Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-19
Reports of Damage from the Storm
Beginning to 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.

that by O'Clock this evening New York
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.
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 and
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 BREAKwATER.
The refuge was insufficient. By II 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 steamboat
pier and dashing the Italian bark Sal
The piers of Brown & Co. and Leuce
Bros. gave away and were swept TO
sea. The United States marine hos
pital was dashed from its moorings
and sent spinning down the beach. The
LeWes life-saving station, forty feet
above high water mark, was flooded
and its foundation undermined. Hughey-
vile, suburb between the town and
beach, was submerged and its 200 in
habitants
FLED FOR THEIR LIVES,
eaving all their possessions be-
hind The first boat came
ashore at 8 'clock a. m. Then came
another and another The life saving
station crew were reinforced by the Hen
lopen and Echo. Both crews went to
work and have labored almost unceas-
inglY ever since. The crews of every
vessel that struck were taken off by these
daring men, and not life was lost
among tie scores of men they handled.
Twenty eight vessels came ashore and a
vessel was sunk off the brown shoals
and all the crew drowned but two, who
GOT ASHORE on y RAFT.
Another vessel is sunk on Shear s shoals.
It is not known whether her crew escaped.
The number of lives lost will probably
exceed forty. Five of the eight men who
composed the crew of the E. & l. Bryan
persisted where the vessel struck on
Brandywine shoals. The mate and two
seamen caught a 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 a 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. I2.-The high
tide of this morning threatened to top
pie several more summer cottages down
into the surging waves. 1t is almost
impessible TO obtain accurate informa-
tomas all telegraph wires are still down.
81 ALL UNDER WATER.
80 TLANTIC CITY, Sept. Prom the
fourtll floor of the law building, brick
structifre, one can form an idea of the
wind ana waves which have swept At
lantio Citys. The meadows appear to be
5ssstBst 5sslSes saTrounding the city. Many
days mist elhpse before the actual loss
will be kno1na
A9kovER-DUE VESSEL.
39NEw YoHE Sept. y The Ward line
stean eEse0lumbla from Havana, is now
ftEfe avs overdue, and considerable
anxietysis felt in shipping circles here for
the vessel IS safety.
NEssELS IN DISTRESS.
LEwEs d9EI.- IS sc f..ArThe schooner
adelphia, went ashore this amorning
The schoonergeported as the AsRnd E.
Hooper ashoresis the Eliza Hooper The
&c haf A 6yiy ruits1
tinues. The wires aas,down across the
beach and there is no yessfbaef way of
reaching Henlopen. The Ship W. R.
Grace is or the point of the cape in a bad
way The crew were saved. There is a
small schooner ashore at Rehoboth
RELATED SHIPS ARRIVING. I'd.
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-In shi3s1fs
circles all sorts of rumors were fyingS
round of marine disasters. Many belated
vessels came i'll this morning with tales
OF high seas and terrible weather. 4Sss6.s Z
White Star steamer Teutonic, which leftA
Queenstown with the City of New York,
was one OF the first steamers to pass
Sandy Hook this morning, feltewse3Sseon
after by the Pennland ffom Antwerps
the Rotterdam from Rotfernasst and ~
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. l2.-Ofh-
Gals from the New Haven steamboat line
say they have received no news that the
steamer Continental is ashore off Fort
Schuyler. She lay off Chrogg's Neck
Wednesday, but put back into New York
and started cut again this morning, since
when she has not been heard from.
SCENES AT ATLANTIC CITY.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 12.-Fhe
first news from Atlantic CITY was brought
to PIeasantyille at clock yesterday
afternoon by five daring spirits who
fought their way unaided through the
surging sea that covered the meadows
The trip was perilous one, and during
the four hours they were battIidg with
the waters they had many thrilling expe-
riences. The party was composed of a
newspaper corr spondent residing in At
lantic City and efour sother. They left
Atlantic City at II O'Clock
yesterday morning and reached
Pleasantville, distance of
seven miles, at in the afternoon. They
swan deep cuts, crept cautiously over