The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19
THE STORM AeA1Es.

THE STORM AeATEs.
Rain and Wind ON tho Atlantic Coast
Easing Up-Bolstod Vessels Arrive and
Report Terrible Experiences More
Stories Of Havoc.
New YORK, Sept 1.-THE league of the
wind, rain and waves parted company in
this vicinity Friday, and the tive-day
steady down-pour of water came to I'm end.
News OF disaster along tho coast still
continues to come in, and but scant
particulars can be had The fog
which has enveloped the lower bay
for the last few days ia clearing
away. and the long-delayed steamships are
beginning to come in Captain Mckee, of
the Clyde Line steamer Yermasse, which
arrived Friday. reports that during tho
storm northeast Of the Sandy Hook light
ship he picked up in the water Captain p
A. Bull, wife, two children and fourteen
OF the crew of the bark Abby Cass, oil
laden, and bound to Copenhagen The bark
had become disabled by the storm and was
abandoned in q sinking condition by her
captain and crew. Much anxiety is felt for
the residents Of Barnegat City, from which
no tidtngs have been received since Mon
day. It's situation is low and much exposed.
and 1t must have borne the brunt of the
storm. The sea ia still too heavy to reach
there, and there 10 no communication by
telegraph
The United States cruiser Atlanta, about
which some anxiety has been felt, arrived
ut Newport Friday morning She left New
York Monday morning and went outside
Sandy Hook. When the storm became
serious she hove to and had been lying ut
safe distance off shore, land having been
sighted only once since Tuesday The war
ship weathered the hurricane without dan
ger She took some seas and was pretty
wet. but behaved admirably, surprising the
officers themselveA The wind was so
strong and sea so high that sometimes for
several hours not an inch of progress could
men on board said she did splendidly un-
der tho circumstances, and rode the seas
with remarkable ease
Incoming vessels report unusually rough
weather at sea, and many of them have
suffered considerably All the overdue
European steamer are crowded with sea-
sick foreigners. The Cromwell line steam
er Knickeroocker, due here on Tuesday,
arrived Friday morning after dangerous
voyage. SO heavy was the storm on Tues
day that many on board feared the vessel
would founder. Several of the crew and
passengers were injured by the cal eening
OF the vessel
CoNEY ISLAND. l. L, Sept 14.-Shortly
after midnight Thursday there was cloud
burst directly over the island, the water
coming down in tremendous quantities and
doing almost as much damage to the lawns
in the rear of the big hotels as the waves
had done in front 1tswelled 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 early 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: Tho 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 series Of bulwarks have been lev
cled by the heavy waves. Just south
OF the Continental Hotel there is
large gap whore number of houses
stood last Monday. Senator Crouse's
beautiful cottage has been destroyed. OF
Charles Rlcker's cottage not n vestige
remains. The New Line House was
broken into and wrecked The Shakes.
peare House is demolished, and Suuthers
Hotel is badly wrecked. Back of the
Continental Hotel n 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 un-
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 i'eayy surf is regarded as the cause OF
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 Was carried out into the ocean.
LEwEs, Del. Sept. 14-In addition to the
loss of life previously reported news comes
of the wreck CT 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 schooner and landed
here. These men were given up as lost
The hfe-saving crews have rescued about
2OO persons in all from twentv-four
vessels.
MONMOUTH BEACH, N. j., Sept 14-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 Galilea
lost part of its bulkhead Thursday night
The sea has torn away a portion of the
bulkheading of the cottage of John p.
Duncan. The bulkheads of the summer
homes of Henry Tuck, D. Seckett Moore
and J: A. Scrymster have gone out to sea
1t will cost fully $l50, COZ to repair the dam
age at Monmouth beach and Low Moor.
formerly Monmouth beach.
ONANCoCK, Va, Sept 1A-Tho terrible
storm this week did much damage on tze
eastern shore. Crops were ruined Re-
ports from the Metompkin ife-saving sta
ton are to the effect that the beach has