Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-19
a eALE.swEPr COAST.

tic Coast-A Wreck with Loss of Several
Lives-Cottages, Pavilions, Bath Houses.
Wharves and Other Property at Long
Branch and Elsewhere Washed Away
or Damaged.
New YORK, April IA fearful gala
swept the New Jersey coast Tuesday
night and continues with almost una
bated fury. The beach along the At
lantic ocean from Sandy Hook as far
south as Long Branch, N. j., is strewn
with wreckage, and the life-saving
crews are hard at work patrolling tho
shore.
A large schooner was reported in
distress a short distance from the coast
at Seabright, N. j. Owing to the
heavy gale and tremendous surf,
which was running mountains
high, 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. A
telephone message states that six
bodies have been washed ashore, and it
is feared that others have been lost in
the surf. A heavy snow-stor.n pre-
vailed during the morning hours, and
the life-saving crew were unable to
locate the signal guns, which could be
heard sounding at intervals.
A great many handsome cottages at
Highland Beach, Monmouth, Sea bright
and other points have been wrecked.
Many of the pavilions at Long Branch
have been damaged. and at many
points hundreds of feet of wharves,
landings. bath houses, ETC., have been
swept away. Reports received from
points south of here, as far away as At
lantic City, state the storm has ragged
all night, and it is feared that many
vessels have been wrecked and prob
ably great number of their crews
drowned. The telephone wires con-
Meeting the life-saving stations have
been blown down, and it is impossible
to get details of the storm.
Swept by Cyclones.
New YORK, April 1.-Two cyclones
of terrible velocity came together with
a crash on the Atlantic coast early
this morning, and for twelve hours
struggled for the mastery.
When evening came the hurricane
from the northeast had overcome the
storm wave from the lake regions and
held full sway over land and sea. In
the interim fourteen lives were snuffed
out in the gale on the New Jersey
coast, and the beach from Sandy Hook
to Cape May became clogged with
wreckage.
Such storm has not been witnessed
since the great blizzard of six years
ago, when New York. was cut off
from the rest of the world for
two days. The wind reached a
velocity of seventy miles an hour at
Atlantic Highlands this morning, and
during the day it blew up from the
coast at an average speed of fifty-fve
miles an hour, accompanied bya blind
ing storm of snow, sleet, fog and rain.
Stanch vessels were tossed about
like toys, and many less stable boats
were driven ashore along the coast
and pounded to pieces by the break
ers. In the height of the gale the
two-masted schooner, Albert w.
Smith, bound from Providence for
Philadelphia, with a cargo of coal.
went ashore at Manasquan, N. j., and
in spite of the heroic efforts of her
crew to save themselves, every soul on
board was lost.
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS. n. j., April
11.-No such storm as that of to-day
has visited the Jersey coast in years.
Telegraphic and telephone commune
cation below this point is entirely cut
off, and New York is reached only by
a circuitous route.
The railroad northward to New York
and way stations suffered but little de-
lay, but southwark, a mile distant, the
great Highland bluffs caved, hundreds
of tons of earth falling over the
tracks, stopping all trains between
here and the Highlands of Navesink.
Below the Highlands, the Beach
branch Of the road is inundated as far
south as Seabright station, and trains
north from Long Branch stop there.
Railroad ties cover the beach between
the Highlands and Seabright, and the
tracks are bent into horsehoes in many
places. There were reports that the
Hotel Normandie was in danger, but
it turned out that the imperiled build
ing was Gen. Earle's cottage, which
stands some 200 yards nearer the sea
than the hotel.
All Were Lost-The Whole Beach Under
Water.
HIGHLANDS, n. j., April IL. None of
the bodies of the crew of the schooner
have been recovered. Six men went
down with the bowspsit; one man
SWAN ashore and stood up in the I'M
dertow, but was knocked down by the
breakers and carried back into
the sea and lost; one man went
down with the mast and held on to a
rope for nearly half an hour, then let
age done by the sea from q mile north
of the bridge to Seabright.
At the Normandy hotel there is
building in the sea going to pieces.
CAPE MAY, N. j., April 12.-The
northeast storm of Thursday night
roared along the coast here at fifty
miles an hour. The tide arose over
Cold Spring meadows, converting them
into great lakes several feet deep.
Uneasiness was manifested concerning
the safety of a feet of vessels off the
cape Tuesday.
Sad Suicide OF Lois james. a Koang Lady
Student at Ann Arbor.
ANN ARBoR, Mich, April l2.-Miss
Lois James, a beautiful young student
In the junior literary depa rtment, dis
appeared from her home Tuesday leav-
ing letter for her sister in which she
intimated she was about to COM
NIT Sricide. Her BODY was found