New-York tribune., 1878-02-02

aehore Ii was badly decOmposed. the features being
unrecognzable. The BODY was identified by The captain
of the schooner by the clothing and viii be buried here
to-day
The same reports under date of January 81
81 5 p. H., rs follows:
Th~ three-rnasted schooner Samuel H. Crawford made
ha rbor here Yesterday afternoon. leaking badly; forty
nine days from New Orleans sprung aeak in crossing
Florida Reefs at eight feet of water and pounded across
draws thirteen cargo, sugar aud molasses LaSt
night she washed ashore on the Middle & Gronrs nrs
during the storm Captain Jeremiah Adams leit here
to-day for Norfolk for assistance
SEVEN LIVES LOST AT CONEY ISLAND.
THE REACH DEVASTATED BY TWO IMMENSE TIDAL
WAyEs-THREE WOMEN AND FOUR CHILDREN
DROwNEp-HoTELs AND OTHER PROPERTY DE-
sTRoYED.
The tidal wave that devastated half of COncy
Island Thursday night and even endangered the village
Of Sheepshead Bay struck the beach at 1880 p % when
the tide at its height and left its mark along It's
entire extent From the western extremity, where
the old steamboat landings are, the report comes
that the Pavilion Prescott's Hotel and Nor
toms Hotel were carried out to sea and utterly
demolished. Farther toward the east lighthouses
were broken up. and number Of small hotels badly
wrecked. One large Summer hotel was missed alto-
gether The Concourse was undermined by the waves
and the concrete scattered in all directions Immense
boulders OF ice and wreckago OF every description
blocked the entrance to the drive 1t is estimated that
thousands of dollars must be expended to repair the i'll
Jury done by single tide
But on the eastern end of the island known Manhat
tan Beach, life added to the destruction OF
property. Manhattan Beach extends from Engemans
tract to the eastern end OF Coney Island at the Sleeps
head Bay let Along its entire length was bulwark,
twelve feet wide built OF nbers and filed In with sand
II was built to prevent the tide from washing away
the beach, when at this point OWING to ITS exposed
pOSlion, undergOes constant change. Upon the strip
Of sandy shore between this buwak and the surf the
Manhattan Beach Railroad Company has erected mum
her of buildings, the most westerly OF whch was Hc
japanese Building, from the Centennial Exhibition
Farther east was the main hotel ne most snoSanila
structure the island with about 800 feet iront toward
the Beyond it were more than hundred bath
houses aud still further TO the east the Centennial Bra
lillian Bulldng Between ths ana lhe iiiei Mcrc iour
small shantes Thursday afternoon Two0i these remain
one a Government life boat station. the olher wa!ch-
the island, inhabited by Albert Weed and his family;
The two louscs Tint were washed away were occupied
by John Wyune aDd John Brennan with tier Iamllcs
both watchmen, whose duty II was In common with
any leak that might be threatened by tie sea-.
At the rise of the tide Thursday evening the Wynnc
and Brennan families in their homes. and not an
oei j r'tcmon in tbe main hotel building In the
Wvnuc cottage there was besides the husband and wife
and their two little boys Three ana fodr years o age
stranger, the Widow Mccormack, nurse brought that
dly from Fort Hamilton to assist at the expected CON
fuenent of Mrs. WJnne Above the storm without.
whlle the woman was ~ tne & mis, tiIo'S s, oI Ghu
struck cottage with tern ole violence aad an second
husband looked out What he saw he describes as n
solid wall OF water dozen feet hlgh iusllnE IN rom
Sea- There was no time to lose He ran to Weeds house
on The lll, and called for help. When he returned,
moment later the sea, returning had broken over
aud through Tie bulwark, cutting gap III HE loose
sand separating him from mis- house. lie tried to cioss.
but was knocked down by the water ana saved only BY
clmgng 70 one OF nc broken I'sls' NneLce nc was
helped upon what remained OF The bulW&Ih by ms com
radc From his house not hundred yards away
shreks of distress reached the men, wac were o"css
to render aid. In another moment al WAS quiet, ana
when the second hgee wave reeedtd there was no fht
Tie tide al night, rat no body 1oaed ashore until early
IHs gSsddc3 i3{ in " the SAND where the house had
stood, and On loose Doalu ho4tyeu I.E4e
horse IN had been thrown several hundred feet from
its foundations bul the horse WAS found unburt wnen
lie wave that destroyed john Wynne's home ana fam
y struck Brennaus house az IL" same time The hu,-
band and wife, with cr little girl. eleven months od,
ana BOY aeCuy . mr. @ r g,Tsri ~, ~. d9sh"r -
fSST & er e arasi the the door II eirck Win such Violence
jumped through small window in TIC rear
treaties to swim for help lie barely reached
The hl. Twice he was knocked down by the water ana
man. Who IN trying y save him. thrown against
wagon and badly burt. Together they made desperate
endcavor he endangered house but were com
poelto flee for their lives. and the scTeams vi the
In the morning John Mcmahon observed from bis no.
tel. at Sheepslead Bay, that something unusual ha1
went m boats the inlet aud to the Of The dis
aster, led by Mr. Mchaaon and Mr. Brown The cor
tractor OF the Fl41oush and C0ney island KaiiIoad
Active search was b. gun for he bodies John Cook ana
John Greenwood, who bad come over to LOOK Tor tntF
lost boats, came upon the body ,oi Mr. Motor
mick. the nurse, Il; IT, III IL was phE cioac 10 thc
AMI
morning tide. after the boucs Of Mrs Nynnc aud
one OTHER found. The OthcIs had not been re
covered at D. yesterday, Wh"n further search
was rendered useless by Inc darkness one ~
the little girls who were drowned, the daughter
az brennan, known on the leland ~ " Tie
Ouepn Of Manhattan Beach," being the first child ever
nrn on tnat The bodies taken 10 McMdhOns
botc where they viewed By COrOncrs jury, en-
paneled by Judge Ncries. VINO returned vcruict Oi
accidental drowning. m
The beach presented scene Of destruction. The main
building the Manbattan Hotel was badly shaken, the
front platform broken into spnters. and tie engine
house and lighthouses demolished The japanese Buld-
ng was washed away, and three hundred feet oil
the railroad track lad disappeared. Broken furniture
sand. Engeman's dock was ruined; The Govern
mcnt lc-sayins station, less than three nun
drpd feet from either OF the wrecked houses. was
party upset. The neghbOrs complained 0i the absence
suddenly with two immense wates did all ITS dam
arc M few minutes and declared by people residing
on the shore TO been the highest known there Tor
IL Hooded the village OF Set lst al BAY,
covering the floors many houses three inches deep ana
DESTROYING the roads Little zee was brought WIN Ito
me eastern end OF the island large gang Oi w0fkmen
ana calpenttrs engaged III repairing damage
Yesterday under the personal supervision oil d. e. Aus
i'm WHO visited the beach carly In the day. number
OF curious peOpc fOcked from ali directions to look at
the scene OF the dlsastei 49, ,,
Island Was received at the Brooklyn Police mead
quariers about y. H. yesterday. and soon aiter In
Waddy and four detectives went 10 The Island
They reported the main facts OF the disaster as gwen
News was received at Jamaica last evening that the
storm did great damage on ROckaway Beach An unus-
track wac washed away at the Neptune House. Kcmsen
N Wanwrights hotel partly washed away.
smith & Gcrble's house Is said to be destroyed.
Two or three other small places were dcmol-
later spatch from Far Rockaway stated that Barney
Smith Patrick Craig lost 5000 by The destruction