The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1878, Page 3

THE TERRIBLE CYCLONE.| Disastrous Effects of an Atlan- tic Coast Storm.. IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. —-———— Buildings Unroofed, ‘Trees Thrown Down and Roads Obstructed. PENNSYLVANIA VALLEYS DEVASTATED Damage to Shipping on the Coast and on the Sound WSS OF THE SCHOONER MARY TICK. Incidents of the Storm in and About this City. veaterday morning abated during the aun even peeped out occasionally trom botween (he black clouds.. But, short as it was, it was ate tended by the breaking down of trees and telegraph poles, Nooding of cellars, impeded horse cur tra nd made much mischiet generally, The storm signal over ‘the Equitable Building could not be maintained, and ‘she flagstal was loworum for fear that it might be Broken by the forte a she wind, which biew at the fave of fity miles an hour at daybreak. Perhups the most remarkable incident of the gule was the blowing from the hurricane deck of the Harlem steamboat of ® boy, whose life was saved with difficulty, The show window of ‘Tiifany’s, on Union square, although three-cights of an inch in thickooss (and valued at $1,600), was broken in vy the furious gale, but fortu- pately no thieves availed themselves of this inviting opporti y to help themselves to costly jewelry. A portion of an unfinished building was blewn Gown and the chimney ef a five story tene- ment house fell upon an adjoining candy store. The Bouse itself swayed from the party wall to such a @angerousextont that the Department of Buillaings ‘will bave to look alter it. A brick im Pine street biew upon the head of a passerby and fractured his skull, Not less than a dozen trees ana an equal Bumber of telegraph poles came down with a crash, and in some cuses the passersby regeived disagrec- able knocks and kicks und slight injuries. The storm @i@ the usual amount of damage to the docks and ‘shipping. A brig, lying in tho Kast River, between the Wall street and Fulton street ferries, was, badly listed by the wind, and opposite the Hamilton ferry a canal Dost was sunk. Some merchandise on Mallory’s @ock was well nigh assailed by the rushing waves, and bad to be removed to avoid damage. Telegraph lunes to neighboring district points were blown dewa, te the serious detriment of business, A record vu! the Diowing off of bats, the uniurling of iadies’ skiris, the swamping Of boots, the teary away of umbrellas and other disagreabie but picturesque incidents of the morm would greatly sweli the list ul Ccusualtios, BLOWN FROM 4 RIVERBOAT. 4s the steamer Morrisania, of the Huriem line, was Bearing Fourseenth street 1m the morning, the ery “Man overboard!’? rang torough the cabins, Tne bout Was stopped, and tmmeuiamtely preparations ‘Were mauve to rescue the drowning passeu- yr. Iu the contusion, stools. seitces and preservers were promiscuously thrown Overboard us the beat drifted swiltly uway. Fortunately, as the ferry boat Flushing was on its Srp vo Huater’s Point, Captain Leak saw the commo- Slo, and ringing Dis dell burricu to the scone, Whea Within # short distance ho saw tho form of a young man floating nelplessiy in tue water, and signalling she alarm, Patrick Kussell, the deckuaud, threw a ~beathuok to the sinking Stranger. Tne latier, how- ever, was Leu exhausted to grasp it. Puillip Rovin- Gon, an nasistant on the Flusning, crawied'uown whe ‘pele and succeeded 10 buldiug uim woul repes were | saben when the man was brought on beard the rryboat. Restoratives were applied, and upon arriving at Bunter’s Puint medica assistance was summoned. Doctor Graves succeeded in resioring consciousness. Robert A. Hinvest of No, 435 East 117th street, was whew learned to be tho name aud address of the un- lucky passenger, whois w young mun under twenty years of age. Lust evening be made tne joliowing Statement to 4 HERALD reporter :—*1 Lud beeu sitting $m the rear cabin, wuen feeling uocomfortably warm, I took my stool and walkeu to the lorward deck. 1 was about to seat mysell when | felt that 1 was being Five 1 would be killed by the wheel, I dived w siver the Morrisania had passed many lengths, 1 at Asst was uaabie to On accouut of wy clothing and was ul when Rad INCIDENTS OF Mr. James R, ne nares Passing te corner ot 1: about ten o'clock in the m: Beau by u brick or a p of tbe storm bad ncbed trom the building above yea to the Chambers Street Hos- found that he had sustuined a of the skull, Lust night he wi condition Is still coosid- nt house No, 303 East down upon an adjyin- lding §=Thi McCorwack, 4x tue jomis above ber head accident, 16 18 said, may be 4 are not takem to prov: vf tho tenement house bas from the party wail oa the other partment of Buildings was notified, tree wus viown down at 176th street and bg Occupied vy the cuimucy of the street, ot, Na 227 West pons sh street, No. $31, Luke’s place and No, 123 Ey ifle Cor legrapu poles of the Atlantic and P Vy ‘us. 106, 132 aug 140 First aveaue w wh dowa, and iulliug wcross the car track impeded trevor The Produce Exchai transacted little business owing to the interruption of telegraphic communica. IN BROOKLYN, ‘Throughout Brooklyn tho storm raged with un- Qaual severity, Shortly afer eight A.M. a three story brick ug in course of erection in President street, uear Eighth avenue, was blown down, causing aloes of ovor $2,000, It was owned by Mr, Borkett, Jobo D. Griffin, twenty-five yours of age, Ne, 170 Richardson stroct, was a Pinte glass 10 the show window e at the corner of Ninth street aod Filta Vanderbilt, Park, Fiusning and walely out the guile killed by beiog struck by the rool of White’s stab ut Bridge atre bim al salety to escapo the rough water. The £nglish cutter Menarica, which lay at anchor off Stapleton, dragged ber anchors several hundred yurds, and finally rode ni was, Made [ust to the Const Wrecking Compauy’s dock. ‘he Now Yor pilot boat Bennett No. 6 drilted in pear the shore at Stap'e- ion, and Was xavev trom goipg on the beach by a tug- boat. The yacnt Visiou, also at anchor off Stapleton, her anchor: considerable distance, japtain Willis, her sailtog master, seeing tho danger the vessel was 1, telegraphed to this city for & tugboat, and the yacht was tuwed to a place of safety, The schooner lodependence, lying in the Stapieton Basiu, was sunk, rolling over on ber beam ends, and now with both masis athwart the dock. ‘two canal boats, owned by Timothy D. O’Brien, loaded with 150 tons of coal, were sunk at the end of Townsend’s Dook, Clifton, and he seven feet under water at low tide. A sloop lying at the Wrecker’s dock lost her ruader by strikiug om the beacon, A large ship and the revenue steamer Grant dragged their upchors close in to shore at Tompkinsville aud rede out ihe gato in salety, Two sioops drifted trom their moorings at Totteaville, the west end of the isiand, ang were rescued by a tug as they wero going ashore at Perth Ambov. Tree-, fonces und signbvards were blown iu every direction. A tree which had beon a landmark for the past seventy years ou the old Vup- derbiit bomestead at Stapleton was uprooied, It was voth diMcuit and dangerous for the Staten Isiaod ferryboats to muko their landing owing to the bigh winds and waves, At the height of the gale the boats did not Jund at Stapleton, NEW JERSEY. Much damage was done to property in and around .Newurk, A row of six dwelling hoases on Aqueduct place, eccupied by horso car employé:, had their roots toro oO! No bodily tojury vcourred. Osher buildings suifered in the sume way, und sigus, clim- neys aod shade trees wore blown down. * THE STORM IN WASHINGTON—SIGNAL OFFICE "REPORTS DELAYED. Wasuincrox, Oct, 23, 1878. A heavy rain storm, acoompauied by violent wind from the northeast, passed over this city iast night, From one o’clock until seven this merning the wind was very high, unroofing houses, uprooting tre: ad doing other dumage. Owing to the storm the Signal Office received only tweuty of the usaa! 120 reports from the various signal stations Western reports came by the way of New Urieans, It was an Atlantic coust storm, aud did pot reach the Mississippi Val- ley. All wires east are down, — TERRIBLE KFFECTS OF THE STORM IN PHILA- DELPHIA—A FBRESHET IN THE DELAWARE— Loss OF LIFE AND DESTRUCTION OF FROP- EBTY, PuILapELPuta, Oct, 23, 1878. One of the most destructive wind storms which ever occurred in this part of the country began at an early hour this morning. It raged with its greatest violence for only about three hours, but during this sbort time it wrought an appalling amount of loss and injury of lite and property. Every line of telograph to and from the city in every direction was biown down, and even the local wires of the Police and Fire departments are so injured that it is impossible to-nignt to get a full and complete re- port ei the destryction which 1s strewn in the path of the fufious element. Up te this hour six persons are known to bave been crushed te death by the fall of roofs and buildings, and tne list of broken limbs and wounds is a long one, some of the injured being dan- ously burt. No accurate estimate can yet be given of the aggregat ue of the property de- stroyea, but the figures, it is feared, will reach into the millions, The storm was accompanied by a freshet in the Delaware, the winds from the south piling up the waters as the tide came in and causing higher water than has been kaown bere for twenty-seven years, Exclusive of the damage to Toofg and buildings on the water front {t is said that the overtiow ot w: into the storehouses and cellurs on Delaware aveoue has caused a loss of property to the value of a quarter of a million dollars, LUCKY ESCAPE OF A TRAIN, Probably the heaviest single loser by tho storm is the Ponnsylvania Railroad Company, whose handsome Dew depot at Wess Philadelphia, known as tho Cen- tenuial Depot, was halt destroyed, csusing a loss of about $50,000 und narrowly escaping « far more serious result, for the root fell in just as the seven o’clock train to New York was going out did it come to crashing the cure filiea with their Duman freight that the rear platiorm of the iast pas- seDger coaco was covered with déoris. The covered bridge across the Schuyikill, at the Falls of Schuyikill, was ulso nearly ruined, ihe two centre spans being swept awuy. A large amount of money will be necessary to repair this loss. the number of dwelling houses, iuctorios, ware- houses, churgnoy, market houses and sevool build. ires and chimneys blown off cau be fe 18 Not u street ud hundreds of the fine old trees w the pabiic squares and parks have been up- rooied and broken by the tury of 1 portiva of the city and the suburbs seoms suffered equally, and, tho losses millions, it is fearea, tors, ry 1 Dave belore stated, when ‘@ summed up they will reach into the THE GROWTH OF THE STORM. At eleven o'cluck lust evening tuv sky became overcast aud @ drizzle set in. At midnight a ligut soutuerly wind spravg up, Whicb gradually increased during the night, shifting arouud to jhe southeast, At Diteen minutes tu three A. M. the wind storm may be suid to Dave commenced, the wind biewing at that time tw faster and more furious until, at twenty-five minutes pust seven A. M., it Daa reached a velocity of ae Ave milesan bour, It raged taster and ty-two miles per hour. t Came within wight miles of being a barricane,”’ ‘& sigoal service officer, ‘as, 1f the anemometer bad registered eigbiy miles, we woulda call 4% a reguiar borricane. As it 18 we call it # severe storm.’ Until eight o’ciock there was no cessation, After this time there was a slow decroase, ana at thirty-five minutes past ten the wind gauge showed iorty miles an hour, “or what we calla gale,” ag the sigaal officer said. ‘hei was 94-100ths of un toch ef rainiall irom tne time the storm Began. It was the opinion of the to rquare miles, It came to us from a southeriy direc- tion and left toward the west, officer tbe storm exteuded over an area ef about 4U0 ‘ THER LOSS OF LIFE. Six lives are so far reported us just:through injuries Peeeived by tulling objects, °A Ledyer carrier named Smith, while pagsimg the U; in Gray’s Ferry road was +o badly burt that be bas since died at the Peoosylua- nia Hospital. 4 Stases Naval Asylum ruck by « falling tree und Au uukoowa man was Killed at the Reading Rail- Toad Company’s coal sheds at sulip street and’ Lenigh avenue, Aw unknown map, about forty years ot age, was baud Hoimesburg \yke, Frankford. Between five aud six o'clock Morris Ohme, a night watebmun at the Phiiadelpbia and Reading machige sbops, was Killed by w large smokestack falling on him. Av kkoown man was killad bya tree falling on ir Hill Cemetery. By the taling of « rovi va Ridge road, near Oxford, an unknown woman was kilied. aged thirty-six y cari ftrect, a ship carpen orning to go to work. Ti Look ue and Aituug was justaotly His body was removed to his home. An unknown mao bad bis leg und arm broken @ same Lime, WOUNDE! Quite ® number of per ving been badly is are reported by the irl, Amouy others ti bamed Thompson, employed on the Pennsy!- Ratiroad at the Holmesburg Ja io, Was ou nim d Palmer streets, as struck ow the falling trap door, te, residing rg we Wiid biown down and about one hundred feet of the roof was blown off avd carried a covsiderable dis ‘the ears were not r pot of the Union Passenger Street Company was partiy uorooled, The wind lifted a portioa of the heavy roof of the North Vennsyivania Railroad Company’ reatly Weakened the southern w wanceneinete locomot i es with which the house AT GERMANTOWN. ‘idences of the storm are pientifa!l 1n Germ: The kuttting mills, owned by Aarou Jon on Wistar street, were \unrooled wai rk ip the fourth 8 work peuple we tent of about $40,000. of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, was blown down, crushing in the root ruin of a very acker pianoforte story brick building builtin doing groat injury to neh- failing of umoer. T extent of $10,000, ibere 8 op stuck, which ‘The root ot the new building lately built as an ex- tension to the Peousyivania’s Raiiroad Company office on Fourth street, above Spruce, was partially section of thecity, where the ground is high, auding ob ao o’cloce this morning, ou wets of tin and pieces of plauking biowu about 10 e wind like so many vits of Feet corners iu this quarter one couli their tin cools flapping und the breeze, wotle pieces Of debris whirl tbe damage in tos secon ed point, berwee: could see sign boards, STRENGTH OF THE WIND, of the strength of the wind will be hing. under the roofing of the new aisned) at the northwest corner of 8, the root went off upder apd througu the whole row, twenty-one in uamver, north to Jel- lersou street, unrooied rything 1D its cases, taking tae a quarter past most the school house at Twent; son streets bad the enti ers and boarding torn a porwweastern section also jo w flush, and 0 ad ull in some fbis was about R re third stor, xin and Tbomp- roof torn off and the rait~ id greatly,'and uprooted und otherwise: injured 18 4 the Delaware water the list of hou bigh water aud To addition to those the gale caused several ships to break loose from their moorings and ariit belpiessiy ported us capsized at boat Wave was sept Russian cruiser, the edock at Cramp’s ship ‘Iwo brigs were America, broke loose yard was driven up tothe Readiog wharvoz, but sus- tained no serious injury. Ine men at Cramp’s yard Geuged work, a portion of the yard beipg flooded. At ud industrial establish- lly along the Delaware trons tn loss of property injured by ti tae or the gale. Atthe Jumber yards of this planks were scattered by the wind lik MARKET HOUSE DESTROTE rious results of t! One of the mvs: the Delaware was t, and extended trom Water just above Vine, Itcost 833,000 40 build, About hall-past six the entire front at seven o’olock the root w: cupants of.the market, w! and vogetables, turtunately building 18 4 co! mp.cte wreck. CHURCHES DAMAGED. ig list of coureh been injured by t tollowiag are only a portion of them, but wi of tne tar reaching aad vast amount of dumage There is a very the city which hw 1 German Lutheran Church, reets, was blown down, aterribie crash ioto the sireet. This 2 teet above the sidewalk, Churen, whieh io strocis, had ite roof torn off, and the chance! wall was partly broken 3t. Pau’s Jnaependent Charch, erected in 1871, corner o! streets, was crowped with a very ban nd a clock. During the gule it toppled one une 0 \ large tureng gat! vicinity of St. Mark’s E arch, on the south side ol ¥; above Thirteenth, Tne € blown the spire a there was a constant expectation of 22> feet nigh, one ot t @ city, and was tloisbed in 1852 tands in its presemt precarious condition with the Street roped off, so that no one will be injured in caso 1 Methodist Epis. ok ing 1t gedowa. To roof was blown off copal Churca on Green Jat ds only a strong yo , Baptist Churel Master, which had high, was divested crushing into The Mission Church, at Jasper ana Ann streets, had Sharch, Fitty- on Eighth street, above @ about forty fees {ts root torn off, One of the wuils of the Atrican Unt eight and Vine streets, was blown down. This church was only dedicated iast Sunday. St. James’ Catholic Church, y& the corner of Thir- ty-eighto and Chestnut streets, bad part of its roof The steeple of the First Baptist Church, at Thirty- stout streets, Which was 170 leet high, was blown down, In its {ali the spire doubied up, the base falling into the chure'! Dell, into the street, Tne structure w; rod with wiate, aud the estimated d: In iis tall the top of the apire strack the houses oppo- site, damaging th Calvary’ Presbyterian Charch, at Fit- teenth and Locust streets, wich was about 175 foot bigh, was partly biown dawa, The root of the North Presbyterian Church, at Six- teenth aad Sansom streets, was purtiaily torn off, part of the roof of the Methodist Charcu, at reets, was blown aff, os was also a portion of the churen at Brod and Fitzwater ‘ard and the top, witu the of wood, cov- axe 18 $23,000. Broad and Christian The roof and a portion of the wall at St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church, at Lehigh avenue and Huntingdon street, Were turn away. The West Walnut street Presbyterian between ihirty-oimth aod Fortiets, which has just tefrescoed und reupholatered at ‘The spire, whien been refitted, penso of $7,000, wasa sullerer. struck the ruof of tho dweiling ocou- pied by Mra Rosette, and very badiy damaged In its tail @ portion of the church roof was carried @ church aod the with it, and the vestibule of lott was filled with débris, Toe organ, which nad recently been refitted at a cost of $1,500, was com- pletely demolisned. The damage by the gale to this eburen will amoant to $35,000. DAMAGE IN EASTON, PA. — BUILDINGS UNROOFED AND ORCHARDS DESTROYED, (by TELEGRAPA TO THE HERALD.) Kastor, Oot. 23, 1878. , The storm here to-day was the erest that hae boem known for a great many years, The damage NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1878>-TRIPLE SHEET. ties have incurred great loss, not alone in the city proper, buat ull through the valley from Nunucoke to — Pittats a distance of twenty mit The Court se rquare and the Commons were iiterally covered witn fallea sbrabvery aud déoris, a the magnificent Market House was tora off, t rink was tuoroughiy demolisnea, the La: was shaken to its loundations and the roof waa only its place by the lavish use of heavy ropes over nd attached to the curbstones, a Hoase was badly iojared at the en- juable show windows were demolished throughout tue city. 2@ portion of the roof of Keating killed in the suburbs an, Dame unknown, wi erous accidents are and many serious and two di reported. SERIOUS DAMAGE DONE AT SCRANTON, PA. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE Hi RALD.] Scrantoy, Oct. 23, 1878. A terrific storm swept over nis region to-day and Wrought great damage to property along the Wy- oming and Lackawanna valleys. In Scranton the wind swept with the devastating force of a cyclone, unroofing houses, tearing up trees and dismantling buildings of various descriptions, DETAILS OF DAMAGE DONE, The new puddMog mill of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, a stout structure supported by iron pillare, was caught in a florce gust, and brought down with acrash. Nearly three hundred feet of the building igacomplete wreck. Fortunately that portion of the works was not in operation, A part of the Park Coal Compuny’s bunker was dismantied, and a numoer of brick agacks wore blown down, At Dunnora, on the outskirts of Scranton, the roof was torn off the Method'st Charch aod several dwellings were stripped, RAILROAD OBSTRUCTIONS, The gravity road of tho Penusylvania Coal Com- pany Was obstructed by the numerous trees blown r down on. the truck over the Moosic pighland in‘one instance a traip cut into by a falling tr Telegrams from all parts ot the valley report gr destruction of property vy the storm. LOs8s OF LIFE AND PROPERTY IN THE SCHUYL- KILL VALLEY—DETAILS OF DESTRUCTION IN BEADING AND VICINITY. [ex TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] Reaprya, Pa., Oct. 23, 1878, A fearful ana violent storm swept over the Schuyl- kill Valley at an early hour this morning, reaching Reading ita all its terrible violence about sball-past eight o'clock, It swept all before it, Farm houses, barns, outbuildings, country churches and school buidings were de- molished, Eighteen miles below Reading the -mnost disastrous part of the storm was first felt, The roof and walla et the Pottstown Iron Company were wrecked and several men were severely bert. George W. Reagan was killed by the falling of a shedding, A number of other buildings were wrecked and the stee- ples of two Lutheran churches were buried sevoral hundred yards. @ total loss thore ts about $75,000, ‘The storm swept up toward Birdsboro, and umong the many bulidings wreoked were the round houses ot the Wilmington and Northern Railroad. fhey were burned, and a man named Henderson was killed in the aépris, DAMAGE IN READING. In Reading the siori was terrible in the extreme. At least a buodred dwellings were ruined, The heavy brick stasks of the Rexdmg [ron Company’s works were blown down. ‘The stables were demolished, Tho entire establisument ceased operations. The Koystone mills were unrooied. A steamer on tb Schuytictii was capsized, bat the crew escaped. Si eral boat houses were biowa Clear iuto the river. Th car shops of the Sixth Street, Passenger Railway were completely demolished and 4 number ot cars were ruined. Kiegant private resi. dences were compiciely biowa to pieces. Peter Zigber’s dead body was ready for interment ud.the roof of the resideace ia which he lay waa Diown away. Rain descended in torrents whil eorpse was removed to a neighbor's house. citement was intense. Street car travel w: and business was at an entire standstill, Toe lo this section will amount to $500,000. THe COUNTRY DISTRICTS, Many farm houses have been jaid waste, and the damage 1s frightful. Private messengers from tue country districts report heavy loss All ale. toe Schuylkill Valicy tl hb perienced. yo panic sti n. A number of scho unrooted, Turouxo the Lepanon Valley the damage is also heavy, Several trains of freight and coal cars were Partially wrecked, Long’s large egg packing estab- Jisnment at Sheridan was ruined. at Levanon ruta ts to be.geen on all sides From this city northward miles of fonges ure down und thousands of iruit trees are twisted and Lorn up by the roots, VELOCITY OF THE WIND, The wind blew at a velocity ol seventy-five miles er hour, A pumber sigual statiol jong the eading Ratroud are down ul I yh lines severaiy erippied. All trai: ‘be Giouds are threateping and every hour brings addi- of buildings wrecked and people injured. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY IN TRENTON, X, d., AND VICINITY, [BY TELEGRAPH To THE HERALD, ] . Trewrox, N, J., Oot. 23, 1878. The storm which broke on this city about four o’ciock this morning caused damuge te roperty es- timated at about $20,000, Tne gulo wasat its height between ssvey and eight o’clock, and lasted altogether about six bours; Rain commenced falling about eleven o'clock night before, DETAILS OF DAMAGE DONE. The mest serious damages were as fellows:—The large chimney or emok ck at Roebling’s wire mill was blown down and foil upon one of the buildings, causing considerable destruction. About ten m! tutes before the occurrence the foreman cautioned the workmen to get ‘out, which else lives would destruction of the chim Gooawiii Fire was biowa down and the bell, weiyuiug ubout two thousand pounds, came ity allt d ing t Mendnaw, een igy sm m Church was seriously bent, it forty feet of rooting on Assaupink block was torn Lo pieces, The rout of Taylor Hall was aumaged, and the sb Bull’s Heud Hotel were carried into the de; the Bouad Brook Kaitroad, causing ep He m and for Lhe most part’ of tue day the dévris, The wi raph Company between h were viown down, stop: tien to Vero gules tuut ever visited this city and Vicinity, DETAILS OF DAMAG# DONE IN ALBANY. .. ALBANY, Oct. 23, 1978, Agaleot wind passed over the city about neon to- day, doing considerable damage. The vorth roof of All Saints’ Cathedral, on the corner of Elk and Hawk streets, was blown to the centre of Eik street. House was partly unrooted, The factory ot Bow & Johns on Hamilton street, was partly wnrcofed. Nos. 116 and 118 Pier street, owned by Mr. Backus, of Scheuectady, were partly anroofed, No, 128 Pier street, owned by Mir. Lansing, was partiy unrooted. No. 130 Pier street, owned by Erastus Corning, Was unreoted, Cole & Wing’a building, No, 63 Quay street, was entirely unrooled, VRRRYBOAtS STOPPED. A tow was biows iato tue p of South ferry and instances, The sloop Pride of the Hudson is sup- poses to have gone to pieces on the rocks near Marl- rough. The crew were saved, Much damage was done io tres in tue fruit district, THE STORM ALONG THE SOUND — VESSELS DRIVEN ASHORE—OUTWARD BOUND CRAFT AT ANCHOR—DAMAGE TO THE OYSTER BOATS. Wurrgstong, L. L, Oct. 23, 1878. The southeast storm to-day was quite severe and caused considerable apprehension among those ship- masters whose vessels were riding at anchor in Flushing Bay and Harts Island roads await- ing & favorable chance to proceed on their voyage east. When the storm broke upon them at an early hour this merning they were, however, not wholly unprepared, many of them hav- 1ag tWoO anchors out, Those captains who neglected tbig wise precaution very soon discovered by tho dragging of their vessels that one anchor was totally imadequa: to hold them, and two colliers, names not ascortained, drifted ashore on the west side of Kicker’s Island, They are pretty bigh up on tne beach and will probably be obliged to discharge before they can be got off. As some of the vessels im tbe bay lay but afew cable lengths apart at times it appeared impossible that they could avoid colliding; vut good seamanship and the additional anchor abeud, with the above excep- tions, prevented disaste: IN HABT ISLAND ROADS. The bark James McCarthy, Strout, trom New York for Montevideo the 21st inst, Hope, Woods, from Naw Yo . N. BL; Rosella Smith, Lockbart, from New Yerk for Bor- deaux, and schooners Spring B: . John, N. B.; Mowt Haven, for Cala: ‘all safe io Hart Isiaod roads, fhe Teported im the Sound recvived ratnei from the storm, and they all scudded poles. 4MOXG THE OYSTER SLOOPS. Along shore the damage among the oyster sloops 18 quite considerable, With ew exeeptions they broke from their moorings at the wbaris and Sustained damuge averaging from $5 to $50. ebster, belonging to Joho Coill which was at anchor in the basin ho dragged her ancbor aud drifted down on ti dock owned by Israc! J. Merritt, of the Coast Wreck- ing Company. This she out in two and received in- Juries to ber hull which eaused to sink out of Sigbtsoon after, Her owner estima 18 loss at from $150 to $200, Back in the country trees and barns were biown down, The Hemacp telegraph line and all other wires Punning into this place early prostrated, THE STORM ALONG THE CONNECTICUT coastT— Loss OF THE SCHOONER MARX TICE—THE CAPTAIN AND ONE OF THE CREW DROWNED— GRAPHIC STORY BY A SURVIVOR, New Havey, Oct, 23, 1878. A heavy gale raged along the Connecticut coast all ofto-day with unusual violence and with disastrous effect, A schoonér, name unknown, is reportea sunk off Brantord and another vessel went ashore at West Haven, bus was getten off with little damage, In the city one building was blown down, trees were overturned and limbs wrenched off like sticks, There was a fog, off and on, through-the day and the coast line was hidden trom sight. During one of the thick spells the schooner Mary Tice foundered off the mouth of the harbor, carrying down one of her crew and compelling two others io seek saiety in the main crosstrees, where they clung for seven hours, The captain had pre- viously been drowned. STORY OF A SURVIVOR, The particulars of the occurrence wore related graphically by one of tbe survivors, Jerry Lynch, of this city, toa HeRaLp reporter. The Mary Tice was an old ‘vessel, hailing from New York. George Blair & Son, of No. 28 South street, New York, own a ‘hree-tourth interest in her, the remaining fourth having been owned by Robert Tullock, of this city,’ the captain, She loaded with 190 tons of coal at Ambey late last week, the cargo being consigned to the Asylum for the Insane at Middietown. Satur. day she came through the Gate and laid nere until yesterday morning about six o’clock. It began to ovome ap thick during the day and toward night, there being a heavy soa rolling, it was decided to anchor in five {athoms of water, about three miles west of Saybrook light There tne Right was rode out, the schooner being secure, Tiding with tbirty fathoms of cbain out. The gale kept increasing th ight and at two o’clock worked, but there was the auchorags after consultation it was thought wise to bear away lor this port, A proposition wa: to beach the vessel, but Captain Tulloch did not do this, About Dalt-past six o'clock this morning id ny pamped out and vessel got aven, Accord! jo Mr, Lyuch the Sound and a from the hburbor, Talleck that coula id gave instructions wi + Lee missunderstood bim, bing badly irignt- ult w tthe beat went astern towing from o1 occasional breaches over ¢ necessary to keep the pumps r4 ‘ving the Saybrook anchorage, and the od steadily. The free worki: ot the pumps was ioterferea with by coal which got inte the boxes, Alter the boat Delo id got made this fast and to bale itout. The gat the yaw! capsizea, g over, but came u; bt with the ca A bait bour ia! boat capsized again, the painter parted and C: tein Tulloch wont astern rapidiy, shouting out to i bless you, run ber ashore and sa soon out of sight bebind the huge, comb- log waves. sea continued to break over the schooner, but she ran for aoout three-quarters of an bour after Captain Tullock was lost. Just aa she was going to founder Lynch went ait and seized u d, Lee, to persue ny, a8 the vessel an agony ot jear to the mata sheet, aud could Induced to loose his hold. Lynen a him, boweve: it he stood in wi oo the rail and we vessel about to make the third aad fual of a er baad on beara, Aastin Abrams, of y, had previously climbed the main rigging to the masthead, THE SCHOONER SINKS. It was with difficuity tnat Lynen made bis way to the main shrouds, but be Quaily succeded in reach- ing the cross trees, the schooner meanwhile sinking and carrying down Loe, until she strack: bottem in about four fathoma of water. It was loggy wood tl ut ot sight of shore, ,the hour was judged to be about nine o’elock in the moruing. The two men eiung to the cross trees until about jour o'clock this afternoon, when tne schoover J. L. Crossiey, of Windsor, N. 8., Captain Dexter, came to tho rescuo and took them on board, Iniormation of the disamer hed brea brought to this city previeusly by Merritt Thompson, a pilot, who sew the Tico irom the shore and what appeared to be men clinging to th La ‘The towvoat Eady, of New York, owned by Morris & Ce,, bud veen titted out for lite saving work under the direction of Captain Clark, of th yy, and nad started for the wreck and mot tne Crossley, and took the men on board and brought them ashore. Neither of the drowned meu had families, Captain Tulloch resided here and tn spoken of as a good sea- man, The survivors speak tu the highest terms of Captain Dexter, without w services they would have been drowned. Everythiug o@ the vessel is lost, Her masts are visible above the water, but she ‘THE CAPTAIN DROWNED. your THE NEW UTRECHT MYSTERY. THE SUSPECTED PARTIES NOT YEC FOUND—NEW EVIDENCE SAID TO HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED, It was nearly midnight when Judge Crepsey took bis departure last night from the tows hall ef New Utreent, L. L, and along the lonely roads leading to his home He had waited four bours in momentary ¢X+ pectation of hearing from the officer sent 1¢ muke the arrests in the supposed poisoning case of the late Mrs, Cooper, The officer in question Patrick Drury. He had started out at au early pour, armed with warrants for the arrest of Mra. Johnson, of Bath, L. 1, and Mrz, Smitu, of Johnson street, Brooklyn, the persons named in the letter left by the suicide, Up to the time of the Judge’s departare for home the olficer had failed to make ap appoarance, It was learned, however, from osber sources that neither of the women were to be found. . Judge Uropsey was exiremely reticent as se any Dew developments in the case. He stuted that steps bud beou taken to have the body of Mra. Cooper bumed and that a chemist had been engaged by family of the deceased to make an analysis. He udmitted that he bad obtained further and ime Portant evidence, but he decliued for the present te divulge its nature. RUMOR'S TONGUE. ‘The caso nas caused no little sxcitement in the vb ciowy of New Utrecht aud Bath, and various rumor are afloat Among others that gained circulaues Was thut Barney Jobnsou, tormerly the busoand of the woman for whom the officer is looking, died ume der suspicious circumsiaoces at a hotelin this cily@ few years ago, The deceased wus at oue time Asso ciate Justice of the Sessions of bis couaty. The relatives of the deceased Mrs. Cooper were yoo ferday hurd at work in uuting up further evidenet in the case. They express a firm conviction that the deceased came to her deuth by Jou! means, and assert their determination to bring the murderer to justice GENEVIEVE WARD'S ADVENTURE, As Miss Genevieve Ward, tho distinguished trage dienne, was on her way to Booth’s Theatre last evem ing she met with an accident which came near go priving ber admirers of her tmperaonation of Lady Mucbeib, She left a triend’s house in Bast Fittye ninth street in her carriage with her father, Colonel Sam Ward, and her maid, and when at the corned of Madison avenue aud Fifty-eigntbh street, a heavy offal wagon collided with the carriage, nearly upsee ting it and throwing the horses down, The tait tragedienne was very much frightened and as the drivers of the wagons became very abusive she called for the police, unaware of the iact of the scareity of guurdiaus of the peuce on sucd vccasions. Immediately betore the curtaim rang up for the sleep wuikiug scene at Booth’s, Miss Ward desorbed the scene of the cullision toa Hekalp reporter. “1 was so durk at the time of the crash thutl did Bot know at first what bad happened. I telt more anxioue ou wy father’s wccount than anything elae, as he pas been in feeble health, When we succeeded in open ing the door and jumping out, I saw tual a large wagon bad rua mto our car riage. The driver, a German, seemea to be druuk, and he used the vilest Jlapguage toward our coachman. 1 called for the police as loud as} could, ana leaving our coachman to detuin the othes man, [ took a car us far us Forty-second street, where we mota policeman. Sendiug bim up te the scene of the ucciaent 1 proceeded to tue theatre ta no very Javorabie state of mind to go on the stage. Itisa merey that we were not all Killed,” The driver of the carriago, William Smith, was found at Hali’s stables, in ‘Ibirty-eignth street. He said that be was ruu into by one L, Bender, of Filty- eixhth street, driver of an oflal wagon, Bender, he said, was wmaniiestly asi¢ep at the ‘but woke up with a torrent of oaths, Wh attempted to detain bim, sided by a friend who was witn him, Bender flourished a huge celaver and threatened to make mince meat of them, eonse- quently no arrest was made. The pole of tne wagon nearly 1mpaied one of the horses of the carriage and enue with tue harness. HUNGER, NO! THE PLAGUE, A woman, ill-clad and baggard, leading a little girl, ascended the stoop of the Central Uffice yesterday, and leaning against the doorway tor support inquired tor a doctor, She had evidently been suffering irom want, and though her face had a strange hectic Mush on it the wan lips and the hollow eyes told their own story. She was conducted to the vaccination department, where the gentlemas in charge undertook to attend to ber. Her first words wore alarming enough, for they conveyed, with the assurapee that she feared sl was dying, the an- nouncement that she bad come from Havaua end had months ago. were pains in natural (ever bate naturally exe! ny Jected toa proper e: aa inaNion, nowev ry inge were tound to be chi to want Plagae, left an uneasy impression on the mind of tne geatie- man who had taken her case in hand and he thought it prudent to reports it te the Board of Health for further Hor description, as recorded in the office, Nowmao, aged twenty, of No, 262 Mott sireet, lauer place went the writer last Dg, and in a basement of the rear buildin; be found the woman. She said she been in Compostela, in Cuba, five monihs ago, whea she was prostrated by yellow fever. In July she was able to come uway, aud on the 22d of that montn left Havana tor New York. She nad no means and found refuge with another young woman in the basement at Mott street, CITY NEWS ITxMSs. Dr. L. L. Hayes will deliver an tiustratea leetare om the Arctic regions at the Asbury jodiat Episeopal Church, East Wa: ng. The annw eal School OF the Port of Cou of the Chame ber of Commerce was postponed yesterday until te morrow at two P, M. ‘The body of an unknown man was found yesterday floating ragty’ East Kiver, off per 32. Deceased bad biack hair, woro a black coat aud pautaloons and bad a strap around bis waist. The bouy was tuken to the Morgue. { the members of the Cotton Exchange erday to discuss the proposed ment to arucie 9 of the bylaws sampling of cotton, Lt was dee on the #ubject to-morrow, ‘The annual session of the Grand Divisi Sons of Temperauce of Eastero New York yesterday in Trevor's Hali, Broadway. Reporssaste the condition of the ord ore read and temperance work luid out for ths eusuing year. Michael Hogan, a condactor on a Second avenue trade doliar from Mr, Bease He on that followed the it before Judge Wandei Cou and discharged, 6b by His Honor that e trade conductor being auv dollar was « legal ten Fridotina Me’ bor Swiss girl Me ae aptiese fow days ago with sian, Jobani with bas eb. of marrying b uation 1D this city, havi because Jonaon would not ers of Emigration. SUBURBAN NOLES, James F. Bond has been appointed receiver ef the Citizens’ Insurance Company of Newark, by Chane or Rupyou, Edwin H. Crawtord, a hair do: treet, Brooklyn, ly assaulting Ligzi street, Andrew McFall, who was reeontly convicted in the jous of Westenester o < resident of Tillary ty of publishing yy in the city were blockaded by falling trees and | Prevented the boat irom landing for some time. The | will prooably ge all to pieces. Court of Sessio 4 . root of a building on the ooraer of tamiiton and a iinet Seen Oe ee ‘ues iy Yonkers, “4 Quay streets was partly blown Tne roof of | MARINE DISASTERS RESULTING Rom THE | Jostenday sente aptamer aie the Albany Penitentiary. Shiids & Son’s tobacco warehouse, on Church, near STORM. The Fiatbush saloon keeper, Frederick Meyers, whe Coseore, the inen seriously. vy being blow: ty nd York, Court, Prince, Jona and Wvla streets betructed tor « vousiderabie longih of time by fallen t \d telegraph pois. + Om Fortieth street « row came down, EFFECTS OF THE S(ORM .IN WILKESBARRE, ‘at the corner PA,—TERRIFIC FORCE OF THE WIND—OVER- | yadison avenue, was viown off, large beams boing Naw Havan, Conm., Oct, 23, 1978, | in September inst shot und killed Janes snapped us it they w The bi ted at of the leno on ibe hort vide of the wae — bs alli ach ptt tar cna rt on the cor Two unknown vossels are reported ashore on the wad with poopie, EF (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) one lad, Kdmund WILEEsBaRRe, Oct. 23, 1878. wind and rain Browdway was wui coast, Another went ashore this aftornoon, but is now afloat, undamaged, Ansnoom, N. J., Oct. 23, 1878. Usion Grounus was biown dowa, Bho tournament ine, whic was to have Leen piayed there to-day, te eee postponed until nex Week in consequence, ence on Swan, near Lafayette Jono Bors & Soi Ny pine and will probabiy A moat desiru: a aie. A borse, ik vy the root, was in- | storm passed over atital Wyo f, loaded with piteh pi ‘Hudson ere Seo CONES: TEBARD stautly killed. ° day. The etreots ot the cf i «beach, four miles N. J., Court of Sessions, aud the jury convioved hum ‘The sari siong the beaches at Rockuway aud Coney tei Dor 10g at No. 608 Rast Cumberland | mek Valley to-day. ceevers of. tee Ory OF Ee Part of ber crew were drowned, of Simple assault a barro wore almost immediately depppuiated alter the firat outbreak of the wind, which camo with such precipitancy a8 to tuke the pedestrinns unawai dtu tuling | aod many ao unlucky Waylarer was thrown to the udjowing | biown down. Jouwing lo. | pavement. Gentlemen driving along the principal ty Wureela; A PURO 2 sb rook on wiocaed by 4 Meland rolled tho sands | fields, Many new bars 64 ones shifted. Early in the morning, when the storm Was at its Leight, the tide, fortunately, was “ nad taper oe ae ise disaster would bave come to the strac- | Woudmen Rusk, proprievor of she 0 undulations like ploughed re formed and some of the n Wood street, A Parves’ foundry, Vineyanp Havex, Oct, 23, 1878. Mrs. Mary Dolan recovered $250 under the Civil FIRE ALARM WIRES DOWN. ‘Gann schooner James C. Dor: oF irom Tenge Fores poy dmg — moe, aud a timore, with ice, went re oo entry Mahnkeu, owoer and oceu| Fire alarm wires wore biowu down in all directions. » sie icer Votwun this moreing, onc | op tas promaen et privet sp Tenaerbels payne Trinity Church, iu trinity place, was | Comme! ae throw over cargo, The revenue | jantic avenyes, Brovklyn, for havi ny q ceded in hauling ber off at hich | her nusbund after she had warned them Was soriousl, injured, iy Y | avenue, exposed to ihe blast, were first apprised of tina 40 tae Albuny Hosptial d towed et 1010 UDis DOr. on ang | . Joremian Cavan w the strength and velocity of the storm by having houses on Philip street, fe Bliss, from ore at Edgartown, | vempee The W their vehicles almost bodily lifted trom tho wureet, Goede then ween: aeeruy, ae m Bangor, are asuo NK pte’ se ies and projected irom th haa ull thet wires leading tuto Ciuvaaxd, Obio, Oot, 23, 1878. tried y Court ding Cavanage Feitinao’s | wna it wus three O'clock thie atiernoon incense teeny omaha trees, Jon Judge's house, Ogdensburg, for Vieveland, | sous. jury cum munication with New York could ve bad. The air was soon flied with toe filth of the stroets of Montyom and DeWitt ore during the storm thid guilty of assaaii ang battery, with a recommendation Upon inquiry at the Postaw asd ir and busi tly wnrovied. The root of the old vo mercy. Jourbed that aibol th coruer of North Lansi: tor Before the Vice-Chancellor at Newark, yesterday, beniod time, puting t signs. ‘aph lines Were tora down, tsolaing | yonigomery strects, Was coutinuully lifted b} muah taeouveulenee, the Wyomia y from the outer world, av Piy- | wind, aod sevoral chimuoys were blown down ou Sole IDING PAYMENT OF DUTY. aa eet ee erabie saunt tho wustward they | at ten minutes past mouth the storin wnroofed the large Smith Opera eet. AVO! - af berng the East Jersey Mii ‘ompany a the proprietor tll noon, nor did the Boston m witiow treo tv Mra J. V. 1. Pru Wright, of Sussex county. Tho dispute ts as to title would pot pastten A, M. The Sout jowa Jowo and signs And awnl: wi Yesterday wasa field duy in the seizure business | no ‘corporation ol 8 und rant by the owners seven Ay M. Gnd'avatecyed on Broadway Tue frst ot prought 1m cousisted ot forty-two moor- | of the sor), in 1400, to the tate sebuam pipes, twenty-five cigar and sixty-six cigarette Co, Mr. Wright claims uouer a Ly de in 1867. This, om holders of the material, three pieces Scotch one to be re voon vbandenea.” mou the bath \ houses, which were carrieca away vy ihe score, The lt would ocoupy ubuut two pages of the Hrnatp to Mapbattan, & a Be otbor large votes Mi detaned 1048 iDjureu, rvois ton to Pittavon, while m: taiudd slight iajuries, are uninjured o deenee of | Civwsom cau ether, damage Guse Bf tue Floleace of 1 woro literally blown to pieces aud the jonces Mi plaid, one pleco ailk and five pieces shirting, captured lant ‘ay wad | tue storm. Below will bo found specified u tew oniy steamer Mag ia. The second se: woa | ALONG THE HUDSON--a BOOP GONR TO | PPacou 1.100 losser to property several lives lust, residents of the beach hus packed | of the more impo: 4, gape degre - fe a iy to The West Phiiw 8, a vie property, 1m- PIRCES—-DAMAGE TO FRUIT. board of tue Ab tue appruach of tho abt evening tran. | Ri, wd Company, alluded to abi ug acros of im Voxetavies, quullity was generally rosiored, fant veartona’ waavidl is Mew Povouxunrsin, N. ¥., Oot. 23, 1878. , ee Gepot destroyed was to A heavy soatheast storm prevailed along Haa- was 600 to@t jong and about 80 teot wide, HH ‘Tho pliot bouts and yacuis at anchor off the terry | Suappeu like stews. There were t and © nder qnaing at Staten Island wero towed toa piace of | the sued at the time, all Of inem injured, averaging fon River to-day. The telegraph wires are down in The water in the river has risen to BTATEN ISLAND, w bO Sinuggied OO BbOTe, and these Wore also captured and taken to tue seiaure room, ustained heavy damages, Th the city suffered tue most, although exposeu