Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-12

we're carried away today on the steamers
they were directing outward. They could
not meet any pilot boats to take them off
on account of the storm.
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
PHILADELPHIA, September ia dis.
patch from Laurel, Del. says the storm
WAS the most furious ever known. at
least two score of vessels have been
beached. The beach from Rehboth to
Lewes is strewn with wrecks. It 10
thought at least fifty lives have been
lost. Men were seen clinging to the rig
ging OF the fast sinking vessels, frantically
yelling for help. The life-saving crew
| were powerless to render assistance, ow-
ing to the fury of the gale. 1t was ter
rible sight to witness, but no human
power could save them. Their bodies
were washed ashore this morning and
were buried in the sand along the water.
The loss to vessels and property at the
break water will reach, it is thought,
s. 900, 900.
DESTRUCTION AT LONG BRANCH.
LONG BRANCH, N. j., September H.
This is the most severe and damaging
storm which visited this section of the
New Jersey coast in the last fifty years.
The surf ran 80 high that it washed the
outer end OF the great ocean pier, and
tossed its foam and spray two hundred
feet inland. The bluff has again been
badly damaged, and it will cost fully
$4,000 to repair it. All along
the ocean front the surf has
| undermined the bluff, and to-
night b Jig chunks of dirt are falling
down and being swallowed up by the
boiling water. The surf has twisted
several of the iron p lies of the ocean pier
out of shape, and torn off the railing at
the sea end. Many of the hotel bathing
houses have been demolished and the
| beach pavilions of this cottagers have
been undermined and swept away. The
ice houses of the Elberon hotel we're
blown down. Many of tho cottagers will
have. to build new bulkheads. Trees
| were blown down in all parts of town,
and the shrubbery on the lawns of the
| cottages was torn up by the roots. The
| entire lot of the new bathing houses of
James II. Woolley were torn out and
Knocked into splinters in the surf.
DAMAGE TO HIGHLAND BEACH.
HIGHLAND BEACH, N. j., September
1.-The damage can hardly yet be
estimated. Nearly all the buildings
owned by the Highland Beach AS
ISOLATION are badly injured. The
track of the Central railroad has
been torn up and the rails twisted out of
shape. The big stones placed here last
spring as protection for the track were
merely plaything of the strong surf,
which tossed them about like go many
chunks of wood. Between here and
Sandy Hook, some two miles OF railroad
track has been carried away. Tonight
the sea Is threatening to cut still another
inlet into Shrewsbury river.
NIGHT OF TERROR.
SEABRIGHr, N. j., September IL
Last night was a night of terror here.
The cottagers were badly frightened by
the terrible surf and furious wind. The
surf thuadered away on the east side,
and on the west the water in the
Shrewsbury river rapidly overfowed into
the street, flooding the houses and stores.
Tne sea cut new inlet through into the
Shrewsbury river, north of Seabright,
near where there was an inlet
l0O years ago, tearing away the Sandy
Hook tracks of the Central railroad, and
again making Sandy Hook an island.
Two cottages at Lownoor were under.
mined by the surf. They toppled down
to the sea and were torn to pieces. Two
other cottages are badly damaged and
will probably 60 over the little bluff.
Several others are in dangerous
situation. The sea ran over into
the river below the south end of
the Octagon House, and toppled over
the cottage belonging to Squire How
land. The brick walls of the M. E.
church are mass of ruine. The beach
is strewn with debris of all kinds,
Several bodies have been seen floating
in the surf, but no one could recover
them. All the cottagers north of here
have vacated their homes and are at the
hotels here and at Red Bank and
Long Branch. The town is cut off from
all railroad travel.
EXPERIENCE OF SHIPS AT SEA.
New YORK, September 1.-THE new
Morgan line steamer Elmar completed
her first round trip today from New Or
leans. The officers gave out tonight the
full story of how the vessel weathered
the big blow. The storm struck her on
Monday night, about a mile north of
Cape Hatteras. From that time until
she almost reached Sandy Hook, she
steamed in the teeth of a most
terrific storm. Heavy waves dashed
the sides of the steamer and
broke clear to the tops of her smoke
stacks, which stand forty-fve feet out of
the water. The smokestacks looked like
gigantic frosted cakes as she came into
harbor. They were covered with salt.
Captain Portion and First Officer Benson
stated that the storm was the most ter
rifle enc they witnessed during the past
fourteen years. At times they could not
see the ships length. The Guion
steamer Wisconsin, from Liverpool, that
came in today reported a similar exper-
fence.
ALL NATURE CONVULsED.
The Atlantic storm Felt in Yellow