Martha’s Vineyard awoke on Friday morning to witness such a scene of destruction and wreckage as the Island never saw before.
Hurricanes and Storms
September 23, 1938
Vineyard Gazette
“It was heartbreaking to see those boats go to pieces,” Capt. Fred Vidler, keeper of the Edgartown Harbor Light said yesterday.
September 23, 1938
Vineyard Gazette
Swept by a hurricane the velocity of which has been estimated at a hundred miles an hour at brief periods, and which surpassed anything of the sort that has ever struck the Island from a southerl
August 29, 1924
Vineyard Gazette
The terrific north-easterly storm which swept the eastern Massachusetts coast on Tuesday was felt with unusual severity on the Vineyard.
September 15, 1904
Vineyard Gazette
The southerly gale of this morning developed between seven and eight o’clock at almost the proportions of a hurricane.
December 1, 1898
Vineyard Gazette
Saturday night and most of Sunday the fiercest storm in many years prevailed over the northern and eastern part of the country.
The damage by the storm will aggregate several millions of dollars along the entire New England coast, not to mention the loss inland. Sea-faring men declare that not in the last half century has there been a gale so severe to shipping interests as this.
August 22, 1896
Martha's Vineyard Herald
On Wednesday, the 19th about 1 o'clock p.m., there appeared over the waters of the sound, a wonderful phenomenon, such as only occurs but once in a life time, indeed, one may cross the ocean many t
September 28, 1888
Vineyard Gazette
A TERRIFIC STORM - Sweeps over the Vineyard Wednesday morning - Wind and rain unlimited - Chimneys, trees and fences laid low - No serious damage to shipping in this vicinity - The hardest storm kn
August 22, 1879
Vineyard Gazette
The inclement, sultry weather of Sunday and Monday terminated Monday night in one of the severest gales ever known in this vicinity at this season of the year, accompanied by the highest tide in
October 25, 1878
Vineyard Gazette
Rev, Joseph Thaxter, in some notes, speaks of a great gale and rain storm Aug.
October 18, 1878
Vineyard Gazette
A storm, the like of which in this vicinity the oldest inhabitant fails to remember, visited the Island last Saturday afternoon, and raged with steadily increasing fury till far into the night.
October 8, 1869
Vineyard Gazette
The storm of Monday was not very severe here. The surf at South Beach however, came up higher on the Plain than it was ever known to before by some two hundred feet. Quite a number of cranberry bogs around the Great Pond were completely submerged, materially damaging the fruit.
