Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-11
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. EFFECTS OF THE STORM. Many Places On The Coast
 Seriously Damaged. AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. The Coal Re g We'll
 Shaken Up. CRUELTY OF 4 SEA CAPTAIN. Shocking Abuse Of Sailors
 On ShipbOard.
CRUELTY OF A SEA CAPTAIN.
THE STORM AT COMFY IsLAND.H

Great Damage to PrOperty-Frlghtened
 Guests Hurry from the Hotels.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-Those who built their houses upon the sands of Coney Island mourn to-day the loss of property worth 8 quarter of million dollars. Hundreds of the ginger bread pavilions of West Brighton have been destroyed and the beautiful sur roundings of the big hotels at Brighton and Manhattan Beaches have been made scene of desolation. The highways connecting the whole series of resorts from Norton's Point to the Oriental hotel are filtered with wreck age of every description to the depth of several feet. The roads themselves are made impossible by a varied assortment of ob- struotions. The beach for two miles is almost hidden by the remains of high-gabled struc- lures and it's out line is so ebliterated that even an old typographical friend would not of the flood were about the same at the Ori- ental, Manhattan Beach and Briton Beach hotels. The wind kicked the railings of the verandas of all crowded into basements and boiled and seethed about the foundations on every side. The Oriental Hotel was practi- cally an island, and to It's terrified guests seemed in danger of starting on cruise for aC nOchaWhys Auo SIOuuuS dUUuG tuo uO~ tel were badly damaged, the turf being actu- ally rolled up into coils. The bulkheads of piles and rocks were no match against the | power of the waters, and the stones were juggled on the combers like pith balls. The | roadway was torn up in strips, the destruc- | tion being complete.
 West Brighton had its share of the trouble, and every little bathhouse and refreshment stand near the beach was washed from the face of the earth. Herzberg's Casino was cleaned out by the water, and the bar, as | we'll as one side of the verandah, were en- | tirely torn away. The balcony toward the sea was left uncovered, with heaps of lum- Der, mingled with broken chairs, tables, | and bar furniture. Even at low water the surf beat up as far as Leopold's bathhouse, the floats and walks of which were destroyed. The board walks down to Sanders pavilion II Of heavy blanks and stringers was torn to fragments and the ruins were buried in a foot or two of sand. Down on the Bowery the destruction was equally severe. The iron steamboats had been unable to land at the iron pier since Sunday. at Nortons Point. Yesterday all landing was out of the question. All day the gran- deur of the storm attracted many people to the island. From Nerton's Point to the Oriental Hotel the beach was almost lined with people who gazsd with awe and wonder.
 But when the angry waters began to tear uI asphalt walks as though of straw the gueste of the hotel became frightened. Those al the Hotel Brighton, the Manhattan Beach Hotel and the Oriental hurried to theil rooms and hastily packed their clothing and as fast as trains would carry them got away
 At least 250 guests left the Manhattan Beach | Hotel and as many more from the Oriental
 Both the Manhattan and Brighten Beach
 Hotels close at noon to-day, so great has beer the damage by the storm. They were to re.
 main open until September 20.
 The tide wave asserted it's force at Rock
 away Beach with the same energy as at Coney
 Island. At high water the surf came up witl
 tremendous force and frightened people
 from their edge, compelling them to seel | shelter on more elevated points. The guests
 at the Arverne Hotel began to vacate tho
 the hotel was completely surrounded by
 water, and at first stages were used to con-
 vey the guests to places of safety. The tide
 kept rising until. the stages could mol
 longer make trips to the hotel anG
 boats had to be substituted. The guests went
 away hungry, as no meals could be prepared
 in the house, the water having flooded tht
 kitchen and put out the fires. The wind
 blew Q gale from the northeast and wrecked
 bathing houses and other small frame struo
 lures, carrying them out to sea.
 The under-struoture of Patrick Gilmore'
 band pavilion at Coney Island was crushed
 to pieces. The stones of the bulkhead wer,
 distributed over the lawn, while turf ant
 flowers were piled up in unseemly heap
 against the hotel verandas.
 Tonight when high water came arount
 the breakers found naught about the hotel t. destroy except the remnants of the hote | bath houses which the morning floods hat
 spared Gilmore's battery which belonged t,
 his brass band fosted out to sea es if 1t ha,
 been made of cork, between the Manhattan ; and Brighton Beach hotels all roads ant fences being destroyed. The water flooded !. the intervening space 500 yards inland Seidels large concert pavilion had the shing
 les ripped off as neatly as it could have beel by carpenter. The terminns of the Yves Brighton railroad was badly torn up and tn building and track of the New Brighto railway back of the hotel were badly destroy
 ed for 300 yards. The hotel basement suf fered as badly as did that at Msuhatta
 Beach.