The national leader., 1889-09-14
A DEVASTATING GALE.
'he North Atlantic Coast Swept
by a Furious Cyclone.
|dreatDamage Done at Noted Sea-
side Resorts,

Uldal wave which swept the Atlantic
ooasU sunday evening, causing damage and
injury 70 life at various points, appears to
nave oeen merely preliminary skirmish.
y was followed by series of disturbances in
1ne elements calculated to make memorable
the month of September and the fag end Of the
seaside resort season of 1889
.: nne weather all along the coast following
peilou OF delightful atmospheric conditions,
vas rainy, cold and windy. Finally furious
storm OF wind and rain brought about the
worst mixture OF the disagreeable season. and
put summary end to the season at ali the
New York
Stories of the severity of this storm came
Irom many points and stamped it as one
0hat VIII probably prove historical 1t was
pecuhar IN Its large sweep of territory. in
the prolonged character of the disturbance
IN the great velocity the wind attained in the
rainfall, and in the destruction to coast
line property by tides of extraordinary
height activity, and volume. The water
along the New York city front reached the
highest point this year.
Not for long time had the Atlantic Ocean
been more turbulent. Like a huge monster
with an Unsuitable appetite, it bit
huge pieces out of the coast line
along New Jersey, Coney Island. Long
Island, Staten Island and other exposed
points. Old landmarks were washed away
and new channels cut in the sandy soil. Mag
nifcent seaShore hotels and improved proper
ties that were supposed to be beyond the
reach of the devastating elements are no
longer picturesque places
Nowhere was there better evidence of the
havoc caused than at New York's most popu-
lar summer resort-Coney Island, particu-
larly Manhattan Beach and Brighton A
large part of the island was inundated, and
the two principal hotels were in dan
ger of destruction. The sea had
made such a sweep at and around Man
haitian Beach that it was not
only an island, and dangerous one for those
who had the courage to remain on it, by it.
self but one so isolated that the inha abitants
were cut off from escape and entire COM
-muhjcation. The Coney Island season was
.summsrily ended.
ON the southern shore of Long Island the
wind assumed the character of a cyclonic
hurricane, its speed varying from thirty to
Sivtv-fye miles an hour. At Long Beach,
Fire Island, Arverne, Rockaway,
po;nt Lookout, Far Rockaway and other
-s,,mmer resorts the tide rose so high that
many hotels and cottages were IN danger
IF being noated from their foundations while
onthogSss and pavilions have already been car
lied away at all these points. Wide channels
,rnoar in nearly all the beaches, and swift
oipIrrrents cprt sweep inward to the low grounds
The damage on Staten Island was very
sorions wEile all along the New Jersey coast,
Sron, Sandy Hook to Cape May, the same
nnndition Of affairs existed. The cliffs at
r mo Branch were crumbling, and the sea
i,,nEsd nUns through the streets and avenues
ST o Asbury Park, Ocean Grove
VI ond ether places in that neighborhood.
aLI ntIorfc City was cut off from the main land.
a. auG-r Long Island Sound the tide caused havoc
~ tbs wharves at Greenwich, Stamford,
% po,idSsport. and towns on the Connecticut
daSfTere Dlias overfowed and the streets flooded.
SDS Ns@ Rochelle, Willett's Point and all the
NI% !Ntor5s wing in the neck of the Sound ex-
issalSsinnced the full vigor of the storm,
p me- tide rose to an unpreceden-
iol Sight and poured immense vol.
teu # water over what has always been
unnleo;dpred high land. Nowhere could the
con.' ea,sn and tide be combated, only temporary
sVoiLachifts being possible toward saving
..hharsosened property.
tnTsgsaosslred by dollars and cents, the storm
Oai me- more damage along the coast at sea,
cauS eau STssorts than could be approximately esti