Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-12
Great Loss Of Life and Property
Reported on Land and Sea.
A Large Number of Vessels Ashore with
Many More to Hear frOm-Sum-
mer Hotels Demolished.
Atlantic City, Holly Beach, Sea Isle City and
Ocean City Partly Washed Away-Texas
Storm News-Bridges Down.
SCORES OF WRECKS .

! seventeen sails ashore here with q full
score more fast drawing upon the break
ers. The crews of sixteen of the wrecked
vessels are now at the Virgin hotel being
| cared for. three-masted schooner Is
ashore just outside the inner harbor and
is fast going to pieces, with q crew of
ten men clinging to the rigging. The
| lines which the life saving crew have
| sent over her are tangled in such q man
ner as to make it impossible to send out
| the car. No human power can save the
sailors. If the wind continues blowing
as it now is for ten hours not a sail of the
sixty remaining in the haTbor will be
afOat.
STEAMERS OVERDUE.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE wind has
| subsidized somewhat, but the skies are
! still black and a slight rain is falling.
| The only transatlantic steamer which
had arrived up to II O'Clock this morn
/ ing was the California The City of New
/ York and the Teutonic were both due
| yesterday but have not yet been sighted.
| Other steamers due to-day are the Wis
/ cOnsin, the State of Georgia and the
| PammOnia. The passengers on all these
| steamers will automatically have inter
| esting tales to tell, as they must have
| encountered the hercest gale. Reports
| from along the Jersey shore show wrecks
| everywhere, there being sixteen between
Barnegat light and Sandy Hook. All
Geographic communication with Fire
island is cut off. The water along East
! and North rivers is not so high this morn
! ing as 1t was at flood tide yesterday.
! Vessels at anchor along South street
| piers have the appearance of having
/ passed through a veritable cyclone. The
rigging of many of them is torn into
( shTeds, and the spaTs and masts disman-
tied while the waves beat with great
! fury against the vessels sides even as
! they lay at their piers. The telegraph
wires between here and Sandy Hook are
/ still down. There is consequently the
! greatest uneasiuesS felt by the members
| of the marine exchange for the safety of
! vessels in the ofIiug. IN roundabout
way it was learned that only two vessels
had
COME Up TO QUARANTINE
| last night. They were the new Morgan
| line steamer EImar, of New Orleans and
! the Hamburg steamship California. The
! Elmar was detained twelve hours out
| side of the bar by the weather. The
! vessel encountered a hurricane on
! the night of the 9th inst.
| While there was no serious
| damage sustained, things on board were
made lively, and the decks were dashed
| fore and aft. The California has on
board a big load of immigrants. The
/ new German steamer, Kaiser Wilhelm,
/ left her dock at HObOken yesterday, and
was obliged to lay to this side of quaran-
| tine over night. The vessel passed out
| to sea at 'clock this morning. The
regular weekly fleet of transatlantic
/ IN oft sriT- 4r
advices from the quarters of the health
officers down the bay show that the
| storm at quarantine
! CONTINUES WITH GREAT FURY.
The wind is blowing from the east
northeast and the seas wash over the
surrounding walls. Along the battery
| wall the waves dashed far into the park.
! The iron railing surrounding the wall
| along side of the dock
commissioners building at pier
/ A was carried away, while the
/ docks at Castle Garden were broken
completely and washed. The custom
/ house quarters at the end of the immi-
/ grant dock was completely filed with
water, and the landing agents Office was
submerged. The rainfall this morning was
| sixty-one hundreths of an inch
THE STORM STILL RAGING.
| SONERsPORT, n. J Sept. u.-Com-
munication has been established between
| Atlantic City and the mainland at this
point by means of yachts and steamers,
! and a frightful state of affairs Is shown.
| The storm is still raging with undated
fury, and added to the horror of the
| wind and waves is that of fire.
A steamer brought news that fire was
raging in Atlantic City, and that houses
alongside burning buildings were being
demolished to prevent general conda-
grafton. What the burning buildings
are, the captain of the steamer could not
| say.
Additional intelligence Is to the effect
that one of the largest hotels at the in
let was this morning destroyed by the
! waves, together with several cottages,
! but no definite information as TO names
/ or locality could be given. The board
| walk is entirely swept away, and at last
reports the water at Atlantic City was as
| high as at any time during the storm.
| The West Jersey tracks and those of the
| Reading railroad are in such condition
as to preclude any service with the island
for three or four days.
| Longport, two miles south of Atlantic
| City, is entirely cut off from all COM
rnunication with the shore. Anglesea
! and Ocean City are all right A number
of houses are reported to have been
washed away at Holly Beach. The cap
tain of a yacht which arrived at 1870 re-
ports that the Continental hotel at Sea
/ Isle City has been undermined by the
waves and entirely destroyed. There is
great anxiety to hear from Sea Isle City,
as reports are to the effect that the city
has been wiped out. A train-load of
passengers are detained at Grassy Island,
between Anglesea and Holly Beach.
/ They have been there forty eight hours,
and provisions are now on the way to
| them.
! HOTELS AND COTTAGES SWEPT AWAY.
SALISBURY, MD, Sept. ll.-RepOrts
OF startling character are coming in of
the storm at Ocean City, Nd. though
the telegraph office there is unoccupied.
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