New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-12
A COAST LINE CHANGED.
THE STORM OYER NEW-JERSEY.
THE RESORTS SWEPT BY THE WAVES.
CHANGES IN THE COAST LINE-THE INHABI.
TANTS OF ATLANTIC CITY IMPRISONED
BY THE sEA-vAsT LOSSES EVERY.
WHERE FROM THE SURE

"0 SVorm Is raging WIN great violence along
the entire New-Jersey coast from Sandy Hook
Point to Cape May City, and up the Delaware River
as lar north as Trenton. 1t is beyond question
the most severe storm that has visited that por-
ton oil the Atlantic coast within the memory of
the present generation 1t is impossible to cst-
mate In dollars and cents what the loss will be,
nut IL viii run up into the millions. The contour
ol the coast has been changed to a remarkable de-
gree In many places.
Inc place where the danger all day seemed
greatest, where thousands of lives were in peril,
was Atlantic City, which on Monday night was
completely cut off from communication with the
rest OF the country by the floods over the salt
marshes. No trains could move in or out of the
CITY yesterday and fears were entertained that the
people would have little to eat to-day except bread
and water
Those who spent this last summer season on
the New-JerSey coast would he surprised to see
the havoc that has been wrought at the several
resorts. The fury Of the storm was such that even
those takatve fellows, the oldest Inhabitants
were amazed and when questioned by newspaper
reporters were found to be spcechless from awe
and astonshment A trip was taken by a reporter
oil The Tribune along the coast from Sandy Hook
POINT to the Barnegat Bay bridge of the
pennsylvania Railroad. Everywhere were seen
the marks of the ravages which wind and waves
have caused among cottages, hotels, piers and
railroads. The storm threatens to work still
greater damage, and it will be nearly week before
the full extent Of the loss can be ascertanc1.
The pretty little villages of Sea Bright and Low
Moor suffered terribly from the surf and from
the waters backed up into the South Branch of
the Shrewsbury River, on the west side of the
town. The ocean hammered away at the Sandy
Hook Peninsula, opposite the foot of the Highlands
of Navesinl, until it succeeded in reopening the
passage into the Shrewsbury River which Las been
closed since the days of the Revolution. The
waves tore out bulllheads, carried away the
beautiful lawns which were the pride of the
summer cottagers, and toppled several elegant
cottages down into the boiling surf, where they
were almost instantly knocked to pieces. The
fragments were scattered far and wide along the
beach.
One Of the saddest features Of the storm was the
encroachment of the along the front of Long
Branch. Here the storm carried away bath
houses and pavilons and cut huge gaps in the
bluff which skirts Ocean-ave the famous drive
On Tuesday night a perfect reign of terror pre-
vailed among the cottagers from Highland Beach
as far south as Monmouth Beach Many of them
sat up all night, almost wild with terror. 1t was
pitch dark, and the storm ragged furously that
even strong men were unable to face it. The
wind raised the sand from the beach and hurled
it like small shot far inland The wind blew with
an estimated velocity of a mile a minute and rocked
strongly built houses so that they fairly trembled
upon their foundations At daylight yesterday
TIE sight from the Long Branch bluff was one of
great grandeur. As far cut as the eye could reach
the ocean was tossing about under the violence of
the storm Each wave seemed to be larger and
higher than its predecessor They ran swiftly
toward the shore with their crests covered with
foam and wrecmge of all kinds Each wave
broke upon the beach with dull, sullen roar
heard over a mile inland Big stones, of several
tons in weight and huge pieces OF artificial stone
sea walls were the playthings of the storm and
were tossed about like overgrown corls.
Pieces of bulkheading were among the tools
the angry ocean used to knock to flinders
the bnlllbeads which were left standing yesterday
n afternoon. The surf used them as battering rams.
The waves ran much higher than the great Ocean
Pier but broke some distance out from the shore.
then reformed and thundered against the bluff with
a force that Jared the ground and sent spray and
foam in showers over the hotels and cottages on
the west side of Ocean.ave The tracks of the
Sandy Uool, division of the Central Railroad
Campanv of New-Jersey were torn away IN seVeral
places between Sandy Hook Point and Sea Bright.
At Asbury Park the loss was not as severe as
II was further north. James A. Bradley the
founder of the town, had his famous wooden
ocean promenade badly damaged and one OF his
big pavilions was partially undermined by the
surf The sand was cut out from the beach
from Deal Lake SOUTH through Asbury Park ana
Ocean Grove to Avon.by. .the-Sea.
The same story Of wrecked walks, payllons
and batbing-houses comes from all parts OF the
coast below Ocean Grove far as Sea Side Park
on the narrow line OF sand that lies between the
ocean and Barnegat Bay At several places be-
tween the head of the bay and Sea Side Park
the ocean broke over into the bay, carrying with
il hundreds of feet of the track of the Long
Branch and Philadelphia Railroad division OF the
Railroad Company. A number OF
the resorts between the ocean and the lower por-
ion of Barnegat Bay are without communication
with the mainland and no one can reach them
before tomorrow.
A number of dead bodies have been seen hoao
ing in the surf This indicates severe marine uiS.
,sters. A number of little vessels are s'r"hueu
on the inner side of Sandy Hook and on the south
side of Raritan Bay below Staten Island.
THE WALK DESTROYED AT ASBURf PAhh'
,EyERAL OF THE PAvILIoNs UNDERMINE