Passaic City record., 1893-08-26

crisis came when the big schooner yacht
Meta dragged her anchor. Suddenly it was
heaved high on the crest of a wave and then
landed upon the disabled Stella At Savfn
Rock nearly all the bath houses were
washed away and many dancing pa
vilions damaged seriously. AT snort
Beach the launch Ella, owned by Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess, was sunk in
collision, and a number of small yachts
were driven on the beach and destroyed.
Camp Norris where the Connecticut Ma
tional Guard was at rendezvous at Mantle,
was left in ruins. Not one tent out OF
tbe $50 remained standing. The
severe gale did immense damage In
the interior of the State. Many fine shade
trees were blown down and several partly
finished buildings were unroofed and demoi-
ished. The roof of the Meriden silver plate
factory at Meriden was blown off.
The storm fell on New Jerseys coast re-
cion with terrific force and disastrous effect,
Shipping destroyed, crops ruined. communl-
cation interrupted. houses and hotels un-
rooted, trees uprooted, fowl killed and roads
washed out are some of the costly results. In
JERSEY City the streets were Uttered with num-
dreds of shade trees. The roofs were torn Ike
paper and shingles were carried away, leav-
ING apsrtures through which the rain poured.
Those living in the meadow section found
their homes in a lake. In Hoboken the
sewers of the meadow district were choked
and the streets were under water. Few tele-
graph poles along the West Shore tracks
resisted the furious gale. In Ran
way cellars were flooded and roofs
injured. Two factories were obliged to
shut down temporarily in order to
repair damages. A. 7. Crane, who has
boats for hire lost fifty of them. In Belmar
the entire roof of the big Columbia Hotel was
carried away. The heavy beams and josts
crashed down through the floors below, fright
ening the $50 guests who were in their beds "a
stampede was made for the parlor on the
ground floor. The bathing houses and pavilion
were also blown down. The loss to the hotel
will exceed $4,000. In Point Pleasant several
cottages were unroofed. The visitors to
Long Branch will long remember the storm:
At West End the gale lifted part OF the roof
from the big West End Hotel. The bath
ing houses We're strewn along the oeacn
and the pavilion badly wrenched. big
pile of debris on the beach Is all
that is left of the Howland Hotel bathing
houses. The Scarboro Hotel bathing houses
are all gone also. The loss is a heavy one.
J. C. Van Cleaf, OF the United States Hotel,
loses all OF his bathing houses and their
contents. At the Ocean Hotel bathing
grounds, Pierson & Jules have pile
of kindling wood, all that is left of
a long row OF new bathing houses. Five hun
dred dollars worth of new bathing suits
went with tine houses. OF the big iron pier
just north of the bathing grounds fully
four-ffths were swept away. OF the
Brighton Hotel bath houses q few
doors some broken joists and part of
a bathing suit is all that is left. Just
north of the Brighton Hotel the roadway
was not protected by bulkhea1s and the sea
carried away fully ten feet 81 the highway.
There are barely eight feet left. A fleet OF
about twenty five graceful boats were swing
ing at their moorings off the long railroad
pier at Atlantic Highlands at sundown: at
daybreak only four remained. The
rest lay wrecked and battered
against the spiles or along the shore.
Among the farmers and fruit growers in the
vicinity of Elizabeth the storm has caused
great damages The peach crop has
suffered badly The fruit crop, which
was about TO be gathered. was blown
from the trees and scattered on the
muddy ground. Reports from all inland
New Jersey towns say the storm did much
damage to buildings, farms and stock. All
telegraphie or telephone connection with
many inland towns was cut off for the first
time since the memorable blizzard of March,
1885,
The greatest havoc was wrought at sea-
From all along the coast came reports OF
disaster and loss OF life This is the record
Tug Panther. of Philadelphia. with barge
Lackins Valley tug went down off South
ampton Long Island. barge went ashore;
sixteen men on tug, four on barge seventeen
were lost. Fishing smack Empire State
ashore at Squan Beach, N. j.; crew of
ten men. all of New London, lost
fishing schooner Mary P. Kelly ashore at AS
bury Park, Captain Chris Brattan and three
men drowned steamer OF Merritt Wrecking
Company ashore near Narragansett Pier,
Diver William Coolan, of Staten Island,
drowned Government tug General Hum
phrey sunk off Atlantic Highlands. crew not
heard from.