Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-13
of Damage from the Storm
BeginningtO Come In.
Scores of Vessels Have Gone to Pieces
and News of Hundreds More
is AnxiOuSlY Awaited.
No Estimate Can Yet be Formed of the Number
OF Lives Lost or the Value of the
Property Destroyed
Storm still Holds Sway.

ers will have seen the last of the big
storm. During the early hours of the
morning the storm still held sway, and
measured out the wind at the rate OF
twenty four miles an hour. p
SITUATION AT LEwEs.
WILMINGTON, DEL, Sept. PA
Lewes special to Every Evening states
that no language can picture the
terrible scare along the coast.
The wind is blowing with almost
hurricane fierceneSs driving the rain with
a force that cuts like hail. The half mile
beach of sand between the town ana
coast is a tossing billOwy ocean, bearing
wreckage on every wave. Through the
mist of spray storm tattered sails and
naked masts of scores OF deserted and
dismantled vessels can be dimly seen.
Since Monday night the storm has ragged
without abatement, and yesterdays
dawn showed 100 vessels which had
SOUGHT REFUGE OFF THE BREAKwNTER.
The refuge was insufficient. BY IL o clock
the sea broke over the. breakwater,
wrecked the telegraph station, carried
away the big fog bell and rushed shore
ward, sweeping away the steam boat
pier and dashing the Italian bark Sal
vatori against the iron government pier.
The piers of Brown 4 Co. and Leuce
Bros. gave away and were swept TO
sea. The United States marine hos
pitaI was dashed from its moOrings
and sent spinning down the beach. The
LeWes life-saving station, forty feet
above high water mark, was Hooded
and its foundation undermined. Hughey-
vile, q suburb between the town and
beach, was submerged and its 200 in
habitants
FLED FOR THEIR LIVES,
leaving all their possessions be-
hind. The first boat came
ashore at o'clock q. m. Then came
another and another. The life saving
station crew were reinforced by the Hen
Iopeu and Echo Both crews went TO
work and have labored almost unceas-
ingIy ever since. The crews of every
vessel that struck were taken oil by these
daring men, and not a life was lost
among tie scores OF men they handled.
Twentv-eight vessels came ashore and
vessel was sunk off the brown shoals
| and all the crew drowned but two, who
GOT ASHORE on a RAFT.
| Another vessel Is sunk on Shear 5 shoals.
it is not known whether her crew escaped.
The number of lives lost viii probably
exceed forty. Five of the eight men who
composed the crew of the e. y l. Bryan
Brandywiue shoals. The mate and two
| seamen caught spar and drifted all
night. At daybreak the others dis
| covered that one of the sailors was dead,
| his body still dashed to the spar. The
| two survivors were picked up by tug
! and brought TO Lewes. An unknown
! schooner is ashore at Echo, and the coast
| for miles down is reported to be strewn
with wreckage
| \ HIGH TIDE.
! LONG BRANCH, Sept. l2.-The high
| TIDE of this morning threatened to top
| Die several more summer cottages down
| into the surging waves. 1t is almost
| impossible to obtain accurate informa-
| ton as all telegraph wires are still down.
| ALL UNDER WATER.
| ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. Prom the
! fourth floor of the law building, brick
| structure, one can form an idea of the
wind and waves which have swept At
| Iantio City. The meadows appear to be
vast lakes surrounding the city. Many
| DAYS must elapse before the actual loss
| will be known.
| AN OVERDUE VESSEL.
! NEW YORK, Sept y The Ward line
! steamer Columbia, from Havana, IS now
| three days overdue, and considerable
| anxiety is felt IN shipping circles here for
| the vessel 3 safety.
| VESSELS IN DISTRESS.
| LEwEs, DEL, Sept. l2.-The schooner
| Orrie V. Dusko from New York for Phil
| adelphia, went ashore this morning.
! The schooner reported as the A. and h.
h HOoper ashore is the Eliza Hooper. The
| storm is undated. A driving rain con-
! tinues. The wires are down across the
beach and there is no possible way of
reaching Henlopen. The shin W. R.
| Grace is on the point of the cape in a bad
| way. The crew were saved. There is
| small schooner ashore at RehobOth.
BELATED SHIPS ARRIVING.
NEW YORK, Sept. I'm shipping
| circles all sorts of Tumors were lying
| round of marine disasters. Many belated
| vessels came i'll this morning with tales
of nigh seas and terrible weather. The
| White Star steamer TeutOnic, which left
| Queenstown with the City Of New York,
| was one OF the first steamers to pass
Sandy Hook this morning, followed soon
| after by the PeunIand from Antwerp,
| the Rotterdam from Rotterdam, and the
| Hammonia from Hamburg. Each vessel
| reports having experienced unusual
heavy weather but had met with no
| serious trouble.
NOT ASHORE AT LAST ACCOUNTS. -
NEW HAVEN, Conn ., Sept. I2.-OfhA
! efaIs from the New HaFen. steamboat line
| saw tKey.have received no news that the
steamer Continental is ashore of Fort
Schuyler. She lay of Chrogg's Neck
Wednesday, but put back into New York
and started out again this morning, since
| when she has not been heard from.
SCENES AT ATLANTIC CITY.
PHILADELPHIA Pa, Sept. l2.-The
first news from Atlantic City was brought
to PleasantviIle at O'Clock yesterday
| afternoon by FIVE daring spirits who
fought their way unaided through the
surging sea that covered the, meadows
The trip was Q pernous one, and3 during
the four,hours they werst eattlfdg with
the waters they had manythrilling expe-
riences. The party was composed Of a
newspaper correspondent residing in At
lantio City and four sother. They left
Atlantic City at 11E O'Clock