Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-15
GALES ALONG THE COAST.
Many Boats Carried out to Sea-Sex
 eral Lives Lost.

| Many Boats Carried Ont to Sea-Sev. | eral Lives Lost.
 | NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-The fearful storm
 which ragged in this vicinity since Sunday
 has wrought immense damage along the
 Long Island coast. At Rockaway waves
 nearly thirty feet high are flashing the
 beach, blowing far into the sand and wash ing buildings and boats out to sea. Many pleasure crafts have been missing since Sunday, and it is feared they have been
 lost with all on board. George White,
 Alfred Kane, Mark Thursby and Alden
 Little of New York hired two boats Sun
 day, for days fishing. They have not
 since been seen, but one of the boats has
 been picked up, and there is hardly 8
 doubt that all four men have been
 drowned.
 At Holland station on Rockaway beach,
 seven boats were let out on Sunday. They carried sixteen men. None of them have since been seen, and it is thought the storm carried them out 10 sea- As the water outside the inlet ragged mountains high, so that small boat could scarcely have lived minute in it, the sixteen men were probably drowned.
 A two-masted schooner sailed by Jans Moore, and having crew of three men, put out from Canarsie Sunday afternoon. She was loaded with coal and bound for Baltimore. She was caught in the storm and the three sailors were swept off the deck while trying to make sail Moore clung to a mast and was saved, but only after drifting around for over twenty-four hours, and then at the loss of Julius Quay, life saver, who went out to the vessel in brooches buoy and was drowned. Moore was finally rescued. He is believed to be insane from his awful experience, as he talks in an incoherent way and constantly begs to be taken back to the boat.
 Vessels on Long Island sound fared badly. The steamer Elm City, which left this city at p. m. yesterday for New Haven, was compelled to anchor under night. She had about 150 passengers and considerable freight aboard. The steamer Delaware, which also left here yesterday for Norwich, lay off Whitestone all night The steamer Skidmore, which sailed from this city Saturday last for Bridgeport, has not reached her destination, though the run should be made in six hours Grave apprehension is felt for her safety. The Skidmore had several barges, coal laden, in tow, and it is feared they have broken adrift and foundered. Inquiry at several sound ports fails to account for her. The crews of the barges and of the steamer of sailing vessels are storm-bound in Ja- maica and Bowery bays.
 HOMEGROWN, Mass, Oct. 1.-The heavy gale of the past two days has mod erated this afternoon, but the wind still continues from the northeast and the weather cloudy. Schooner Henry L. Phillips from the channel fishing grounds made this port yesterday afternoon with all sails split and 5000 pounds of cod aboard. During last night she went ashore on Long Point. The vessel lies on a sandy bottom partly full of water and will probably be saved. The crew are all right.
 Reports over the government telephone line place last night among the worst ever experienced by the surfmen along the Cape shore. A very heavy surf is rolling in to- day. Arrivals from the Grand Banks bring reports of the loss of the schooner Sarah R. Smith. The Smith was disabled during the gale of September 19, damaging her rudder, having her decks swept and spring ing a leak. After the gale abated Captain Chrisholm called survey of a number of captains in the vicinity, who recommended that he abandon the vessel. Acting on their advice, he sold his fish to the schooner Willie Mckay and work was begun trans ferring them. Another gale sprung up after 300 quintals had been transferred and the the Smith broke adrift Later she was boarded by the schooner Annie, who suc- ceeded in saving 125 quintals of fish. The smith was set on fire in order to remove danger to other vessels.
 DELAWARE BREAKwATER, Del, Oct. IA, 3 p. m.-The U. s. s. Atlanta, which left New York Sunday to go to the assistance of the stranded U. s. s. Despatch, has ar rived here short of coal. The Atlanta had fifty hours of heavy gale, during which a hawse pipe split. A violent explosion of gas occurred by which six men were in jured. Two of these men are in critical condition. The Atlanta is now repairing