Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-28
EARLY AND FEARFUL.
A Wintery Storm Causes Many Disasters
All Along the Atlantic Coast.

A Wintery Storm Causes Many Disasters
All Along the Atlantic Coast.
LONG BRANCH, November 26.-Cottages
have been undermined and carried out to
sea piecemeal; during this storm cottages
End DuIkheads have been torn away and
the lawns of the summer houses of the
wealthy New Workers have been swept into
the ocean. The loss is from $15O,OO0 10
100000.
Eve.y bulkhead from Long Banch to Sea-
bright has been torn out or badly damaged.
The beach from Sandy Hook to Barnegat
bay is covered with debris and wreckage.
At Long Branch the ocean pier was dam
aged by heavy timbers hurled against it by
the SURF The bluff at Long Branch has
been heavily cut out in places.
At Deal Beach the life-saving station Is
in danger. Nearly all the cottagers lose
their clothing and many of them the sum-
mer houses they had erected on the bluffs.
AT CAPE MAY.
CAPE MAY, N. J., November 26.-The
seas are beating heavily against the new
bulkhead of the new Mount Vernon tract.
Spray is flying higher over the board walk
at the lower end OF the city than has ever
been known. The iron ocean pier remains
yet. Above the city the sea has cut away
the beach from ten to fifteen feet.
The sight is q magnificent one, and Ii
witnessed by almost the entire population
of the ity.
The hallway house, just within the city
limits, is complete wreck and lies flat
upon the ground. The board walk, on thf
Boulevard, owned by the city, extending
from Michigan avenue to Chelsea, is almost
entirely carried away. The beach is strewn
for miles with debris. Residents along thu
greater part OF the avenue were compelled
flooded homes.
BosroN, November 26.-The terrible
effects of last nights storm have been every
where manifested along the coast to-day
| although
THE LOSS OF LIFE
already reported is large, it would hav
been still greater but for the brave effOrt
| of Captain Joshua James and his voluntee
life-saving crew of Hull, who are credite'
with saving twenty eight persons from dis
abled vessels.
| On Sunday afternoon d large three
master went broadside on the breach a
the Hull. Captain James and his Mel
rushed for the hut gun, breeches aud buo.
and lifeboat al the M massachusetts, Human
society at StoDey beach, and, after strenu
GUS efforts, they succeeded in brlDgln
ashore the crew OF nine men from tn
schooner, which proved to he Cox AM
Green, from Philadelphia for Chelsea, wit
coal. The vessel is 10" fast breaking uI
= - nY1
pleted their work at this place, when al
other vessel wns discerned on the rock
about an eighth OF d mile up the beacf
but farther from the shore than the othel
Hurriedly rushing their apparatus to tn
most available location. they found tha
the distance was too great to allow the us
OF the breeches buoy, and the surf boa
was quickly manned.
THE WAVES WE'RE TREMENDOUS,
and it was only after hard and persistel
, struggle that the vessel was reached, the
boat twice swamping in the attempt. tt
, boat was at last brought under the We
sells bow and the crew of eight men swul
themselves into it. The return to sho
was perilous trip, the boat filling sever
times, but it was finally thrown on II
beach among the rocks by a huge wave al
entirely smashed.
The volunteer life savers continued the
patrol of the beach: and at day-brea
. sighted third vessel ashore about half
mile northeast of Abbott. She could III
be reached bv hreeches buoy, and as Il
surf boat had been demolished. the ti:e ele
men started for Strawberry Hill static
> four miles away, and returned with t
Humane Societv's new boat. This boz
withstood the huge breakers and land'
the crew OF seven men.
Two vessels were ashore near Atlant
J. Hill, seven miles down the beach. Aft
v repeated efforts aud with undaunted bra
cry Captain James and his men, with t
assistance of Captain James Anderson
the Humane Society Station at Cresce
Greek and Captain George Fl. Brown of t
y Government station at North Scituate, 81
ceeded in rescuing five of the crew OF 0
!, vessel from the rigging in half frozen co
dition. The captain, one seaman a.
steward were lost. The other vessel,
r Matte E. Eaton from Boston for Port-a
l. Spain. was found abandoned by her ere
o they having succeeded in reaching the she
. safely in their boat after eight hours t
: posure before she struck.
4 Boston, November 2e.-The schoor
Avelun dragged ashore on Speetcale isla