Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-14
AN AUGUST STORM
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF pRoJ

The wind and rain set In at Long
Branch with great force soon after
dawn. The wind was continuous in its
fury, and the rain fell in long, heavy
showers, with short intervals. The surf
rose to a great hight. In the morning
the beach along its whole course was
faced with a wall of sand from five to
six feet in hight, heaped up by the
waves. This rampant was swept away
in the afternoon by the returning waves
OF the ebb-tide. 1.-The bathing houses
in front of several of the hotels were
moved back, and others were secured
The sojourners at the Branch, cut of
from bathing, found keen pleasure in
watching the tumult Of the sea.
Connection between New York and
Long Branch was not seriously inter
rupted by the storm. The morning
boats arrived at their regular hours, and
departures were made as usual at quar-
ter of seven and twenty minutes OF ten
a. m. The unusually high tide in the
course of the forenoon covered the track
of the New Jersey Southern railroad,
between Seabright and the Highlands,
and forty feet of it were washed away.
Repairs were made in about an hour,
but the train connecting with the boat,
which reached New York at twenty
minutes Of one p. M, bringing the
Philadelphia passengers, did not run, in
part on account of the state of the track
between Seabright and the Highlands,
but rather from the non-arrival Of
Philadelphia passengers, owing to q
break in the railroad at Merchantville,
caused by the, washing away of the
track.
The morning train from Philadelphia
to Long Branch was thrown off at this
point, and the Adams express messen.
ger, Block, considerably injured. This
accident prevented the passage OF any
trains by the New Jersey Southern.
Late in the afternoon q train brought
the delayed Philadelphia passengers. for
New York by way of Freehold, and they
reached the city in the last boat in the
evening. As there was no arrival al
twenty minutes to one o'clock p. m.
there was no departure at twenty min
utes to two O'Clock p. M, the regular
time. The eleven q. m. train left the
Branch at sixteen minutes to three
O'Clock p. M, the time OF the regular
mid afternoon train, with two hundred
passengers. A few scores of them
shrank from the rough trip to New York
in the Jessie Hoyt when they reached
Sandy Hook, and accordingly turned
Back, taking the train for Philadelphia.
The Jessie Heyt arrived at fifteen min.
utes past Ave O'clock p. m., and return
ed to Sandy Hook at twenty minutes to
six o'clock p. m, with only q handful
of passengers. The Plymouth Rock
left pier % at four o'clock, here regular
time, with about four hundred passen,
gers. "a s.-. -..t..,s Il o.. ...
! : Between two and three hours, after
the departure of the Plymouth Rock, q
startling rumor spread through, the city
to the effect that the steamer had sunk,
with the loss of four hundred lives.
Many distressed inquirers sought Piel
No. 26, where they were told that the
rumor was ltnfounded. The rumor
seems to have come from Sandy Hook,
whittier pilot-boat is reportedto have
carried statement that large steamer
had been sunk in the bay and many
lives lost. 7,a ,,7g rtf ~
At three o'clock, it is stated a dis
patch was received ut Long Branch as
sefting that the lSeabird, (which plies
between Red Bank and New Y ok. had
sunk with the loss of two hundred lives.
As this vessel passed pier % at ten min.
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