Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-01-17
THE LATE STORM.


Summer houses. Messrs. Lyons.
Abinola and Chief Justice Beasley. the
Mountain Beach Association, Messrs.
Vredenbergh, Houghton, DeGray,
Mckesson, Humphrey, and Atterbury
willlose from $500 to 81 900 each. They
lose also from 12 to 30 feet Of their
oceanfront lawns. The losses Of
Messrs. Niles, Frederic A. Potts, Baker.
Wilson, Hendrickson, Lathroy, X olby,
Martin, Thompson, McKesson, Sr.,
Osborne and Herrick are not so serious.
All the above are at Monmouth Beach.
Passing on toward Seabright, there is
hardly cottage but what has had ex-
pensive bulk-heads washed out, and in
many cases the ocean-front lawns have
been almost entirely carried away-in
some cases right up to the foundation
of the cottages.
The damage at Atlantic City was
equally serious. For a second time
within year the properties along the
beach front, between North Carolina
avenue and Illinois avenue, are a mass
of ruins. The loss will not fall short
of $50,000. The tide was the highest
known for years, flooding all that por-
tion of the city lying between Pacific
avenue and the ocean, and broke over
the Brighton board walk against the
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 thing of the past. The outer pa
vilion, 10Ofeet square, and all that por-
ton seaward of the middle pavilion is
gone. Mr.. Howard's loss is estimated
at from $4,000 to $4,000. Near the
entrance to the pier, ON the opposite
side of Kentucky avenue, stood Affier-
backs boarding house. That is en-
tirely gone, and no trace of it, not even
the foundation is to be seen. Brady's
Surf House lighthouses and pavilion
were undermined and partly washed
awey. The Traymore lighthouses suf-
fered similar fate. The elegant din
ing-rooms of Samuel Sweisfort and the
substantial business places of John
Hagan are nearly a total wreck. Ap-
plegate, the Philadelphia photograph
er, who had an immense establishment
on the beach near the foot of Tennessee
avenue, has lost half of his building.
and the rest is so undermined as to be
comparatively worthless in its present
position. In fact, the whole beach
front is more or less damaged.
Besides the loss to buildings, the
beach itself has by the storm been
washed away not less than one hun
dred and fifty feet of valuable front.
That no lives were lost is miracle, as
dwellings fell with the occupants in
bed, unconscious of their danger.
Other families were awakened by the
rush of water beneath their houses and
compelled to leave them hurriedly,
wading waist deep in water to places
of safety. Thomas Catlow had Just
succeeded in carrying ont his wife and
child when his building fell with a
crash, completely demolishing the
house and its contents.
The wreck of the beautiful three
masted schooner Robert Morgan, of
New Haven, at a. m, added interest
to the scene of destruction. She is
almost new, having made but two voy-
ages, and was bound from Salem,
Mass, to Baltimore. The wrecked
vessel now lies broad side ON the beach
between Kentucky avenue and New
York avenue, and so far up on the
strand that her bowsprit extends over
the wrecked lighthouses. BY singular
good fortune, the wreck passed be-
tween the two ocean piers, which are
not more than one hundred and fifty
yards apart, and sustained little or no
damage. Had she struck either pier
she would have been total wreck.
At Cape May the storm was the most
furious and destructive known for
years. The scene from the beach was
thrilling in the extreme. The break
ers dashed about the heavy rails of
the Delaware Bay railroad like so
many straws. This company's new
road along the beach drive, built upon
trestles during the past Summer, is
completely wrecked. the bare trestles
alone remain. The company's loss is
estimated at $4,000. Denizot's staunch
pier. that has withstood so many de-
structive storms, succumbed that night
and from the first pavilion out nothing
remains but a few pilings. Congress
Hall pier suffered more thorough
wreck, being lighter and not so sub
stantially built.
The beach drive and board walk is
one mass of debris and wrecked mate
rial, and that portion of it built during
the past wear, from the Stockton House