shipped to a height that mariners of 30 years 

 experience say they have never seen equalled in 

 these waters. 



"The shores of" the Bay are littered with small 

 boats which were torn loose from their moorings by 

 the wind and blown aground, tiore than 5jOOO tele- 

 phones in Rhode Island were put out of commission 

 and more trouble was experienced with power by the 

 i'Niarragansett Electric Lighting Company than in any 

 storm except that of last r^arch in the history of 

 the Company, i-iany sections were without lights 

 last night. 



"The wind raged throughout dhode Island with 

 tropical force from 11:00 in the morning mitil 

 2:00 in the afternoon. It was the third heaviest 

 days rainfall in the history of the local weather 

 bureau station. A total of 3.70 inches fell since 

 the start of the storm i-ionday and of this amount 

 2.76 inches fell yesterday. 



"After raining almost continuously since shortly 

 after 9:00 Monday evening, the storm subsided in 

 mid-af temoon yesterday and the skies cleared a few 

 hours later. An abnormally low barometer reading 

 of 29 was registered at the height of the storm. A 

 50 m.p.h. velocity was registered from the North 

 at 2:00. The wind shifted into the northwest a 

 little later. 



"Boats were broken up on rocks and sunk and 

 cottages and stores along the shore at Narragansett 

 Pier were flooded during the storm, which was 

 accompanied by the worst surf experienced in years. 

 Inland at Narragansett Jrier, ^eace Dale and ivakefield 

 tne wind did heavy. damage to trees and shrubs on a 

 niimber of estates, -x-iKc-x-x-st. 



"The tropical storm tnat was central south of 

 Cape iiatteras I'londay night moved rapidly North- 

 i^iortheastward, and its center was off the eastern 

 I'iaine coast Tuesday night. It was attended try- 

 strong shifting gales and general rains along the 

 coast from the Carolines northward. The highest 

 wind velocity reported was 72 m.p.h. from north- 

 west of Cape Matteras". 



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