New-York tribune., 1884-01-10
THE NEw-JERsEY SHORE EATEN AWAY
SCORES OF BUILDINGS DEsTRONED-LtFE IN GREAT
PERIL-HlGH TIDES-SHIPWRECK.
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ATLANTIC CITY n. j., Jan. 9.-FOr second time
within year the properties along the beach 'front.'
between North Carolina-ave. and Illinois-ave
are mass of ruins. The loss VIII not
fall short of $4,000 All this damage
was caused by the heavy gale from the south last
night, which drove in a high tide and heavy sea at
an early hour tISSs morning. The tide was the
highest known for years flooding all that portion
of the city lying between Pacihc-aye. and the
ocean, and broke over the Brighton board
walk against he doors of the park baths, which
are elevated six feet with such force that the doors
were burst open.
Colonel George W. Howard's famous Ocean Pier,
that withstood the August storm, is to-day
thing of the past The outer pavilion,
100 feet square, and all that portion seaward OF the
middle pavilion is gone. Mr.. Howard's loss is estl-
mated at from Sic. 900 to $4,000. Near the en-
trance to the pier and the opposite side of Ken
tucky-ave. stood Aflerback's boarding house. That
IS entirely gone and no trace of it, not even the
foundation, was to be seen to-day. Brady's Surf
House lighthouses and pavilion were undermined
and partly washed away, The Iraymore
lighthouses suffered a similar fate. The elegant
dlning-rooms of Samuel Sweisfort and the substan-
tial business places of John Ha1an are nearly to-
tai wreck Applegate. the Philadelphia photogra-
pher who had an immense establishment on the
beach near the foot of rennessee-ave, has lost ha
of his building and the rest is so undermined rs 10
he comparatively worthless in its present POSITION
In fact the whole beach front is more or less dam
aged.
Besides the loss to buildings the beach itself has
NV The two storms been washed away not less than
one hundred aud fifty feet of valuable front
Hundreds of lahorers were to-day engaged In NOV
ing back what few buildings were left that are
worth moving That no liveswere lost is miracle
rs dwellings fell with the occupants i'll bed, un-
conscious of their danger Other families were
! awakened by the rush of water beneath their
| houses and compecdtO leave them hnrriedly, wad-
ing waist deep in water to places of safety.
Thomas Catow had jnst succeeded in
carrying out his wife and child when his
building fell with a crash completely demollshlng
the house and ITS contents.
The wreck of the beautiful three-masted
schooner Robert Morgan, of New Haven at 4 a. m,
added interest to the scene of distinction. She Is
almost new. having made but two yOyages,and was
bound from Salem, Mass, TO Baltimore. The
wrecked vessel now lies br0adSlde on the beach be-
tween Kentucky-ave. and New -York-ave., and so
far mp on the strand that her bowsprt extends
over the wrecked bath-hOuscs by singular good
fortune. the wreck passed between the two ocean
piers which are not more than one hundred and
nifty yards apart, and sustained hltIo
or no damage. Had she struck either
pier she wOuld have boen a total wreck.
| The schooner Charles c. Dane, Captain Daniels,
of Newburyport, from Portsmouth for Philadelphia,
went ashore at midnight last night at Manasquan,
three miles south of Squan Inlet The crew was
saved The vessel was first discovered by the pa
trol of Life Saving station No. l. and soon after
by Station No. 10. They Immediately conlinunlca,
ted with their respective Stations, and by the united
efforts of the two crews all hands were safely
landed and snugly housed III station No. 10 by
two O'Clock this morning.
Down the beach the track Of the South Atlantic
Railroad is washed away. and on the Meadows,
abOut mile from PleaSantyille, the DRIFT ice
carried away a portion of the West jersey track
Neither road ran trains from here this morning.