Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-27
WRECKS ALONG THE COAST.
Immense Damage Done by the Storm
Tireless Life Savers.

Reports Of wreck and ruin caused By Sunday
nights storm are many and distressing. Along
the coast the damage TO shipping was enormous,
and the ife-saving crews were kept ON the
Jump In their efforts to save the sailors Of ILL
fated vessels. Twenty-eight persons were
rescued by Capt. Joshua James and his vol
unteer life-saving crew at Hull, Mass. Nine
men were rescued from the schooner Cox and
Green, Of Philadelphia. Shortly afterward, an
eighth Of Q mile up the beach, the Gertrude
Abbott, of Philadelphia, for Boston. went on
the rocks. Her crew Of eight was rescued
after Q terrible struggle with the waves and
wind, In which their ife-boat was smashed to
pieces. Early Monday morning q third vessel,
the schooner Bertha +. Walker, also of Phila-
delphia, came ashore not far from the Abbott,
new life-boat having been procured from a
neighboring station, the crew Of seven men
were rescued after they had been several hours
IN the rigging. Capt. Westgate and Mate
Thomas were swept overheard and drowned.
Capt. Westgate belonged in Berkely, Mass,
and Mate Thomas in Islesboro, Mass. The
Walker will be q total wreck.
Capt James and his men then went miles
down the beach and aided in rescuing five men
from the rigging Of q wrecked vessel A
tremendous storm was raging at the time.
Lawrence Allen, the only survivor of the
crew OF the Edward Nest0r, which was lost of
the vessel struck between 5 and o'clock, and
Immediately capsized. He was down below
and was the only one saved. He says she
carried fifteen men and boy. After the wreck
was discovered he was still under her hull and
was nearly drowned. He could barely keep
his head out Of the water, but could plainly
hear the voices Of those on the beach, and had
to wait hours until the sea left her, when he
had barely strength to crawl out.
The schooner William McLoon was lost at
Rockland, Me. At Lanesville, Mass, the
schooner John Mettler became total wreck
The boat Uno sank at her pier and went to
pieces. The schooner Richard Dority, Capt.
Low, OF Sedgewick, Me-, broke her moorings
and went ashore at the Willows, near Salem,
Mass, where she will probably 60 to pieces.
The schooner Oliver Dyer, of Saco, from New
York, went ashore at Jerry's Point, Newcastle,
N. H. The crew were rescued with the ex-
ception OF the cook, who was drowned.
The storm on the lakes also caused many
wrecks, but no loss of life is reported.
On the Long Island coast great deal Of in
Rockaway Beach, Jones Beach and Fire Island
the waves swept away bathing houses, plat
forms and other small structures, and many
small craft were either beached or carried out
to sea.
Yesterday afternoon the waves grew noun
northwest wind driving them on. The esplanade
which runs along the front Of the Manhattan
Beach property, about $50 feet, was thrown
high in the air and destroyed from one end to
the other. Immediately sfterward the depot
at the west end of the Marine railroad was
swept out TO sea bodily, and in q few minutes
more fully one-third Of the track Of the road
was also carried away. The Brighton pavilion
was partially carried away.
Superintendent Mott of the Manhattan Beach
company, says that the sea has not run so high
as 1t did to-day since 1878. The damage will
not fall far short of $4,000.
At Atlantic City the waves have done great
damage The boardwalk has been almost en-
tirely swept away, and large numbers Of the
miscellaneous structures along the beach
shared the same fate.
The storm has done great damage along the
North New Jersey coast, according to Long
Branch dispatch. Cottages have been under
mined and carried out to sea piece-meal, cot
tage bulkheads have been torn away and the
lawns Of the summer homes of wealthy New
Workers have been swept into the oceap. The
loss is estimated at from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900.
The storm has also reached the British coast.