New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-12
SANDY HOOK POINT NOW AN ISLAND.
AN ANCIENT STRAIT KNOWN IN REVOLUTION
AIRY TINES REoPENED BY THE SEA
-CoTTAGERS DRIVEN FROM
THEIR HOMES

THEIR HOMES
Sea Bright, Sept. IL Special There was
reign Of gloom and terror here last night The
sea Numbered on one side, the river overGowed
on the other, and overhead the winds howled q
perfect gale Many of the cottagers were so
alarmed by the violence of the storm and the dan
gers that threatened them that they remained M
all night. The town is completely cut off from
railroad travel both north and south The only
way to reach New York is by crossing the Jumping
Point Bridge over the south branch OF the Shrews-
blhy River to Rumson Bluff, and then driving
west TO Red Bank and taking north-bound trains
over the New-lork and Long Branch Railroad
While the has been cutting away the
cast side Of the town, the wind has
forced up the water lin the river on
the west side All of the streets on the west
side Of the town are flooded so deeply that the
water reaches TO the second floors OF the buildings
The people going about in boats and removing
their clothing and furniture from their houses
The stout brick walls of the new Methodist
Episcopal Church have been undermined and over
thrown. Last night the swept across the land
at the south end of Sandt's Octagon House and
running over the railroad tracks flowed into the
Shrewsbury River.
All along the ocean front the beach is covered
with wreckage, and the surgng water is filed
with pieces of cottages and furniture and house
hold supplies of all kinds
The hotels filed with the Gotta gers who were
compelled 10 vacate their summer homes Every
one Of the cottages on the Sandy Hook Peninsula
between Highland Beach and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sea has been abandoned by the summer oc-
cupants. George V. Heclxcr, the -four manu-
facturer, and his family are at Pannac's f. X.
Alcott and his family have taken up quarters al
the Normande-by- General Louis Fitz-
gerald, of the First Brigade National Guard, New
York, has gone with his family TO the Rumson
Road cottage OF Henry NJ. Alexander.
The sea has cut an inlet TO the Shrewsbury
River between the north cottage of James Munroe
Allgor and the cottage of l.. ID. BulSeley Just
above the village. The surf cut out the sand
undermined the ties and rails of the Sandy Hook
Branch OF the Central Railroad of New.Jersey
tore them loose and carried them with irresistible
force over into the river. This is the place where
there was an inlet through the Sandy Hook penin-
sua about 100 years ago. The inlet is being
steadily widened and deepened by the surf. but
old fishermen say that il will probably be again
closed up by the sea before next spring. If 1t
Is not closed up the Bay or Sandy Hook route
OF the Central road, which is exceedingly popular
with so many of the cottagers and visitors TO the
Monmouth Park race tracks, will have 10 be
abandoned.
The bodies of two dead men were seen in the
surf to-day, but il was impossible 10 bring them
ashore. Another was seen near Low Moor at
the upper end OF Monmouth Beach. two-story
house owned by Justice OF the Peace Rowland
near the little hamlet of the Sea Bright Fishery was
undermined and upset.
AL OF the Dig hotels here escaped but the sew
eraI clusters OF clearinghouse were mica up ny
fbe hinge waves and dashed TO pieces on the beach.
Al Highland Beach the storm did great damage
This is the new summer day temperance resort
opened two years ago on the peninsula opposite
The famous twin lighthouses ON the Highlands Of
Nayesink. The surf at that point tore out the
bulkheading and demolished the lighthouses 10
ught up the big stones dumped on the east side
OF the railroad tracks after The heavy storm on
Sunday, March IL, OF the present year. tossed
them about like so many huge corks, and then,
with a rush. swept them over the railroad track.
Nearly every building erected by the Highland
Beach Association was damaged by the surf The
water undermined the foundations OF tie big payl-