The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-09-12
OUR NOBLE SHIPS AT SEA
RUN THE DANGEROUS GAUNT-
LET OF THE GALE.
The story of Destruction and In
jury to Property that Comes UP
From the Coast Towns and Wa
terlng Places, Etc.

From the Coast Towns ana wa
terlnH Places, Etc.
New YORK, September 11.-The steam.
ship California, from Hamburg, which ar.
rived at the bar at 9 a. M, reports that
on September 8, she encountered a hurri,
cane blowing fresh from the west, shifting
to the north, and working to the east
and northeast. OFF Georges Banks it
blew with terrific force from east north
east, continuing to port. She arrived of
the bar at 2 a. M, hut could find no pilot
boats nor station boats from which to
take a pilot. About 7.30 a. m., the
a. M, the steamer Ardanbad bound out
hove in sight ready to discharge a pilot.
Captain Buer decided to launch his after
port life boat, manned by chief off
Ger Knuth, and two seamen, and pick up
the pilot. The difficult task was success
fully accomplished, and the boats crew
started to pull for the California. A ter
rife sea was running at the time, and,
when getting under the stern of the Cali
fornia, an immense wave curled up under
the steamers quarter, capszing the life
boat. Life lines and preservers were in
stantly thrown overheard to the strug-
Cling men who were nearly exhausted,
and in danger of being swept away by
the gigantic seas. Fortunately, they all
managed to get hold of the life lines, and
were dragged on board. The life boat
was lost.
The California sighted the G1ion line
steamer Wisconsin off the bar with her
jack hoisted for pilot. A full rugged
German ship was also sighted standing off
shore. The steamer Elmar which ar
rived to-day from New Orleans, reported
that she had fine weather to Cape Flori-
da. On September 8, she encountered a
hurricane from the north and northeast,
with very high easterly sea. She sus-
tanned no damage. She was detained
outside twelve hours by thick weather.
SALISBURY, Md, September l1.-Re-
ports of a startling character are coming
in of the storm at Ocean City, Md,
though the telegraph office there is unoc-
cupied. The large columns supporting
the porches at the hotels and cottages
are washed away; doors and windows
are broken down, and furniture is float
ing 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 through the hotel six feet deep.
The furniture is floating in the rooms.
The dancing pavilion at the Atlantic
hotel is deluged, and the roofs of several
cottages and porches are blown away.
There is not vcstigc Of the bath houses
on the beach. The life saving station
was damaged, and the crew were prepar-
ing to desert last night. A special train
was sent over last night to rescue the
dwelers on the beach. The work was
accomplished by large number of stout
men joining hands and wading through
the water waist deep. They brought the
ladies to the cars one by one seated on
their Joined hands. In this way all were
saved. 1t was a perilous undertaking.
aud several times the rcscuers were
knocked down. Mr.. Stokes, one of the
rcscuing party, was washed out to sea,
but an incoming wave threw him back
towards the beach, and he was saved
The last occupants of the beach who left
last night expected that all the cottages
and portions of the hotels would be
washed away. The damage amounts to
thousands of dollars.
LEwEs, Del, September ia ship is
ashore on the point of the cape. Her
masts are cut away. She is supposed to
Philadelphia. 1t is impossible for boat
to reach here. The vessels known to be
ashore are the bark Salvador; the brig
Richard 7. Green; the schooners Addie
b. Bacon, S. A. Rudolph, Nina A. Reed,
Emily K. Dyer, ]. D. Robinson, Major
VIM. H. Tantum, Charles P. Stickney,
Henry M. Clark, Alena, Covert, ]. F.
Becker, Byron M, ,INorena, Gertrude Sum-
mcrs, Maud Seward, A. and Z. Hooper;
the barge Timour and the pilot boat
Bayard. The schooners Kate L. Morse,
Walter F. Parker and ]. and l.. Bryan
sunk at the fourteen foot bank. The
mate of the Bryan and one colored sea-
man came down the bay on hatch.
They think they are the only survivors
of the three last named vessels. The
bark Thos. Keillar BRITISH from Phila-
dclphia for London appears to be on the
beach. The bark Atlanta (Danish), from
Hamburg for Philadelphia, and the
schooner Nettie Champion are ashore be-
low the iron pier.
At $50 p. m. the storm is still rag
ing. The sea is up to the town and
everything on the beach is submerged.
PHILADELPHIA, September 4 The fol-
lowing was received by a messenger
this afternoon from the Associated Press
correspondent at Cape May: What has
proved to be the greatest storm at Cape
May for thirteen years, has about finished
its dcstructivencss. The damage to Cape
May City will not exceed $1,000. At
Mt. Vernon settlement the breastworks
the boardwalk and beach drive are in
dilapidated condition; $4,000 will not
repair the damage. At Cape May Point
$50, 900 will not be sufficient to put back
what the tides took away yesterday and
last night. The whole beach drive is
gone, as also, the steamboat landing
Carlton Hall is chopped in two. About
800 feet of the board walk. west of the
Grant street station was broken away
last night. The railways along the beach
are all out of order, and cannot be oper-
ated for week. Taking everything in
general, the damage is light.
Grave fears are entertained for Holly
Beach and Anglesea, those towns being
built on very fiat sands. The seas were
so very heavy and high yesterday that
the crews of the life saving stations No.
80 and 40 considered it advisable to
abandon their building. The crew of No.
80 station removed their apparatus to
the Stockton hotel lawn, and No. 40
are quartered in the Mineral Springs
hotel. All communication by railroad
and telegraph between this city and
Atlantic City, and points north of there,
on the Atlantic coast, is still cut off, and
nothing definite can be learned as to
when news can be obtained OF the condi-
ton of affairs, at Atlantic City, Sea Isle
City, Barnegat Beach, Haven Sea Side
Park, and other coast resorts.
The nearest points to Atlantic City
from which news has been received to-
day, are Pleasantville and Somers' Point,
both distant about five miles. The
West Jersey railroad track between