Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-25
SWEPT OUT OF SIGHT.
Atlantic City Property is Washed
Away by a Terrific Storm.
HOUSE DAMAGED ON THE MEADOWS
Great Inroads Made Into Cape May Point
By the Heavy Seas.
GOTHAM SUFFERS FROM WIND AND RAIN
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPArcH.r

ATLANTIC CITY, October PA severe
wind storm has prevailed along this coast
since daybreak yesterday, accompanied by
considerable rain. The wind was then from
the northeast, and increased in velocity
during the day to AZ miles an hour. 1t
forced the waters Of the thoroughfare over
the embankment, inundating the meadows
for acres around and causing considerable
delay to railroad travel.
The storm ragged in varying moods all
through the night, but at 8 o'clock this
morning had spent its fury to such an extent
that the wind was only blowing six miles an
hour. Shortly after this gale set in from
the north blowing 3S miles an hour.
Along the ocean front the breakers rolled
in with considerable force, carrying away
posts and other property A natural bar
about 800 yards from the beach has formed
from the iron pier down to Chelsea, and
prevents the possibility of any serious dam
age to beach front property, which suffered
SO disastrously during the storm OF Septem-
Der, 1889.
DAMAGE ON THE MEADOWS.
Some damage was done on the meadows.
A new house on Indiana avenue, belonging
to Clark johnson, was undermined by the
water and toppled partly over. An ice
schooner at the Knickerbocker wharf
dragged her anchor and was stranded on the
meadows. The people living in many o!
the houses between the thOroughfare and
Baltic avenue were so hemmed in by the
rising tide for time that egress, except by
rowboats, was decidedly unsafe. Up at the
inlet the waves dashed over the buIkhead in
great volume
The hotel in connection with Bowker's
steamboat landing had It's foundation badly
weakened by the high tide, and has taken a
decided lurch to the lower side. Peters
beach is completely submerged, and Charles
Smith and his wife are again imprisoned by
the waves in their isolated hostelry. Viewed
from the inlet, Brigantine beach appears TO
be considerably inundated, and fears are
entertained that the miles of costly trestle
work, recently built across Grassy Bay and
the thoroughfare by the Brigantine Beach
Railroad Company have been seriously
damaged.
The wind is still blowing up to a velocity
of over 40 miles an hour.
UNFORTUNATE CAPE MAY POINT.
A dispatch from Cape May says: Cape
without any damage to sea wall or beach
drive. Cape May Point was less fortunate.
From the foot of Cape avenue around to
the Wanamaker cottage an average of five
feet of the bluff was broken down by the
heavy sea carrying with it all the fencing.
There were breaks made near the Presi-
dents cottage, but the damage was small.
The tide poured over Poverty beach, flood
ing the meadows to the depth of several feet
and at one time threatened the old govern
ment life station.
A special telegram from New York says:
The two storms that Joined forces off the
coast OF Virginia on Thursday and came
whooping up the coast, reaching here shortly
after the partnership was formed. did their
best to wash out New York to-day. They
brought with them a northeast gale that
drove the water up into the bay and river
and flooded the downtown district. Through
West street the water was ankle deep and
everything movable foated. Basement
stores were flooded and the shopkeepers were
unhappy. Around on the other side OF the
city the water backed up in the sewers and
flooded the cellars in Front and Water and
South streets.
BIG WINDS IN GOTHAM.
The wind blew at the rate OF Sc miles an
hour, and put on an extra squirt coming
around corners. Whenever there was a
corner with big building OH it there was
turning place for umbrellas. Unless the
holder was an expert the breeze would get
around behind the shield, and inside out it
would go in jiffy. Then the rain would
drive down his back between his neck and
his collar, as ii what lighted on the outside
of his clothes could not drench him thor
ougbly enough.
Folks on land did not get the brunt OF
the storm by any means. OF shore, even
as ar in port as Quarantine. the wind blew
a gale and the sea ran high enough to sweep
over the decks of the smaller vessels. Some
of the big ones got an occasional drenching.
Captain Condor cruised around with the
revenue cutter, Mahattan, with officers to
board the incoming boats. He got as
Jar as Quarantine and came back. He
said the waves washed over the pilot house
of the cutter occasionally, and that once,
when ne lowered one of the windows, he
thought the wind would take OFT the whole |
top of the house. On the way back he saw
a lumber laden schooner driven into the |
channel, where she might have |
been wrecked. He chased in after her and |
brought her out in safety.