Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — CYCLONE AT GOTHAM. [ARTICLE]

CYCLONE AT GOTHAM.

Deetrnctlve Storm Sweeps Over-the Atlantic Coast. A hurricane struck the Atlantic coast tho other night doing incalculable damage. It swept tho coasts oi Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York pnd New Jersey. The wind camo from the northeast and attained a velocity of over seventy miles an hour at time* and was accompanied by torrents oi rain. Reports from towns an,d cities in the storm-swept districts tell of vcsdelt and pleasure yachts being swept from their moorings and wrecked. No 103* of life is reported. The streets in upper New York wero flooded, while trees wore torn up by the roots and hurled into tho streets. Some of tha streets of Brooklyn were impassable because of fallen trees and debris. At Bayonne, N. J., all bul one of the vessels of the yacht club were driven ashore and destroyed. Many washouts are reported on the railroads. A washout at Mount Vernon, N. Y., caused the wreck of a New H* ven and Hartford freight train. Telegraph and telephone wiros are down. The storm left its mark over the whole region around New York within a sweep of fully one thousand miles. The rainfall, measuring 3.82 inches during twelve hours, is the heaviest that hr' ever been recorded by the New Yo: signal man. Through the dragging o. anchors in the North River, more than fifty cables of the Western Union Telegraph Company were torn, and are non lying useless on the bottom of th< Tivfir.

Overflow of New*. No cholera exists in Berlin. Nine new cases of cholera are reported at Naples. Eighteen cases of small-pox are reported at Muncie, Ind. The severest storm of thirty yean has swept the coast of Nova Scotia. Robbers secured $125 from the Chicago and Erie deppt at Decatur, Ind. The Indiana Manufacturing Company, of Peru, Ind., hag out wages 1C per cent. A Methodist Church and parsonage and four dwellings burned at Wellington, Mo. Floods in the Arkansas Valley, in Oklahoma, caused heavy loss. One family was drowned. Samuel W. Clark, lumber dealer at Zanesville, Ohio, failed. Assets and liabilities are 11,500,000.