The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-09-19

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Never seen Bof0fo--Tho CooSe 9efoWn
with Wrecked ships and Houses.
SoMERs PorNr, N. j., Sept. 1o.--Com-
munication has been established be-
tween Atlantic City and the mainland
at this point by means Of yachts and
steamers, and . frightful state Of affairs
Is shown. The storm is still raging
with unabated fury, and added TO the
horror Of wind and waves is that Of fire.
A steamers brought the news that fire
was raging in Atlantic City, and that
houses alongside the burning buildings
were being demolished to pre-
vent general conaagration.
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 inlet was this morning destroyed by
the waves, together with several cot
tages, but no definite information as to
name 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, seven miles south Of
Atlantic City, is entirely cut of from all
communication with the shore. Angle-
sea and Ocea City are all right A num-
ber Of houses are reported to have been
washed away at Holly Beach. The cap
tain Of yacht that arrived at 1880 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 pas
sengers is detained at Grassy Island, be-
tween Anglesea and Holly Beach. They
have been there forty-eight hours, and
provisions are now on the way to them.
Word comes in from all points along the
Atlantic coast Of wreck, ruin and desc.
lation.
SEABRIaHT, N. j., Sept. 12.-Last
night was night Of terror here. The
cottagers were badly frightened by the
terrible surf and the furious wind. The
surf thundered away on the East Side,
| and on the west the water in the
Shrewsbury river overfowed into the
streets, flooding the houses and
stores. The sea cut new inlet through
into the Shrewsbury river, north of Sea.
bright, near where there was an inlet
100 years ago, tearing away the Sandy
Hook tracks Of the Central railroad and
again making Sandy Hook an island. The
cottages of George Blagden and A. +.
Carpenter, at Low Moor, were under.
mined by the surf. They toppled into
the sea and were torn to pieces. The
cottages OF VIM. A. Street and Colonel
w. L. Strong are badly undermined, and
will probably go over the little bluff.
The cottages of DIR. E. R. Tubbs and
John Milton Cornell are in dangerous
situation, as the surf is slowly eating
It's way toward their foundations. The
sea ran over into the river below
the south end Of the Octagon House
and toppled over cottage be.
longing to Esquire Rowland. The brick
walls Of the new M. E. Church are q
mass Of ruins The beach is strewn with
debris of all kinds. Several bodies have
been seen floating in the surf, but no one
could recover them. All the cottagers
north of here have vacated their homes,
and are at the hotels here and at Red
Bank and Long Branch. This town is
cut of from all railroad travel.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12.-Advices
from the Delaware Breakwater state
that it was the most furious storm known
to the oldest Inhabitants. At least two.
score vessels are now beached. Both
wooden piers were washed away. The
beach from Rehoboth to Lewes is strewn
with wrecks. It is thought at least fifty
lives were lost. Men were seen clinging
to the rigging Of the fast-sinking vessels
frantically yelling for help. The life.
saving crew were powerless to render
assistance owing to the fury Of the gale.
1t was a terrible sight to witness, but
no human power could save them. Their
bodies were washed ashore this morning
and were buried in the sand along the
water. The loss to vessel property at
Breakwater will reach, 1t is thought,
| 5000, 900.