The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-12
THE APRlL BLIZZARD.
Work Of the Storm in This and
Adjoining States,
FOURTEEN sBAMBN ARE DROWNED
Two schuoners Wrecked on the Jersey
Coast and only Two Men Escnped-From
Two to Three Feet of Snow Fell, and
Crops Are Greatly Damaged.

Two to Three Feet of Snow Fell, and
Crops Are Greatly Damaged.
LONG BRANCH April 1.-Two vessels |
we're driven ashore within twenty miles of |
Sandy Hook One, the big three-masted |
schooner Albert w. Smith from Prov
idence, r. l., was driven before the north |
east blast and dashed on Squan beach, |
eight miles below Long Branch The |
high surf rendered it impossible to save |
any of the crew, although the wreck oc-
Cured opposite the life saving station. |
The schooner was on her way from Phila-
delphia to Providence, laden with coal.
In less than half an hour after the vessel
struck she was pounded into kindling
wood by the seas which broke over her
What was left, portion of the hull, was
carried up about quarter of mile south
of the life saving station. Eight men
composed the crew of the schooner not
one of whom has been seen since their
boat was wrecked, and it is unlikely that
' a man of the crew has survived to tell the
| tale of his experience in the awful gale.
Four spars have been found on the beach,
and tits thought that the fourth spar was
probably a part of the wrecked Kate
Markee.
The Smith was commanded by Captain
Samuel r. Berry. Her crew consisted of
Mate Pardon s. Barber, of Narragansett
Pier; Cook George Lopez, Seman Manuel
Silver, Peter Pino Andrew Deloutra,
Metrici, Ambrogues, and a boy, Gear
Gomez. Captain Berry has wife and
two children in Providence.
Captain Longstreet, who has been at
Squan Station for twenty-one years, said
today that this storm was about as severe
a one as came within his recollection on
the Jersey coast. Others, he said, had
been as furious, but had not lasted SO
long.
Directly opposite the Highland Beach
station the three masted schooner Kate
Markee came ashore at the outer bar, a
distance of a quarter of a mile from the
shore. She has gone to pieces, having
eight Of a crew on board. 1t was at first
reported that the entire crew was lost, but
later reports show that two of the men
were saved. Owing to the vessel being so
far away from the shore the life saving
crews from life saving stations Nos. l and
were unable to shoot their lines to it,
and as high sea was raging it was i'm
possible to render assistance. A number
of people residing at Seabright are stand
ing in readiness to leave their homes, fear
ing they will be surrounded by water
from the ocean, which is threatening to
food the town.
The storm is declared the worst that has
visited Seabright in eleven years. Three
thousand feet of the New Jersey Southern
railroad between that place and Highland
Beach has been washed out. The waves
were so strong that the iron rails were
twisted out of shape The sand has been
washed over the tracks for nearly half q
mile. Travel on the road has come to a
standstill, no trains running further nortI
than this place A cut is reported in the
Shrewsbury river near Galilee, which
completely shuts off travel either north Oh
south from Seabright. Telegraph anC
telephone wires are down, poles having
been blown down by the strong wind
- General Earls hotel, the Normandie, is il
danger of going to pieces. The sea ha!
cut through to Ocean avenue at Galilee
and st. Peters church is in danger and il
liable to be undermined
At Cape May the storm damaged tn,
trolley road to the extent of s., 500 Sever
hundred feet of the Mount Vernon curb
ing was washed away. Yesterdays It'd
was the highest known in eleven years
The waves washed up in the yards of tn
Columbia avenue cottages. Severa
. pleasure yachts have been blown ashor
along the coast in this vicinity.
At Butler the storm was one of tn
worst of she year The snow fell all Tues
day night, and through the country fifteel
inches of snow fell The surrounding
country is covered with mantle of white
making it appear more like day in De
cember than day in April. Trains ar
delayed and telegraph and telephone wire
are down.
The storm at Atlantic City has done cor
siderable damage. The tide is very hig
and the meadows are flooded, Trains owe
the Camden and Atlantic railroad are III
able to cross the meadows, owing to tn
eI high tide At Brigantine Beach larg
- quantity of lumber has been washe
away.
Reports from Delaware bay and rive
show considerable damage and loss
shipping and property, At Cedar Beacl
on the lower bay the water rose like
tidal wave, and the sturgeon fisherme
suffered severely. Six boats were sunk
their moorings and nine more carried
, mile inland and deposited in wheat fielC
and orchards. Twenty-Five nets, valued I
n, 5000, were washed away, and twent
ei eight small houses of fishermen wreckt
o. or carried out to sea- The tide is said
Ii have been the highest since 1873.