Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-09-13
Te|egTaphic Tidings
FEARFUL STORMS.
Unprecedented Disaster Among Atlantic
Coast ResoTts-Panic Stricken
People.

LEwEs, Del, Sept. 13.-No Ian suage ca
picture the terrible scene along the coast
The wind continued yesterday, blowin
almost hurricane and driving the rail
with force that cut like hail. Half
mile of the beach of sand between tn
town and coast is still tossing ocean
bearing wreckage on every wave. Through
the mist OF spray caused by the storm
the tattered sails and naked masts of {
score of deserted and dismantled vessels
are dimly seen.
| Yesterdays dawn showed hundreds o
vessels which had sought the refuge o.
the breakwater. This haven of refuge
was insufficient and the sea broke over il
and wrecked the telegraph station, carried
away the big fog bell and rushed shore.
ward, sweeping away the steamboat pier.
The piers of Brown 4 Co. and Lane Bros.
gave way and were swept to sea. The
United States marine hospital was dashed
from its moorings and sent spinning down
the beach. Jones life saving station,
forty feet above the high water mark, was
flooded and the foundation undermined.
Hugheyville, suburb between the town
and beach, was submerged and its 200
inhabitants fled for their lives, leaving
all their possessions behind. The first
boat came ashore at 8 o'clock yesterday
morning, then another and another. The
life saving crew, reinforced by the Hen
loper and Rehoboth crews, went to work
and have labored almost increasingly ever
since. The crews on every vessel that
struck were taken off by these daring men
and not a life was lost among the scores
OF men handled. In all twenty-seven
vessels came ashore here. A vessel was
sunk off Broan shoals and all of the crew
drowned but two who got ashore on q
raft. Another vessel is ashore ut Shears
shoals, but it is not known whether the
crew escaped. The total number of lives
lost will probably exceed forty. Five OF
eight men who composed the crew OF the
+. & l.. Bryan perished where the vessel
struck on Brandywine shoals.
There were many exciting scenes dur
ing the storm. Summer visitors became
panic striken and rushed half clad from
the hotels to the railroad depots, tumbled
pell nell into the cars and forced the
train men to make up the trains. Finally
four train loads were made up with To-
at the front and rear, and
started to the main line. They went
slowly, for the water was several feet deep
over the track and the waves dashed
against the car windows, smashing them
and drenching the occupants. Finally it
became evident that the mainland could
not be reached, and the trains started
back. They had only gone short dis
lance when the fires of the locomotives
were extinguished and the trains brought
10 standstill in the midst of the raging
waters. The scene was indescribable un-
i'll the relief engines finally arrived and
succeeded with great difficulty in dragging
he trains to place OF safety.
Salisbury, Md.-Reports of startling
'haracter are coming in of the storm at
Ocean City, Nd, though the telegraph
office there is unoccupied. The large
columns supporting the porches at the
hotels and cottages are washed away. |
Doors and windows are broken down and |
urniture is floating about the place. Seas
we're breaking to the second story of the
Atlantic hotel and congress hall, and
huge waves were Raining through the
hotels six feet deep. The furniture is
ioating in the rooms. There is not a
,estige of bath house on the beach.
The life saving station was damaged and
he crew was preparing to desert it last
hight. A special train was sent over to
escue the dwellers ON the beach. The
work was accomplished by large mum.
,er of stout men joining hands and
yading through the water waist deep.
They brought the ladies to the cars one
~ one. In this way all were saved. 1t
vas a perilous undertaking and several
lines the rescuers were knocked down.
Mr. Stokes, one of the rescuers, was
Washed out to sea, but an incoming wave
hrew him back toward the beach and he
yas saved.
Five sections OF train loaded with peo-
lie left here for the main. land yesterday
The water was still so high
hat it almost reached the fires in the en-.
zines. Fifteen thousand people will leave
lere to-day or tomorrow.
Asbury Park, N. 1.-THE storm is still
aging heavily along the coast. At 10
''clock rain was falling and the wind
owing big guns. |
New York, Sept. 12.-The storm is still
aging with increased violence along the
over Hudson. The corn and buckwheat
rops have been laid fiat and ruined.
fruit trees suffer great damage.
Atlantic City.-It will take month for
his city to recover from the loss the
torn caused. The beech tides have not
'een large to-day, and consequently were
by much damage. The
meadows are still three or four feet under
rater.
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