Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-12
THE GREAT STORM.

THE GREAT STORM. | Startling Reports. From Various Points Along she Coast-0ceaR City Largely . Sufferer.
 ! SALISBURY, Md, Sept. 11.-Reports of a startling character are coming in of the storm at Ocean City, Md, though the tele- graph office there is unoooupied. The large columns supporting the porches at the oot- tages and hotels are washed away, the doors and windows were broken and the furniture is floating about the beach. The seas last night were breaking to the second story of the Atlantic Hotel and Congress Hall aud huge waves were running through the hotels six feet deep. The furniture is floating in the rooms. The dancing pavilion at the At. laatis Hotel is demolished and the roofs of several cottages, and the porches, are blown away. There is not a vestsge of a bath house on the beach. The saving station was damaged and the crew were preparing to desert it lfst night.
 A special train was sent over last night to rescue the dwellsrs on the beach. The work was accomplished by large number of stout men joining hands and wading through the water waist deep. They brought the ladies
 
 hands. In this way all were saved. 1t was perilous undertaking and several times the reseuers were knocked down. MT. Stockes, one of the rescuers, was washed out to sea, but an incoming wave threw him back toward the beach and he was saved. The last oceu- pants of the beach who left last night expect ed that all the cottages and portions of the hotels would be swept away. The damage amounts to thousands of dollars.
 PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11.-Superintenden Dayton of the West Jersey and Camden and Atlantic railroad companies was seen to- night at his office in Camden by an Associat- ed Press representative and he was able to tion of affairs at Atlantic City. When the tide receded this afternoon gangs of men made their way from Pleasantville almost in- to Atlantic City over the Camden and Allan tic railroad, which is the older and more sol- idly built line. Photographic communication was at the same time established to within short distance of the water-bound oity, and the reports received showed that place to be in much better shape than had been antici- pated. Wild rumors had gained circulation hero to the effect that conhagratien wes raging there. Mr. Dayton is informed that half dozen shanties on the beach near Georgia avenue, situated at the extreme end of the island, were destroyed by fire last night late or early this morning. The report Ol Iu0 OOmOllblOA OI bu0 DOdId Wnlk IS CUB. frmed, and the booths, pavilions and places of amusement located thereon were likewise destroyed. No other serious damage to property is reported, and 1t is stated that there was no loss of life. A despatch says: ''Even the Shelbourne Hotel was not dam aged to any great extent" As the Shelbourne ! Is one of the most exposed houses at Atlantic City this serves to indicate that the damage cannot be very great Superintendent Dayton | fhera Id hnk hfcy xvpahe0t m, 1 the Camden and Atlantic road between Pleesantville and Atlantic City and as large force of workmsn are there it is expected ! that this break will be closed in four or five ! hours. MT. Dayton declares that he will be able to run trains over the route to Atlantic 1 City to morrow morning unle-s the coming ! high tide, which is due after midnight, in- l rather remote, as the wind is reported to have | shifted toward the northwest, which will have ] the effect of keeping the water down, On the West Jersey road the situation Is | more serious, and it will be three days at leat ! before trains can be run over it between PlessantvilIe and Atlantio City. The Read | ing railroad is elso said to be i1 bad shape, ! and come time must elarse before trains can be run, but with the Camden and Atlantic in ! proper condition Atlantic City will be once | more able to communicate with the outside ! world. An attempt wes made this afternoon l to run 8 steamer from Somer's Point to Att lantic City, but owing to the forcs of wind and wave the attempt had to be abandoned. The railroad people will try again tomorrow to get th.s steamer over, and she will be utilized in transferring to Atlantic City the people at places along the ocean front south of there, who hays been cut of by the wfsh- ing away of the railroad track.
 Communication wfs also had indirectly this afternoon with Sea Isle City. Postmes- ' &1,>k, Ho hSo kp x6n mainland and reports things in very bad shape there. The sea wall which was built to protect the place from the sea has been destroyed. About fifteen house. have been
 washed away, including the Newland Houss,
 the Star House and the Shakespeare Hotel
 most imr or:ant Hotel there, is all
 right. The Excr-aion Horse, which is directly on the ocean font, and the Surf House are said by MT. Chester to be in danger of destruction to. night He does not report any loss of life. The Townsend Inlet bridge, Q very important stl dcture and one that it will be hard to replace, ss rep orted to have been
 washed away.
 No accurate estimate of the damage to the railroad tracks csn be made by the officials,
 owing to the nea2.e tele2raphio facilities ! available, but it Is known that many miles
 have been carried away and that weeks will !
 were before the storm.
 LONG ISLAND C1rY, Sept. 1.-The after
 noon tide on the nor 3h shore of Long Island
 was higher than at Rookaway, Long Beach or Oak Island. Large numbers of sightseera
 have visited the beaches to day to view the roaring surf.
 LONG BRANCH, N. J., Sept. 1.-The storm
 ,s the most severe and damaging which has
 visited this ssotion of the New Jersey sea-
 coast in the last fifty years. Here the surf
 ran so high that it washed the outer end of
 the great ocean pier. The bluff hes been
 badly damaged and it will cost fully $175, coo
 to repair 1t.
 SEA BRIGHT, N. J., Sept. 11.-Lsst night
 WEI a night of terror here. The cottagers
 were badly frightened by the terrible surf
 and the furious w.nd. The water in the
 Shrewsbury liver rapidly oveIfowed into the streets, flooding the houses and stores. The
 sea out g new inlet through into the Shrews-
 bury liver, nor sh of Sea Bright, near where
 there wes an inlet one hundred years ago
 tearing away the Sandy Hook tracks of the
 Central railroad and again making Sandy
 Hook an island.
 The cottages of George Bladen and A. F
 Carpenter at Lowmoore were undermined by
 the surf and toppled down into the sea sni
 were torn to pieces. The cottages of William
 A. Street and Colonel w. L. Strong were
 badly undermined and will probably go ovel
 the little bluff. The cottages of Dr. E. R | Tubbs and John Milton Cornell are in . dan gerous situation. The sea ran over into thu ], river below the south end of the Oetagor