, 1889-09-12

NEw YonH, Sept. 11.--Reports from
quarantine saysa number OF steamers
proceeded to sea to-day, Including two
Bremen steamers with pilots on board
who will undoubtedly be carried oil, as
no pilot boats are In sight to land them.
Another report from quarantine says
the storm continues with wind trcshon-
ing from east northeast and high sea
Is running. Great damage is being done
to property along Staten Island shore
and several steamers and pilot boats are
anchored in Gravcsend bay outward
bound. In al nine pilots were carried
away to-day on steamers. They were
directing outward. They could not
meet any pilot boat to take them of on
account of the storm.
ashore On the point OF the
capc hci masis are cut
away. She is supposed to be the
William r.. Grace from llayre for Philn-
delphi1, II Is impossible for boat to
reach her The vessels known to be
ashore arc the bark Salvatore, brig Rich
ard 5. Green, schooncrs Addic u. Bacon
s. A. Rudolph, Nina a. Reed, Eunity
x. Dyer, j. ID. Robinson, Major William
II. rantum, Charles II. Stickncy, Henry
NJ. Cloak, Alena Covera, j. d. Bwckor
Byron NJ. Norena, Gertrude Summers,
Maud Seward, a. and h. Hooper, barge
Timour and pilot boat Bayard, The
schooner j. and J.. Byron sunk up the
bay last night. The mate and ono sea-
man are the only survivors. SO lur as
known no lives have been lost at the
brcakwAter. Tho storm increased in
velocity towards noon.
loNG BRANCH, ". j., Sept. ll.--This
| is the most severe and damaging storm
which has visited this section Of New
| Jersey and the sea-COast in the last
fifteen years. The surf ran SO high IL
washed the outer end of the great ocean
pier and tossed its foam and spray 200
feet inland. The blur has again been
badly damaged, and 1t will cost fully
$4,000 to repair it. All along the ocean
front the surf has undermined the bluffs
and tonight big chunks of dirt are fall
ing down and being swallowed
up by the boiling waters.
The surf has twisted several
of the iron piles Of the ocean pier out of
shape and torn OIL the railing ut the sea
end. Many of the hotel bathing-houscs
have been demolished and beach pavil-
ions of tho cottagers have been under
mined and swept away. The iCe.houses
of the Elberon hotel were blown down.
Many of the cottagers will have TO build
new bulk k-heads. Trees were blown
down in all parts of the town and shrub
berry ON lawns of cottages was torn up by
the roots. The entire lot of new bathing
houses of James III. Woolley were torn
out and Knocked into splinters in the
surf.
HIGHLAND BEACH, Sept. 1.-THE
damage here Is hardly yet estimated.
Nearly all the buildings owned by the
Highland Beach Association are badly
injured. The track OF the Central rail-
road has been torn up and rails twisted
out Of shape. Big stones placed here
last spring as protection for the track
were merely playthings of the strong
surf, which tossed them about like so
many chunks of wood. Between here
and Sandy Hook some two miles of rail-
road track has been carried away. To-
night the sea Is threatening to cut still
another inlet into shrewsbury river.
sEABRIGIlT, N. j., Sept. 11.-I.ast night
was night of terror here. Cottagcrs
were badly frightened by the terrible
surf and furious wind. The surf thun-
dored away. on tue east side aud west.
The water in Shrewsbury river rapidly
overlooked into tho street, flooding
houses and stores. The sea cut new
inlet through into the Shrewsbury river
north of Seabright, near where there was
an inlet 100 years ago, tearing away the
Sandy Hook tracks of the Central
railroad, and again making Sandy
Hook an island. Two cottages
at Lawnsoor were undermined by the
surf; they toppled down to the sea and
are badly undermined and will probably
go over the little bluff. Several others
are in dangerous situations. The sea
ran over into the river below the south
end of the Octagon house aud toppled
over cottage belonging TO Esquire
Rowland, The brick walls of the new
Methodist Episcopal church are mass
of ruins, The beach is strewn with de-
bris of all kinds, aud several bodies have
been seen floating in the surf, but no one
could recover them. All the cottagers
north of here have vacated their homes
and are at the hotels here and at Red
Bank and Long Branch. This town is
cut Oft from all railroad travel.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11.-The follow
ing dispatch, dated Atlantic City, N. j.,
September 10, via Absecon, n. j., Is lust
received: At L o'clock the island was
nearly Inundated. The severest storm
in twenty-five years is raging. The loss
here will be great. At intervals in the last
hour the wind has been ut the rate of
sixty y-onc to siXty-thrcc miles an hour.
Thcwind still blows from north-north-
east, with little prospect of changing.
The chiefdamage is along the beach into
leongport. The seas are beating twenty
feet high above the inlet pavilons.
Water surrounds the Hetches and Con-
tinental cottages on Atlantic avenue.
Plum's, Smith and Rogers inlet hotels
are in imminent danger of dcstruc-
ton. There are very few sections of
board walk standing down North
carolina avenue. The seaside bath
houses vent down before mountain
GUS wave. Jackson's bath houses are
nearly all gone. DR. Vests drug store,
Smith and Brady's baths and other
pnvilions are all in ruins.
Bcro's bathing parlors and summer bath
houses are almost Il total wreck. The
Windsor hotel withstood the morning
tide, although the foundations suffered
greatly. Many of the guests of this
house have sought other quarters. The
Hotel Brighton has sustained no loss,
although the lawn Il covered with water.
A short distance below Howard pier
woman holding q child in her arms was
lifted up by tho cwind and thrown
into the water. Walter Field, photo
grapher, jumped into the watcr and res
cueh the couple. Ii Is estimated that
$4,000 will not repair the loss from
Gritiths carousal to Chelsea pavilion.
Two large boarding houses, the Glnd.
stone and Cincinnati, each containing
twenty rooms, were raised from their
foundations and crushed like kindiing
wood. The destruction at Long Port IL
great.
A Horrible Sight.
PHILApELpurA, Sept. 1i.--A dispatch
from Laurel Del. says: The storm was
the most famous ever known. At least
two vessels have been beached The
beach from Rehebnth to Louis streets is
strewn with the wreck. II is thought ut
least fifty lives have been lost. 6Icn
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