Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-10
FURY OF THE STORM.

on the outside.
The injuries of the men are not serious.
FURY OF THE STORM.
Small Boats Wrecked, Houses In
rooted and Much Damage Done.
NEW YORK, October 1O.-The heavy
storm which set in shortly after midnight
still continues. with very heavy sea on.
An unusually high tide washed the east
shore of Staten Island. doing considerable
damage to several small yachts which lay
exposed at their anchorages close along
shore. The wind blew in heavy squalls,
creating very high, confused sea.
A sloop yacht, owned by Hugh McRob-
erts. and the catbcat Superior owned
by stephen H. Brown. both of which were
anchored off Tompkinsville. drifted from
their mornings and were both smashed
TO pieces asains: the trestle work of the
Rapid Transit railroad at Tompkinsville.
blocking the weSt-bounI track
The slOOp yacht Listless, owned by F.. ].
Dunphy. a quarantine boatman, hes in a
very dangerous position at the same place
and Is liable to go TO pieces ut any mo-
ment.
The only steamers reaching quarantine
this morning were the Manitoba, from Rio
Janeiro. and the Teutonic. from Liverpool.
There probably are several other steam
ers of the inward-bound feet near port. but
the wires between Ne V York and Sandy
Hook having been rendered useless for the
time being by the gale word of them
can be received until they reach quaran-
tine.
The vessels due today are: Alesla from
Naples. etc; Havel from Bremen; Kron-
prinz Friedrich Wilhelm. from Naples; Mo-
bile. from London: Sea ndia, from Hamburg;
State of Nebraska, from Glasgow; Willie
had. from Bremen.
Several steamers from southern and West
Indian ports due today are no doubt re-
course bringing them almost in the teeth
of 1t, they would in such n storm keep
well off shore. They are the Caribbee, from
Barbados; FL Mar. from New Orleans;
Nueces. from Galveston; Yucatan, from
Havana.
The tracks of the New Jersey Southern
railroad between Seabright and Highland
Beach. y. J.. have been covered with sand
washed up by the waves. The fishing smack
Louise was driven ashore at Highland
Beach. and is total loss. Her crew of ten
men were taken off by the life-savinS crew.
steamship. apparently In distress,
sighted soon after daylight at anchor some
distance off Long Branch. While the sea
running so high no effort was made to
establish communication between the steam
ship and the shore.
At Seabrisht and vicinity a number of
buildings were unrOoiei.
At Long Island City the big iron tank be-
longing to the East River Gas Company
was blown down to within five feet of its
foundation. The tank mo feet high
anu ~ 1eet VIDE. Inc ponce wires were
all blown down, and small boats all along
the shore from Long Island City to Bow
cry Bay Beach were broken and thrown
up the beach.
Trees and telephone wires were broken
and twisted. and at North Beach number
of boats were wrecked. The trolley wires
OF the Brooklyn railroad at North Beach
We're all broken. and cars are not now being
run. The ferry boat Harlem of the !g2d
street ferry was disabled on entering her
slip at Long Island City. The new engine
house at the corner of Steinway and Flush
ing avenues. which had reached the height
of one and one-half stories, was blown
down.
In Jersey City the damage Is confined to
the telegraph. telephone, trolley and cleo
tric lighting wires In three instances
horses were killed by coming in contact with
live wires. Many shade trees Were up
rooted
on Belle Haven. near Greenwich, Conn.
the yacht Eerena is ashore, with every
prospect Of becoming a complete wreck.
Assistance has besn dispatched for the
rescue of the crew. who at last accounts
were in the rigging.
A two-mastei schooner is ashore on the
point of Hart Island, and the sea breaking
over the vessel Several yachts have been
heached at Huntington Gut, near New
Rochelle. Long Island sound. Among them
is the yacht Of c. o. Iseiin, which had been
put i'm readiness for its owner and his bride.
nee Goddard. who were expected to arrive
from Europe today.
At Enslewood. " j., a chimney on the
resideI &c of Thomas b. Kerr was blown
down. In it's fall ii killed Miss Mary Kerr,
nineteen years of age.
During the height of the storm the tug
Bell McWilliams. having in tow seven
barges loaded with coal, was caught in the
gale willie trying to make q shelter in
Lloyds HarbOr, Long Island sound. The
force of the gale broke the haTsers; the
a
barses had from two TO five persons on each
of them. and the tug carried full crew.
-Four persons who We're known to DE ON
the boat missing.
The shore all along the northeast section
OF Long island is strewn with u-reckage
At about "a m. unknown schooner
Was seen of Nhitestone, Long Island 60
ing before the wind in the direction of New
York. her foremost gone and most of her
bow torn away. II Is not known what be-
came Of her crew.
large number of small boats lie wrecked
the shore from Sands Point to Flushing
bay. At oyster bay, Long Island, the sloopS
Dexter and W. W. Smith were blown
ashore. The wind was the strongest and
the sea- the highest ever experienced there,
AMI much injury has been done to the
oyster business.
In the interior the apple crop is ruined
In brooklyn considerable damage was
done to buildings. and Tor a considera BILE
time w street railway traffic was suspend
ed On account of the prOstratiOn of electric
wires All the public schools were dismiss
ed for the day.
The velocity of the wind here has reached
fCrty-f1ur miles per hour, and at Block
Island il rusnes along at seyenty-twO miles
an hour.
The danger from the storm at SEA has
been intensified by a dense fog, which has
settled down over the middle Atlantic and
New England coast.
tn" gale is now moving in n northeasterly
direction, but the indications are that by
this evening it will shift to the northwest.
Damage at Long Island.
The damage at Long Branch is great
About lpp feet of pilins OF the new iron pier
Was washed out. The buikhead between the
Brighton and Grand View Hotels is badly
wrecked. \ cut of about twenty-five feet
was maize in the bluff on the East End
property.
About twenty-five feet OF the West End
Hotel WAS blown off, and the old Oliver
cottage. adjoining was unroofed.-~So also
were the cottages of u. III. Painter of
Washington. u. G.. and E. NJ. Shaffer of
New York Many bathing houses were
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