New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-11
IN THE NEARBY CITIES.
BROOKLYN ESCAPES WITH LITTLE DAMAGE.
OTHER PLACES NOT so FoRTUNATE-Loss OF
PROPERTY ALONG THE SHORES OF STATEN


PROPERTY ALONG THE SHORES OF STATEN
ISLAND, NEWARK BAY AND JERSEY CITY
The high wind did little damage in Brooklyn
yesterday save blowing down trees. The tide was
Extraordinarily high but few houses are near
the water front little harm was done. In the
Wallabout Basin it was higher than any water
mark made revsously. Difhculty was On
pericnced in keeping vessels of the wharves ana
ferryboats had some trouble in landing at the top
of the tide A large tree was blown over ana
fell upon the tracks of the Kings County elevated
road nelr Troy-ave. and FultOn-st. Trains were
DELAYED twenty minutes while IL was being re-
moved.
niece of lin roof blew off of No l II Baltic-st,
and strucl, John Manson age five on the head
causing severe injury. Many telegraph and tele-
phone wires were blown down.
In Fort Greene Place an a!lantus tree, fully
foot and half in diameter at its base, was blown
down in the early morning with q terrific crash
II fell against the house occupied by Barlow
Richards and crushed the handsome bauStrade
TO the high stone stoop, and did other damage
amounting altogether l. about 800. Almost at
the same time a large tree at Hanson and South
Elliott Place fell the sidewalk AID cracked
several stone flags.
veritable little tornado swooped down upon
Flatbush L. l.. about 3 n. m. yesterday and tore
of so many limbs, large and small from the thclIY
planted shade trees Of that handsome suburb that
people going to business in the morning had 10
pick their way over and around the fallen " brush
every few steps. So large tree-tOp fell across
the tracks of the Flotbushave. street railway, a
few rods beyond the Brooklyn city line that work
men had to saw it in pieces remove it before the
1 p,,,ar pafu mo N
his home in Iiawthorne-st. in the early hours OF
the morning, while the wind was raging furioasly.
heard an omnous rending over his head. This
was instantly followed by shower OF cutting
blows over his head and shoulders, as if the
White Caps had been afte= him with their famous
hickory rods He had been struck by the thin
branches of a great limb as thick as a mans arm
and fifteen feet long, that had been twisted OIL
by the wind and had fallen Just behind him.
HAVOC on THE JERSEY CITY SHORE
The storm caused considerable havoc along the
New-Yorl Bay and North River water front from
Greenyillc TO Weehawken The tide was higher
than the oldest inhabitant remembers having
seen, the wafer in some places reaching up to the
middle Of freight and oil cars standing on the
track. A similar condition of affairs existed all
along the shore front The DauntlcSs Yacht
Clubs float and gangway and NelhOff's bath
houses were washed away. but "A number OF men
in boats towrd them back and anchored them. y
cabin yacht lying oil Murphy S Doat-house became
wateTiogged and sunk. Another YACHT was torn
away from her anchorage between the Jersey City
and PaVOnia Yacht Club houses and was wrecked
on Black Tom Island. Two tall smokestacks
at the New-NOrk and Chicago Chemical Works in
Lafayette were blown down. All the cellars in
the lower part Of Jersey City were Hooded, the
tide backing up through the sewers as far as the
City Prison, which is five blocks back from The
Inn IL nh no riCnp
had to be removed to the detention room upstairs
until the water Tcceded.
At the steamship piers the big ships were
high above the docks that the work of loading
and unloading them had 10 be stopped The
schooner Julia Rogers anchored of the West Shore
ferry. broke from her moorngs and was dashed
a hole stove in her side. She finally Grfted on
the mud fats. 1t is impossible as yet u estimate
the damage done by the storm.
STATEN ISLAND GETS ITS SHARE
South Beach and the shores along Tompllins-
Vile, Stapleton and Clifton were mpletey sub
merged, and wrecllage thrown at considerable
distance upon the land beyond higE-watcr mark
At the South Beach Hotel the sea flooded the
barroom and washed away the piazza and plank
walks The piazza of the Widow Miller's Hotel
and that Ct Charles Walncckes pavilion were
also swept away. pavilion kept by Mrs. De
Borne a widow WAS completely wrecked. The
hotel of Theodore Memers was badly flooded and
partially undermined. Many lighthouses and
small wooden structures carried away. 1t
Is estimated that the damage at South Beach will
reach 81 5000.
The docks along the east shore of Staten Is
land were submerged, and c. c. EDDY IL Sons
lumber wharf at Stapleoon, on which were
10000 bricks, was completely wrecked. Two
loaded coal barges lying alongside Of Halls coal
yard sunk at their moOrings at Stapleton. The
old ferry landing at Stapleton was partly swept
away, and the floating bath owned by n stock com
pany and moored at Bechtel's dock was swamped
and will prove total wreck. Munford's lumber
yard was also submerged and several thousand
feet OF lumber carried ont into the bay. The
handsome club house of the Clifton Boat Club.
fronting on the bay at Clifton. narrowly escaped
destruction
LUMBER WASTED AT ELJzABETHPoRT.
The tide when at its height washed over the
Newark Bay bridge of the Central and swept over
the lower parts of the coal wharves at Elizabeth