New-York tribune., 1882-09-27
RAVAGES OF THE STORM.
MIGHTY WAVES AT CONEY ISLAND.

MIGHTY WAVES AT CONEY ISLAND.
SCENE OF GRANDFUR At THE BEACn YEsTTR-
DAY-GREAT DAMAGE DONE AT BRIGHTON AND
MANHATTAN MARINE LwAYpEsTRoYRD
The damage resulting from the recent storm dd
not cease when the rain was over and this was e.
pecIalg the case at the COney Island beaches. lhe
ocean has been in an angry mood for several DAYS.
ANA on Monday began to undermine the platform
of the Brighton Beach Bathing Pavilion. Yesterday
the waves did terrible work and in n few hours
swept away what will cost many thousand dollars
TO I; place Some dvellers the island said that
thcy eOnd not remember a more destructive tlde
Others said the water had not risen high before IN
six years. Only about 200 people were AT brighton
Beach last evening. and the other beaches
ver deserted. But the sght was well worth SEQ
ing. The sea was white with foam for a long dis
tance out. Beyond great green walls OF water rose
to q height Of twenty feet and rolled resIstesaly
inland until a crest like snOw-whte name would
shoot up some ten feet hgherand the breaker would
fall on the beach with report that shook
the earth. The scene rilled one with awe and adj
miration Sometimes the wave would begin to
break IN two or three places and as the foam would
run along and meet ut different points the spray
would leap up forty feet in the air The tlmhcrs
which the waves cast up some Of which were
thrown nearly TO the grass plots IN the grounds
Of the Hotel Brighton, were broken as fine
rs kindng wood. A number of people stood
the piazza of the bathing pavilion. and listened to
the waves which dashed up under the floor with
sound like thunder shaking the whole structure.
The outer platform. where the beeT-abes Were set,
undermined and carried away. The wave,
rolled through the piles breaking some and tearing
others up and CTunchng the mass OF timber that
hOlted between the piles and the hotel. The roof
OF ia. platform WAS undermined and kept falling IN
fragments. In front of tie hotel at p III. the
waves had undermined the plank walk bordering
the grounds and carried away n considerable sec
ton. They broke over tue ltte pavilion out on the
beach and carried away its railing. The water
spurtcd up between the panks IN many cases IN
front of he grounds. The wooden per west OF the
EOtc stood the waves We'll though they touched The
flooring a. they rolled persistenty IN. In about It's
centre where the bllows broke with greatest force,
a part of the per had sunk and looked decidedly
shaLy The surf al West Brighton Beach did not
beat with such force, and, there being 40 valuable
structures near the water, the damage was slight
1t was impossible TO get nom brighton
Beach to Manhattan Beach after p.
n.. except by taking a tIiin to Sleeps
head Bay and walking up 10 the iQot-brdge: Look
ing up the line OF the Marlno Halfway from lis
western end, ono might fancy that he saw the
smoke Of a coming locomotive AZ the waves, which
sending a cloud Of spray over the track.
Two men waiHcd from Point Breeze 10
West Brighton at p. IN, but II would have been
porter walked several hundred feet mp the Marine
Railway track but soon came 10 gap Where the
waves rolled through too herccly to be crossed
without rubber suit on. Nearly the whole eastern
half of the road Is demolished in some places the
rails and ties span gaps aud in others they are
fallen down and strewn about. The water
carried the sand away from this
part of the beach with great rapidIiy.
The piles were broken thr ugh IN many places The
picket fence carrrdaWay tor the greater partot
lis length. The platform at the east eud OF The rail
way Mas undermined and the waves washed under
the plankIng IN IrOut ~ The Manhattan Beach Ho-
tel. The Manhattan Bathing PAVILION stood hrmly,
although the waves Numbered against II.
Inc hotel was closed. every movable tnlug housed
and hardly person 10 be- The same was true
of tie Oriental Hotel. Here the waves were eating
into the handsome lawn III front OF the hotel
Three break were 20 be seen where the water had
been driven through the piles ANA had steadily
washed away the ground. All along tIe break
wafer the waves broke clear over 80 lhat II was
impossible to walk near The edge OF the grounds
last OF the Oriental lOtel the
SEA struck the cIib-work, when Is filled
III with stone and extends toward
Point Breeze. with great fury Ia places II broke
througn or over il and washed away the sand line
beacn IS strcwn with piles and timber ana when
the waves catch these up they are hurled with re
meudOas lor,c against whichever Hes III tAclI way.
Among he people who watched the sea at Biigh on
Beach III the afternoon were General
Jourdan and Henry C.. Murphy: hey
moving the bathing pavilion or what was lett OF II,
further back. he prOOabic damage by the waves
al all the beaches was estimated by various persons
at from 100000 TO $4,000. The water came
nearly to railroad tracks across Sheepshcad Bay
az p. H., when tine tide was at It's highest. lhe
tunnel on the brooklyn, Fdtbush and COuey Island
Ran way near the Prospect PARK station, i iul OF
water which comes up TO the aAles OF the car
wheels.
TRACES OF THE FLOOD IN NEW-JERSEY.
Some of the damage caused by the recent Hood
promises t. create a difficulty between the auihori-
ties of jersey City and Hoboken. The Rayine-
road sewer, which drains all the northeastern part
of jersey CITY, runs through Iloboken in order to
eInpty into the North River The sewer was built
at the Joint expense OF Jer.e, City aud HubOkcu