The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-25
A STORM AT SEA.
Blowing Great Guns on
the Atlantic.
DAMAGE ALONG THE COAST
Many Ships Have Foundered and
Great Havoc Has Been Worked
Also on Land.

the UaTOOT, as well as SIpdtNSUlDS WI lCu
are due to-day. are now 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 no less
severe on land. Trees were overturned in
Central Park and many plants ruined.
Many plate-glass windows in tie vicinity
of Madison square and along Broadway
were shattered by the violence of the 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 were still few wires left this morn
ing. OF seventy five wires TO Washing
ton only twelve were standing. but the
connections with Philadelphia were 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
England was circuitous. At washout
fifteen miles from New York, on the main
line of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford road. freight train was wrecked
about 80 this morning. and not a train
has passed to-day. The summer resorts
suffered severely from the high seas.
The storm which passed over Brooklyn
at an early hour this morning caused great
damage and inconvenience. Nearly every
street in the city was covered with debris
from the trees. The police report at least
kr., - ia s-ke
the storm policeman found the tOdy of a
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 Sc
verely felt, and reports of damage more or
less serious are coming in throughout the
day, but here, as we'll as elsewhere, they
are meager on account of prostration of
the wires, telegraph and telephone. The
streets at E!izabethport near the Sound.
are under water to the depth of two or
three feet, and people foated about on
RATS TO get to their work.
As the day wore on arriving craft
brought the story of the storms work al
sea, and il proved terrible supplement to
the record of its ravages on land. The
fishing schOOners Empire State. with q
crew Of ten men, and Ella NJ. johnson,
with 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 her captain and
first mate. the Chocrus reached port to-
day. the only survivor of the three.
The crew OF the ChocrUs say that no
small boat could possibly live in the sea
that was running at the time and that the
dOries on board could have been OF no pos
sible use TO the crews of the two vessels.
The three boats had been out only 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 were 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, the day before
yesterday. he being the sole survivor of a
crew of six of the ishing-s choOner Mary
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The ishing-schooner John Feeny came
in tonight with two of her crew badly in
jured from the terrific pounding they re-
ceived. The captain reports seeing men
clinging to wreckage some distance off,
but the storm was so furious he was up-
able TO render them assistance.
From Long Branch tonight it is learned
that it will be some time before thatresort
RECEIVERS from the effects of the storm. For
tunately 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 the Nor
mandy not a single clearinghouse is left
intact. Most Of them were swept out I'M to
the sea, while others were washed high up
on the beach. The famous old iron pier is
a thing OF the past, the storm having car
rled away fOur-ffths of it. Galilee, a pretty
little resort north of Monmouth Beach, is
com pletely inundated, and at one time
it was feared the Protestant Episcopal
Church would be swept into the ocean.
Other resorts along the coast suffered
severely. and reports reaching Long
Branch in roundabout way from the in
land towns tell of much damage to build
ings, farms and stock. Telegraphic or
telephone communication, however, is cut
off for the first time since the great biz
card. Reports from Ocean Grove and
other points on the Jersey shore tell
similar story of great damage, but 1t is i'm
possible yet 20 give anything like an idea
of the amount OF damage done along the
coast in general.
This morning coal barge and the tow
ing vessel were wrecked off Southampton,
l.. l.. and up to tonight six men from the
wrecked vessels had been washed ashore
out OF crew of twenty-one men on both
vessels. OF the six that came ashore three
were beyond resuscitation and as the other
fifteen are undoubtedly drowned it makes
the loss of life from these two vessels
eighteen. The steamer was the Panther
and the barge in tow the Lykens Valley of
Philadelphia.
AsBURY PARK, n. j., Aug. 24.ZThe
fishing schooner Mary +. Kelly of New
York was wrecked this morning and four
men persisted. They were Christopher
Bratton Of Brooklyn, First Mate Charles
Brown of Gieenpoint, the steward, known