HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN
EASTER TIME STORMS
1868
A northeast gale and snow
storm which began Friday, March 20, ceased of
Saturday the 21st.
Sunday March 22 was a beautiful clear day.
Long Island Sound
reported steamer delays,, a schooner sunk off Branford Point,
and another blown high and
dry to the beach on the sound.
A sloop was capsized off
Cape May Friday, March 20, and four Crew members
were drowned.
At Cape Henlopen the bark
Daniel Nichols is ashore and the Five Fathom Lightship
recently towed to her
station outside the Delaware Bay, is adrift.
All ocean bound steamer
were a day late in departure at the New York port.
Railroads were clear,
trains run their schedule with regularity both north and south.
Abstract: New York Daily
Herald, Monday, March 23, 1868
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