The Democratic advocate., 1878-02-09
The Recent Storm.

The storm of Thursday, January 3Ist and
Friday, February 1st, is represented to be the
most destructive that has occurred on the At
lantic coast for % years.
The storm was very severe in the interior
Of New York and Pennsylvania, and through
out New England Railroad travel was de-
layed in almost all directions, and suspended
at many points, especially in New England
A telegram from Lebanon, Pa, reported
snow drifts twelve to fourteen feet high. at
Poughkeepsie, New York, the snow was one
foot and half deep on level. In Boston
the snow dritted six TO ten feet high in the
streets. Throughout New Hampshire and
Maine immense drifts blocked all the rail-
roads and highways. Along the coast the
gale was terrific. None of the Sound steam
srs were able to make their trips. Great
damage was done on the Long Island shore.
At Rockaway Beach seven buildings we're de-
stroyed and nine others partly demolished.
The worst was experienced on Manhattan
Beach, Coney Island, n. 7. Here three huge
waves swept away a number of the shanties
and other structures along the beach, causing
loss, as far as known, of eight lives The
victims were Mrs. Wynne and three children,
Mrs. Brennan and two children, and an un.
known woman. Mrs. Wynne's body was re-
covered on Friday, the others were probably
carried out to sea. The loss of property on
Coney Island is estimated at over $4,000
Along the New Jersey coast, from Sandy
Hook to Long Branch, the damage was con-
tinuous. At Long Branch the East End and
Brighton Hotels, Mansion House and Morris
Cottage were partly unroofed. Sixty bath.
houses, in front of the Ocean House, were
swept of. The waves washed over the bluff
into Ocean avenue in many places.
The g4a Mnt-,..ls- 4 Ii
for Brazil, loaded with railroad iron, and hav-
ing on board 265 persons, was wrecked on
Thursday, off the North Carolina coast. Over
one hundred persons were drowned and many
of those who succeeded in reaching the shore
were frozen to death. The survivors have
returned TO Philadelphia, where a fund of
$4,000 has been raised for their relief. They
were going to work on a railroad in Brazil.
The Office of the Messrs. Collins, the con-
tractors, is crowded with men anxious to 90
to Brazil in the next ship.
The brig Chattanooga, which sailed from
Baltimore on Wednesday for Demerara, was
separated from the tug during the gale, by
the breaking of thehswser, and driven ashore
on Little Cove Point, in Chesapeake Bay
Capt. Frey, the second mate and seaman
were drowned in trying to get ashore next
morning.
The schooner E. B. Wharton, which went
ashore at Hatteras Inlet on January 4th, cap
sized in the gale of Thursday night, and sank,
bottom upward. The loss on the vessel and
cargo is estimated at $4,000. The body of
James Bodaine, steward of the vessel, was
picked up in the inlet on Thursday, much de
composed. 1t was identified by the captain
by the clothing.
The brig Eta NJ. Tucker, which went
ashore at Asbury Park, n. j., has gone to
pieces.
The brig G. o. Overton, from New York
for Nassau, n. P, was found ashore, bottom
upward, two miles north of 0cracoke Inlet,
n. c., on Saturday morning. 1t is supposed
all on board were lost. A hat and other ar
ticles picked up on shore had fresh blood
marks on them.
A yawl boat, some clothing and pocket
book containing discharged papers Of ''Jas.
A. Bowen" we're washed ashore near the Sig
nal Station at Cape Hatteras on Saturday.
The British bark Zephyrine, anchored in
Boston Bay during Thursday nights storm,
was driven on the rocks at Hull. She had a
cargo of sugar and molasses from Demerara
No lives we're lost.