Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-09-18

coming down In tremendous qu0nClG1es ana
doing almost as much damage to the lawns
In 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 feet of water. Some of
the earl 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, N. j.,
says The storm which has demolished
buildings, washed away railroad beds, de-
stroyed bridges and beat down telegraph
wires in 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 a
large gap where number of houses
stood last Monday. Senator Crouse's
beautiful cottage has been destroyed. Or
Charles R1cker's cottage not a vestige
remains. The New Line House was
broken into and wrecked. The Shakes.
peare House is demolished, and Struthers
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 I'M
dermined 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 iseavy surf is regarded as the cause Of
much of the damage. Only one man,
George Sayers is missing: 1t is said that
! during 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 wss carried out into the ocean.
LEwEs, Del, Sept. 14-1n 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
| go persons in all from .twenty-four
| vessels
MONMOUTH BEACH, N. j., Sept. H. 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 Galilee
lost part of it's bulkhead Thursday night.
The sea has torn away a portion of the
bulkheadng of the cottage of John p.
Duncan. The bulkheads OF the summer
homes of Henry Tuck, D. Sackett Moore
and J. A. Scrymster have gone out to sea.
1t will cost fully $3.50, OOO to repair the dam
age at Monmouth beach and Low Moor,
formerly Monmouth beach.
| OEANcocK, Va, Sept; IA The terrible
storm this week did much damage on the
eastern shore Crops were ruined Re-
ports from the Metompkin Hfe-savtng sta
| ton are to the effect that the beach has
been badly washed and that the station ia
in danger OF being swept away. -