The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-02
A TERRIFIC STORM.
Immense Damage by the Gale
and High Tides.
SWEPT OUT TO SEA.
Eight Persons Lose Their Lives
at Manhattan Beach.
NEW YORK'S STREETS.
Brooklyn and Staten Island Dis
comfted by Snow.
ALONG THE COAST.
NEW YoRK's STREETS.
ALONG THE COAST.
Great Destruction Of Property at Seabrighi,
Long Branch and Other Places.

Tho terrible storm which prevailed on Thursday
night wrought havoc along the south shore OF Long
Island. At Coney Island clean breach was made by
The sea- hotels, bathing houses and outbuildngs
swept away aud not less than souls persisted
The icy SURF The storm was from the northeast and
was consequently OF the mos. destructive possible
upon Long Island, as from that direction the whole
force OF the sweeps the coast with awful power,
frequently forming new bars and removing old ones
Ia single night The storm of Thursday night was
The most dreadful known the memory OF the oldest
inhabitant along that coast When the tide began
make In Just before nghtall 1t became apparent that
the water was going TO rise 10 extraordinary
height Great breakers came CRUSHING in mountain
high aao almost perpendicular upon their landward
sides. By seven O'Clock the tide had risen to height
Of four or i've feet above the ordinary high water
level, and the roar of the surf appalling. The
wind blew gale, the slcet and hall swept desoiate
beach ike whirlwind, and the darkness was almost
impenetrable.
THE sToRMswEPr BEACH.
Most OF the immense summer hotels which dot the
shore are unoccaped in the winter season, except
lew which lett each the oil solitary watch
man. At one OF the points exposed to the rage
Of tho pililess elements. however, the end OF
the island, were two small shanties occupied by
Inc family Of a laborer employed upon . new con-
course being constructed in front by the Manhattan
Beach Hotel In the to the east lived
John Bannim, with his wife, and two children
aged respectively two and four years. His neighbor
WAS man named Wynne with his vile, two little
ones Of three and 1--WE years old, woman employed
as nurse aud an infant, which had but q lew hours
before come into the world About half past
O'Clock the waters were roaring almost up to the
doors OF tho shantics and sweeping away the
brcakwatcr, which had been built near low
water mark 70 form the outer wall Of the
concourse, ana great holes being made
In the concourse at tho Prospect PARK Boulevard Tho
two mon, tearing that the hotel would DO injured and
an 70 save their employers property, left their
families and set out to seek assistance Sleeps Head
Bay, some two miles distant The bay alluded TO 10
soft Of inlet behind and to the north OF the point
on which the hotel Is located. Alter getting help the
Two men returned. AS they reached tho oeacn the
frghtiul made by the tide excited their ears
and they fastened through the binding storm to the
site The little dwellings where but hour before they
had left thcir little families nesting from the
turtles without Not vestigc OF either structure
manned. The pitiless breakers had the mems alb
scpce crushed tae trail structures to atoms swept
their paraiyzed Inmates out into the Icy surge.
PirIIEss OCEAN
With her born babe arms the unhappy
mother was borne 10 cterny Win her tttle ones
rlnging TO her skirts and the rushing waters chanting
husbands and fathers bcrcft OF all they had earth
braved the storm and patrollcd the beach In search
OF some relic OF their lost ones. a lew plunks
and fragments OF humble household furniture cast
upon the sands told the terrible story aud IN awful
despair they turned away from the scene OF DISASTER
boring hotel building to save which they had lost
Their all
so violent was the storm that the mon had scarce
turned IRON the spot when the waters, nnding spot
almost level rushed IN with SUCH orce as 10 carry
thcm almost oil their loet, and 1t was with difficulty
they escaped with their lives
rHg DESTRUCTION
. Yesterday morning, when day dawned, 1t was found
that tho whole southern end OF the Manhattan Beach
Hotel had been swept away The engine room and
the bathing houses had been carried out TO sea- tho
thousand foot of tho new railway leading t0
Ihe hotel hud been destroyed Not trace
OF tho iptlc houses or tho bodies of their hspless
occupants was 10 BIO seen. OF tue dyke which, for
three-fourtbs OF q mile, had been built toward the
ives, not u vestige remained except few posts pro-
Letting above sands. Under the OF the gallo
The ocean had boen driven up over The whole
reach Of coast and had completely demolished
chased on the Exposition Grounds at Phadel-
phia by the company owning the hotel. and
erected last summer at point 10 the right of the
Prospect Park, who on tho beach yesterday,
looking out Tor the cty's property there estimates
$40, coo. Later IN tho DAY tho b SHS.' OF OF
MIS- Banrim and the nurse and a child were
found upon the beach at shcepshcad Bay. The
beach that point strewn with tho debris Of the
demolished structures, which washed clear over
Tho neck of land which the shanties stood ana
LETT tnere by the recession OF the surf when tide
fell 1t thought that bodies OF Mrs. Wynne ana
Tho Missing children Will be found amid this rubbish
when q search can be made.
DEsoLArioN coxEY ISLAND
At present the whole OF Coney Island beach pre-
cents scene Of wreck aud desoation. Fragments of
length, the water line has moved much further in
land, the outer bank OF sand has been swept away
cine sns o. s the osay has
hotel already alluded 10 the ocean has broken
across the island in thrce places, making many IN:
lets into sheepshead Bay Two OF these arc small but
the third Is o such width and depth that It could
be crossed last night without boat, and there is
haitian Beach Hotel stands Will next sum.
mcr, be an Independent island. On tho ex-
IRENE west end Of Coney Island there were
only two buildings-one was n summer boto called
the mo Name" and the other q small house owned
by man named Cannon. Both were washed away
which adjons The Park concourse on tho west,
some damage was done u the embankm ent
and on the coneourse proper, graded slope was
Undermined In several places by reason oil the sink
ing out OF the sand through cracks that had been
made by the contraction OF the material when the
waves receded The wharf at Observation-Disclosures to
the east-was much damaged. A portion OF II was
csrried away. aud another part
aDiy demoiisi IL altogether From this poin, there
has been erected from time to time n bulkhcsd or
dyke OF timber aud banked up with sand to height
almost completely destroyed. Norton Murray's
West End Pavilion was cArriS all away, also
y Saloon OWncu ny iuuy nameu oiulLu auu Struc-
lure owned by one Owen Donney.
Engineer Cuysr, ri Prospect Park, had a force Of
mon a. work yesterday repairing tho breaches III tho
pubic concoursc, ana II another storm does not fol-
low very the structure will not suffer any i'm
portunt injury, as II has been constructed in thor
pugn manner aud but litts damaged by the gale.
THE STORM IN NEW YORK AND SUBURBS.
Though the wind moderated At an early hour yos.
!erday snow and slcct continued to fall in varying
Quantities through the entire day. Toward noon The
temperature consderabl bly,, and then slight lhaw
which rendered some Of tho streets Ia
cwer part OF the city sloppy to an uncomfortable de-
gree. Tho ~elocity OF tue wind at 7A A. H. was
twenty eight miles hour; later IN the day II de-
ncascd IN sensible degree The barometer rose
ncsd,ly during the day.
rHn Erygcrs OF STORM
The most serious Inconvenience resulting from the
bsavy snow TALL was the great delay Of ali the
nail trains running to this city The West aud South.
vest mails due at ha.past ten Thursday by tho