Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-12-01
OLD OCEANS RAGE.

OLD OCEANS RAGE.
More About the Suffering and Damage
Caused by the Great storm on the At
.la1atic-The steam Collier Allentown
Wrecked, and 1t Is Feared Her Crew
Numbering Nineteen, Have Been Lost
Great Loss at q Number of Seaside Re-
sorts.
CoHAssETT, Mass, Nov. IS All day long
Wreckage of various descriptions came
ashore along the beach, more particu-
arly at Sandy Cove. Huge timbers,
spars, cabin furniture. fine inside
furnishing, chairs, life-preservers and
)ther articles appertaining to
.teamer's outfit, and many of them
stamped with the word Allentown have
oeen seen in the breakers off shere and
found scattered along the water front.
This wreckage tells too plainly that the
inc iron steamer Allentown, a Phila-
one of the huge sunken lodges Of
this port, always terror to mar
iners The Allentown cleared from Phlla-
1elphia on the 21st inst. for Salem, Mass,
with LOGO tons of coal She was COM
handed by Captain Odlorne and had a crew
Of eighteen men. The vessel belonged to
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron
Company.
Captain Nathaniel W. Treat one Of Co
hasset's oldest seafaring men, from whom
the first intimation of the disaster came,
said that in his opinion the vessel had
foundered, either on sea lodges or on
The Grampus, which are long sunken
Lodges lying about three miles from
the nearest point of the mainla<ld. If such
is the case the vessel must have gone
down with all on board within a very few
minutes after striking. Many of the vii
layers say that they distinctly heard q
steamers whistle shortly after noon on
nday, repeated at brief intervals for
an hour or more, as if signaling for ass ST
ance or pilot. 1t was SO thick at the
time that nothing could be seen at so great
observation could have been made no boat
could have lived in the tremendous sea
then prevailing.
BosToN, Nov. 2S-First Mate C.. D.
Wright and Martin Haley, seaman of the
steamer Carroll, from Charlottstown,
were swept overheard by abig wave and
drowned off Thacher's Island Monday.
The steamer has arrived here somewhat
damaged.
The schooner Lasanoa, before reported
stranded on Pleasant beach, has gone to
pieces. Her deck was lifted clear off the
vessel and piled in a confused mass
on the beach beside the hull of
another schooner. Summer cottages and
similar structures on the water front
are wrecked and their ruins line the
beaches. Many of the beautiful drives to
the summer residences are washed away
or badly quilted and covered with wreck
age. The greatest damage to land prop
erty is along Crescent beach, between
Green Hill and Gun Rock Along this
stretch is a line of from twenty to
thirty small summer cottages. Every one
of these bear marks of the terrible force
of the storm Some OF them were lifted
from their foundations and carried back
several feet. The total loss to property on
this beach will reach many thousands of
dollars.
At the Hotel Nanrasket the covered
promenade connecting it with the Rock
land cafe was partly destroyed by the
wind. The r0adbed of the Nantasket
Beach branch Of the Old Colony railroad
is entirely washed out from Hotel Stand
1sh to a point half a mile northwest OF the
Ocean House The wrecked brig Alice is
rapidly breaking up and has been stripped
OF every thing portable, including her
miscellaneous and somewhat damaged
cargo, which was appropriated by the
residents of the vicinity.
ATLANTIC Cry, N. j., Nov. 2S.-The
storm has abated and the tide receded
Tuesday. The destruction Of property by
the waves on this beach was very great,
especially IN the lower portions of the city.
The work of the waves was quick and com
plete, and the individual losses are numer.
Gus. In the excursion-h house district the
destruction of property is enormous.
New YORK, Nov. 2S-The storm wrecked
or undermined many cottages at Long
Branch, among them those of DIR. E. S. Gil
bert, NJ. H. Houghton, G. r. Colby, Thorn.
as 7. Platt and Chief-Justice Beasley
The Surf House pavilion. owned by
Amzi S. Dodd, has gone down, and all
the bathing houses. of the late Frank
Green, in front of the Ocean Hotel, are
swept away. Far RockaWay suffered
heavily from the storm. The island was
almost inundated. The Oceanic pavilion
has been carried out to sea and many bath
ing houses and pavilions either destroyed
or damaged The total loss is placed at
$4,000.
SAG HARBoR, L. l., Nov. 2S-Half of this
village was inundated Monday. The Mas
sau House, the principal hotel, has been
unable to serve its guests with meats
since Sunday, the kitchen being under
water More than half a mile of the Long
Island railroad tracks in this village was
washed out.
PEORIA, Ill Nov. 2S.-Thomas Keene.
the actor, received word Tuesday that his
cottags at Navisink, on the Atlantic coast,
was destroyed by the storm He esti.
mated his loss at S19, 900, in addition to the
loss OF valuable art collection.