Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-09-19
THE STORM GOES ON.

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coast. Tho wind is blowing almost {
hurricane, driving the rain with force
that cuts like hail. A half mile beach
Of sand, between the town and the coast
is now a tossing ocean, bearing wreckage
on every wave. Through the mist Of
spray the battered sails and naked mas,s
Of score of deserted and dismantlrd
vessels are dimly seen.
Since Monday night the storm hns
ragged without abatement. Yesterdays
dawn showed q hundred vessels which
had sought the refuge Of the breakwater,
The refuge was insufficient, and by II
clock the sea broke over the breakwater,
wrecked the telegraph station, carried
away the fog bell, and rushed shoreward,
sweeping away the steamboat pier. The
piers of Brown Il Co., and Lace Bros,
gave away and were swept to sea. The
United States marine hospital was dashed
from it's moorings and sent spinning
down the beach. The Jones life saving
station. forty feet above high water mark
was flooded and its foundation under
mined.
Hugheyville, subcrb between the
town and the beach, is submerged, and
its two hundred inhabitants fed for their
lives, leaving all their possessions behind.
The first boat came ashore at nine Il.
M, then came another and another.
The litesavins crew was reinforced by
the Henlopen and the Rehoboth crews.
They 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.
In all, twenty.seven vessels came
ashore here.
A vessel was sunk off Brown shoals,
and all the crew drowned but two who
got ashore on a raft. Another vessel
was sunk on Shears shoals. 1t is not
known whether the crew escaped.
The total number Of lives lost will
probably exceed forty. Five Of the eight
men who composed the crew Of the Il.
and L. Bryan, persisted where the vessel
struck on Brandqurne shoals. The mate
and two seamen caught spar and drif,ed
all night. At daybreak the others were
discovered. One of the sailors dead
bodies was still lashcd..to spar. Two
survivors were picked up by tug and
brought ashore.
There is great concern over the crew Of
the pilot beat Ebe Tulnell. She put to
sea Monday and has not been heard Of
yet. Pilots John Barnes, Lewis Bert
rand, James Romland ard Berry Kick
man and crew of eight men were on
board.
The New Jersey pilot boat, Edmund
Blown, is across the bay on the Jersey
coast with sails in tatters.
An unknown schooner is ashore at
Rchobots, and the coast for miles down
is reported strewn with wrecks.
Three echooners are lost outside the
capes. A colored man and German
having come ashore as survivors from the
wrecks. They we're on raft from S
p. NJ, Monday to ga. IN, yesterday.
The other fifteen who composed the
crews OF these schocners are given up for
lost.
There has been no communication
with Longport, and great anxiety is felt
for the safety Of the residents.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.--The signal
officer says there viii be no let up in the
storm for the next twepty-four hours
It is still general Of the cast coast o:
Virginia the wind has diminished to the
south, but remains high along the coast
1t had velocity OF thirty one miles in
The city this morning at Block island
forty two, Philadelphia thirty, Boston
lwenty-one.
The rain continues from Norfolk to
Boston. II is the heaviest rainfall tbs
country has ever experienced. In New
ork the downpour for the twenty four
hours ending at 8 A. NJ, to day is 2 46
inches.
The damage suffered by shipping is
'ery severe. Shipping news is very
lifficult to obtain. as all telegraph com.
uunication with Quarantine and Sandy
look is cut of.
The gales last night drove all Incoming
essels off the coast. Several days may
lapse before they return. Vessels in
ort bear evidence Of the storm in the
,ss Of calls and rigging.
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The many old friends of Hon. S. S.
'enn, Of Idaho county, will be panied to
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