The record-union., 1893-08-25


passed over Brooklyn at an early hour
this morning caused great damage and
Inconvenience. Nearly every street in
the city is covered with debris from the
trees. The police report at least ten
houses unroofed. During the hight of the
storm a policeman found the body of
dead man lying in a peddler's wagon on
Whipple street. The wagon was filed
with water and the man was floating
around.
In New Jersey the storm was most
severely felt, and reports of damage more
or less serious, are coming in throughout
the day, but here, as well as elsewhere,
they are meager on account of prostra-
ton of the wires, telegraph and telephone.
The streets at Elizabethport, near the
Sound, are under water to the depth of
two or three feet, and people f1oated
about on RATS to go to their work.
Many ships from New York harbor, as
well as steamships which were due to-
day, are cruising outside, waiting for the
wind to subside. Through the dragging
OF the anchors of the escaping ships in
the bay and North River more than fifty
cables of the Western Union Telegraph
Company were torn, and are now lying
useless on the bottom of the river
The ravages of the storm were not less
severe on land. Trees were overturned
in Central Park and many plants ruined.
Many plate-glass windows in the vicin-
ity OF Madison Square and along Broad
way were shattered by the violence of
wind, while shutters were torn from
houses throughout the city.
The wire connection with Boston and
New Haven was entirely broken. Be
tween Stamford, Conn, and New York
there are still a few wires left this morn
ing. OF seventy-five wires to Washing
ton, only twelve are standing, but the
connections with Philadelphia are in
comparatively good order. All the wires
in Long Island were badly affected and
trains had ceased running on schedule
time.
Railroad travel to and from New Eng
land is circuitous. At a washout fifteen
miles from New York. on the main line
of the New York. New Haven and Hart
ford Road, freight train was wrecked
about l:5O this morning, and not a train
has passed since. The summer resorts
suffered severely from the high seas.
At New Haven the damage to the har-
Dor is very great, and the oyster beds
suffered especially. They are thought to
be completely banked in mud and may
prove a total loss, in which case the pc
cuniary damage will be many thousand
dollars.
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damage. A wrecking vessel went down,
and one man was drowned.
AS the day wore on, arriving craft
brought story of the storms work at
sea, and proved terrible supplement to
the records of its ravages on land. The
fishing schooner Empire State, with
crew of ter men, and the schooner Ella
NJ. Johnson, with a crew of eight men.
went down last night off Manasquan, on
the Jersey coast, and all on board were
lost. These two vessels were in company
with the Chocrus last night when the
storm struck them, and after beating
around all night in some of the worst
weather ever known off the coast, and
with the loss of the Captain and first
mate, the Chocrus reached port to-day.
The only survivor of the crew of three of
the Chocrus says no small boat could
possibly live in the sea that was running
at that time, and the dories on board
could have been of no possible use to the
crews of the two vessels. The three boats
had been out seven days, all hailing from
New London.
The steamer Eggleston Abbey, from
Cardiff, put in for repairs this afternoon.
She labored through the storm for six
hours last night, during which time her
steel decks We're badly damaged, the
plates being stove in in several places by
the tremendous seas thrown down upon
them. The Captain reports picking up
George Upton of Portland, Me-, day be-
fore yesterday, he being the sole sur
vivor of a crew of six Of the fishing
schooner Mary Lizzie, which foundered
on August Dist.
The fishing schooner John Feeny
came in tonight with two of the
crew badly injured from the terrific
pounding they received. The Captain
reports seeing men clinging to wreckage
some distance off, but the storm was so
furious they were unable to render as
sistance.
From Long Branch tonight it is
learned that it will be some time before
that resort RECEIVERS from the effects of
the storm. Fortunately there was no loss
of life, but there are few houses in Long
Branch which did not suffer some slight
damage. From the West End Hotel to
Normandy not a single bathing house
was left intact Most of them were
swept out into the sea, while others were
washed high on the beach. The famous
old iron pier is a thing of the past, the
storm carrying away four-ffths of it.
Galilee, pretty little resort north of
Monmouth Beach, was completely inun-
dated, and at one time it was feared the
Protestant Episcopal Church would be
swept into the ocean. Other resorts suf-
fered severely.
Reports reaching Long Branch in a
roundabout way from inland towns tell
of much damage to buildings, farms and
stock. Telegraph or telephone COM
munication, however, is cut off for the
first time since the great blizzard.
Reports from Ocean Grove and other
points on the jersey shore tell a similar
story of great damage. 1t is impossible
yet to give anything like an idea of the
damage done along the coast in general.
This morning coal barge and towing
vessel were wrecked off Southampton, L.