River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-09-19
THE STORM ABATES.


Rain and Wind on the Atlantic Coast
Easing Up-Belated Vessels Arrive and
Report Terrible Experiences More
Stories of Havoc.
NEW YORK, Sept lathe league of the
wind, rain and waves parted company in
this vicinity Friday, and the fve-day
steady down-pour of water came to an end.
News of disaster along the coast still
continues to come in, and but scant
particulars can be had The fog
which has eEveloped the lower bay
for the last few days is clearing
away. and the long-delayec steamships are
beginning 10 come in. Captain Mckee, OF
the Clyde Line steamer Yermasse which
arrived Friday. reports that during the
storm northeast of the Sandy Hook light
ship he picked up in the water Captain P.
A. Bull, wife, two children and fourteen
of the crew Of the bark Abby Cass, oil
laden, and bound TO Copehagen. The bark
had become disabled by the storm. and was
abandoned in a sinking condition by her
captain and crew Much anxiety is felt for
the residents OF Barnegat City, from which
no tdiugs have been received since Mon
day. Its situation is low and much exposed,
and 1t must have borne the brunt OF the
storm. The sea is still too heavy to reach
there, and there is no communication by
telegraph
The United States cruiser Atlanta. about
which some anxiety has been felt, arrived
at Newport Friday morning She left New
York Monday morning and went outside
Sandy Hook When the storm became
serious she hove TO and had been lying at
a safe distance off shore. land having been
sighted only once since Tuesday. The war
ship weathered the hurricane without dam
ger. She took some seas and was pretty
wet, but behaved admirably, surprising the
officers themselves. The wind was so
strong and sea so high that sometimes for
several hours not an inch of progress could
be made with six boilers going. Old sea
men on board said she did splendidly I'M
der the circumstances, and rode the seas
with remarkable ease.
Incoming vessels report unusually rough
weather at sea, and many of them have
suffered considerably. All the overdue
European steamer are crowded with sea-
sick foreigners. The Cromwell line steam
er KnickerDocker, due here on Tuesday,
arrived Friday morning after a dangerous
voyage. So heavy was the storm ON Tues
day that many on board feared the vessel
would founder. Several of the crew and
passengers were injured by the careening
of the vessel
CoSET ISLAND. l. L, Sept 14-Shortly
after midnight Thursday there was a cloud
burst directly over the island, the water
coming down in tremendous quantities and
doing almost as much damage TO the lawns
I'm the rear of the big hotels as the waves
had done in front 1t swelled the many lakes
that have been made all over the island.
and many of the houses and all the small
hotels were completely surrounded with
from three to five feeU of water. Some of
the early risers had secured boats and were
rowing around picking up boxes, barrels,
etc that were floating about. The cloud
burst did considerable damage to the
Brighton Beach. Manhattan Beach and
Oriental Hotels Sheepshead bay has been
greatly swollen by the cloud-bursts and
heavy tides and has flowed over.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept IA special to the
Public Ledger from Sea Isle City, y. J.,
SAYS: The storm which has demolished
buildings, washed away railroad beds, de-
stroyed bridg 70 and beat down telegraph
wires in a way never before experienced
here shows no signs of abatement
The sea wall, from which so much was
expected, has been washed away. and the
sand piles which extended along the beach
like a series of bulwarks have been lev
eled by the heavy waves Just south
OF the Continental Hotel there is
large gap where a number of houses
stood last Monday. Senator CrOuse's
beautiful cottage has been destroyed. OF
Charles RIcker's cottage not a vestige
remains The New Line House was
broken into and wrecked The Shakes
peare House is demolished, and Struther's
Hotel is badly wrecked Back of the
Continental Hotel a new house in course
of construction was turned completely
around The cottage OF Henry l. Thomas
was entirely wrecked The house of Ed
ward W Crullen, of Philadelphia, was un-
dsrmined The railroad track which con-
meets Sea Isle City with Ocean City is de-
stroyed The lighthouse at the north end
of the island was tilted, and has been
abandoned by the keeper and his family.
The failure of the sea wall to withstand
the eavy surf is regarded as the cause of
much of the damage. Only one man,
George Savers, is missing. 1t is said that
duriag the height of the storm he saw
that his yacht was in danger of going to
sea He jumped aboard the vessel to save
it. and Yves carried out into the ocean
LEwEs, Del, Sept 14.-In addition to the
loss of life previously reported news comes
of the wreck of the schooner W. o. Snow
of Taunton, Mass, from Philadelphia, coal
laden. with the loss of nine persons. This
raises the total loss of life TO thirty one.
The crew of the barge COsilda, from Phila-
delphia for Boston, loaded with coal,
which was wrecked on Brandywine shoal,
were taken off by a schooner and landed
here These men were given up as lost.
The life-saving crews have rescued about
2OO persons in all from twenty-four
vessels.
MONMOUTH BEACH \. j., Sept IA Thou
sands of persons came here Friday to see
what damage had been wrought by the
storm They walked over the piles OF
debris in Ocean avenue, trampled down
the lawns of the cottages and searched
with great industry amid the ruins
of cottages for relics OF the great
storm. Big gangs of men were at
work removing furniture from some
of the cottages and bracing up the
twisted and shattered bulkheads The
Episcopal Church OF st Peters in Galflee
lost part IF its bulkhead Thursday night
The sea has torn away portion of the
bulkheading of the cottage of John p.
Duncan The balkheads Of the summer
homes OF Henry Tuck. ID Sackett Moore
and j. A Scrymster have gone out to sea.
1t will cost fully $50, coo to repair the dam
age at Monmouth beach and Low Moor,
formerly Monmouth beach,
ONANCocK, Va. sept 1.-the terrible
storm this week did much damage on the
eastern shore. Crops were ruined Re
ports from the Mctompkin life-saving sta
ton are to the effect that the beach has
been badly washed and that the station Is
in d4nuer of beiuC elypDf away