Smyrna times., 1890-10-29
Thursdays Storm.

The first and only severe eastern
storm since last winter prevailed on our
Coast on Thursday and did considera-
BILE damage, though not near so much as
that just twelve years, before, which !:
very much resembled, when two lives
were lost on Bombay Hook and four on
the marsh below Leipsic.
Collins Beach seemed to catch it in
its full force. The embankment was
broken in three places and the reclaim
ed meadows of the National Dredging |
Company overAowed to the depth of
two or three feet. Some large ricks of
timothy hay which were thus sur
rounded with water will be ruined.
The heavy sea washed Though the
stone pile in front of the hotel and cut
away the yard some twelve feet, the
water overhowing the place. Thirty
or forty feet of the pier was washed
away, and the long bridge was consid
erably bent in its middle.
Bombay hook island was overhowed
to depth of a foot or two at high tide
and some of the bridges foated, but no
serious damage reported.
Much of the land remained under
water, bad feature for that seeded in
in wheat. The vertical planking fronting
the yard at Woodland Beach doubtless
saved it from heavy washing A part
of the board walk was washed away
and water covered the surface clear up
to the stable. 1t was thought at the
time the railroad pier was severely
damaged
The steamer Ella started from Phil
adelphia that morning and had a rough
time of it until Reedy Island was
reacL ed late in the afternoon, where
Capt Smith cast anchor off Port Penn
and remained until 3 o'clock the next
morning, when the wind had abated.
The new jetty running out from the
Island forms an excellent harbor in
stress of weather.
big ST. Georges" marsh bank, along
the bay shore between Port Penn and
Delaware City succumbed to the high
tide, and the waters of the Delaware
bay poured into the lowlands through
sixty foot breech.
Between 500 and l. 900 acres of land
much of which is under cultivation, i,
under water The road between Por
Penn and the Long Bridge is submer.
ged and the bridge badly damaged.
The farm of the fish commissioner
Charles Shubert, was under water ant
his house surrounded The loss will
amount to several thousand dollors
No material damage was done to tn
Breakwater or Lewes.
: ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST.
I The storm swept along the Atlanti
Y coast, flooding the smaller seapor
e towns and summer resorts, strandin
e vessels and carrying destruction bt
s fore it..
Il Coney Island presented dilapidate
r appearance. From one end to tn
, other signs of wreckage of every de'
cription were visible. The greater POI
ton of the trestlework of the Marin
railroad was swept away.
=. Much damage has been done betwee
Long Branch and Atlantic City. TIL
places which suffered most were Sea
bright, Monmouth Beach and Galile,
The surf rolled over the tracks of til
New Jersey Southern railroad at Sand
Hook and the rOadbed was washe
away at different points. At MOI
mouth Beach and Galilee the bull
heads and embankments were Washe
away by the unusually high tid
Shortly before midnight the water co,
y cred the lowlands at Seabright.
- At Asbury Park the promenade I
Second and Asbury avenues was badl
damaged by being undermined. I'll
pavilion at the foot of Asbury avenU
was considerably damaged and man
bath houses were carried out to sea.
;, At Bayhead three masted schoon,
was caught in the gale and drive
ashore. The crew was cared for by Il
\ life saving men. The bridges over Il
Manasquan river were all swept ava
-, and the meadows between that poi
:, and the Atlantic Highlands were cor
: pletely covered with water
THE STORM TWELVE YEARS AGO.
Just twelve years ago the same dat
the most disastrous storm and fresh
a that has ever visited this state Occurrt
n and scores of lives were lost and thou
ands of dollars worth of property de
trOyed. 1t began early in the mOrnil
Is of October %, 1878, when a heavy ia
f. began to fall. The wind rose to tt
- rife gale and for twenty four hours
was impossible for anyone but strOl
g men to venture out of doors.
I'd The greatest damage and destructi,
I'd was in the towns along the Delawa
= river, especially at New Castle and d.
aware City. All the towns were foo
'n ed and in many. families were comp
led to move to SECOND stories of thC
* houses to escape the tide, but in t
above named towns the destruction
n' vessels, houses, buildings, live stoC
We and human life was awful. A score
70 sailors were drowned on the river, a
four men perished on the marshes
OF Leipsic. The river was one mass
er floating furniture and small building
he while for weeks afterward great qua
- titles of drowned animals could be Sc
VT floating about. The banks, causewa
rs' and rOadways were bad damag
20. and in some instances totally destroyI
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