The morning news., 1894-04-12
HIGH WINDSAND DEEP SNOW
A Fearful Gale Sweeps the Coast Of
New Jersey.

The Beach From Sandy Hook to Long
Branch Strewn With Wreckage.
Sailors Drowned By the Score-The
Life Saving Crews Unable to GO to
the Assistance of the LuckIess Yes
sels-The Deepest Snow in Forty
Years.
New York, April IA fearful gale
swept the New Jersey coast last night,
and continues to-day with almost un-
abated fury. The beach along the At
lantic ocean, from Sandy Hook as far
south as Long Branch, N. j., is strewn
with wreckage. This morning a large
schooner was noticed in distress a short
distance from the coast at Seabright,
N. ].
Owing to the heavy gale and tremen-
dous surf, the life boats were useless, and
it was impossible to successfully land the
life lines. Before assistance could reach
the vessel it went to pieces. Six bodies
have been washed ashore, and it is feared
that others have been lost in the surf A
heavy snow storm prevailed during the
morning hours and the Ife-saving crew
were unable to locate the signal guns,
which could be heard sounded at inter
walls.
A great many handsome cottages at
Highland Beach, Monmouth, Seabright
and other points have been wrecked.
Many pavilions at Long Branch have
been damaged, and at many points
wharves, landings, bath houses, etc, have
been swept away.
Reports are received from points south
of here, as far away as Atlantic City,
stating that the storm ragged all night
and 1t is feared many vessels have been
wrecked, and probably a great number of
their crews drowned. The telephone
wires connecting the life saving stations
have been blown down and it is impossi-
BILE to get details of the storm.
THE DAMAGE IN BROOKLYN.
The storm did great damage in Brook
lyn. Trees, sign boards, skylights, tele-
graph poles and wires were blown down
in all sections of the city, together with
several houses in course of erection
Through the central and northern parts
Of New Jersey the storm ragged with as
much severity as in the southern. Trees
were blown down, fences Frustrated,
windows STAYED ih and chimneys blown
down.
Incalculable damage was done to the
fruit crops. There is little doubt but that
the fruit buds in the peach regions of
New Jersey are frozen and will not bear.
Many farmers say they can see nothing
for it but to cut down the trees and re-
cover themselves by planting some crop
In the orchards.
Through the hill regions of the state
fifteen TO twenty inches of snow was re-
fAH In Sc NT,,
counties the roads were almost impas-
sable.
In this city snow and sleet, high winds
and rain, and all those characteristics
which are supposed to mark the storms
OF winter descended to-day 1t was
almost blizzard, and great damage was
done. At Genesee, n. Y, it began snow
ing at II O'Clock yesterday morning, and
at o'clock this evening the snow was
tWenty-three inches deep on level and
still falling.
In the coal region of Pennsylvania
twenty to thirty inches of snow are re-
ported everywhere. Should hard freeze
follow, great mischief will result
LOST OFF MANAsQUAN.
Manasquan, N. j., April 11-At 4
o'clock this morning the Manasquan life
saving crew were notified of a vessel
ashore half a mile south of Seagirt.
When they reached the spot with their
apparatus the vessels ladders had been
washed overheard. A line was fired over
the hulk. but nobody was seen on
board, and no attention was paid
to it, and inside of half an hour
the vessel went completely to pieces. A
piece OF wreckage which floated ashore
bore the name albert w. Smith"
Nothing has been heard from the crew,
either living or dead. From the apparent
size OF the vessel, she probably carried
crew of eight to eleven men. She was
northward bound, with some heavy cargo,
as none of it has come ashore
POUNDED INTO KINDLING WOOD.
New York, April II, 80 p. m.-The
vessel wrecked between Manasquan and
Seagirt was the schooner Albert w.
Smith, of Providence, IRON Philadelphia
for Providence, with coal. Nothing has
been heard of any of her crew of eight
persons. The vessel pounded into kind
ling wood.
The schooner Kate Warkee, from Cape
Ann for Philadelphia, with paving stone,
was the other vessel wrecked. She went
ashore between The Highlands and Sandy
Hook and also broke up. Her crew of
elght men was all drowned, and so far no
bodies have come ashore, contrary to first
report For an hour before she struck
- NdS III pam SlBuJ VI uuIuI6OS
Of people who were helpless to render as
slstance Her crew made heroic efforts
TO claw off shore but her sails blew from
her spars, her anchor cables parted and
she drifted helplessly upon the beach.
Two lines were shot over her. but the
crew was unable to use them. owing to
the rapidity with which the vessel broke
up. The surf boats could not be launched
IN the case of either wreck.
THE DEEPEST SNOW IN FORTY YEARS.
Pottsville, Pa, April 1.-THE storm in
Schuylkill county is the greatest in point
OF snowfall in forty years. At Potts
vile there is 10 inches; at F'rackville, the
head of the Mahanoy plane on Broad
mountain, the snow is 28 inches Deep Not
a coal train has been moved and all the
track laborers and other hands are kept
busy in digging open the switches and the
main tracks, while engines with snow
plows are at work clearing the tracks to
the mines. The collieries are all idle.
BLACK BRUTES SENTENCED.
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