The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-06
LAST THURSDAYS STORM.
Ruin on The New Jersey Coast
Summer Houses DsmoIlshsd-Brld
and Road Beds Washed Away
Marrow Escapes, Co., 90.


New Jersey, from the Highlands OF Nave
sink to SquAn, is a picture Of destruction
and desoIAtion: Over S250,OOO damage
has been done 10 the handsome Summer
cottage district OF Long Branch, and with
the exception Of the Rowland House, mol
one OF The large hotels escaped. The
northeast gale on Thursday and Friday
swept directly along the coast, making
inroads in the embankments, and sweep
ing all the hotel bulkhesds into The
ocean. Between the Highlands Station
and Seabright the waves have cleared thu
narrow bet Of sand separating the ocear
and the Shrewsbury River, and upor
which the New jersey Southern Railway
runs, and to-day the break forms wide
and deep inlet. All railroad travel OF
the Southern has been abandoned, AnC
hundreds OF laborers are making attempts
to fill up and repair the washOut. The
road cannot be repaired within ten days
On the Long Branch division Of the Cen
trail Railroad there is no travel belo"
Long Branch, the break at Deal Beach
where the fatal accident occurred OF
Thursday, not yet having been repaired
The bridge across the Squan River which
was blown Down Is total loss. II cos
$4,000, and connected Monmouth anC
Ocean counties. Al Wreck Pond anC
Shark River the railroad bridge abut
ments were swept away. Il is expected
that travel on this road will reopen BY
Tuesday.
OCEAN GROVE.
The storm at Ocean Grove, the grea
Methodist camp.meeting ground, has let
uprooted trees and overturned houses
The new Hotel Bellevue, at Seabright
lost part Of its roof. Nearly every It'll,
hut in the fsh village skirting the short
at SeAbright was blown over. The tow
itself was completely submerged, and sew
eral families had to be rescued from per
ilous situations by boats in the streets
The long bridge across the Shrewsbur!
at the Highlands, which cost the count!
$4,000 in 1874, is almost worthless
wreck. At Monmouth Beach scarcely
cottage escaped the storms fury. Thos'
most seriously damaged were the summer
houses Of Mrs. Paran Stevens, ChancelloI
DOdd, Jay Gould, Charles Osborn, Olive
Dowd Byron, Judge Depue, and th'
Keasby, Winston, Timpson, Merrill, Ru'
terford, Amory, Swilts, Keys and Hazel
tone cottages. J. Wyman Jones summer
houses, and those Of Hugh n. Camp ant
Hinze Dodd lost their bulkheads ant
barhing-houses. A portion Of the roof o
the East End Hotel was carried away
and the entire upper floors were flooded
The hotel was open for the accommOda'
ton OF winter visitors, and its proprie'
tor, Captain Issac b. Smith, says hi
loss is great, as all the rooms wer,
furnished ready for occupancy. At III,
Ocean Hotel, last summer, the Leland
conceived the plan Of building perma
nent and strong bathing-houses which
could stand the wintry storms. seyent!
OF them were blown TO sea on Friday
The roof OF the United States was mis-
placed and is now in shaky condition
| At all Of the hotels the damage is heav!
in saturated furniture and carpets. Thu
damage done TO the magnificent oceal
driveway cannot be estimated. In som
places deep gullies 50 feet wide wer
washed across the beach, into which tn
sea is making deep inroads. Scarcel.
one Of the beautiful summer-house
which lined the avenue in front Of tn
hotels and cottages is standing. A
Spring Lake Beach the dome on the LAX
House was blown of, and roofs, chimney
, and outbuildings were wrecked. Mase
qudau village and Sea Girt are also SUI
fering, great damage being done to all tn
frail summer cottages at these places.
AtSea-side Park, which is built on tn
Barnegat stretch, at the foot Of the!Tom
! river, scarcely cottage is left standing
! 1t Is the most exposed portion Of the Jer
sey coast, and as there was supposed I
be party Of carpenters at work on tn
stretch, further news from there is an1
iously awaited. The Barnegat Inlet an
Toms river are strewed with the debri
OF frame work OF demolished building
supposed to be from the wreck Of Sea-
aide Park.
PERILoUs SITUATION.
, The steamship Columbus, from Havan'
when within twenty miles Of the High