Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-12
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
The Storm.

The Storm.
WILMINGTON, Dsl., Sept. 12.-Lswes
specials state that no language can picture
the terrible scene along the coast. The
wind is blowing with almost hurricane
ferceness, driving the rain with force that
cuts like hail. The half.mile reach of sand
between town and coast IL q tossing, btllowy
ocean, bearing wreckage on every wave.
Through the mist of spray and storm latter
ed sails. and naked masts of scores of desert.
ed snd dismantled vessels can be dimly
seen. Since Monday night the storm has
ragged without abatement. Yesterdays
dawn showed hundred vessels which had
sought the refuge of the breakwater. The
refuge was insufficient. By IL o'clock the
sea broke over the brakewater; wrecked the
telegraph station, carried away the big fog
bell and rushed shorewards. sweeping away
the steamboat pier and dashing the Italian
bark II Salvatore against the iron govern
ment pier The piers of Brown & Co., and
Leucs Bros. gave way and were swept to
sea. The u 8. marine hospital was dashed
from it's mooriDgs and sent spinning down
the beach. The Lewes life saving station,
forty feet above high water mark, was
flooded and it's foundation undermined.
Huebey Vile, suburb between the town
and beach, was submerged and its 200 nbab
itants fed for life, leaving all their posses.
ions behind The first boat came ashore at
9 a. m. Then came another and another.
The life saving crew. reinforced by the
Henlopen and Rshoboth crews, went to
work and have labored almost increasingly
ever since. Ths crew of every vessel that
struck was taken of by these daring men
and not life was lost among the scores of
men they handled, An unknown vessel
sunk off the Brown Shoals and all the crew
but two were drowned The total number
of lives lost will probably exceed forty.
News comes from Rehoboth that the aurf
Is breaking over the Bright House porch
that Surf avenue ia entirely washed away
and that the Douglas House is surrounded
by water and its inmates are in great terror
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept. 12.-Train
service has been resumed between here and
Philadelphia. 1t will take months for this
caused. The wind still blows at the rate OF
80 to 40 miles an hour and it ia still raining
The beach tides have not been large aud
consequently are unacoompanied by further
damage. The meadows, however, are still
three and four feet under water The dam
age to the road beds of the railroad compa
niles Is worse than at first anticipated. VIM.
Smiths hotel, on Peters Beach, Rrigsntiue,
is safe, but greatly damaged. There was no
loss of lie there. II is not known whether
or not the hotel Aberdeen Withstood the
storm. Great anxiety Ia felt for the safety
of the realdeuts. It Ia estimated that $3.50,
600 will not cover the loss to Atlantic City
and her interests. Fifteen thousand people
will leave here to-day and tomorrow, Sew
eral thrilling escapes from drowning are
reported,
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. ] j, Sept IL
The storm in this vicinity was the worst
known since the blizzard. At this writing
no lives have been lost bat the loss OF prop.
erty has been great.
NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-THE White Star
steamer Teptonlc, the Psnnland and Rotter
dam from Europa report having expe
rienced unusually heavy weather, bat had
met with no serious trouble About niue
o'clock the Roanoke and Richmond, of the
Old Dominion line, arrived. They, too, had
their share of rough weather.
1t is rumored that large Sound steamer
is on the rocks near Fort Schuyler. Moth
log deinite can yet be learned
The Natl nal line steamer England. from Lv
erpoo got to her dock to-day, aft Ut experiencing
one of the toughest voyages her commander had
encountered in service of 16 years at sea. At
midnight Tuesday one Of the fremen was washed
overheard and drowned.