Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-12

end of the great ocean pier, and tossed its
foam and spray 200 feet inland. The bluff
has again been damaged and it will cost
fully $4,000 to repair it. All along the
ocean front the surf has undermined the
bluff, and big chunks of dirt are falling
down and being swallowed up by the boil.
ing water. The surf has twisted several oi
the iron piles of the ocean pier out oi
shape and torn off the railing at the sea
end. Many OF the hotel bathing houses
have been demolished and the beach pa.
vilions and cottages have been undermined
and swept away. The ice-houses of the
Eberon Hotel were blown down. Many ol
the cottagers will have to build new bulk
of the town and shrubbery on lawns oi
cottages was torn up by the roots. The
entire lot of new bathing-houses OF
James II. Woolsey, were torn out and
knocked into splinters in the surf.
AT HIGHLAND BEACH.
HIGHLAND BEACH On. j. September 11th
The damage here can hardly yet be esti-
mated. Nearly all of the buildings owned
by the Highland Beach Association are
badly injured. The track of the Central
Railroad has been torn up and the rails
twisted out of shape. Big stones placed
hClC last pictSStiOb luc
track, were merely playings for the strong
surf, which tossed them about like so
many chunks of wood. Between here and
Sandy Hook some two miles of railroad
track have been carried away. Tonight
the sea is threatening to cut still another
inlet into the Shrewsbury river.
sEABRIGHT IN RUINs.
SEABRIGHT (N. J.), September 11th.-Last
night was night of terror here. The cot
tagers were badly frightened by the terrible
surf and the furious wind. The surf thun-
dered away on the east side and on the
west. The water in Shrewsbury river rap
idly overflowed into the streets, flooding
the houses.
The sea cut new inlet through into the
Shrewsbury river north of Seabright, near
where there was an inlet one hundred
years ago, and tearirg 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 topple6 down to
the sea and were torn to pieces. Two
other cottages are badly undermined. and
will probably go over the little bluff
Several others are in dangerous situations.
The sea ran over into the river below the
south end of the 0ctagon House and
toppled over cottage belonging to Squire
Rowland.
The brick walls of the new NJ. E. Church
are mass of ruins, and 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.
This town is cut off from all railroad
travel.
RAGING WORSE THAN EVER.
PHILADELPHIA, September 11th.-Tbe fol-
lowing dispatch, dated Atlantic City, n. j.,
September 10th, via Absecon, n j., has Just
been received here: At11 o'clock the island
is nearly inundated. The severest storm in
twenty-five years is raging. The loss here
will be great. At intervals in the last hour
the velocity of the wind has been at the
rate of sixty-one to sixty-two miles an
hour. The wind still blows from the
north-northeast, with little prospect of
changing.
The chief damage has been along the
beach from the inlet to Longport. Seas
are beating twenty feet high above the in
let pavillonS, and water surrounds the cot
tages on Atlantic avenue. Plumb's,
Smiths and Rogers hotels are in immi-
nent danger of destruction.
There are very few sections of board
walk standing down north of Carolina
avenue. The Seaside Bath. house went
down before a mountainous wave. Jack
sons lighthouses ale nearly all gone. DR.
Vests drug store, Smith & Brady's baths
and other pavilions are all in ruins.
Bews bathing parlors and summer bath
houses are almost a total wreck. The
Windsor Hotel withstood the morning tide,
although the foundations suffered greatly.
Many of the guests of this house have
sought other quarters. The Hotel Brighton
has sustained no loss, although the lawn
is covered with water.
A short distance below the Howard
pier a woman holding child in her arms
was lifted up by the wind and thrown into
the water. Walter Field jumped into the
water and rescued the couple.
Two large boarding houses, the Glad
stone and the Cincinnati, each containing
twenty rooms, were raised from their foun-
dations and crushed like kindling wood
The destruction at LoDgport is great, but
to what extent is unknown now. No
trains for Philadelphia went out on either
road since $50.
All day the residents of the city have
been rowing out to unfortunate tenants of
houses located beyond Baltic avenue and
the main thoroughfara. They had to be
taken from the second story windows.
These people are principally colored and
poor. Several houses have been thrown
from their foundations and are unsafe to
live in. Shortly after nine o'clock the tin
roof of the United States Fire Company
blew of. A portion of it struck the feed
wire of the electric road and threw it on to
the fire alarm wires, causing an electric fire
for several blocks.
HORROR UPON HORROR.
PHELADELPHIA, September l1th-A dis
patch from Laurel del }, says the storm is
the most furious ever known. AT least two
score of vessels have been beached. The
beach from Rehoboth to Lewes is strewn
with wrecks. 1t is thought that at least
fifty lives have been lost Men were seen
clioging to the rigging of fast sinking ves-
sells franticaily yelling for help. The life
saving crew were powerless to render assist
ance, owing to the fury of the gale.
1t was terrible 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
beach.
The loss to vessel property at Break
WAFER Will IeaCL, IL Is tuOuRut, SO,OuO,UVO.
HELPLESS AT SEA.
LEwEs (Del.), September l1th.-The Cap
tain of the tug Argus, coming down the
bay this morning, said there were eight
men in the rigging of a schooner near the
Fourteen-Foot Bank in a very dangerous
position. The Captain being unable to
reach the vessel, came to Breakwater and
endeavored TO get life-saviug crew to
go to their rescue, and offered
to tow their boat up, but the crew were
nearly exhausted by the many hours OF
continuous working. and the Captain of the
station did not feel justified in leaving his
post. The Argus. therefore, returned alone
to the scene of the wreck. Nothing is
known as to the success of the dangerous
undertaking.
1t is reported tonight that other schoon.
ers have gone down, and if it proves true
it will swell the number of deaths.
Two survivors of the wreck of the
schooner J. and l.. Bryan had an expert
ence probably as thrilling as ever occurred
in Delaware bay. The men were tossed
about upon the angry waters all night OH
hatch and drifted ashore this morning
seventeen miles from the scene OF ths
wreck. They suffered terribly.
SWELLING THE LIST.
KEY PoRT IN. J.), September 11th.-Ths
steamer City of Long Branch and a mum,
Der of other vessels have been driven
ashore here, aud will prove wrecks.
MORE AT WILMINGTON.