Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-03
A MARCH STORM
Gets in It's Usual Work Along
the Atlantic Coast.
And Leaves Mementoes Along
the Seaboard Line

Great caps eaten Into the Beach at
Various Places by the Force of the
Waves-The Big Hotel at Brighton
Beach Endangered-Even New York
Bay So Rough as TO Cause Sea Sickness.
NEW YORK, March 3.-There have
been fiercer storms this winter on this
coast but none, as according to those
who know, which may prove so danger
Gus.
At 9 o'clock Tuesday morning at Block
Island and Sandy Hook, the wind was
blowing sixty miles an hour on shore.
1t is probable the storm will leave sad
momentoes in its wake along the sea
board line. The winds swept over the
city with great fury. A few trees were
uprooted and several telegraph poles
blown down, but thus far this is the full
extent of the damage inflicted.
At Hoboken.
In Hoboken, N. j., just across the
river from this city, two families had
narrow escape from death. Shortly be-
fore A o'clock Tuesday morning the
south wall of a big apartment house in
course of erection at 1877 Gardne street
fell on a fra-le building next door, occu-
pied by the family of Thomas King and
another family. The frame building
was crushed and filled with debris, brt
its occupants marvelously escaped any
injury.
OFF Long Island.
The coast along the south side of Long
Island felt the gale severely. The waves
dashed up on the shore of Coney Island,
Rockaway and Long Beach, pouring n
great floods into the bath houses and
some of the pavilions.
The tide is cutting away the sand at
Brighton Beach like dredger and eat
ing its way toward the big hotel in
way that menaces the supports of the
great structure unless the wind shall
subside very quickly.
The sand under the Seidl music pa
vilion is cut away and the building
stands upon stills out among the waves
ready to topple over at any moment.
Along the Jersey Coast.
Reports from along the Jersey coast
tell unaL.mous story of furious Wild
and raging surf.
At Asbur. Park and Ocean Grove the
surf ran very strong and cut out ne
beach. The flooring of the big pavilion
at the foot of Asbury avenue was torn
ont by the heavy sea and the new
towers on the Hotel Lafayette blown
down.
AT Long Branch the gales drove the
surf high OF the beach, the waves cut
ting into IT, bluff, carrying away large
sections of it. The damage will prove
very serious.
At Cape May cove, waves were driven
high upon lhe beach and carried away
about two lliles of track on the five mile
branch of the West Jersey railroad.
Travel to Anglesea, Wildwood and Holly
Beach was cut off.
At Staten Island.
Residents of Staten Island, it is said,
never saw the tide as high in all their
experience. At New Brighton the
water nearly reached the railroad tracks.
All Of the ferryboat lines were delayed
more or less.
Many of the passengers from Staten
Island to this city were fearfully sea
sick, so rough and turbulent were the
waters of New York bay. The upper
bay was filled with wreckage, driftwood
and fiotsam.
In the Interior.
The reports from the interior of New |
Jersey and up along the Hudson river
say that severe blizzard ragged. Roads
are blocked and telegraph communica-
ton sadly interrupted.
AT 10 o'clock Tuesday night the storm
in this city was still raging fercely, and |
from all appearances would continue
throughout the night.
Two Storms Unite.
The local forecast official says that the I
gale arose from the union of two storms |
that ragged in Virginia and Ohio on Sun
day night. They both bore eastward at |
rapid pace, until early Tuesday mo n
ing they Joined forces off Block Island. |