Smyrna times., 1889-09-18
The Great Storm Last Week.

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from Monday to Friday, if not the
most violent of recent years. has been
certainly one of the most destructive
The loss of property ell along shore
from Cape May to Coney Island. will
loot up in very large figures. The
railroad companies and the owners and
managers of summer hotels have sns-
talned heavy losses and the havoc has
put a sudden end to a season that has
not been particularly profitable.
ms Is one of those misfortunes over
Whlch there is no use of repining. In
Vestments in seashOre property neces-
sarily involve some risk. The wind
ana the waves are beyond human con-
troll and if we cannot keep out of their
reach we have simply to accept what
laIe they bring and try again.
In delaware Bay the storm was par.
tlcularly severe. and the waves broke
the shore from Lewes to the northern
most part of the bay, causing much
loss and causing a wild scene of
! desolatiOn.
commencing at Kits Hammock
Where the summer cottages of the
Dover people were washed awav. the
damage was more and mOrs until
LeWes was reached. At Bowers the
tlde ran over the beach in a perf.ct
hood, and fiOated away all movable
property. Along the beach from there
10 the MlspllliOn, the same condition
prevailed. The large crab pens of
James Il. Smith were washed awav
and millions Of dry crabs ready for the
1ertlllzing mill were strewn for ten
miles along the shore.
AT Cedar Beach the sea made a clean
sweep carrying away the pier and
the pavilion. The fishing shanty of !.
Lowery was undermined and Turned
around, and the water poured over the
beach foot deep.
Al Slaughter Beach the full force of
the gale was felt and the high shore at
that point was not sufficient to stav
the flood. The wind blew strong men
who attempted to walk the beach on
tuesday night to assist wreck ed vessels.
hat on the sand. At an early hour on
Tuesday the three. mast schooner Orrie
V. Diskoe, of Maine, of 3O5 tons car.
penter's measure, come on the beach
where she now lays high and drv at
low water and in good condition. The
Belle OF Dover came ashore shorty
atterWard Immediately in front of the
hotel and she lays easy on top of the
beach. The Ella r. Simpson dragged |
from the west flats to within a half |
mile OF the beach on Wednesday night
she came on the beach below the |
Drisko. The board walk was nearly |
all destroyed and the cottages were
threatened, but a change in the tide |
saved them. All the oyster beds in |
shore were destroyed and the marshes .
covered with two feet of salt water
AT Point Pleasant, at the mouth of |
the BrOadkiln, the entire town was
washed away.
AT LEWEs.
On Wednesday morning the scene of
desolatIon was one to make the stOut-
est heart quake and the coldest nature
look with wonder and awe upon the
vast expanse of wreckage lining the
shore. Out of 100 vessels in the har-
Dor "a were driven ashore. The three
piers are gone but the life-saving sta
ton is intact The pilot boat. Thomas
+. Bayard, came ashore during the
night, and now lies on the beach in
'front.' OF the Virden House, with the
DlodhluS COm pleU9ly over her,
Many lives are lost it is feared but the
life saving crew have done a noble
work in rescuing over a hundred souls.
The oldest residents say the blizzard
did not equal this storm, and in proof
Of this fact they cite the Bavard that
Outrode the blizzard, but was driven
ON the beach during the night. The
wind blew at the rate of 60 miles an
hour
The following vessels are ashore or
sunk: Italian bark, II Salvatore
British schooner, Byron NJ: British
bark, ThOs. Kullor; Danish bark.
Atlanta; American brig, Richard T.
Ireen Pilot boat, Thomas F. Bayard
large, NOrena; American schooners'
Henry NJ. Clarke, Alena Covert, Ger
rude Summers, J. F. Becker. Maud
seward, Nina A. Read, Norena Chas.
I. Stickney, Addie B. Bacon, S. A.
Rudolph, A. and f. Hooper, Emily r
Dyer, J. D. Robinson, w. r. Grace. {
Major w. H. Tantum, Nettie Cham
llon, Sarac G. Park, J. and L. BRYAN.
W. f. Parker and Katie E. Moore. !