The herald., 1896-10-13
WAVES RUNNING
''''' MOUNT MOUNTAIN H|GH
Sweep the Fashionable
Bathing Beaches
C0NEY island SUFFERS THE MOST
But None Escape Without
Serious Damage
A TIMELY WARNING GIVEN
Caused Most Of the shipping to Seek
Anchorage
Asa Result no Serious Marine Disasters An
Reported
The Whole Atlantic Coast Swept by Z
Hurricane That Caused Damage
Mounting Well Up Toward the
Million Marl
A TIMELY WARNING GIVEN
Caused Host Of the Shipping to Seek
Anchorage
As Result no Serious Marine D1oasters An
Reported
The Whole Atlantic Coast Swept by .
Hurricane That Caused Damage #
Mounting Well Up Toward the
Million Mark.
Associated Press Special w,r.

NEW YORK, Oct. ia veritable
hurricane has swept over this section
or the country today, the wind blowing
with terrific force. reaching at Sandy
Hook velocity of IS miles per hour last
night. The tides rose to a height many
feet greater than has been seen for years,
and the waves all along the Atlantic
coast swept in with force that car
ried everything before them and did
damage to the amount of many hundreds
of thousands of dollars. Sandy Hook
and points along the Jersey coast felt
the fury of the storm most of all. but
Coney Island experienced, so far as has
been learned, the most direful results.
The beaches were swept clean; pavilions
were overturnd and carried seaward:
bathing houses and board walks. every
thing not far inland on the famous is
land, were torn up and piled high beyond
the coast line or carried out to sea. At
Brighton Beach the stone walks in front
of the big hotel were under water. and
toward the end of the afternoon the fa-
nous Seidl concert hall was inundated
and partially carried away. The we'll
kept lawns in front of the Oriental ho-
tel and Manhattan Beach hotel were
laid waste. and the lower portions Of the
hotels flooded. Innunerable small
buildings were simply picked up bodily
and. carried away by wind or waves.
AT Far Rockaway the fury ofthe gale
was indescribable. Those houses which
were built on piles in the sand were
washed away. and those higher up, which
for years have been out Of the reach OF
the highest tides, were today flooded.
Along the Jersey coast most of the dam
age done was to piers and to breakwa-
ters. Preparations had been made. as
forewarnings of the storm had been CIV
en- some days ago. AS yet very little
damage to shipping has been reported.
for, on account of the warnings, many
craft delayed sailing and others that
had cleared had returned for q safe an.
chorage.
The North German Lloyd steamers
from Bremen and Cherbourg and the
Kaiser Wilhelm from Genoa and Gibral-
tar arrived almost simultaneously at
Quarantine this evening. Both had hove
to for several hours outside the bar.
waiting for chance to cross. The steam
station boat Alaska, with her complies
ment of pilots, had anchored all night
under shelter of Sandy Hook and made
four unsuccessful attempts to return to
her station between the lightships this
morning. Each time the tall waves swept
her deck. and the flying spume shut on
all sight from her capstan. Finally. at
$3.50, on the fifth attempt, the Alaska re-
gained her station. Shortly afterward
the big liners Aller, Kaiser Wilhelm, Ce-
vic and Anchoria, which had been hove
to we'll off shore, turned their heads to-
ward the lightship, and pilots were put
on board each. The Aller had a stormy
passage almost from the time of leaving.
Yesterday morning, when near Nam
tucket, the wind increased to furious
gale, blowing with force of eleven de-
grees, Beaufort scale. 1t was from the
northwest, and the course of the ship
Fire Island about 10:30 this morning.
She slowed up her engines and slowly
crept to the neighborhood of the light
ship. The Kaiser Wilhelm II. had gem
orally fine weather from Gibraltar until
yesterday morning, when the hurricane
overlook her. She plunged and rolled
in the huge seas, making all hands un-
comfortable, but sustained no damage.
Among the passengers on board were
seventy members of Col. Mapleson's I'M
perial Opera company.
Owing to the height Of the gale and
the strong tide, the marine reporters
were unable to board either vessel.
Only five steamers arrived today,
namely, ,Menemesha, Aller from Bremen,
Kaiser wilhelm IL from Genoa, An
choria from Glasgow and Cevic from
Liverpool.
Among the steamers due are the Ma
coochee from Savannah, Seminole from
Charleston, two Old Dominion liners
from Richmond and Norfolk, Alliance
from Colon, E,l Mar ironi New Orleans,
Schiedam from Amsterdam, Croft from
Dundee, Llandaff City from Swansea.
and Istria from Smyrna.
They may be inside the hook, but as
communication Is cut off it is impossl-
ole to learn anything about them.
At last reports from the quarantine
station the wind was blowing fresh
gale from the southeast with weather
cloudy. ~ =
Coney Island beach was swept by the
highest tide in the history OF that ~
nous resort last night go today 8