The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

100 years ago. The cottages of George Blag-
den aud A. +. Carpenter at Low Moor toppled
into the sea Those OF William A. Street and
Col. W. L. Strong will probably go.
Those of DIR. T.. II. Tubbs and John Milton
Cornell, are in q dangerous situation. The
sea ran over into the river below the south end
of the Octagon house and toppled over cot
tage belonging to ESQUIRE Rowland. The
brick walls Of the new methodist episcopal
church are a mass of ruins. The beach ia
strewn with debris of all kinds. Several bodies
have been seen floating in the surf, but no one
could recover them.
At Ocean Grove the big pavilons of Joseph
Ross and Thomas W. Lillagoe have been badly
racked.
At Avon-by-the-Sea all the bathing houses
and the beach pavilions have gone to pieces.
At Asbury Park the damage consisted mostly
of the sweeping away of the sand from the
beach so as TO leave Founder Bradley's big
board walk along the ocean front high up In
the air. The Colonnade hotel has lost its roof
and the rain is beating into the rooms. Nearly
all the buildings owned by the Highland beach
association are badly injured.
LEwEs, Del, Sept 12.-No language can pic
ture the terrible scene along the coast The
wind is blowing with almost hurricane fierce
ness, driving the rain with force that cuts like
hail. The half mile reach of sand between
town and coast is a tossing, billowy ocean,
bearing wreckage on every wave. Through the
mist OF spray 6LOrm-IaIefeQ SAILS anu lut
naked masts OF scores OF deserted and dlsman-
tied vessels can be dimly seen. Since Monday
night the storm has ragged without abatement.
Yesterdays dawn showed hundred vessels
which had caught the refuge OF the break
water. 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 pushed shoreward, sweep
ing away the steamboat piers and dashing the
Italian bark IL Salvatore against the iron gov
eminent pier. The piers oil Brown d Co. and
Leuce Bros. gave way and were swe pit TO sea.
The L. ). marine hospital was dashed from its
mOorings and sent spinning down the beach.
The Lewes life-saying station, forty feet above
high water m ark, was flooded and its founda-
ton undermined. Hughs grove, between the
town an d beach, was submerged and its zoo In
babitants fled for life. leaving all their posses
sions behind. The first boat came ashore at
9 q. IN. Then came another and another. The
life-saving station crew, reinforced by the
HenlOpen and Rehoboth crews went to work
and have labored almost increasingly ever
since. The crew OF every vessel that struck
was taken off by those daring men and not a
life lost among the scores of men they
handled. The following is a complete list OF
the vessels that came ashore:
Italian bark II. Salvatore, American schooner
Henry NJ. Clark British schooner Byron Nj,
American schoOners Alena Covert, Gertrude
Summers G.. +. Becker, T. & l. Bryen, Maud
Leonard, Nina a. Reed, Novena, Charles p
Stickney total loss, Addie B. Bacon, S. A.
Rudolph, A. & f. Hooper, Emily r. Dwyer, j.,
ID. Robinson American ship w. X. Grace
American barge Iimours, Danish bark Atlanta,
American brig Richard j. Green, American
schooner Mai. w. III. Tantum total loss),
Nettie Champion, pilot boat I. f. Bayard,
barges Wallace and Tonawanda, and two others,
names unknown. Also vessel sunk of the
Brown shoals with all the crew drowned except
two, who got ashore on raft, Another vessel
is ashore, in regard to which there is dispute
as 10 her being a bark or a three-masted
schooner, as her top masts only can be discov-
cred as she is sunk on the shoals. IL is not
known whether her crew escaped. the total
number of lives lost will probably exceed forty.