The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-11
WORK OF THE STORM.
Damage Done in the County
By Wind and Rain.
WRECKS ON COMMUNIPAW SHORE.
Bayonne and Greenville Afoat--
A Hotels Foundations Unset
tied.


The ravages Of a couple of severe winter
nhzzards have seldom wrought as much
naVoc along the Jersey coast, and at points
just back therefrom, as has been caused
by the present rain and wind storm.
Irainmen employed on the Pennsylva-
ma upon their arrival In the Jersey City
rpU rp@sd the dn,s sDecIad mefRing dsndtahy fully
Long Branch published in yes
terday's issue of THE jersey
CITY NEWS, regarding the great damage
Done IN that section to the property Of
tne railroad companies.
They also reported many additional de-
talls about the destruction of road beds.
bridges, tracks. etc.
SPRAY FLUNG AGAINST CAR WINDOWS.
Near Morgan's the spray from the
ocean dashed with great violence against
Ine windows OF trains passing along the
souIn bound track, and occasionally
great wave would sweep across the rails,
Washlng over the platforms of the cars
Men We're noticed in boats cunning along
| the side tracks.
Inc north bound track at Spring Lake
Is washed away so that it will take good
Sr@eI s.l ~ gang OF men several days to put it
IN thorough repair. Between MOrQan's
ana south Amboy the same track is car
rleu away at several points for distances
varying from 100 to 500 feet.
- ONE BRANCH ABANDONED.
Ine entlre road stretching from Point
Pleasant to Camden has been abandoned.
as its road has been swept away in yari-
GUS places. Through the gaps the tide
sweeps and eddies, making the damage
greater every hour.
The strip of land between Sandy Hook
and Sea Girt is almost compIetely sub-
merged, presenting somewhat the appear
ance OF watery desert.
| At Morgan's on the Long Branch Road,
Where the wagon draw-bridge over
Cheesequake Creek was carried away yes
| terday, there is large marsh. This sec
| tion has been so inundated that this
| morning a tug-boat steamed over places
where giant cattails nodded in the breeze
on Monday.
A JERsEYITE's EXPERIENCE.
Ex-Assemblyman Lewis E. Wood, of
TINS city, could not reach his summer
| home, near Little Silver. by rail last
| night. He rode as far as Long Branch.
and from there was driven several miles
| to his farm. When he arrived he was
surprised to find that yacht had drifted
lar up upon his property, much of which
was submerged.
1t is reported that many Of the hotels at
Berkley, Mantaloking. Chadwick's, L;y~-
ellette, Barnegat Pier and Island Heights
! are having their foundations undermined
| by the water.
ON THE CoMMUNIPAw SHORE.
AAS Aeafy stOru OF yesterday and to-
| Gay nave wrought special damage along
the Communipau, Greenville and Bay
| onne shore. At Communipau the float
| gangwaY of the Dauntless Yacht Club
was carried away. Nichaus's boathouse.
which stood back TWENTY-FIVE feet from
| hlgh-water mark, doated away, but was
| brought back. A cabin yacht, the name
| OF which is not known, was snnk off
| MurphyS boathouse
| a catboat was washed from the break
water between the Jersey City and Pa
vonta Yacht Club houses and was
wrecked on Black Tom. Two smoke
stacks of the New York and Chicago
chemical Company were blown down
| The Central Railroad freight tracks at
Commun1paw and Claremount are under
water and it is thought that some of them
have been washed away At Fiddler's
way under water.
| Down through Bayonne the damage
done is lncalculable. Many of the boats
| lying Oft shore were sunk. Hundreds of
men and boys are out on the meadows
about Greenvllle and Claremont picking
| numbers.
| TRACKS SUBMERGED.
| The bay overfowed the banks of the
canal at that place. The Constable Hook
road Is wholly submerged, and the water
nam nam leading from Bergen Point to the
1
banked about the pipes to protect them
| from the elements, has been washed
| away, and it is thought that unless the
water soon recedes it will cause consider
| able damage.
HOTEL MADE sHAKY.
| The steamboat Chancellor, which con-
meets with Constable Hook and Bergen
Point, had considerable difficulty in MAX
| ing landings. The ferryboat Lark, plying
between Bergen Point and Port Rich
mond, was forced to discontinue its trips
| for the greater part of yesterday.
The old t.Shore House" at Bergen Point
was Hooded yesterday. The water filed
| the basement and was several feet deep
| on the main floor. The force of the
water was such as to alarm the occu-
pants.
At the grounds of the New Jersey Ath-
| letic Club grounds the bridge leading
| from the shore was washed away, as were
| also two floats. A number of boats lying
off shore were sunk. The shipping Of
coal at the Port Johnston coal docks has
been suspended. In the Newark Bay
shore the numberleSs bathing payilliona