, Charles Goulding, ana when once freed, though severely crushed, be worked like a ‘Trojan succeeded im assisting several of bis pas- svngers from their frightiul situation, This dove rap to the farm houses in the vicimity and gave the alarm, after which he procured a borse and wagon and drove to this point for medical aid, ASSIBTANON AknIVES, Severa) doctors burried to seene of the accident ‘with appliances for alleviating the pain of the auffer- ers, A large party beimg organized, the work of ros- cuing the living was begun, The task was a dificult one, The rain continued to pour down in torrente, and the soil was 80 thoroughly souked that the work- ore sank tn itto their Knecs, {t was an effort, too, to keep a lamp buroing im the flerce, beating wind, and 46 Was not util midnight that ali but one of the unlos- tunatea were taken from the wreck and placed ia care of the tarmers of the neighborhood, 4 Liviva DEATH, Michael Coobett, the brakemaw of the first car, it was found impossible to extricate unti! more help could be obtaised. The unfortunate man was standing on the platform of bis car when it crashed into the gully, und was thrown between the bampers and there held, By degrees he wriggied himself nlmost out of » When the car settied ard closed in upon bim. His cries tor help were beartrendi: id whem be fousd that bours might elapse before assistance could be ren- dered bim, he begged for God’s sake that some one would put a bullet in bisheart, All night, with the ram pouring down upea his upturned tace, he remained, suffer ng the most excruciatiog pain, ‘aud was not succored until simost five o’clock this morning, when he was still living He was taken from bis bed of pain and r moved bere, whence he was seut to the Penuay! 1a Hospital at Puiladelphia at boop, Hie injuries will probably prove fatal, Frank Kinuey, the engineer, was the father of five children; be was instantly killed, and was aliooss un- recogn gable when recovered, George Griffiths, tne fireman, was not discovered unul this morn: wh searcher saw an arm atick- ing out trom under the bollér of the engine. An cfort ‘was made to puil tim out, but pot till ine engine bad been dragged a considerable distance was the beuy Tecovored, aad then, strange to say, it was but little mangled, The rest of the train bands escaped unburt, ANOTHER ACCOUNT. ® Pucesixvitie, Oct, 5, 1877. The conductor of the train, Charies Goulding, was in One of the rear cars and had two ribs brokep. Not- withstanding bis pata(ul snjaries, as soon as be could extricate bimeell from the débris be ran #out ball a mile to the bouse of David Evans to give the alarm and secure help. When he reached the door he stag- gered and fell from weakness, gasping outa cry for assistance. He refused to delay to nave bis own Wounds uressed, and after the f@ had buen carried so the towa and am engine hastily despatched ‘with physicians to help the wounded and dying, Mr. Goulding, with a devotion that is rare, tusisied on got e scene ol the wreck, where he was untiring {n bis exertions, the other train bands also, thoze who were pot killed or wounded, co-operated with him nobly. Tne boules of the dead were taken to the Pnenixville Masoutc Hall and were tenderly laid out, During the day the weop- ing friends of fiveof the killed had them removed. Phe bodies of the engineer avd dreman stili remain. Oue of the dead bad no mark or bruise upon him aod is suid to have died of heart disease. About a dozen of the wounded still remain in this town, None of them resive here and they will be taken oway as soon as they are able to be removod. STATEMENTS OF THE SURVIVORS, Those who are able to talk teila ihrilliug story of the terrible piunge in the dark and struggle for re trom the wrecked cars; the asurieks of the wounded and dying, and the howlingfiury of the pitiless storm, to which many of them were exposed until daylight. Mr. and Mrs, Septimus Justia, of Pikeland, who bad just been married and were on their wedding tour, bad @ most remarkable escape. They we sitting facing Slr, and Mra, William Holman, their relatives, who oc- cupied the opposite sea. Mr. Holman was tostantly killed, and bis body so horribly maugled that it was picked up in fragments, His wife was tound in a dying condition, uud lived only a few moments alter beg removed trom the wreck. Oa the other side of the bride and groom were two others who were seri- ously injured, but Mr. und Mra, Justin escaped almost Without a scratch. There were several other escapes equally strange. AN INQUEST, Coroner Hunter empaneiied a jury this morning, and they duly examined the wreek and began the hearing of testimony. Their verdict 1s not luoked jor with apy special interest, a the cause of the accident is apparent in the sudden washing away of the treacnerous and sandy embankment for which no one can be fmriy held ponsible. The darkness of the night prevented the engineer from seeing the chasm 80.¢ talk, however, of censuring the railw: tues, us bad a culvert been built where the accent occurred the above loss of life would never have bup- pened. Geveral Manager Wooteo, of the Philadeiphia and Reading Ratiroau, arrived bere thin evening tor the purpose, no doubt, of looking afer the interests of bis Toad, as just at this time it would be a mayor of great difficulty for it to pay any damages for loss of life, Nothing ie beard of bere but the, accident, and it will serve as @ matter of discussion for years to come, Axo’ eax. A broak in the main line occurred below Perkiomen Junct.on lust eveoing, which was not put in such con- aition as to atlow trains to rum to and from Philadel phia wail this even: A TRAIN ON THE BELVIDERE BRANCH OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD PLUNGES INTO A CREEK—THE KILLED AND WOUNDED—A Pas- BENGEK'S STATEMENT, {BY TRELNGKAPR TO THE HERALD.) Trextox, Oct, 5, 1877. An appalling catastrophe occurred about ball a mile south o: Milford, on the Beividere and Delaware Ruil- road, ist bight, which resulted im the lous, it is sup- posed, of ten or eleven lives, THE KILLED, So far a8 now known the killed are:— JONATHAN THORNTON, engioeer, THOMAS G REAVING, conductor, WILLIAM J, MckLROY, Philadelphia, passenger, Mes, HUBER, Trenton, passenger, ‘The scene is about ibirty-Ave mi from this city. A Henatp reporter paid @ vinit there to-day aud gaih- ered the following particulars :— ‘Vhe Oswego exjrens train left Kaston a ball pour late and Frached Miliord about a quarter to eigh: lock, The wind was blowing strong and torrents of rain were failiog. The o gut was impeueiraviy dark. Avout haifa mile boiow the station there is a cuivert about ty feet high which bad been envirely washed away, leaviog pothing out sho bare ties and rails. The was all right, and engineer surmised that everythin down the chasm the 2 plan, swoilen toWen mes its usual proporti Water Was rushing inte the river with tremendous lorco, The engiae was turned partly over, aud Hes with two of its whedls and but a portion of its headwork visible. The engivesr was instantly killee, lying ander the wreck, The conductor was lostin the wreck also, and bis body has not veen found. Russel O'Brien, wae swept into the ad saved bimseil by swim ash be ‘ennsyivania side. He was badly injured. Wiliam Lewis wes picked up ow the otner side, He ts but ten years old, and he saved himself by swim- ming. d his body is In the smoking car ire six passengers, among t De, J.C. Wiison, of Paitadeipuia, who re Coived a bad scalp wound. He drifted dows the river on @ couple of cusnious, and was Gually rescued. His companion, the well kaowa lawyer, W. J. Mckl- Foy, of Puiiadeiphia, was lost, and none of the oiner occupants of the car have been beard from. Ta the secund car there were eight persons, some of whom ate misaing. Mr, Christian Haber Wife, of Trenton, were | Sealed near cack other in the second car when the rash occurred. He grasped the -eat with one hand and bis wife with the other, but the \orrent of water ewept ber away and ber body wus lost in tbe river, ‘This car caught om @ reef avout a hundred yards from ihe shore, where it stili remains, There were seventeen passengers in the rear car, all of whom escaped, mainly throuzh the coolness of the brakeman, Joseph Allen, who assisted them out of the windows. The train hauds and pagsongers, as nearly av cap be accounted idr, numbered thirty-eight. There are six or seven missing, No bodies have been recovered, and several days may pass before the exact number of cuscalties ts known. The river is very high and vio! at this point, A Portion of the wreck drifted to Trenton this worning. At Buli’s Island, eight miles from Milford, anotner briage was partially carried away by @ break in the canal, apd bad the Grst structure been passed tn safety ip all provabiilty the second ove would nave caught the ill-fated train, It is now necessary to trausier ‘passengers at Milford, 4 PASSENGER'S STATEMENT, Mr. Conrad B, Beoneit, salesman, of Trenton, wno ‘Was a passenger on the {il-tated train, arrived home this morning at balf-past o'clock. He was injured in the right naod und knee, not seriously, and be bad @ Darrow escape irom death. A Hxka.y reporter saw him at bis residence in this city, when he gave the fol- lowing account of the calamity :— The train, which was the Oswogo expross, left Bel- Videre at tem minutes alter soven o’ciock, tt beg abont half ao hour behind time. !t proceeded diract to Poillipsburg, stopped there tor passengers and then passed by Carpentersville aud went to Ricklesville, Where it stopped for passcagers ahd to take water for the locomotive. Lt then proceeded on its way, passing Holland, and ypriving at Milford stopped there for pas- sevgera It yet fully bali un hour bebind time. Jonathan Thorotun, the engineer, was always noted for making up time, and the (ruin was ruoning at @ bigh rate Of speed when it reached the culvert. ‘The darkness of the uigut was intense and the storm raged teaifully, The engineer coulu not ace the cuivert, which was @ large, doudie-arched strusture, Standiug high. It was’ compictely washed away, ex- Cept oo tue Durth side, Where there was just euou.b Of it let to walk upoo, The engineer had uot time to put on the wir brakes, avon if he did see the culvert, the train was going Ho fast, He could not have siopped tue train even if Re bad seea tue culvert ata reasup- able distanoe. DASHING DOWN THX CULVERT, The train struck, and # fearful crash was the ro- sult. The traim was composed vi (hres cars—th bug- gage department aud swoking car im ove, wud iwo Passenger cars. I was to ihe paxsenger car next to the smoking car. When the car 1 was in went dowa all the lights were extinguished; thea:ats were vioxen jute splinters and we were all carried into the rivur, The buggage car was bedded in (be mad, Lroxen in two balves und turved upside down, The occupants were buried .gto the river, There were five mou aud two newabvoys ip it, Allescaped except one o tue pas- Sengers, WHO Was u resident uf Phi, delphi, FLOATING DOWN THE STREAM The car I wus tu was thrown on top of the locomo- tive, breaking toe wheels in tragmenis, It shen con- tinued to go down the siresm, breaking everything on tts way, The volume of water was immense aud aw- fully Morce—more so thao ever was seen on the ccvan, No one could have stood up against i, even Mf it was only @ foot in depto, The car swppeu in the chanoel of tbe river, I held on to a seat which was ui! broken in splicters ana Scattered over my legs. | came near Veing wedged tight, and but forthe almost superuuman strength 1 used’ 1 would haye bovu, ‘The sensation was simply fearful. All wus darkness, and the passeugers were praying and sboutin, loudly. 1 was the rst person who spoke, There were about seven passen-ers altogetoer in’ the cur—one being a woman, Sirs. Huber, of ‘YTreutou, who Was sitting alongsive Of ber busbund, ihree seals froin the door’ sas @ geutioman from Philaveiphia, woo i# missing. I believe be was washed out into tue river aud drowned, All bud tocling to tho seats. Tne water ‘Was so flerce that tt rushed through tue our and car- Tied out everytiimg iu it =Mra Huber, I tear, waa ‘also carried out by the water. i was the iirst to get out I was lodged among the broxen sesis, and alter extricuting myseit I tried to raise a window, and, fail- ing, I broke it aud cut my band XSCAPING THHOUGH 4 WINDOW. The water was over the window sills. 1 got out through a window uad then roached the top of the car, A map came witn @ lantern, and just at this time = large treo was viowa acrosa the car, which came ncar falling upow me, 1 consider that occurrence almost u miracie. The tuau wanted to Tet ro for ropes, but 1 beld him back, and witu bis aid 1 crawied trom (he var to the shore, part of the time being subm.-rged in water. By the time I reached the shore peopie irom she surrounding country badarrived ou the scene, The beli rope was detached from the last car, which was part Of tue Way over the bavk, und thrown to ove of the passengers, wuo had climbed to ‘the top of the car. He tied it around bis body und was drawn to ibe shore im au exhausted condition. He ‘Was a scagol teacher who lives near Milford, HELE AT Hann. By this time ladders and ropes were brought into Tequisition by the people, and ove young man volun- teered to Ko across und cut the rool of tue car with an axe, Hedid so avd dragged out Christopuer Auber aud a Mr. Brown, of Philadelphia A bridge was made Of ladders aud the tree which bad failen, upon which the other passeagera wero taken sulely to the shore—imore dead tuan alive. Thoy were im the car about two bours. A iautern was passed to the young man and he reached the car, butiouud bo otuer persom in it This icit two missing—Mrs, Huber, of Trenton, and the gentleman from Puiladelpbia, The car to the rear of us—the last one on tue train—was part of the way over tue bang, It was nearly fied wih ladies, all of woom escaped with few scratches, they veiug more irigbt- ened thun bur, They were taken tothe botels aud kiodly cured tor, The people who were on the scene and in tue weighborbuod did everysuing posaibie tor the relie! and .um/ort Oo! the passengers. The newsboys swam our im the river and were picked up in buats on the Fennyylvania side, The ac- crdent Look piace at a point about ball @ mile south of Miliord, Ite 1m the midst Of @ mountainous region apd ata place which caiches all the overiluw of water of the surrounding couuiry. Tue bridge over tue cul- Vort was oue of the best un the raiiroud, 1 never saw a thor specimen of work, 1 was wet through, buving been must of the time under water. My cluthiug was torn to pieces and I was covered with mud, The Jocomotive Weut dowm the stream upside down, and wWiovked #8 it 1 had been blown to pieces hy a powder charge. It could not have been more com- pletely wrecked. It wassmashed to atoms § Jvunatban Thorn, the engineer, aud Thomas Reading, the cun- ductor, are missing ad, t believe, (hey have ocen lost, Tue Uremun was saved, but be was lure vadiy iu ihe lexs. y pioce about the size of haifs dollar was taken out of my knee aud my baod is badly cut. I came near being weayed Lightly in the wreck, but managed to clear away the broken iragwents of tho car irom around me, which were carried away by the force of the wate The railroad company gent out boats with meno ta them to scour the river ior tho mssug people, but up to seven o'clock this moraing the Jess, Mr. Chrisiopher Huber w waieb ts black and viue, Dr Wilson, of Puiladelpuia, was seriously Wounded tu the head Be was iu tho ‘There was coat found 1m the wreck andkercbiel 1 iby pockets murked ‘W. Tuis is supposed to be the name of one ng. ACCIDENT ON THE WILMINGTON AND NORTHERN RAILKOAD. , Witmrsatox, Dol., Oct. 6, 1877. ‘The aecilent to the passenger train going south on the Wilmington and Norsbero Ka:lroad last Caused by the trgpk being washed ville, The engiue Was U,set und the eugiueer, named Amos Peacock, kilied. The fireman was badly scaided, GREAT LOSS OF LIFE IN AND NEAR PAILA- DELPAIA—THOUSANCS OF DOLLARS’ WoRTH O¥ DAMAGE. Puiapenvaia, Oot. 5, 1877. The storm in this city last evening, which was moro violent tuan any which bad visited us in a loug timo, did much more damage than was ascertainavie at ine time, To-day, trom the police reports, it is kaown toat the losses which will result trom the burricane will require bua. reds of thousands of duilars to repiace, A whole row 0: uew houses, iy finished, ap towa, were vlowa Jown, while the let of private and public buildings, mils, factories, &, that were injured isa very luny one, Two lives are kuown to have boen lost. In one case the victim was Mra Sarah Caster, aged twenty-two years, who resided on Orthodox street, near Edmund street, Frankford, During u orm she was in @ curriage driving across tue bridge tbat spaos tne Wissouoming Creek, wheao the bridge was washed away, and Mrs, Caster and the horso und carriage throwa into the swollen stream. No ussisiance cuuld be nad, and the unfortunate woman was Washed alung aud drowned, together with the Borse, Her body was recovered tuis morning aod re- moved to ber iate residence, The other case was that of a seafaring man em- ployed on a canul voat ab Fitawater street whart, Schuylkiil, He was washed overboard and drowned. and ollorts are now being made to revover the bouy. ‘Tue yame of the uafortunate is usknown, Un the coast shipwrecks will no douot yet be heard fee or tour bours during which ihe ¢ almost a8 dangerous as @ cyclone, PrING, Bark Hertha (sri Schuyikul Ri ww ashore Ou tue west Ridgeway, for Valparaiso, lost wiad- bor I KI, DISASTERS AT LEWES, ‘ Lewes, Vel, Oct. 6, 1877. Four barks anchored off the Breakwater last night have visuppeared, supposed to have parted cables and gone to Bea, ‘The toilowing schooners sunk during the galc:— ved, lass and vue trying to save crews from suake: bag oy hod ly ovbers, lead sats rig Matilda, thas passed up yesterday wi lathes totally wrecked ou H. vs fopen. Sechoover Frank B. Colon, sunk. Bark Firenza C. (Italian), from Philadelphia for Lon: hore on potut of Cape Henlopen. ot Jerewiad, fiom Philadelphia for Antigua, dis- was Scbooners M, G. Dearborn, R. E Yates, Jessie Wilson, M. A. LeGaben and Frank G. Dow, al . Dredge Baitio ws asnore, but 1: ‘Cuxsren, Pa., Oct, 6, 1877. Crozier’s mills at Upland, three in uumber, wore led last night by the bursting of West Branch aud Koowlton dams in Chester Creek. . © hundred of the mill nds wil) be without work tn conse juence, The trains on the Baltimore Central Raiiroad are delayed by weshouis, and telegraphic commu- th them is broken, asels; two knowe DETAILS OF THE LOSS OF THE MASSACHU- SETIS—THE PILOT'S SKILL BAFFLED 1N THE STORM—THE VESSEL LIKELY TO PROVE 4 TOTAL WRECK—PASSENGERS ALL SAFELY LAND. [SY TELEGRAPH TO THE mERALD.) Gueewport, Oct 5, 1877. Nowhere, perbaps, in this section of the country id the recent storm create greater confusion than on the susceptible Long leland Sound. During the fore part of Thursday night the entire length of the Sound was la-hed into wnat might almost nave been called a tempest, fo)6=— the = shipping §=6it ~=broughs more imuinent dager and greater consternation than anything beiore in years, Many @ small craft ver- minated its voyage ere it reached a port, avd vessels Of a larger kind were made to feel their frailty. - WRECK OF THE MASSACHUSETTS, ‘The most importaat inatunce of disaster was the fate Of the lurge steamer Mussachusetis, of the Providence aod Stoniogton line, which wus wrecked oa the worth coast of the island off this place, aud not far irom where the steamer Commodore went to pieces some twenty years ago. ihe Massachusetts was one of th weet und best of the voats of the iine, and the 200 passengers that left New Yore on board ber Thursday afternoon little expected to dexert her in 8 helpless a condition, When she started on ber trip, ai five o'clock, the wind was bowing strongly trom the southeast and pover changed uutil alter tue Vessel siruck, past miduight. it then veered sud- deoly to the northward, gud continued to blow irom that direction to-vay. DETAILS OF THE DISASTER. By eight o’civck, on the evening of the disaster, the storm was so at as to baffle the pilot's skil/, aud for @ log time the Musgacbusests was sailed by compass wlmoss entirely. Tho pusseagera, mauy of them ina seasick couuition, bad sougut their beriba and only were uroused when the vessel rau ashore, Tue entire crew were on deck doing what ibey could to keep t! Beamer uright, aod soundings wore frequentiy taken. At about a quarser of an bour bewre midaight ® sounding was taken off Movrc’s Point and nine fathoms of water touad, 8000 aller this the eugines were slowed to seven and a half turns & winule, avd when but forty-five of t! beeu made the steamer ran Withuut waruing upon the sbore. The coniustun oo board way jews thun weet have been expecied under the circumstances. The passeng: rushed oo deck, but were ipreitings oy Huuing ibe steamer sate out of wa id the higus was too durk lor them to uiscover proxumiby to the shore, ‘'ne vesse! Went cow on to the shore and ber atero awuug round until soe luy broadside on, The sew broke Heavily on the port side, and the passengers were compelied (o use turboard deck, LocaLity 1B WRECK, The place where tue Massuchuseits giruck in one of the most dungerous asluvg tae coms Long Isimnd, She Les avout one mile wast of Rucky Post, ou what 1s kuown Move’s Puint, 8 rocky promontory whose clifs, Dity feet bigh, overhang @ litte uarrow beach. About three-quarters of # mile off the beach 11 erous sandvar, over which the si on io toe rocks ber crew were = direc! ovec a portion of the cargo, in hupes of huhting her wod perbapy floating ber of It had nu good effect, Lowever, ually on ber rocky bed, Tapiuly, aud soon the fires were uy ip aboat tweive leet of water, id by aaylight ber wulh geck wus but our feet out. aptuiu Jones was | at a loss to Know whui to do in tho qorkness, wud the time was priucipaliy occaped between miuaight and duybreak 10 turowing overbourd the vargu, CONDUCT OF THE Pausexaune, The behavior o! the pacseugers Was remarkably good throughout, some sixty ladies On board giving uo (rouble whatever, aud only une OF twu geo forgot vce Of inind, Tue vilicers ot steam news to the excellent manag sof 1 passengers, and ove of the tormer disgusiedly uw Towed two of three instances where passengers slept soundly uot Morning iguurant ol the peri they passed, One man cume from wis stateroom at seven o'clock, Fubbed bis eyes ina stupeled manner and tunvceatly mquired 11 anything bad huppened to shu mall boat, e ace id she ine settied grad- leaked in Quito tuyusded Sue aby ri daylight the parser went ashore in And soln this place telugrapued the new: deat to New York. AM EXTRAORDINARY SCENE, ‘The scene Dear the cirauued steamer moruing Was exiraordioary. Ihe surt, in the carly the di Kiug Muster from Muttituck, arrived to tako of the scuttered guogs io this javor be was assisted by aD agent of the Buara of Uuderwritera, t asHORE. At aboat to carry tho passeugers as ing boats wore employed im the work and one of the Mu setts’ livoowte “There was very litle exc and though the surf way gle accent happeved. ‘The passe: came to this village, where they remained till alverooon. About jorty of them retucued to New Yor by the Long Isiaad Raiiroua, and the remainder wens ov (0 Stouingion at wx o'civck by the steamer tbc whicu bad veen woot bere for the purpose. lu the aiterpoun &® quauiny of baggage taken ashore in a paruy dainaged coudition. Beyond what has been stated little could ve accomplishea for ine vo day, us Lhe Hem Wus Coustautiy oFreaking o' side with upremituns viole.ce, On Urain this eveming there arrived Capta . prosideut of WI Providence aud Stoulaytou Heuty Steers, the sui)bunuer, who is uleo repair the live, and Cuptuig Merritt, 0: ine Coast Wrecking Company, woe tad cbarge of the lAweriquy rescue, Nothing t F cub ve dune to-vight, bus by dayigot to-morrow @ WFeckiug scuoouer, In tow of the tug Cyclops, 18 expected with a gang of some iorty men irom New York. ‘ ; SKEICH OF THE WRECKED STEAMER. ~ The Massachusetts was duit vy Heury steers at a cost of $435,000, she made her first trip on the 7th of May last She basa marie aod local iovurance on her of only $75, be Was fully insured against lows vy tire. Yue Massacbusetis made ber firsttrip from New York to Providence May 7, 1877, Her dimensions ure:—Leugth, 326 feet; beam, 40 feet; over ull, 76 teet; bod, 16 ieet @ tmcues, Her iromes are of wh:te oak, jovust aud cedar, Her launching weight, withous ma chiuery oF juimer work, was 1,000 tons, PROSPECIB OF THE STRAMER. The chances 01 raviay (he steamer ure considerca Wortuless, ulshuugh vosuing can ve dvtermined aen- uicly autil tu-worrow, lhe geveral opinion is tut there Was negligence Fomewbere and the eugivecrs and piluis ofe imcliued to sbit tue respousibility (rom one to the other, Cupiain Rowe Bigks, suing MawBier of the yucht Estelle, went on board tbe steamer at abous two o'clock his afternoon und reporied that about oue buoured tect of the port guard deck Was proken away She tas a sharp rock Uuderbwaty ber bow and anotuer about amidships. Hor putt smokestack bas settied considerably, snd ‘ve dock liu gives strong evideoce that she is bugged, Only afew 01 the deck bands remained on Ooard during theviay, The wind tu-night 18 biowing pretty stil trom tue nurth, and day ciewte greaer damage velore moruing. SCEXE ON THE BEACH, The scene alony the beach is diuimal indecd. It in strewn with portions of the wreck watcuers with tickering lanterns und hauds are guurding the latte duriog the alterngua broke relg and iD a druoken stare ever they could curry away, 1 y became so exasperating that soine of \be mea oo guard fired upon them), but withoat scrious effort, LATHE CONCREMING THE VESSEL. ident Babcock sad Mr, Steers ly. They ed not to go through the this morning and was He found at 8% supposed, japtain Babcuck bas ordered two v ton to be bore to-morrow to Hi the ireighs. roughly estimates her cargo at the Vulue of $2v0,000, ARRIVAL OF THE MASSACHUSETTS’ PASSENUERS AT STONINGTON. Provipexos, R. 1,, Oct. §, 18677, The steamer Frances arrived at Stonington at mid- Bight with the passengers of the sicoamer Massacbu- setts, 200 in number, VESSELS ASHORE ON KING'S AND THROGG'S ‘ POINTS. City Isnanp, Oct. 5, 1877. Schooner Mary Hatchius, irom Bridgeport for New York, w asnort on King’s Point, Long Isiand Sound, at wi A M. to-day. Gotoff atten A, M. and towed to New York with little damage, Mary b. Suto, Six my Bessie Mor Seveu men saved. Bobei Hd. bo Five meu saved Aa unkuown schovner (four men saved); three men faved {rom pilot boat's skid, Which was upset while Atwmall sloop is ashore om Throgg’s Point loaded ‘with cord wood, a Some of the schooners bound east started from nari’s Isluod this morning, but were forced to retura © account of she Leavy gi schoo! ARMSTHONG BREAKING UP. The schooser soeeainene oe New Haven), trom Georgetown, with coul ior Providence, is ashore at about eigut nundred les Bbore; is bilged and badly Loged sulla The crew were saved by life-saving eution mea A later account says ehe ts breaking up. CITY OF NORWALK ne ir Cy ot Norwaik, irom New York for Norwaik, became disabled off Sand’s Point and went asboreatseven A. M. this morning, She was go. of eo A. Al. by the steamer Americus aud towed to LABGE NUMBER OF SMALL VESSELS DAMAGED aT PORT JEFFERSON, Pour Jarrznsox, L. 1., Oot, 6, 1877. About twelve o'clock Jas: night the wind suddenly changed trom seutn southwest to north northeast and Diew « gale, raining im torrents and darker than Kgypt. The eflect om the shipping at sucbor in this harvor was appalling. The beacu at the bead of the harbor was piled up with veasels of ull sizes, titerally breake jog one another up The largo turee-masted schooner James £. Bayles, Oaptain Dickor- son, 700 tons, had out a smal! anchor with some fitteen ur twenty fees of chain aad a huge anchor at her cath lor aD emergency, but wid only a half grown ber in full c: When tue yale 1 , Broadside ow, and yards, The yacht ‘ crowed ag Biled, Cutter Volante, Messra, Hitchcock, ba mast broken short off und leit lying acrow: deck, buli damaged. Yacot soowtke, Mr... Ade Move aad filed. Schooner Orion, Herris, almost broken up. Sioop Express had ber hoom broken and is loakiug. Smail boats by tue dozea were broken up, The James E. Bayias is badly oni aud aground ip a placd where 1t will require hara work to tloat hi Scuvouer Wiliam Young caught ber chain over pier aod stopped just seboouer Went asuore. Schooner Sigual is ashore. Scho: Post Boy, from Rockland for New York, with buildi granite, foundered, but can be raised ‘eusily, Syreu, Captain Hawkins, broke adrilt, caugui under a dock and is badly atuve. Schooner Jobo kustwood te also avtiore, ‘The packet sioop Jacob Duryee, that leit New York yesterduy lor this place, lu asuiore cast o ns Nek. The seais brenkiug over b Mas 4 tuil cargo of geveral morchandise, THRES GCHOONKRS ANHOKK AT FINE I8( AND. Fing lataxp, L. 1, Oct 6, 1877. Daring a heavy gale wick prevailed ull last night, Veoring trom suutb to east and north, three fisning sluops weredriven ashore near the twleyraph oftice. ‘The steamvoui Suri, moored at her jandiog, dragged away (uu wea wing 0, toeep.er und diu cousideranla otuer damage to the dock. Ibe Suif ¢-caped injury. brie ateing Bouses, sh de and rovis were viewn low Ly SHIPPING DAMAGED AT AND NEaB VINEYaBD HaVEN. Vingyanp Haven, Oct. 5, 1877. A violent gale from the north prevails, ‘The schooner Addie and Neille, of St. John, N, B., trom 31. Martins tor New Brunswick, with a curgo of salt, parted one of her anchor chains and went ashore on Uunal flat this moi She lies on a sandy bottom aad will have to discharge her cargo, The schooners Aauio vo! Jonesvero’; Evelyn, of Muchias, aud Ariel, of wort., were ip colimen in this burbor during the aie, Lue Angie lost ver jvL0Om and bead gear, broke Ber bead ruil, started ner forecastle deok, The Evelyn parted oue chain, lost her head gear and met with cousiuerable viher damage. bout. The Ariel lost ber Several vessols parted chains and most of the feet dragged anchors, wany of (bem narrawly escaping. EXPKOT OF THE STORM IN CONNECIICUT. Haxtrorp, Conn., Oct. 5, 1877. ‘The storm of Thursday nigh: was vevere throughout Ceniral Connecticut The wind blew» gule aud tho rainiall was the heaviest that bas occurred for months, No serious damage to property, however, is reported, The raliroads escaped with injuries com- paratively unimportant, A bad washout occurred on the Valley roud, uear Chesier, and iu passing over it the early train this meroing broke the rails and par- Towly escapou disuster, TH’ PROVIDENCE COMPELLED TO ANCHOR ALL wIGHT.* Nuwront, Oct. 5, 1877. The officers of the steamer Providence, of the Fali River line, wno arrived hero at eleven o'clock to-day, thute that jast wight was one of the worst tuey ever expe ice, ~The wiad blew a periect nurricane and She rain fei 60 thick aud fast that ic wae imporsibie’to Sev u boas length auead. Alter buifeting wvuut in the Sound for uours sue succeeded in eMecting an anchorage in Huatington harbor, SCHVONKE CaPstzxD, Asmall schooner, sume vokuown, was capsized in Mount Hope Bay, near Portsmouth Grove. She was piaiusy Been trom the shore Ly passuogers ou tue Old lony Ruilroad, There was uv serious damage to Stipping lu the harbor. ‘ibe goverument schouner Joseph Henry driited into Brenton’s Cove, and several small yachts und voats were suuk, DAMAGE IN MASSACHUS.TTS, Boston, bli Oct. 5, 1877, ‘The storm last night was quite severe on (ui: coust, but oe serious marine disasier has yet been reported. Five market flahing boats weat asnoro oa the Spit, Boston Harbor, and two suak, Thoy will probably all be saved. ‘Tbe trips of the Eastern steamers were interrupted. The Katabdio, tor Bungor, Jona Brooks, tor Portiand, both returned tu Bostou this morning, | The steamer New Branswick, (rom Bo.toa for Si. John, N. B., was in Gloucester Harbor this moroing. Provinoxtows, Aava., Uct, 5, 1877. A beavy northwest squall struck here at hali-past seven o'clock this morning and cuntinued plowing heavily. A fleet of about two hundred v several steamers are io the harbor. Several small fishing Vessels have boon driven ushore, A yacut, afl oc to ve tue Ray, from Portland tor New York, cy ashore, —— A WRECK AT BIDDFPORD, Mr. . Brvprvorp, Oct. 5, 1877, The wind is blowing a gale trom north-northwest. Over o: jandrod and seventy-(ve vessel: ooking shelter at the Pool, many of tuem dracging ther an- chors and chafing. At noon an unknown schooner of 1, about forty tena, loaded wiih salt and five var went on Phillips’ Rock, vetween Wooa Island the Pool, and wili be a total wreck, SHIPWRECK IN NOVA SCOTIA, Hauiyax, Oct 5, 1877. The schooner Enoch Banner, from Canso jor Hali- fax with a cargo ot Ost, sung off Country Harbor you- terday, The crew were «aved. CASUALITIES ON THE LAKES. Cutcago, I1'., Oct, 5, 1877. Reports begin \o come tn of serious damage to the lake shipping during the gale of two duys past. No great d:saster bas occurred, but numerons $ina)] casual- Les ure reported, and scarcely a vessel that was ous of Hope and Eveline 18 £O Dg to preces at canx re in trouvie, Thus far no loss of life has been reported. Kixcanping, Unt., Oct, 5, 1877. The schooner Nettie Weaver, of Cieveiand, loaded ‘With tron ore, from Lake Sup*rior for Deiroit, was wrecked in a gale iast evening, fifty miles north of this place. A passenger, named Birch, from Buffalo, and One of the crew, kmery Roverisun, of 51. Cather: i were drowned. ihe captain and the rest of the cr arrived hore to-day. Pont Rowan, Ont, Oct, 5, 1877. The bark British Lion, with coal trom Black Riv Onio, for Brockville, went asvore on Thursday at Long Point Ail hi were saved. ALONG THK HUDSON BIVER. Oct, 6, 1877. The Hudson River last aight was the beaviest known in many years. The steamer Mary Powoll did pot reach bere wil three o'clock tuis morning, eixht hours behind time; the Thomas Cor- pe | arrived at four u’¢lock, pine huurs behing time Tho Poughkeepsie boat Joba L. Hasbrouck rau ashore South of Croton Point, but is not seriously damaged. ‘One or two tugs with Lows also Pan ashore in the Upper Hucson IN CHESAPEAKE BAY. Bartinonn, Oot, 6, 1877. The outward bound fleet wus at anchor last evening in James River Channel asd at Hampton Roads, The Noriolk buat bag Very rough weatuer but heard ol no amer Carolina, from Norfolk, which arnved here this morning, Teporis heavy weather cuming up imwsters, § Pasood @ schooner Rescue, from the Ba- L088 OF LIFE AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY IN VInGINIA, Poxtsmoutn, Oct, 5, 18° About a week ago a terrific storm commenced in the Eaeoion region of Basera North Carolina and bas lasted up to the present date, doing cousiderabi age. Mt carried away every watermill in Chawaa, rer. qwmaus and Gi counties; siso bridge, #0 tbat the people’ are « to vow, It diti great dame,e to ai) the fisveries on the Albemarle Sound, especially to Greenweid aud Vrum. | ropair the vreaks elsewhere, } Deusen alter ite lirst appearauco wus amazing 3 mood’s Point. It tore up the wharves and warehouses, so that tbey will nard'y be able to fish the coming ug. lower part of Wash- gion county whie — wryu to turp hone, w je bas bee! feet above its asual begat. trous tu the crops, Toe tarmers say tuey wili not make ahuilcrop, The loss is estimated to be very ree le tue three men. rowned, EFFECTS IN NEW YORK CITY AND VICINITY— DAMAGE ON 1AND AND WATER, An old willow tree, which has stood for many years In Seventy-eighth street, just below Madison avenue, Was biown down, and tell across the street, blocking Up the whole width of the street, In its fall it toreug the sidewalk on the north side of the street for severa feet, and smaxbed the windows of a mew house db rectly opposite, The boathouse of the National Rowtng Club, ot Hariem R.ver, broke irom its moorings and wemi adrift. A cumber of boats belonging to Mr. Raynoi were badly damaged, Trees were blown down 0g the corner of 125th stree and Lexington avenue, in front of No, 442 Bast 122¢ street, in 1241h street, between First aveuge and ave- bue A; in 153d sireet and Tenth avenue, im troat of she St. Barnabas Chapel ia Mulberry street, iu frout of Na. 82 Washington pluce aud im froot of No. 664 Greenwich Street, The taiter tree demolished tue fre telegraph wire running past that houre, A sign at Nos. 2, 4 and 6 East Fourth street was blown across the sirect Numerous flagstafls and chimuey pote were blowa dowa, The potice telegraph auifered severoly, and for hours tbe comimusication of the uptown stations with the Central Office “Was interrupted. Mr. Crowley, tae Superimtendeut of Teiegraph, had the damage repaired at an early bour yesterduy moruing. The sto m wus very destructive to property ia Brookiyu. The sewers ware anablo to carry vif the floou of water Which boiled through them and over- owed iM many streets A detective root was the cnuse of the Gooding of G, 8, Weav’s millipery store, No, 304 Fultog street, and the damage of the stock to tue extent of $6,000, The New York Butroa Company 1oses $500 by tue flooding of ts cellar, on tbe corver of Bocrum and Schermerhoru street. the North Ameri- can Iron Works, in Figsning avenue, lose $4,000. [¢ Wii Gost $1,000 to repair the sew wali On (bird avenge, wear Thurty-Oth ser and trom $3,000 to $6,000 to The two story ‘frame builting No, 180 Nineteenth et owned by Patrick Boylan, Was also damaged by the rain, as were several houses on the cornerof Puluam aud Nostrans avenuce Ju the very beurt oi Jersey City families were kept Up all night removing carpets and turuiture frow base ments walch wore flooded. Lo dtonmousn, Coles, Fourth, Filth aud other streets adjacent to the mead: | ows the water rushed into cellars, and were the vulidings Were so low as not to adut of celiars the water ruse iu bugements to the height of from six to Bfieen incbes. Considerable damage was thus done to Lroperty. (he rapidity with Wuich the Water rose ia is Pusvedin hike atorrent and atiaimed its grouteas ueight 1o Ditwen minutes. ID SOME iustauces Lue lanilies were enabled tu renfove many articles of turuiture wuich would be likely to suller jujary, but Bo lime was given tor tearing up carpets. Wherever the inmates ad retired to bed .he damage was greatest. 1 was eight o'clock when the Water began to rise, aud it ree mained & 13 bigo Jove! (uy ree hours, emvapkm ed away, whi Section o/ Oluers the sewers became floou covered the b ghway and borse car tracks, lu New Branswick, N. J, the rain on i bursday night flooded the river so Chat it submerged the lower part ol the city and greatly interered with travel. Seveu caval vous ia the Raritan Canal wore luoscued fiom the.r moorings aud di tited away, Tbree of tuem were jaden with cargo, Nuinerous smail boats aod yucuts uluo driited away and buve oot yes been 1ecovered, A large Dumber of tactories aloug the river wore yesterday obliged to suspend opera. Hons, the wat reniering the boiler roou.s abd exuin- U wbiby the res, Among these were the d sey uuber Company's factory, Noveity Compauy’a tac- tory abd the machine shop of GB Muna & Co, Business along the wharves was entirely suspended, Busiuess men suffered constucrabiy from the fluoding ut their celiurs in which goods were stored. The water in some fucturies was three feet devp Tbe steamvoat Wyomivg was driveu by the Current against adrifting canal bows and was badly damaged, The damage caused by the tresbet will amount to about $25,000, ‘TUR RIVERDALE ACCIDENT, Yesterday Captuin Lowery, of tue Thirty-ffth pres cinct, furwurded to Superiutondent Wailing the follows ing Oficial report of the accident ow the Hudson River Kulitoad ast might at Kiverdule:— The Puciic express, that leit ive Grand Central Depot at hait-past eight 1, M., was thrown off the track near ibora’s Dock, Kiverduie, bye land slide, Ibe engine was thrown 1m0 We buvk upside down, ‘Tbe evgineer aud ureman bud Lo creep out from under the engine, Tue baggage car Was piled upow the leuder, One express car was thrown into the river; auother wus turaed on its side on the Otuer trace, | The passeuger cura all remained 08 the track at three A. M. Jacob Baur, expressinav, was found in ine | vaguaze cur lust betweea the safe and some truvks, Me was taken out and found to be sliguuy ajured ip We breast Captain Lowery ana Sergeant Russell, wish the second piatoon, were at the wreck, Al bali-pass tures AM. the wrecked (rain reached New York. 11 had been taken wp by toe express train from Alvaby, in which were ® number of anti-lam- wany puliiciaas. {ne engineer of the wrecked train, Jobu Ford, gave bis staement to a HxRaLp reporter as tollows:—"l Was runuiog ulong the track iu rain god in darkness whew at opuyten Duyvil 1 occurred to me tuat exireme caution was necessary. 1 wold the Hremay te be va Land and keep a good lookout aud warned tho banda to be ready tor any emergency that might occur, Oa reaching Riverdaic I was suddecly startied by seeing a lot of gravel accumulated ou the irack. Atonce 4 siguuiled down brakes aad shut of Steam. The ocxt thing L remember is picking myself up irom a diten, The cars were ail displaced; one waa im Ube Fiver, but DO lives wore iost,”” THR MAILS DSTAINED, The mails from ail quariers were detained on ac- couutol the storm and its consequences, washouts, jand slides and accidents. Ou sume oi the roads the detention lus beeu twelve hours, A reporter yester- day catied on Acting Assistant Postmaster Gaylor to leura the particulars, and was referred to br. O’Brieu, Superintendent of Mails, wuo kindly ture Biehea (he iollowini ihe mail by tho Erie due here at 8 P. M. yesterday did not arrive unui §:15 tas muroing This delay was caused by the accident wear Vaurson a wiz FP, M. yesterday. ‘The Nort mail by the Hudson River Railroad due here as 10:80 last evening did Bot arrive unti 8:30 this morning. Tne Baltimore and Wasbington mall, due here ai 6 A. bL., did nod arrive until LL o'clock. The through South mai, due bere at 7:204 M., is five hoursaud twenty minutes late. the wai trom the West aud Soatuwost, via the Peuusyivania Central road, due bere at7 A M., bad not urrived at Doon, The limited mail, via the Pennsylvania Central, due at 11:15 A. M., was two vours late. The Weat aud Southwest mail by the New York Cen. , due at 11:35 A. M., was ulso late, aud bad not are rived wt 12:30 F. Bt. Mr. O'lrien said the clerks who should bave got away at mie o'clock yesterday morning bad be pe On, #0 ug LO Keb the Malls out wad delivered Instantly ou their arrival, The fuli force of clerks will be kept on duty Constantly untli the m got, siragutened OUt again, and there will be a partol the Post Oflice MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. “Wan Dara: RTMENT, Orrick ov Tux Carer Signal Orricge, Wasuixatoy, Oct, G1 A ML Indications, For New England and the Middle Atlantic States, colder, r or partly cloudy weatner, northerly winds apd rising baromercr, For the South Atlantic and East Guilt States, 7 oF parily cloudy weather, oortherly winds, siationary temperature and rising barometer, For the West Gull States, warmer, partly cloudy weather, occasional rain areas in Texas, easterly winds, s'ationary or lower pressure, For Tenoeasee and the Ohio Valley light variable y Wualtever on the Upper Missi: ir, clear or parily cloudy weather, light Variable winder, mostiy from the south, aad rising, fol- lowed by stavionary or falling barometer. For the tako region, westerly winds, statiovary ot higher pressure acd temperaiure; on the upper lakes, clear or partly cloudy weather, but on the lower lakes partly cloudy weathes and areas of light rain, ‘The rivers will remain nearly stationary. Cautionary signals continue at Cape Lookoat, Cape Hatteras, Kitty Hawk, Cape Hoary, Cape May, Atlan. tue City, Barnegat, Sandy Hook and Eastport. Hf WEATHER YESTERDAY, ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past tweaty-f Bours, ia com- parmon with the corresponding date of last your, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, Henatp Building :— 1876, 1877. oe OL 30 P.M 50 or. m. & oT ORM « oh oo 12 PM... peravare yesterday... seve Obig temperature fur corresponding date last FROST AT MEMPHIS. “Wexwms, Tean,, Oot 5, 1877, There wasa light frost bere this morning, but at suiciens to damage the cotton crop, SHOOTING AN ESCAPED CONVICT. Br Jou, NX, B., Oct 6, 1677. Thomas Shawha, who, with Joba Martin, escaped from the Penitentiary, was to-day shot tal buiel Keever Kebte alter suas of four mee oT