The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-09-20
WRECKED BY WAVES:
THE ATLANTIC COAST sUFH1eRn
FROM A CYCLONIC STORM.

Destruction to Proporty-Oo ney Naand
Pleasure Resorts ut the Mercy OF the
Waters-Cottages aud Hotels Ruined.
A New York dispatch Of the 11th
inst. says: The great storm which
has been raging along the coast con.
tinues, and word comes from Coney island
that the tide this morning was higher
thnn last night. The guests Of the Nam
haitian Beach and Oriental hotels were inn
p%risoned by water, and the West End
hotel was submerged. The beach at Man.
haitian has heen washed away.
The mammouth bathing pavilion be.
longing to Manhattan Beach 10 going
down before the laundering waves. The
| old marine railway structure was carried
! away early to-day and taken with an
awful crash over the new marine railway
| fully :ON feet inland, carrying the latter
away bodily and overturning n smash.
ing cars like kindling-wood. The old
Brighton Beach bathing. pavilion followed
it with a deafening crash and then drifted
with lightning rapidity and herculeau
force against the new bath house, tearing
part of that away. The brighton Beach
hotel is surrounded by over. two feet Of
water. Fully 1OU feet Of the lawn in
front of the hotel has been eaten away
since last night and from Indications early
to-day it will all be gone before night.
Tho Brighton Beach railroad Ia submerged.
No trains are running. The angry waves
dashed against Seidl's music stand, each
wave tearing away great chunks Of it at
every hurst. All efforts to save the struc-
ture have been abandoned. Atlantic City
has been cut off from tho mainland and
much damage has been done there.
In this city piers usually twelve feet
above h%igh-water mark have their decks
washed, and East river front buildings
from Fiftieth 10 Fourteenth street ara.
flooded. The lower end of Blackwalrs
island is submerged, and telegraph COM
mnnication between here and Sandy Hook
has been destroyed, and news Of incoming
vessels is anxiously awaited. None has
arrived and no vessels a dared to ven.
ture out. The ocean racers, City of New
York and T%eutonic, were expected to-day.
The bay ami rivers are very turbulent,
tossed about like chips.
The storm has caused great damage
along the coast of Long island. At Rock
away Beach the tide reached an unparal-
lelea height. Bathing houseD were washed
away and the waves broke in on the
verandas Of the hotels. Tho short stretch
of railroad running between Rockaway
Bench, Arverne, and Far Rockaway was
submerged, a portion Of il was UNDER
mined, and the trains had to he discon-
tinued. A bridge between Arverne and
Rockaway Beach was carried away. All
tho small islands in Jamaica bay were
could be seen of Hog island to-day at high
tide. All the buildings OH the island had
been washed away. Fire island and Oak
island were cut off from all. communica-
ton with the mainland by boat or tele-
graph. From the Babylon shore great
waves could be seen breaking over both
islands.
During the afternoon il was rumored
that four cottages OH Oak island occupied
by families from Babylon had been carried
away. An effort was made to send q boat
from Babylon to the assistance of the
occupants of the cottages, but the boat
was beaten back by the wind md tide.
AT IL late hour no definite news had been
received concerning their fate.
Sag Harbor was flooded. The water
covered the Long island railroad tracks
and yard. All the towns along the shore
report more or less damage. Small craft
anchored in the harbors and bays were
driven ashore and in some instances CONF
pletely destroyed. Telegraph ana tele-
phone wires are down all over the island.
Philadelphia Pa.) dispatch: A se-
we're windstorm, accompanied by rain,
u.s. SvoiO Hh UuiS Guy ulu VICINITY I'LL
day. Fire alarm, police telegraph, and
telephone wires are Frustrated all over
the city and the telegraph lines throughout
the state are reported to DO
in very bad shape. The damaging storm
which has prevailed along the Atlantic
coast since Sunday still continues, and
reports received here Indicate that the
damage to railroad lines entering Atlanta
City, Cape May, Sea Isle City. OceaN
City and other coast resorts is very greau.
From Bay Head to Barnegat City1 the
damage both by wind and wave has been
unprecedented in the history of the coast.
Between Seaside park and Berkely the rail-
road has been washed away so that no
trains can lie run. The handsome Berkely
Arms, at Beriely, has been damaged and
part of the roof carried away. Beach
Haven, Barnegat, Long Beach City, Har.
vey Cedars, and other points on Long
Beach are inundated and the railroad
washed away in many places.
The United States h~ydrographfc
office at Washington explains the
phenomenon of the high waves along the
New Jersey and Long Island coasts as tho
result of a cyclonic storm which
has been travelling up the coast
from the West Indies and was probably
central off Hatteras Sunday morning. The
tremendous waves started by such storms.
in which the wind often reaches the velocity
of $50 miles an hour, outrun the storm.
and when the present cyclone was off
Charleston its storm wave was felt on the
coast of Long island, increasing in strength
as the storm approached.
INDIANS STARVING.
A Tale of D~estitution Told by a Mission