The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-03-18
HORRORS AT LONG BRANCH
FEARFUL sHIPWRECKs ON THE
sTETsON HOUSE BEACH.

our Pffdts ma Coasters.
Wednesdays storm, though short, was terrific.
II began about daybreak, ragged for several hours
with undiminished strength and died away as sud
denly az II had arisen at about $50 A. ~ At Long
Branch the beach in front OF the famous stetson
House was the scene Of thrilling interest Several
vessels intending to make Sandy Hook, which is
about seven miles from Long Branch, were suddenly
cauPlt by the gale, which blew with tremendous
violence right on the land. A large schooner from
Portland, which was thus cornored, was watched
impatiently from the shore. The wind carrying
away her gan and foretopsai, the Captain seemed to
realize the impossibii,y Of rounding the point 80 he
turned her bow straight for the beach, and steered
her right shore In front OF the Stetson House, the
scene OF so much summer rniety. The surf was
Numbering on the beach in three serred lines, the
foam-topped
WALL OF WATER
Fearing Itself to height Of at least eighteen feet.
The giant waves broke over the stranded vessel
and the mon were In imminent danger of freezing
TO death. When however, the storm subsidized, the
drenched men were carried 10 o hosptable farm
house, where they fully restored. The vessel
was nom Kingston, Jamaica, bound for New York,
and was loaded with coffee and logwood. The
cargo is all sound, and the hull Ia unnured, but Is
buried six feet In the sand Mr. Green, the wreck
ing master, Is In temporary charge.
Another schooner went ashore near the old Ocean
House. The Captain, finding that he could not wea-
Their the Hook, resolved to anchor, but such was
fury Of the combined winds and waves that he was
dragged broadsde on the beach, and there the YES.
Sc, grounded, the waves
WASHING OVER uER IN VAST sHEErs
ano breaking her to pieces. She was laden with
cordwood, which drited ashore In immense quaint
ties and lines the beach. Her crow OF six were
loci end nR a "a n
boat, but II vasswamped and stove against the side
of the vessel, It's fragments drifting to the shore.
The men became frozen, and their llfe'ess bodies
were seen washing about among the doris and
wreck OF the vessel. One climbed the rigging
| to escape the furious peng OF the waves, but he
was drenched with the torrents of spray and became
stiiened like q WOODEN block His frozen fingers
were broken from their grasp, aud che nanimate
mass OF les humanity would have fallen deck, but
his foot was caught in the rigging, suspending him
| head downward. As the shrioking demons Of the
storm hurtled the unconscious body to and fro, q
broken spar. riding on the angry tide,
SNAPPED Tue HEAD FROM THE TRUNK,
| and It fell into the swash the tee side OF the
doomed vessel, and drifting with the waves, It was
| seemingly made Tlaything by the surf, bounding
backward and forward between the triple lines OF
| foam. The captain was New Yorker named Daniel
| Anderson there were also two other New Workers
| In the crew, Clayton Cambern and man nleknamed
| Dumb Bill. The mate was German The vessels
| name was jas II. Hoyt
TWO PILOT BOATS WEST ASHORE
some distance below the Jas. H. noyt. A wrcckinr
vessel from New York Is Working at them, and will
| probably save them.
| The schooner Joseph Long. 1853 tons burden from
Portland, Me-, had loaded at Kingston, Jamaica,
touched at Key West, taken on board there pas
| senger (stephen nayman. resident Of NyackL and
| was bound for New Yux She had on board crew
OF five men, mate and captain, and was laden with
| coffee and logwood. She struck by the gale at
about 3 o'clock or Wednesday morning. The gan
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