The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-26
cAsrhEhY IN JAMAICA BAR
wiiiisu, Jacobs and IIis wife All Might ,
. Flooded Sand Island.

w,iiisu, Jacobs and IIis wife All Might On
= Flooded Sand Island.
No one in Jamaica Bay had q narrower es-
cape from drowning In the storm on Wednes-
day night than william Jacobs and his wife.
who live In Williams avenue. in the Twenty
sixth ward OF Brooklyn. They went out saii-
ing from Canarsie in a small. lnt-bottomed
boat In the afternoon and ran aground. When
the wind began to blow hard they were upon .
sand leland covered with n growth Of long.
wiry grass Except when the tide Is exceed
ingly high the island is above tho water. On
Wedne sday night It was flooded with two feet
OF water. and tho castaways were in danger
several times OF being blown of their feet into
deep water.
The waves would dash up to them. and at
times they would DO to their arm pits in water.
1t was only by holding on to the long, tough
grass that they could retain their position.
When morning came they discovered that the
sailboat had been swept away. and that they
would have to stay where they were until
taken of by some passing craft. About
o'clock on Thursday morning Theodore Frey.
an oystermnp, rescued them and put them
ashore at Cannrse Landing. Mrs. Jacobs wns
so weak that she tainted while being taken
from Frey's boat. and 1t was some hours be-
fore she recovered sufficiently to be taken
home
The tugboat Fannie McKane. Capt James
McAvoy. steamed out from Barren Island
about midnight on Wednesday to 90 to the
assistance Of a vessel showing signals OF dis
tress on the outer bar. of Rockaway Inlet.
Arriving there. Capt. McAvoy made out q
three ma sted schooner lying on her side. with
her rigging all gone, Tossing at their anchors
wore half dozen other schooners. From ono
OF these he learned that the stranded vessel
20 {oa ia fprn
, Capt. McAvoy attempted to get near enough
to give her u line. but speedily was compelledd
half extnguished the fire. causing the steam
TO give out. For little while 1t was cues nhes,
Law by the schooner until Thursday morning
| aboard one of the, other schooners, When he
| got home again no learned that the tug had
Th b a o the
Yacht Club only two ESCAPED damage. Along
each slide OF the main dock after the storm
water and piled upon each other in confused
mass. The eloop yacht Pirate, owned by
and her mast lying, across the wharf Lying
with her bow under the stern OF the Pirate
hs Fsay One S o her 1Sss
gone and her entire bow smashed. The
sioop Sinbad. owned by ex;Judge schiellein.
| foot sloop. the Birdie and Eta. owned by
Herman Houseman. was mashed against the
bulkhead and sank near the sinbad. The Ex-
| celsior escaped with the lost Of her bowsprit.
| some OF her rigging. and II few broken blanks
| forward. At tho head OF the dock was the
| Buker with nothing but her mast showing.
She is owned By ,Nindormann: one q the s su :.
sioop yacht John Fox. the property OF Steve
Hanemy was found with her oowspgit and
Braisteds barroom. John kavanagh's sloop
Katie Kavanagh had her side and stern car
ried away. 49, ,
Kavanagls hotel is built on spiles on the
West Shell Bank. His family was awakened
by the waves tearing up the wharf surround
ing the house and bursting open me a a0Sps
the night in the rain Watching. expecting
every moment to see their home swept away
Martin Duane's sloop yacht Orient. valued at
$1,000. was driven ashore on the beach. The
Lucille. Capt. James Rutland. lost spars and
rigging. The floating saloon at the break
water was blown over and wrecked.
In the cornfield Of John Jantzen were found
score OF small sail and rowboats. carried
there by the high tide. while one small sloop
was found hall mile up Rockaway avenue
1t is eat IN ated that the damage done at Canar-
sic will amount to fully $4,000.