Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-12

doors and windows are broken down anu
furniture is floating about the Deach-
Seas last night were breaking TO the sec
ond story of the Atlantic hotel anu Con-
gress hall, and huge waves were running
through the hotel six teet deep
Furniture is floating in the rooms me
dancing pavilion at the Atlantic hotel Is
demolished and the roofs of several cot
taces and porches are blown away There
is not a vesfige Of bath house on the
beach. The IifezsaTing station was
damaged and the crew were preparing to
desert il last night. A special train was
sent over last night to rescue jewellers on
the beach The work was ac-
comDlished by q large number OF
srout men Joining hands and wadlng
through the water waist deep. Ihey
brought the bodies TO. the cars, one by
one, seated on their Joined hands. MT
e+ockers. one of the rescuing party, was
washed out to sea, but an incoming
wave threw him back towards the beach,
and he was saved The last occupants OF
the beach, who left late last night, eN-
pected that all cottages and portions OF
hotels would be washed away The
damage amounts to thousands or dollars.
VESSELS ASHORE AND SUNK.
TrwFs, DEL, Sept. IA ship IS
7nas+s are cut away. She is supposed to
he the William r. Grace from Havre for
PHILADELPHIA It is impossible for boat
to reach her. The ship Munster (Brit-
ism from MoDtevideo is all right. Yes
sells known to beashore are the bark Sal
vator, brig Richard I. Gren, schooners
Addie b Bacon, 5. A.
Rudolph, Nina Area, Eunity, R.
Over J. D. Robinson, Major
William II Tantum, Charles P. Stick
nev, Henry N. Clark, Alena, Covert, j.
r Rocker. Byron NJ. NOTeua, Gertrude
Summers. Maud Seward and Hooper,
the barge TimOur and pilot boat Bayard
The schooner . & L. ByTan sunk up the
BAY last night. The mate and one
coIored seaman are the only survivors.
So far as is known no lives have Deeh
lost at the breakwateT. The storm con-
-iuues from the northeast, slightly mod
Grating this morning but increasing in
velocity towards noon.
MORE VESSELS ASHORE.
LEwEs, DEL. Sept. ll.-The schoon-
ers Kate T. Morse, Waiter F. Parker
and !. L. Bryan sunk at FOurteen-foot
hank. The survivors Of the Bryan think
they are the only saved of the three yes
SETS. They came down the bay on hatch.
The ! and l. Bryan was bound from
PbfladcIphia for Salem with coal. The
bark Thos. Keller bound from Philadel-
Dnia for London appears to be on the
beach. The bark Atlanta from Ham
burg for Philadelphia and the schooner
Nettio Champio are ashore below the
iron pier.
At 3.80p. m. the storm is still raging
The sea is llp to the tower and everything
on the beach is submerged.
lost AT SEA.
NEW HAVEN, CONN, Sept. II - usI
before the storm broke on Monday after
Doon Rev. G. N. Pegg, George n
Hartford, Jacob Smith and Capt. Dan
craft Of N6rwaIk left that place in
Ioat for Long Island. 1t was blowing
bard ana it Is feared they were lost
Telegrams to Long Island ports have
failed TO find them.
RAILROADS TORN Up.
HIGHLAND BEACH, n j., Sept. II -
The damage here can hardly yet b'
estimated Nearly all buildings owned
NV the Highland Beach ASSOCIATION art
badly injured The track Of the Cen
1raI railroad has been torn up and ral
twisted out of shape. Big stone
placed here last spring as protector
for the track were merely playthinss o
the strong surf, which tossed then
about like so many chunks OF Woou
Between here and Sandy Hook som
two miles of railroad tracks have beer
carried away.
FIFTY LIVES lost.
PHILADELPHIA PA, Sept. IA sDe
cfai 20 Inquirer from Laurel, Del, says
Adviccs from Delaware breakwate
state that it was the most furious storm
known TO the oldest inhabitants. "A
least two score Of vessels are beached
Both wooden pires are washed away
The beach from
EFUCBoTH To LEWES
is strewu with wreckGge. 1t is though
that NJ least fifty liTes were lost. Me
we're seen cluging to the rigglu
of fast breaking vessels frautically yell
iu- for help. The life saving crew weT
raverIass to render assistance. owing
tae fury Of the gale. II was terriol
sight u witness, but no human powe
cuuld save them. Their bodies weT
washed ashore this morning and wer
buried in the sand along the water. IN
loss TO vessel property at the breakWatt
viii reach, if Is thought, s., 600 GOO.