Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-14
STORMY TINES.

STORMY TINES.
Disastrous orm the AtIantic-FearfuI
Consequences to the Fishing Fleet of the
Banks OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS estruc-
ton OF Property Along the New Jersey
Coast.
HALIFAX, n. s., Aug. 81.
Late intelligence of the effects of Wednes.
6Sy nights storm around the coast of Nova
Scotia shows the damage to shipping is
quite extensive. Ten schooners were driven
ashore, some completely wrecked and 9th.
ers badly damaged. The fury of the gale
was terrific. The tower of the new Catho-
lie Church at Cape Breton was carried away,
and a large wooden building moved from
its foundations.
The East Anglia arrived for coal; she
had one or two of her plates started and
was strained little by Wednesday nights
gale. The schooner Fannie B., from Cow
Bay, Cape Breton, via Gabarus, reports
having her deck-load of fish carried away
during the storm. The schooner vesta from
Labrador had to run thirty miles before the
gale, and her mainsail was carried away.
The schooner Amos b. was driven ashore.
The schooner Mary is q total wreck at
Manadiere. The schooner Stetter is driven
ashore at Arichat and bilged. The schooner
Alice L. NJ. Crondis is reported ashore at
Margatee, Cape Breton. The schooner
Mary E. Banks is ashore at Landoise. The
Foaming Billow is ashore at Sheet Harbor,
but will likely be got off. The schooner
Queen of the Fleet, from Labrador, bound
to Lunenburg, is reported ashore at Eng
lishtown, Cape Breton. The schooner B.
Delliven went ashore at Scatlesie Island,
Cape Breton, but will proba-
bly, be got off. The brigantine
Annie Jamaica, for Montreal, forty four
days out, is reported at Sidney, Cape Bre-
ton, in leaky condition. The steamer
Bryn Glass, Pensacola for Barrow, arrived
to-day for coal, and reports that she felt
the storm very severely from FIVE O'Clock
wednesday evening to daylight the follow
ing morning: The wind blew with terrific
force, and while the engines were at full
speed to try to keep the ship UP to the wind,
the feed pipe of one of the boilers burst,
and the steam had to be shut off. With the
assistance of sails she was kept up to the
wind till the engines were got to work
again with the use of one boiler. She bore
up for this port. The accident to the boiler
will not detain the steamer here. tele-
gram from Cowboy, Cape Breton, reports
the gale fearful there. The American brig
Atlas and schoOners Edward johnson and
Volunteer were driven ashore and all ex.
cept the Edward johnson probably total
wrecks. The Volunteer, which was laden
with coal, had the bottom knocked out.
The schooner Ripple with two hundred
quintals of fish sank in her dock. Other
smaller crafts were wrecked, but no lives
lost.
THE STORM ON THE GRAND BANKS.
ST. JOINS, n. F., Aug. 81.
From the arrivals the past twenty-four
hours from Grand Banks intelligence of an
alarming disaster to the fishing feet has
been received. The most reliable and de-
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schooner Wachusett. She was anchored
about twenty miles southeast of the Vir-
ginus. She narrowly escaped the fury of
the storm and made for land. While com.
ing in she passed through a vast amount of
wreckaSe indicating destructive work of
the gale. The storm arose from eastward, |
shortly after sunrise Sunday last. A heavy
sea rapidly piled up and became confused
and choppy by the wind veering to the !
northeast. For thirty miles of the schoon-
eI's course wreckage was encountered on
every side. Many dories were seen bottom |
up and oars, fish boards and other material
in large quantities were passed from time |
to time. One French fishing brig alone lost |
four dories with all hands. The vessels |
decks were swept, cables parted and an |
chors lost. A general estimate based upon |
the best information at present obtaina
BILE puts the loss of life at from sixty to |
TO eighty souls, while the damage to the |
fleet is incalculable. At the time the gale |
sprang up there were, it is assumed, 2,0OG |
dOries away at their travis, and it will he |
fortunate if the extent of the disaster to
the great bank feet is circumscribed with. |
in this report.
EFFECTS OF THE STORM ON THE ATLANTIC
COAST.
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 81.
Thousands of people visited the Sands
this morning to gaze on the scene of de- |
struction caused by yesterdays high tides. |
The damages yet cannot be fully estima. |
ted, but will amount to over 500, 0G0. Last |
eve II ng the remnants of the dilapidated |
pier opposite the excursion houses were |
carried away. The heavy surf forced the |
water halfway up Pacific Avenue. The
broad walk from the ocean pier at Ken.
lucky Avenue and North Carolina Avenue
is gone. The beach front is one mass OF
debris, bath houses, restaurants, photo.
graph galleries, cigar stores and all bust.
ness places in the central portion of the
city have been carried away altogether, OF
much damaged. From North Carolina tc
Tennessee Avenues about twenty feet of the |
beach front is entirely washed away.
There is nothing TO hold up the buildings
still standing. but the mass of debris which
was forced under them and which broke
off the posts supporting the structure. The
ocean pier received terrible straining, but
it did not give way. Twenty-Five sections,
sixteen feet in length, of board wall, three
lighthouses and a large number of electric
light poles were dashed against the uier al
one time. The railroad to South Atlantic
City was so badly damaged that no trains
are running to-day. Large forces of men
are engaged in repairing the places not de.
molished and removing the debris from
the beach.
RED BANK, n. J., Aug. 81.
Onehundred thousand dollars will not
repair the great damage done to railroad
and private property by the tidal waves OF
yesterday and today. Sandy Hook, which
was yesterday a peninsula, is today an
island. The most reliable estimate made
OF the damage to the property of the New
Jersey Southern Railway is $4,000. The
great bulkhead that was built BIZ the rail.
road last spring just north of the Highlands,
at Navesink Station, and which cost 81, COO
Is almost complete wreck. The tracks OF
the railroad run along Oh narrow strip OF
sand from Sandy Hooa Cedars to Sea
Bright, separating the Atlantic Ocean from
Shrewsbury River. A. the Highlands the
ocean has driven through this barrier, and
river and ocean intermingle. For miles
between distance one mile north of the
highlands and as far north as Sea
Bright the New Jersey Southern road-bed
has been washed out in spots, while in 9th.
er places the tide has piled the sand of the
beach in pyramids from three to four feet
high upon the track. Along the beach from
Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach TO Ocean
Grove the tidal waves have dashed the sea
front, crumbling away yards of valuable
green swarded bluff. At Berkeley, the next
summer resort, near Baynead, twenty
miles below Long Branch, there is heavy
washout, stopping all travel on the Long
Branch & Philadelphia Railroad.
NEW YORK, Aug. 81.
The unusually high tide which has beer
running for the past two days continued
yesterday. In the evening the cellars
with water, and in many cases it ran with
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