The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01
SEVEN PEOPLE DROWNED


Fl 49,
Details Of the wreck wrousht By Friday
Nights STERN Alsng tho New Jersey
Coast-A New Brunswick Farmer XIII
ed by Lightnine- Damage EIsewh ere
HIeHLAxps, N. j., July ST. intelligence
has been received here that schooner
yacht from Philadelphia upset near the
Government dock at Sandy Hook during
the storm last evening. Six ladies ana
young man were drowned The body Of
one person was recovered. The others are
supposed to be in the cabin of the yacht
Some Of the yachts party who were found
cIinging to the rigging after she capsized
were rescued by tug The yacht is the
Sarah Craig, of Philadelphia. The lost are
Mrs. T. II. Stevens cher body was reeov-
ered), her two daughters, Miss M. Stevens
and Mrs. Askin. two sisters, Miss Emma
Merritt and Miss Bessie Merritt, Miss
Maud e. Rettew and Mr.. Chester Clark.
The yacht capsized soon after six o'clock
aho7t 500 feet off the Government dock.
The six men rescued were On deck at the
time liz disaster. According to reports
arso, the longshoremen at Sandy Hook,
it wa, suIls two hours between the capsizs
and the rescue.
despatch from Philadelphia says
ssThe pleasure party of the Inflated Sarah
Craig left this city on Tuesday, the 9th
inst. for an eleven days rHn along the At
lantic ceast as far as Newport. Mr. T. NJ
Stevens, his wife, two daughters, and
few of their friends arranged for the trip
The party was to have visited Cape May,
Atlantic City, Newport aud perhaps other
places further up the coast, and would
have returned to Philadelphia yesterday
week. Miss NJ Stevens was the book
keeper ia her fathers Office, and Mrs. Cora
Askin, her sister, was the wife of the late
treasurer of McCaull's opera house ia this
city
New BRUNswIcE, N. J., July 3l.-JohR
Warhsdorfer, farmer Of Dunham's Cor
ner, one of the wealthiest men in Middle.
sex county, was narrowing in field dur
ing the storm on Friday night, when he
was struck by tightening and instantly
killed. His horse was also killed, but the
boy who was leading it was only stunned.
At Rockaway two unknown sloops, with
NO one aboard, anchored in Jamaica Bay,
were capsized. A large part of the railing
and the awning frame on the iron pier
was carried away. Mr.. and Mrs. Shannon,
of Brooklyn, narrowly escaped being
blown off the pier. A train on the New
York, Woodhayen and Rockaway Beach
Railroad was crossing the trestlework in
Jamaica Bay when the storm came up and
was almost blown from the track. The
passengers were demoralized for several
minutes. The excitement was intensified
by an unknown schooner which was driven
from her anchorage against the trestle-
work. Her bowsprit ran between two cars
doing considerable damage The bowsprit
was broken clear off. The water in Jamai-
ca Bay was driven over the trestle and into
the cara. It was the worst storm ever
known there.
At Sandy Hook the slsop yacht P. 7.
Barnum, of Keyport, N. j., was capsized
inside of Sandy Hook during the storm
last evening" All on board were saved.
The st. John on her trir to New York
caught the full force of the storm. She
careened over till her guards were under
water; the glass doors on the lower deck
were shattered. and the passengers were
much excited and alarmed, and many of
the ladies on board became hysterical.
At Long Branch the storm is described
as having been perfect cyclone. The
houses along the beach rocked on their
foundations and many bathing houses
were carried away by the waves
Information comes from Sands Point,
Long Island, that schooner, name un-
known, went ashore there during the
night. Only her masts are visible at high
water. The fate of the crew is not known.
ATLANTIC Cry, N. j., July 3l.-The
thunder storm Of this morning was the
most severe that ever visited this city. At
the hotels the guests were seizsd with
CONSERVATION and collected in crowds in
the halls and corridor. The storm lasted
from three until Ave o'clock, during which
the thunder and lightning was continu-
Gus. AT four o'clock shock came SO
heavy that it shook the buildings and
knocked people from their feet.