Smyrna times., 1894-04-18
The Great April Storm and its
COuge0uennes

The period of winterlike weather
that followed the balmy three first
weeks of March, eliminated in the
worst storm on our coast since the we'll
remembered tidal wave" in the fall of
1913. The high wind was accompanied
by heavy precipitation, considerable
OF the three days fall being snow cover
ing the ground part of the time two
or three inches. Its nearness to the
middle ofApril constituted it with its
duration, the remarkable feature to be
remembered.
While the tide rose nearly as high.
1t did not break over Bombv Hook
Island with that rolling sweep as fif-
teen years ago, and was not attended
with loss of life as then, though the
whole Island except on the elevated
places where the houses stood. was
under several feet of water.
Woodland Beach was situated to
breast the fury of the storm. but
escaped remarkably well, though the
waves beat over the yard and around
the hotel and stood a foot or more
deep 10 the stables. The walk to the
pavilion and the board walk to the
pier were carried from their places.
but the damage can be restored at a
cost of several hundred dollars. Mr..
Reybold came down on Friday and
went from the mainland down the
road IN a boat to the Beach. Mr..
Stokesbury and Recap have since come
over the road in teams through two or
three feet of water The latter is being
let OIL as fast as the sluices can pass It
all of. 1t has looked for a week verv
much like the bay.
The gradual rise of the water gave
the residents a chance to rescue their
stock, hogs and chickens, which some
ala In the middle of the night. Samuel
LOatman is the only one sustaining
loss in this respect we have heard Of
several calves. Samuel Cole had
sowed over a hundred bushels of oats
besides considerable acreage of wheat
III clover seed, which 1t is expected the
salt water and sediments will DESTROY.
The farm lands of q dozen others are
similarly injured.
AT the Light House a two mast
schooner was blown up on the march
as also a fishing smack, while the
hshermen's shanties were mostly car.
rled out in the bay. The damages Mt
woodland Beach are TO be repaired Mt
once for an early June opening.
The Collins Beach property suffered
largely, as it usually DOES, The bank
made by the dredging company stood |
the test well, but the beach on the hav
side was swept over aud several washes |
made. The result was that the re.
claimed marsh, some 1000 acres of |
most fertile land was flooded with two |
or three feet of water, which can only
nnd an outlet through a single sluice.
The ground can hardly be drained and
dried sufficiently for corn planting be-
fore June. The pavilion, that some
thlng like cyclone nearly demolished
last fall was about finished, and the
bridge leading to the hotel over the
deep wash was swept away, crushing
Frank Rothwells fishing boat that cost
$3.50 into kindling wood. The deposit
OF drift on the wheat fields of several
farmers near this OverHOwed land was
the occasion of considerable labor to
remove.
POINTS BELOW.
The causeways on all the bay roads
were covered with a foot or two Of
water. In the vicinity of Little Creek.
Kits Hamock and Milford probably
the greatest damage was done. At
Leipsic and Mahons rivers a number
Of boats were driven on the marsh
JOS. G. Heverin and Eastman Cotter
young men who had been staying In
A tent some distance above the Ham.
mock, were driven in by the Invading
5ide Tuesday night and drowned. n is
thought while trying to escape in the
night, by falling into a ditch. They
were not found until Sunday.
John Il. Kemp lost 81 sheen. 10 cows
calves and hogs and Harvey Block.
ION lost practically all he had. All
he Summer cottages at the Hammock
we're carried away.
Two shanties at the mouth of
River were torn from their /
and four others were COM
lletely wrecked. One sloop was
brown high and dry in Murderkill,
md two schOoners in Jones Creek.
The sturgeon feet was almost an
INFLATED at Cedar Beach. Six boats
we're sunk and nine washed inland a
nile from tide water, Oyer thirty nets
alped at 5000 each, are gone. Thirty
shermen's shanties were washed awav.
no poultry, cattle, hogs and sheen