St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-11
undergraduates
They Wash Away Ginger
bread Houses and Hotels
at Coney Island.
Wreekage Of Every Deserip-
tion Litteps the Once
Beautiful Beach.
The InSurreeti0n of the Sea
Does Millions of Dollars
Damage.
So Far Not a Life Has Been
Lost by the Great
Storm.

New YORK, Sept. 11.-Those who built
houses upon the sands of Coney Island
mourn to-day the loss of property worth
about quarter OF million of dollars. Hun
dreds Of the gingerbread payilions Of West
Brighton have been destroyed, and the beau
tfful surroundings of the big hotels at
Brighton and Manhattan beaches have been
Wade scene of desolation. The highways
connecting the whole series OF resorts from
Norton's Point to the Oriental hotel are lit
tered with wreckage of every description
to the depth of several feet. The
roads themselves are made impossible
by a varied assortment of distractions,
ranging from a six-foot washout to
the wreck of a whale boat. The beach for
two miles is almost hidden by the remains
of high gabled structures, and its outline is
so obliterated that even all old typographical
friend wonld not recognize its features
Brighton Beach race track might now be
leased to advantage to the New York Yacht
Racing association. as it hold plenty of water
for the draught of thirty foot cutter. In
spite of the
INsURREcTIoN OF THE SEA
no life has been lost though many were in
peril. The stiffened corpse of one poor sailor,
half-buried in the sand, was picked up on
West Brighton beach, but the body was the
returned prey of Sunday storm swept ashore
by the tidal wave. The first attack of the
abnormal surf was made yesterday morning
at high tide. though since Sunday the
food tide has come higher and higher each
period. 1t was high water at Brighton Beach
yesterday at 8 a. m. The enormous billows,
which had grown in height all night, then
spent themselves almost at the very sills OF
the Brighton Beach hotel. At the same
over the concourse, and pouring in
land, had found an inletinto Brighton Beach
race track. In stream twenty feet i'll width
the water swept into the Enclosure. trans
forming the whole course into a lake. The
trainers and stablemen had been unprepared
for such a phenomenon, and the attack
came so suddenly that the build
ings were crumbling almost before the
scores of horses could be taken to place of
safety. As it was most Of the animals were
simply cut loose, and those last liberated had
to swim out of the newly created pond as
best they could. The general
EFFECTS OF THE FLOOD
were about the same at the Oriental, Man.
haitian Beach and Brighton Beach hotels.
The waves licked the ratings of the veran-
das of all. crowded into the Easements, and
boiled and seethed about the foundations on
every side. The Oriental hotel was prac-
tically an island, and to its terrified guests
seemed in danger of starting on cruise
for Far Rockaway. The iron steamboats,
had been unable to land at the iron pier
since Sunday, but had made several lands at
Ou IcStorudy
landing was out of the question. The most
distressing circumstance of yesterdays
storm, as observed at Coney Island,
was the stranding of schooner about
a mile off Manhattan Beach, toward
Far Rockaway. The vessel could be dimly
seen through the midst, and was in great
trouble. She was too far out to be rendered
any assistance, and the shades of night
veiled her fate from the eyes of hundreds of
sympathizing observers All day the grand
eur and ferocity of the storm attracted many
people to the island. From Nortons Poin
to the Oriental hotel the beach was almos
lined with people, who gazed with awe and
wonder at the enormous white tipped waves.
But when the angry waters began to tear up
the asphalt walks the guests of the
hotels became frightened. Those at
the Hotel Brighton, the Manhattan
Beach hotel and the Oriental hurried to
their rooms and hastily packed their cloth
ing. and, as fast as trains would carry them,
got away from the rush and the roar of the
waves. At least $50 guests left Manhattan,
and as many more from the Oriental and
Brighton. Both the Manhattan and the
Brighton Beach hotels close at noon to-day,
so great has been the damage by the storm.
They were to remain open until Sept. 80.