Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-25
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. FURIOUS GALE. The Severest Storm Known
 in Years. | A GREAT WRECK OF PROPERTY. Houses Undermined and Bridges Swept Away. LIVES LOST IN THE FLOODS, A Wide Extent of the Country
 Visited.
A Wide Extent of the Country
 Visited.
THE STORM.

THE STORM.
 Violent GaIe-The Severest Storm for
 Years-A Large Area of Country FIoOd-
 ed-Dams Broken and Bridges Wash ed
 Away-EFouses Torn From Their Eoum-
 dations-sevsral Lives Lost by Drown
 1ng-Ltve Stock Carried Away by tho FIoods-Great Destruction of Property.
 LONG BRANCH, Sept. 24.-The storm that set in last Wednesday night and continued until o'clock this morning will always be memorable as the great gale of 1882. For eighty hours 1t rained necessarily, and at intervals violent discharges of lightning and thunder accompanied the rain. At 10 o'clock last night the gale reached it's height, and Long Branch was isolated from the outer world. To day gangs of men are filling up the washouts and strengthening the weak ened bridges The great hotels and cottages of summerers have escaped with compara- lively little damage, but the havoc and loss caused in the interior Is terrible. Thousands of acres of cornfields lie waste, tons of hay have been washed away, and in the river bound portion of the country many hundred cattle have been lost by drowning in the flood. The most serious washout is on the New Jersey railroad near Pemberton. This morning when the storm abated it required small army to clear the New York and Long Branch railroad track of the debris of trees and fallen stones from the water soaked embankment. John Lam bertson last night attempted to reach his home at Fairville, driving valuable horse hitched to light wagon over the flooded rooH hn cfAy infn 1n1n xuhI had been caused by the rain and broke it's neck. The animal fell over upon MT. Lam- bertson, breaking his leg and causing him ex- cruciating pain Lambertson struggled through the mud four hours in the terrible tempest and would have perished walker, discovered and rescued him. The Sandy Hook railroad dock was badly damaged yesterday by the steamer City of Richmond, which ran into it while attempt ing to make a landing.
 SOUTH AMBo1, N. J.-Incalculable damage hours duration. The southern portion of the town fronting on Raritan river and bay is inundated. The rushing river has carried out the debris of bridges, drowned cattle and uprooted trees all day, telling of the damage done in the interior towns bordering the river. At Seawarren the mouth of the Rah- way is choked with logs, timber and broken bridges. All day long Saturday the swollen stream carried out great quantities of such debris into Staten Island Sound. The havoc caused by the storms fury at Railway Is said to be great, as most of the wreck stuff carried down the river comes from that direction. 4 seventy five feet high chimney m Jobson's cannery at South River fell last night, completely demolishing the bnilding. Black river in Ocean county rose last night at the rate of foot an hour, and in it's mad rush into the sea carried Cousins well known @ok9 into the ocean, the occupe1ssa barely escaping with their lives. Three dams on the river, one at Bellows Falls and two at Fordsville Corners, gave way and the destruction of mill property was great. The damage In Ocean county will amount to $1O0,OO0 The ! iron government telegraph poles have been washed out along the coast and it Is difficult \ to obtain accurate particulars. At Bayville | the arch of the stone bridge was undermined ! and the bridge fell. The roads throughout ! che county are impossible, nearly all of the \ small bridges being carried away by the \ swollen streams.
 | PLA1NF1ELD, N. J., Sept. 24.-The storm which began in this vicinity on Thursday | morning did it's greatest damage yesterday 1 afternoon. Two dams at Scotch Plains were ! washed out, and Green brook, in Plainfeld ! rose five feet in very short time. The wa ter had undermined one arch of the heavy ! stone bridge at Grove street, which gave way | and carried with it number of people who ! were on it watching the flood. A number o1 men plunged into the water, and with grea danger to themselves rescued eight persons two of whom were nearly drowned. All were cut and bruised by the debris. Those whs saw the bridge go down are confident tha
 not less than dozen persons went with 1t
 and are certain that some must have beer \ caught in the mass of stones and brick ant
 drowned, else swept down the stream be
 yond the rescuers. The Demcaseas kindlinl ! wood factory was swept away with one mal in it, but he was saved Thus far every on
 reported to be missing has turned up unin ! jured, but it is probable that some loss o
 life will be discovered when the water sub ! sides. Within the city limits over a dozel
 bridges have been washed out and great dam
 age has been done to private property. Th
 water is still very high, and threaten ! destruction to large amount of valuab! ! property. Both dams at Scotch Plains ar
 washed out, and the water is four feet dee
 in the streets, but is now subsidlng. Tn
 dam at New Brooklyn, three miles from there | was carried out yesterday, and further dow the stream a large pond, stocked with valus ! Telephone poles set six feet into the cart
 have been washed out by the torrents in som ] streets
 l PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 24-Martin Ross
 ter, who resides by the river road above th
 Falls, near here, found yesterday afternoo \
 ses and concluded to come to the town. H drove along the river road and foll into ho \ washed in the road. His horse and carriae ! were caught in an eddy and carried out int
 the stream. He was swept along by the GU
 rent, and there is no doubt that he and l. horse and wagon were carried over the fall ! A number of the operatives of the Manhatta F shirt mills along the river were rescued frol the mills last evening by boats. In Beac street and the Sandy Hill portion of the .it
 the water was in the first floors and lare , numbers of families moved out and sougl ! shelter on higher places. The mills formerl ! belonging to the John J. Zabriskie estate
 Hohokus, Bergen county, were carried awa ! by the Hohokus stream. The mills had recen , l ly been sold to rubber manufacturing fir 5 for $29, ,OOO. They were formerly used as cotto
 mills, but were not occupied at the time
 the track of the New York, Susquehanna al { Western railroad at Bloomingdale yesterds ! morning, and this had hardly been r t paired, when another occurred ne
 Newfoundland. This was so serious that z
 trains were stopped. In the afternoon thel 1 was a washout on the same road
 Schuetzen Park, and the last train on th ! road between here and New York WAS the fl
 teen minutes past one train yesterday afte noon. There is only one track in use on u = Erie, the other being washed out at Lal l View Two county bridges have been washt ! away on Oldham brook. One was wort S5 ,OOO and the other $S,OOO. The gun m 1 is flood. d. and large plant of machinery (
 the lower floor has been ruined.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-No mail or pape
 were received here to day from New Yol until p. m. on account of delays by was ' outs.
 NORTH ADAMS, Sept. 24.-The new da
 being built at Readsboro by Newton Brotl CTS of Holyoke was carried away last nigh
 The damage will amount to $1o,0oO. The
 are many lighter losses from the flood in tn
 vicinity.
 NEwYoRK, Sept. 24.-The results of the gre :. storm show it to be the most severe that hi TA