Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25
WIND AND TIDE.
Immense Destruction Wrought to Ship
ping and Eastern Summer Resorts by

Immense Destruction Wrought to Ship
ping and Eastern Summer Resorts by
Gales.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1o.-Tuesday after
noon a heavy northeastern set in at Atlantic
City, N. j. AS darkness came on the
winds shifted to the east and the gale in
creased. 1t ralned in torrents. A worse
night has not been seen there. The tide
was of unusual height. About two O'Clock
Wednesday morning the work of destruction
began. Houses, shops and shanties fell
with a crash. A few pieces of the board
walk which escaped last falls storm are all
gone in the common wreck.
Coney Island suffered terribly. The resi-
dents were up all night, dreading that a
tidal wave might submerge the place.
Water flooded the meadows. The loss is
estimated at between $500, 900 and $780,
600. The track of the Marine Railway be-
tween Manhattan and Brighton Beach is
almost entirely destroyed. Culver's iron
pier was wrecked at the outer end, and up
ward of q hundred feet carried away. The
old iron pier also suffered to a considerable
extent. Ali the sheds and houses nearest
the beach We're either entirely or
partially demolished. The bathing
houses, which were believed to be at a
safe distance from the sea, were borne out
to the ocean. Brighton Beach Hotel and
the surrounding property were damaged to
such an extent as to suggest a possible de-
molition should there be such another visi-
tation. The promenade succumbed during
the night, and the music stand and drug
store sank into the sea and sand. The piaz-
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of the building were also damaged. Enge-
marm's pavilion was destroyed.
A portion of the pier at Long Branch was
destroyed and the pavilion wrecked during
the storm. The bridge on the Philadelphia
& Long Branch Railroad, a mile below
Mantoloking, was washed away, stopping
travel.
A severe southeast gale struck New Lon
don, Conn.,. early Wednesday morning, the
wind blowing at the rate of forty to fifty
miles an hour. The morning tide came
into the harbor like a tidal wave, submerg-
ing wharves and railroad tracks, filling cell
ars and doing thousands Of dollars worth
of damage. The shore resort at Osprey
Beach, including the steamboat wharf and
bathing house, was partially wrecked. One
vessel capsized and another had' her bottom
ground out by pounding on piles, where she
Ntto UloNlt llOlI LNC tillCllOl ClSC. Liz lluC
was the highest since the September gale of
1915.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Jan. 10.-The wind
Wednesday morning blew at a velocity of
sixty miles an hour. The rain fell inces-
sanity all night. The streets were flooded
and considerable damage done to cellars and
| merchandise. The schooner William Il.
Houston, Taunton. Mass, from George
town, d. c., loaded with coal for Somerset,
was driven ashore by the wind Oh Prudence
Island during the night.
Boston, Jan. 1O.-New England has
been swept by terrific gales. Great damage
has resulted. At Castleton, VT, at eleven
o'clock Tuesday night the wind was high.
At six a. III. Wednesday it had increased to
a hurricane. 1t took the roof off the Soma
ION House. When it came down it ruined
one building and damaged two others. The
copula was blown off the Normal School and
a portion of the depot was carried away.
The Town Hall was much injured. Many
chimneys were blown down. The streets
are full of debris. In the surrounding
country the work of devastation has been
terrible The barn at the Sanford House
was demolished. The barns of w. f. Bar
ker and Charles Ransom were blown entire
ly away. At the quarry at the pencil
mill a building was demolished and entirely
blown away. At BiXby's summer resort
at Lake Bomosene one of his houses was
blown off its foundation and turned
upon it's side. At the marble mil of Sherman
& Armstrong barns were unroofed. A por-
ton of the Depot was blown away. Corn
houses, hays acks and small buildings with
out number were turned over. Windows
and blinds suffered much. There is hardly
a house in that place that has not suffered
| some.
In this city the gale was the heaviest fox
years. The wind blew forty-eight miles an
hour. Many of the telegraph wires were
down. Provincetown reported a wind
storm OF fifty miles, Portland forty-eight
miles All hour. Water on the Boston &
Albany Railroad tracks, from South Cove to
Providence Depot, was thirty inches deep.
MACON, Ga, Jan. 1O.-A terrific cyclone
has occurred i'll Coffee County, where trees
were piled i'll heaps and many houses were
blown down. Every building on the Smith
plantation was destroyed and many build
ings in the surrounding district were dam
aged. :
CINCINNATI, Jan. 1O.-Reports from the
Ohio Valley, w. Va, and Kentucky say
there has been the heaviest snowfall fol
years, snow now covering the ground to q
depth Of from ten to twenty inches. There
is a general blockage Of railroad trains.
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