Daily Republican., 1889-09-12

the men, W
No effort was made to save personal
property. 60 sudden and unexpe cted was
tne rise In The Hoods on the nieadowe.
Horses were foundered In their stables. |
anu poultry by the hundred wero drown.
cd and their bodies strewn all along the
cross avenues.
Dtzens OF houses were picked up
DouiIy by tho waves and thrown across |
the railroad tracks. Some Of them were
taken iar out on the meadows and tossed |
around like cork.
lhe hundreds of boats which had been |
lying In Clam creek ard the upper end |
OF the Thoroughiare were sent flying Iu |
every direction over the inundated |
meAdowa
| THROUGH TO ATLANTIC CITY.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company |
announces that the damage to the Camden |
and Atlantic railroad has been repaired.
and that all Camden and Atlantic and |
west Jersey trains, except West Jersey |
local trains, VIII run through In both |
directions,
The Reading railroad ha, made pre-
parations 70 speedily prosecute the work |
OF rebuilding its roadway across the |
meadows between Pleasantville and At |
lantic City. Already numerous car loads |
OF rails, ties, ballast and other material |
for the reconstruction OF its damaged |
road, have been shipped to Pleasantville |
and work will be commenced as soon as |
the wator subsidies, and pushed to a |
speedy completion.
CARE MAY AND CAFE MAY POINT.
CAPR MAY AND CAPE MAY POINT,
Sept. ll.-BetweenCape May proper and
Cape May Point tie meadow lands from
the Sea Breeze Excursion House nearly
to the Light House ut the Point, and
taels to the turnpike, are covered with
water, practically lake. The Delaware
Bay Railroad had to stop running it's
irains-ihen the telegraph gave out, and
then part OF the turnpike road was 60
flooded that carriage horses had TO wade
belly-ceep 10 the water. We were thus
almost totally cut of. Carriage commu-
nication with the Cape May trains is now
re-established over the turnpike.
MAYS LANDING, N. j., Sept H.
Much damage was done by the storm at
tia poiLt The highest tide In the his
tory OF the Oldest inhabitant WAS that of
yesterday. 1t overfowed the banks OF
10 inches higher than tn, largest tide
for rs yeare. The West Jersey Railroad
bed and embankment were again washed
away.
AT THE BRBAKwATER,
DELAWARE BRKAKwATKR, Sept H.
The storm still prevails, with the same
serious results to shipping. The schoon-
ers J. & L. Bryan, Captain Risley, from
Philadelphia for Boston; Walter r. Par
ker, Captain Parker, hence for Lynn, and
Kate L. Morse, Captain CroclSer, hence
Tor Portland, were all wrecked at the
Fourteen Foot Bank, Delaware Bay,
Of the 23 men that composed the three
crews, but two are known to have been
saved.
Not single vessel arrived here yester-
day, and the only departures vera the
Lord Clyde and Saxon.
The Republic and all the river boats
are laid up, as we'll az the Ericsson Lins
boats TO Baltimore, until the storm sub
sdea.
The Delaware pilot boat Thomas
Bayard was driven ashore at Lewee, and
lies we'll up on the beach.
DAMAGE AT OCEAN CITY.
SALISBURY, Nd, Sept. 1l.-Reporta of
a startling character are coming III of the
storm at Ocean CITY, Nd, though the ,
telegraph Office there 10 unoccupied. The |
large columns supporting the porches at
the hotels and cottage are washed away, i
the doors and windows are broken down
AID the, furniture is floating about the
beach. The seas last night were breaking
to the second story of the Atlantic Hotel
and Congress Hall, and huge waves were !
running z through the hotels Elk feet deep. !
The furniture is floating In tho rooms. 9
wREcKAGE AT AsBURY PARK.
AsDuRY PARE, Sept. l1.-The destruc- {
tive wind and rain storm continues TO I
rage, ard with increased fury. All along r
this section Of the coast, from Deal Lie 4
Saving Station to Shark river, the dam 4
Pge caused by the excessive high tides
aud angry waves is very great. q
At Sixth avenue, in the Park, where
so much of the board walk was torn
away and bad washouts cut into the y,
beach last spring, gang OF men were :
kept at work taking up the new plank ?
Ing as precautionary measure and y
much damage was averted. y
NEW YORK AND VICINITY. n
New York, Sept. 11.-A big feet of d
ocean steamers, both incoming and out u
going, has been anchored outside of Ban 81
1y Hook all day waiting for some abate- D.
ment In the storm, which has completely
crippled our fleet OF little pilot boats,
Many OF these boats have been driven
out 10 sea and some anxiety Is felt for n,
their safety. The station boat at Sandy n
Hook, which receives the pilots from out h,
going ships, has been driven from her an. tr
,horage, and the pilots who have taken m
out outward bound VESSELS for two days in
p st are supposed to have been compelled n,
10 take unexpected voyages. Eight pl- h,
ota are unaccountod for to-day, and they h,
were all on outward-bound vessels. Six
IL steamers bound for Europe sailed
.o-dsy, the Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Noord-
and, the Arizona, the City OF Chicago =,
md the Aller, each OF which carries a y. y.
blot, who will probably be compelled to ~
AXE q trip abroad unless transferred to y. ~
ONE incoming steamer. For some time ~ ~
here will be great scarcity oil pilote, ". W.
md reports of these boats, which have ~. -,
lad to face the storm, are anx.ously IA
waited.
The rain and wind have seriously in
erfered with business all day to-day, and
many stores and warehouses have been In
IoodCd. Ii.
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