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wind from the northeast. They think this was the highest water 
ever een at Sandusky. It was, however, of short duration, 
coming up early in the afternoon and falling during the night. 
Captain Magle, then in command of the schooner H. C. Post, 
recalls a storm August 11, 1859, as occasioning the highest water 
he ever saw in Sandusky Bay. 
Several persons have told me of a great storm in August, 
1861. Northeast gales may have been more violent at other 
times, but this one coming when the water was already high and 
lasting several days was probably in its effect the greatest storm 
of the century. East of where the water works are now located 
it lifted the railroad track from its bed, and pushed it, in places, 
twenty feet away. At the foot of Columbus Avenue the dock 
was about a foot lower than now and did not extend so far north. 
A track then ran onto the dock from a turn-table south of it. 
In this storm water covered the dock and a great sea struck two 
empty cars that had been standing there with such force as to 
move them along the track and cause them to fall into the 
tu n-pit. 
This storm washed away the steamer dock at Kelley’s Island. 
The water went over the dock at Put-in-Bay, so that no landing 
could be made. The water has probably never reached so high 
a stage since. 
Allan Winters recalls a northeaster in the spring of 1860, a 
greater one in the spring of 1861, but the greatest of all that of 
August, 1861. 
Captain Haas remembers a great northeaster in 1862. There 
appear to have been none especially memorable in the spring of 
1859 but the water was then so high that northeast gales not 
regarded at the time as extraordinary produced changes in the 
shores of considerable importance. 
The Sandusky station of the U. S. Weather Bureau was 
established in 1877. In the next few years several northeast 
storms occurred more violent than any in recent years. 
September 11, 1878, a gale began at five a. M. continuing 
until 5:45 p. m., Sept. 13, direction northeast and north backing 
to northwest in the afternoon of the 13th. Maximum velocity 
Sept. 11, thirty-four miles northeast; Sept. 12, forty-eight miles 
northeast; Sept. 13, fourty-four miles northeast. Total wind 
movement in twenty-four hours ending at noon Sept. 15, nine 
hundred and one miles. Unusually heavy rain on night of the 
12th. Twenty-seven steamers, ‘““Among them the largest pro- 
pellers on the lake”’ and sailing vessels anchored behind Kelley’s 
Island. 
July 11, 1879, a gale began at 10:15 a. m. and ended at 3:10 
Pp. M. both direction and velocity quite variable. A lull from 
