The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-03
! YHE rude NORTHEASTERN TER,
hotels and Bathing Houses at Rock
away Swept Away.
DESOLATED HOMES.
Effects Of the Storm at COney
so Island and Elsew here.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD

IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
FAR RocgAwAY, L. l., Feb. 2, 1875
The damage done in this vicinity by the great storm
which eliminated last Thursday evening in a gale
hcrcer and stronger than anything the Inhabitants
can remember was found to-day be much
greater tnan had been supposed at first Yesterday
while the dying out, little was done toward
repairing carefully estimating the loss but to-
day everybody been busy working Tor himself or
his neiehbor and trying to make such petty salvage
possible Not less. IL Is thought than $15, 600
worth OF property was destroyed by the storm, aud
though the figures do not seem large 1t represents
considerable number oil pleasure houses along the
famous Rockaway beach.
Far Rockaway IS an old town. staid its ways and
solid compared with It's younger sis
ter. the village OF RocKaway Beach. Comparatively
little damage was done here, nothing having been
destroyed excepting q few hundred dollars worth Of
bathing houses ana occasional ence along the
beach. Below here. the famous for excursion
lists in the summer, the damage was much heavier,
and might. perhaps. have been accompanied with
a considerable loss OF life II II had not
been that the during the day Thursday gave
warning TO the few people who the
prepare for its violence. Very lew persons remain
beach during the winter. nearly all the houses
being locked up and lett 10 the mercy of the elements
during the winter months OF these few none were
injured.
A WILD SCENE
The scene along the beach to-day is furio US one,
ana those who familiar with it last summer
would find 1t difficult to recognize the place. The
little hill OF firm from the beach some
two hundred ieet back the low water mark IS In
many places washed away, and hundreds Of the small
cedar trees that made pleasant grove
OF the narrow neck between the ocean and
the bay were torn up by tho roots and borne of
by the waves. The wind swept down from tho north.
east and Is said to have turned In OF eddy
the line OF the beach; SO that together with waves
witch were twenty feet high. IT gouged out big Of The
land ana sucked the houses that Tell into
braces OF the The water washed over the neck
OF land through the cedars into the bay hey oud,
cut no channel and now that The sea has gone 0own
the beach rs smooth aud nard a floor.
rel HOTELS AND BATHING HOUSES DAMAGED
Hall uozcn OF tue summer hUtes tho beach
and platforms anu batnlng houses ny the shore were
wished away ana the shore Is strewn with debris of
and Shattered crockeryware are mixed with tho
weed and shells, and the broken ST. uctures that still
stand tell the story Of tue storm cloqueDty.
The hrst house along The line 10 Captain Kreu-
scher's Atlantic Garden. Iu iron, Of IT ue had built
bu9head or brsakwater about one hunured feet long
That was entirely WISHED away, together with thirty
bath houses. The nrm ground washed away TO
within few feet OF tue maiu house, which stands
injur' d, but the very BRINK OF RUN Captain
Dodge's summer pavilion STANDS or did stand next on
tue ine They tell ne II Was one story house, and
that there were dancing platform aud some bathing
houses near by, but everything 10 gone.
Tue Kuickerbocker House iared bettoE The main
building is gone. out the south hall Of the plato. m,
when 100 feet by 70, swept by the tide.
Lard's platform aud bathing houses to the vest OF
the Knckerpocker are gone. and tho ground washed
Wheels place was He his house with
his wife child ON Thursday, beng one
the year He watched the storm with appre.
hension during the day, and at nightian yielded
10 the request OF teIror.strcken take her
and child a more secure place. Setting a light
II the window 10 guide him on his return, he TOOK
them across the to neighbor's house ON the
same SIDE ana returned Immediately, not being alb
sent, no says, more than about ten minutes
Looking ,. Tor . Inc light 70 saw y dancing up
he saw That his mousse was aaoat Before he could
reach It it had been drawn out to the line Of the
breakers aud was speedily crushed like an eggshei
Mr.. HammIlPs place IS just south OF this would
have beeo unDjured II The debris from about had not
broken some of the piles on which his platform
was oil the hands0mest on the beach and cost
$1,000 10 build. HIS hty bath houses wore also
Kappes Cottage, a one story building, was broken
In Two ANA the south end OF II carried away. The
mated at 81, 200.
The Putnam House, parroom and restaurant, was
comp eteIy swept away. were Strauss Cottage and
the Brooklyn Pavilion, Kept by Curry IL Regan.
OTHER DIsAsTERs
or the other places Rutand's was the most dam
aged. This IL a regular boarding house or family
hotel built ike all the other houses IN the place, on
piles. These piles were several o. them snapped ny
the waves and tho house fc to the ground beng OF
course, badly broken by the fall :.
Ihe Dcimonco, another Of the more ambitious
Structures, was also damaged In u similar way, but
not ondly There are half q dozen hotels,
they CALLED, IN addition TO but
they escaped serious injury. On side Of
Neck Damage worth mentioning was done, though
The houses rocked IN the gaze till the inmates looked
The damage in almost evory case was what might
have been reasonably expected by the owners OF the
trail edihces that were, would SEEM bull only tor
sun mer use. Everybody seems to regard the affair
phosopncaly, and all trace Of excitement is gone.
Even Wibe, whose experience Is told above who
lost ms ensre properly, seems phegmasically calm
about IT.
One Lowell, who was in charge of several hundred
bath houses different parts OF the island, had also
story 10 tell. He lett his VIE ana his employers
vile, Yrs Lowell, who cnan. cd to he on the spot in
his house, whine he Went up the beach to see whether
all Of Loweii's bath houses were standing. He
about quarter OF a miic without much trouble, but
wnen he tried to return he found himself in fierce
struggle for lie. He mad 10 wade almost all the way
back, often up to his middle IN the icy water, but
hnaily reached nome almost exhausted.
THE CoNEY ISLAND DIsAsTHR-Two BODIES
i4..a RECovERED.
Out upon the beach at Coney Isand yesterday the
sun shone brightly. the winds sted, the surf
had subsidized to It's normal condition and there
nothing but ew overturned board structures heaps
OF lumber and DEBRIS TO tell Of the awful storm OF
Thursday night. which wrought havoc and
swept three i've helpless little
into eternity Parties Of workmen
patrolled the sands gathering up scattered
fragments OF pavhons, fences and dykes-structures
which we're washed away like s,raws by the furious
and resistess tide number Of employees Of the Man.
haitian Beach Hotel Company, under direction OF
Manager d. Z. Corbin, sought oil day for the
Of the untortunates who met sad fate. About
noon ono searcners a portion OF a woman's
dress prof Getting from heap Of mingled Iumbor.
and uprooted marsh grass IN the meadow near
sheepshead Bay and directly across from the
site OF the two shantcs when werc washed away.
Removing some OF the rubbish ne found the bruised
and mangcd body OF Mrs. Brennan, who had occupied
the shanty further east Extricating te remains he
turned seek assistance, and Ia dong 50 cnanccd
the ifclcss form Of lite Mary, the oneyear-
5000 al.o nEL. M LIZ l..IL xa4 49,