The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-19

morning the storm held sway and
measured out the wind at the rate of
tWenty-four miles an hour.
STILL BLOWING.
LEWIS, Della. Sept. 12.-No Ian
guage can picture the terrible scene
along the coast. The wind is blow
ing frightfUily. driving the rain with
q force that cuts like hail. The half
mile reach of sand between the town
and the coast is tossing, biIlowing
ocean, bearing wreckage on every
wave Through the mist of the storm,
tattered sails and the naked masts
OF scores Of broken and diemantled
vessels can be dImly seen. Since Mon
day night the storm has ragged with
out abatement and yesterdays dawn
showed q hundred vessels which had
sought the refuge Of the break-water.
The refuge was insufficient. BY IL
o'clock the sea broke over the break
water, wrecked the telegraph station,
carried away the big fog bell and
rushed shoreward, sweeping away the
steamboat pier and dasbing the station
bark, Eleven Salvador, against the iron
government pier. The piers of Brown
Il Co. and Leuce Bros. gave away and
were swept to the sea. The United
States marine hospital was dashed
from its mornings and sent spinning
down the beach. The Lewis
life saving station, forty-fiye
feet above high water mark,
was flooded and its foundation under
mined. Hugheyville, suburb be-
tween the town and beach was sub
merged and its 200 Inhabitants fed for
life. leaving ali their possessions be-
hind. The fist boat came ashore at 8
am; then came another and another.
The lite-saving station crew, rein
forced by the Henlopen and Rehoboth
crews. went to work and have labored
almost INCREASINGLY ever since. The
crew of every vessel that struck was
taken off by the daring men and not a
life was lost among the scores of men
they handled.
Following is complete list of the
vessels that have come ashore: Italian
ship, Eleven Salvador; American
schooner, Henri Clark; British schoon-
CT, Byron NJ; American schooners,
Allena Covert, Gertrude, Summers, Il.
+. Becker, Z. and l.. Bryan, Maud,
Leonard, Nina, A. Reed: Nave. Chas.
Z. Stickney total loss), Addie b. Ba-
con, S. A. Rudolph, A. and E. Hooper,
Emily, r. Dwyer, 1. d. Robinson;
American ship. w. r. Grace; American
barge, Timours; Spanish bark, Allan
ia; American brig, Richard j. Green;
American Schooners, Major w. H.
Tantum Total loss) Nettie champion;
pilot boat, L. F. Bayard; barges, Wal
lace and TOnawanda and two others,
names unknown. Also a vessel
sank off the brown shoals,
who got ashore on a raft. Another
vessel, in regard to which there was a
dispute as to her being bark or a
three masted schooner as her top
masts only can be discovered, as she
is sunk on the shears shoals. 1t is not
known whether or not her crew es-
capped. The total number of lives lost
will probably exceed forty. Five of
the eight men who composed the crew
of the f. s. L. Broyan persisted where
the vessel struck on the BrandyWine
shoals. The mate and two seaman
caught spar and drifted all night.
At daybreak the others discovered that
one of the sailors was dead,
his body being still dashed to the
spar. The two survivors were
picked up by a tug and
| brought to Lewis. There is great con-
Germ over the crew of the pilot boat,
the Tunnel. She put to sea on Mon
day and has not been heard from.
Pilots John Barnes, Lewis Bertrand
and James Rowland, Harry Hickman,
son of HarbeSon Hickman and "A crew
/ of eight men were on board. The New
| Jersey pilot boat Edmunds was blown
across the bay and lies grounded on
the Jersey coast with her sails in tat
tiers. New York Pilot No. was driv-
en- in from the sea but made anchorage
safely. An unknown schooner is
ashore at Rehoboth and the coast for
miles down is reported to be strewn
with wrecks.
THREE MONTHS TO RECOVER.
| ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 12.-It will
take months for this city to recover
from the loss the storm has caused
The wind still blows at the rate of 81
to 40 miles an hour and it is still rain
ing The beach tides have not been
large and consequently are unaccom-
panied by further damage. The dam
age to the road beds OF the railroad
companies is worse than at first antic
ipated.
Contrary to the rumor last evening
William Smiths hotel on Peters beact
is perfectly safe but greatly damaged
there was no loss of life there. There
is no telephone communication. It il
not known whether or not the hote
Aberdeen withstood the storm. Grea
anxiety is felt for the safety of the res
dents.
AT NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-lbulletin.l IL
is rumored that large sound Steamel
is on the rocks near Fort Schuyler
but nothing definite can be learned a
yet.
LOST AT SEA.
WILMINGTON, Del, Sept. 12.-New
comes from Rheoboth that the surf i
breaking over the Bright house porch
that Surf avenue is entirely washes
away and that the Douglas house
surrounded by water and its inmate
are in great terror. Three vessels pre-
viously reported lost outside the cape