St. George, S.I. February 6-During the blow three tugs were coming up toward New York through Kill von Kull. One of them it is reported could not weather the gale and sank opposite Sailor's Snug Harbor. The other boat went to the assistance of the crew and landed them safely on the Jersey shore. It is said that a fishing smack also sank in the same locality.

The Clamming sloop Favorite, containing three men, was upset at 10:30 o'clock this morning in the bay off St. George, S.I. One of the men was drowned. The crew of the United States steamship Columbia rescued one man and the third drifted ashore, with the sloop.

The J.B. Walker Ashore on Liberty Island

The American ship J.B. Walker, Captain Wallace, which arrived at this port on January 20, with a cargo of salt from Liverpool, started from her pier at the foot of Congress street this morning in tow of the tugs Municipal and F.W. Devoe of the Rogers Towing company, for the Erie basin, to be dry docked.

As soon as she was clear of the pier the wind took charge of her and she was blown through Buttermilk channel, dragging the tugs along with her, and touching on a shoal off Governors Island. She was then blown across the bay being entirely beyond control of the tugs.

She struck broadside on against the pier of the Liberty island Steamboat company on Liberty Island, where she now lies, port side on, high out of the water, and would roll over were she not held up by the pier. Boatmen say they have never known the waters of the bay to be so rough.

The Walker is a sister ship of the General Knox, which burned last year at Pier No. 19, East river, where she was loading cargo for San Francisco. She is owned by Edward O'Brien of Thomaston, Me., and her agents here are W.R. Grace & Co.

One of the tugs had her smokestack blown out by the wind and was taken in tow by the uninjured tug and towed to Erie basin.

Mr. Dunn Hints That Worse Is Coming

At 10 o'clock today the winds were blowing a gale around the tower of the weather bureau, on the Manhattan Life building. Storm signals were floating from the flagstaff to warn mariners not to leave port.

This is the same storm that started yesterday morning, on the west coast of Texas. Last night the storm was central over Alabama and is traveling in a northeasterly direction, gaining strength as it comers. It is accompanied by heavy rains along its track. The storm covers the Atlantic states, the lower lake regions and the lower New England states. The winds were this morning blowing at the rate of from sixty to seventy miles an hour, from the northeast. At 10 o'clock the winds in this city were blowing sixty-eight miles. At Long Branch the highest was fifty-two miles.

"It was fortunate that the St. Paul was floated when she was; otherwise, I think her chances in such a storm would have been very slight." said Mr. Dunn.

Danger signals are displayed all along the coast, giving special warning to shipping. Up to 11 o'clock this morning very little was known of the storm south of Philadelphia. The reports from stations south of that point are missing. Whether the wires are down in that section Mr. Dunn was unable to state. The center of the storm has not reached this city. It will probably get here some time today or tonight. The storm is accompanied by more or less fog, making navigation extremely dangerous.

Up to 8 o'clock this morning .72 of an inch of rain had fallen in this section. At 10 o'clock this record was swollen to 1 1/4 inches. The lowest barometer this morning is reported from Washington. This was 29.04, the lowest for that section for some time. The barometer in this city at 10:15 o'clock was 29:10.

Weatherman Dunn at 10 o'clock this morning dispatch from Chief Willis Moore of the weather bureau, Washington:

"The severe storm is central over East Virginia and moving rapidly northeast. Dangerous northeasterly gales on New Jersey and New England coast today and tonight. Hold all shipping in port until further notice."

This information was at once telephoned to the maritime exchange and the shipping offices. The temperature in this city at 8 o'clock this morning was 39; at Boston, 38; Buffalo, 34; Washington, 54; Chicago, 28; St. Paul, 20; Havre, 18; New Orleans, 44. Owing to the unsettled condition of the reports no prediction can be given.

Communication With Suburbs Cut Off

The only serious casualty from the storm reported to police headquarters up to 1 o'clock this afternoon was the destruction of the building on Thirty-ninth street, by which two men lost their lives. But throughout the city much damage of a minor character was done. There was no means of communication with Coney island up to 1 o'clock today, the police telephone and telegraph wires having been blown down early in the morning. The police and fire lines in the outlying wards, which are constructed of strong wire on account of their exposed situation were all cut out this morning. There was no communication between the police headquarters and the Coney island, Sheepshead Bay, Canarsie and Bath Beach precincts, and from remote sections of these districts it was impossible to get any news. The damage along the river front and on the ocean front, however, was considerable.

In the city proper trees were blown down, telegraph poles were destroyed and houses were unroofed. Pedestrians had a hard time keeping their feet, and the traffic on the trolley surface lines was seriously impeded. One of the storm doors in the Phoenix building, at Court and Montague streets, was blown in by the force of the gale, and the plate glass windows were smashed. Elsewhere will be found the story of the destruction by the wind on the building owned by the city on Court street, near Joralemon.

Several Roofs Were Blown Off

The roof and chimney of the house at 148 Twenty-ninth street were blown down, and the roof at 146 Twenty-ninth street was also torn off by the gale. Luckily nobody was hurt, but much damage was done. This was the terse dispatch received at police headquarters from the Fourth avenue precinct relating to the story of the trouble at Twenty-ninth street:

"Roofs of 146 and 148 Twenty-ninth street blown down. No one injured. Families moving out." Police Superintendent McKelvey was at his office receiving reports of the damage. When Chief Operator Williams handed the above dispatch to him he sententiously commented: "Time, too." In the course of the forenoon the superintendent received reports of scores of trees and telegraph poles in a dangerous condition. Sidewalks and streets caved in various sections of the city and a dozen dangerous holes were reported to the city works department. Among the sidewalks reported caved in was a section of the pavement at 1,787 Fulton street. When a report came from the Eagle office to the effect that slates from the roof of the post office were being blown down to the menace of the lives of pedestrians on Washington street Superintendent McKelvey sent several men from the Adams street station to establish a danger line.

A house was blown down during the forenoon at Bay Eleventh street, between Benson avenue and Eighty-sixth street. The building was of the Queen Anne pattern, two stories and attic, and had been erected by O'Hare & Kelly, builders, on speculation. It was wholly demolished, but nobody was hurt.

Trees were reported as having been blown down or in a dangerous condition at Bushwick and Lafayette avenues. North First street and Berry, South Second street and Marcy avenue; 328 Tompkins avenue, carrying with it telegraph and telephone wires; 132 Adelphi street, 377 Prospect place, Berry and South Second streets; 13 Debevoise place, 444 Lafayette avenue, opposite 206 Putnam avenue; 299 Gates avenue: Willoughby, near Washington avenue; Ninety-fifth street and Third avenue, with wires down and blocking the railroads.

Telegraph poles and wires were down at Auburn place and North Portland avenue; Lexington avenue, near Reid; 28 Ashland place; 122 East New York avenue; Bay Nineteenth street and Eighty-sixth street: Malbone street and Nostrand avenue: Division street, near Myrtle avenue, and Fourth avenue and Fifth street.

A chimney at Myrtle avenue and Cumberland street was blown down early in the afternoon. At 12:30 o'clock a large plate glass window of the Columbia theater, on Adams street, near Tillary, and valued at $250, was blown in.

Windows were also blown in at James Kerrigan's store, at 112 Rockaway avenue, and John Monohan's store, at 96 Rockaway avenue. A carriage house and shed adjoining the hotel at Sixty-eighth street and Fort Hamilton avenue were blown down, involving a loss of $500. The chimney on the roof of 51 Vanderbilt avenue was blown down, but nobody was hurt. A window, worth $150, in the store at 466 DeKalb avenue, was destroyed by the wind.

Water Hub Deep on the Ocean Parkway.

The disgraceful condition in which the boulevard, Brooklyn's only speedway, is kept, was shown to advantage this morning. It is a sea of mud, in some places reaching half way to the hub. In many places the water has formed lakes, extending from curb to curb. Charles C. Overton of Coney Island had occasion to drive to the city this morning. He said to an Eagle reporter: "In two places between the island and the city I had to drive through water deep enough to cover the front axle. The mud was deep and heavy and I can honestly say that there is not another road in the four county towns in worse condition than the boulevard."

The gutters along the road have been filled up and the middle of the road allowed to sink until the former are higher than the roadway and allow the water to flow out into the street instead of carrying it off. The new commissioner of parks will have his hands full in getting the driveway into anything like proper condition again. In the cut of the Nassau Electric road the water is 6 to 8 feet deep. The cars have stopped running.

A New Building Blown Down in New Utrecht

In New Utrecht the storm began its capers by blowing down a large tree across the trolley wires on Third avenue, near Ninety-fifth street, stopping traffic on that line and belating business men. One of Michael O'Hara's new buildings on Sixteenth avenue, Bath Beach, collapsed. Two more trees were blown down on Third avenue and one near Thirteenth and Bay Ridge avenues was torn up. Some of the streets of Lefferts Park are covered with over a foot of water. Fourth avenue, Bay Ridge; Fifty-sixth street. Blythebourne, are also completely flooded and impassable. On Eighty-eighth street, near Third avenue, a wagon was overturned.

Wires Down In Flatbush

The storm raged with great fury in Flatbush. Two telegraph poles on Malbone street were blown down and wires are down all over East Broadway, had to wade through eight inches of water. In Oaklands several trees have been torn up by the roots and a number of outbuildings have been blown to pieces.

Fears That the Lamington Will break Up. (Special to the Eagle)
Patchogue, L.I., February 6

The general verdict of the boatmen in this section is that the steamer Lamington, which came ashore on the Great South beach, opposite her, in Tuesday night's fog, will never be floated off.

The terrific wind and rain storm, which prevails all along the coast, is now driving the vessel father up on the beach. Two tugs from the Merritt and the Luckenbach wrecking companies arrived late last night, and it was reported they would make an attempt this morning to pull the steamer off.

The wind, however, is blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour from the northeast and increasing in force. This, with the strong set of the stormy surf, tends to drive the vessel's side father upon the shore.

None of the hazardous Great South baymen today dares to cross the white capped bay to reach the beach five miles away, where the Lamington lies. The wrecking tugs reported last night that they would lay the kedge anchors and run hawsers to the steamer to keep her from running ashore.

It is believed here that they could not do this, or if done the storm would surely have parted the cables before this morning.

If the storm continues long the cargo will have to be thrown overboard to lighten the vessel. Should the 3,000 pounds of oranges, dates, figs and currants be thrown overboard the insurance companies will be made to stand the loss and the south siders would make a scramble to gather up the fruit as it is washed ashore in the surf.

Samuel Wright, representing Inspector R. A. Budd of the custom house, is on guard to see what none of the dutiable cargo comes ashore. The life saving men area still on guard. The crew of the steamer remain on the beach. None has yet crossed to the mainland.

The waves are dashing high over the ship, but Captain Duff, his mate and the three engineers, continue aboard. The steamer's fires have not yet been relighted.

Last night the wrecking tugs kept up a continual blowing of their whistles. The fog is so thick that from the mainland nothing can be seen. Captain Chindenden of the Merriot Wrecking company, who took the St. Paul off the Jersey shore, is on the beach, as is also a representative of the Luckenbach Wrecking company.

The Wind Eighty Miles an Hour On Long island-Much Damage Done (Special to the Eagle.)
Rockaway Beach, L.I., February 6

The storm that struck this beach at 6 o'clock this morning is doing damage along the coast. The ocean side of the beach is being swept clean, boats are being carried away, and if the storm continues the loss will be very heavy. The tide is over the railroad tracks in places.

The grand stand at Aqueduct track has blown down. The roof was carried a hundred feet in the air and fell across the railroad. The storm is increasing every minute. The wind is blowing from the east at the rate of eighty miles an hour. All trains are over an hour behind time. Wires are broken and poles are blown down. Communication with the beach may close any minute.

The Storm In New York

W. C. Humstone, superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph company, said this morning that dispatches were coming in very slowly. Up to 10 o'clock there was no trouble with the wires, but at that time Superintendent Humstone said that two of the Southern route were reported down. There are seven routes in all.

The wind and storm blew down the fence at 578 Broadway. Hyam Falonsky, 26 years old, and Robert Frankel, 25 years, both of 148 Bowery, were passing at the time the fence fell, 9:30 o'clock this morning, and received contusions of the back and legs. They were attended by a physician and went home.

AT 9:50 A.M. a sign was blown from the roof of the building, 738 Ninth avenue. The sign was owned by Reagan, bill poster, of 21 Ann street. In falling it damaged a portion of the roof of the elevated railroad station at Fiftieth street.

A number of planks on a scaffolding at the top floor of the Manhattan hotel, at Forty-second street and Madison avenue, were carried off by the wind. One of the planks broke the large plate glass of the office window of the American Ice Cream company, on the first floor of 26 East Forty-second street. Another plank crashed through the plate glass front of the office of Henry A. Hagan, decorator, who occupied the second floor of the same building.

Frank Rodgers, 19 years old, of 422 Hudson street, was struck by a swinging sign, which fell from its fastenings at 85 Beekman street. Rodgers was severely cut about the face.