Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-03-22
STORM SWEPT.
Ruin and DesolatiOn Wrought BY
Waves at Atlantic City.
THE BIG ELEPHANT WRECKED.

The Most Destructive storm Ever known
at the Popular summer Resort-Neu
England's Coast swept by Gales and
Commerce Impeded.
ATLANTIC CITY, March 22.-Again has
that dread combination. wind and tide,
spread wholesale destruction along the
beach front. The waves for the past two
days have been steadily undermining the
buildings on the inner side of the board
walk, particularly at the lower end, from
Michigan avenue down, and when the
terrible food tide and waves struck them
they collapsed in numbers. Imagine
whole row of one to three story frame
buildings being thrown seawards in a
mass of indescribable ruins, the waves
dashing among the timbers with hiss.
ing, ominous roar, sending up clouds of
spray and occasionally drenching the
shivering spectators, and one will have
some idea of the scene witnessed between
Mississippi and Georgia avenues at noon,
when the highest tide ever known here
was at its flood
ON between Georgia and Florida ave-
nues, and from Mississippi up to Michi-
gan. To use the words Of a boarC walk
fakir who lost his all: sThe tide OF Nov.
30 wasn't marker to this one.
A corn doctor named Professor Jones,
who owns small shanty, was in bed
when the waves struck his place and
demolished it. He was thrown with
stunning force among the debris and had
a miraculous escape. Three families at
the same time hardly succeeded IN
making their exit through the rear doors
when their houses succumbed to the
waves. All these people felt secure in
the belief that as their buildings stood
the storm of Nov. % they would pull
through safely this time
Not whole plank of the boardwalk
remains from Mississippi avenue up tc
Michigan. What is left of Bowker's pa
vilion is completely isolated. Ewald's
photograph gallery Is wrecked, Bowker's
Commercial house has fallen over sea-
wards, Leedom's pavilion, William A..
Lee & Sons bath houses and pavilions,
the end of the switchback road and a
large section of the pavilion in front of
the Seaview property are all piled up in
ruins. Doyle's and Guvernator's bath
houses and other buildings are either en-
tirely gone or in a condition of danger
Gus uncertainty. The Fortescue beach
property is torn and twisted beyond
recognition; so are George Robinson S
bath houses just above.
AL along the beach, and for fully 800
feet up the ocean avenues, debris is strewn
on all sides, while down at the lower end
II Is piled up at some points to height OF
ten feet.
Down at South Atlantic City the tide
has swept around the houses with alarm
Ing force, and the few inhabitants are in
10 state of terrible suspense. The mann
mouth elephant has been undermined, and
no hope is entertained of saving it. At
last reports it had taken decided lurch
seawards. and is now probably taking a
bath.
PHILADELPHIA, March c2.-The West
Jersey express train from Atlantic City
came into Camden three-quarters of an
hour late. The passengers reported that
the meadows below AbsecOn were again
flooded, and in many places the West
Jersey and Camden and Atlantic tracks
were under water. The wind and the
tide are blowing vast quantities of
meadow grass up ON the Camden and At
lanfic tracks, and force of men has to
be kept almost constantly at work with
forks and rake5 clearing off the grass so
that trains can pass. Trains come up
from Cape May and Sea Isle City on the
West Jersey railroad on time, but the
railroad between Sea Isle City and Ocean
City was reported badly washed out, and
communication was cut of.