Evening journal., 1896-10-13
HE STORM KING S FURY
Disastrous Effects OF the Hurri-
cane on the Coast.
az. BENEDICT AS A LIFE SAVER.

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The Presidents Friend Rescues Five Mer
Ia a sioop-Great Havoc Wrought a,
q Gomez Island-Mucb Damage % The
Massachusetts aud New Jersey Coast.
NFw YORK, Oct l3 "A seritahle hur
lcane has swept over this section Of the /
#ountry. The wind blew with terrific |
4orce, reaching, at Sandy Hook o velocity |
f 70 miles an hour The tide rose 70 a /
height many feet greater than has been /
Neon for years. and the waves all along /
*ho Atlantic coast swept IN with q force
u hat carried everything before them and
81 Id damage to the amount OF many hun
81 reds Of thousands OF dollars
g Sandy Hook and points along the Jer
Lev coast felt the fury OF the storm most
81 oil, but Coney Island experienced the
s. most direful results. The beaches were
5wopt clean, paviliOns were overturned
Ind carried seaward, bathing houses,
oardwalks and everything not far inland
n the famous island was torn ur and
<arried out on the raging waters
X At Brighton Beach the stonewalks in
ont Of the big hotel were under water
Fl nd toward the end Of the afternoon the
amous Seidl Concert hall was inundated
nd partially carried away The we'll kept
rs awns in front of the Oriental hotel and
S. Manhattan Beach hotel were laid waste
4; nd the lower portions Of the hotels food.
"a Innumerable smaller buildings were
81 mply picked UP. bodily and carried away
s wind or waves
& At such place as Far Rock away the
lry OF the gale Is lndesoribable Those
s. ousos which were built on sand were
S. ashed away, and those higher up. which
s lr years have been out OF reach Of the
8 CHEST tides. were flooded
& The damage at Coney Island will reach
Re illy 5000, 600 and at Far Rockaway about
E $50, 600.
3 Along the Jersey coast most Of the dam
lie done was to piers and to breakwaters
reparations had been made, as forewarn-
lgs Of the storm had been given some
ays before AS yet very little damage to
# lipping has been reported. for on account
warning, many craft delayed sailing
S. I'd others that had cleared returned for
fe anchorage
Benedict az a Life Saver.
Commodore E. c. Benedict arrived at
ldian Harbor In his big white steam
,cht Oneida on Sunday night She had
udded up the sound at tremendous
hoe her engines aided by gale from the
orth- northeast that was blowing 90 miles
a hour.
SO fierce was It that the ship had hard
me making her anchorage in spite Of her
owerful machinery for directly her bow
as put up into the wind she had to force
er way inch by inch to her moorings.
Commodore Benedict spent half an hour
so in his house, and then he thought Of
s. Ne men he had seen In tiny open white
oop half way out to Capitals Island,
ALLOWING IN the tremendous waves under
full spread OF lib and mainsRil Coming
1t on the porch, he looked toward Cap
in island, but could see nothing of the
oop There Is an immense telescope
lounted on stand on the porch, and
ith the help Of this glass Mr. Benedict az
y st picked up the sloop. her iib and main
Ail lying In tangled snarls and her hull
billing completely out of sight as she fell
the trough of the sea.
The sloop was making leeway very fast
that ls she was being blown of back.
ard by the wind The long, black, rocky
ef OF Milton point was only \ miles TO
eward White spray flew skyward In
billing clouds every time wave struck
he treaeherous rocks II the sloop should
rike the reef she could not live o nip.
te and those aboard could never swim
lore than half mile In such sea
A Hazardous Undertaking.
without waiting to put on his oilskin.
lr Benedict hurried into the smaller oi
be Oneida's two powerful naphthl
lunches He and the captain and one o.
be crew started of to the rescue. Beforl
be gale the little oookleshell OF a launol
Simmed like a duck, darting up th
bite crested green waves and flying dowi
~ other side out OF sight in the trough 0
60 se sea The trip was an exceedingly dan
Iorous ug.e. for II a wave had come abcaTl
10 launch her fire must have been pu
lt, the boat swamped and all hands proh
bly, lost
IL was particularly difficult 70 turr tn
lunch IN such a sea but Mr. Beuedic
managed to bring her around by going {
eward OF the sloop The Oneidas cap
in threw out q hawser, and one OF ID
zen in the sioop caught the end as
riftod down TO him and made Il fast
In Benedict headed the launet ioI Ia
Ian Hhrbor.
strain as she would al the line IN
ould hardly move the sloop. The me
board the Oneida saw that there wa
anger OF both vessels being swept Oh th
Def Three OF them got into the yacht
lrger steam launch and went out &c he'll
hey gave the sloop hawser VIII oct
lunches engines working az full sree'
be sloop was 6nally towet up irto q
arbor
The endangered vessel was the open ca
oat sloop Addle Q OF Greenwich 81
fas sailed by her owner William
wens, and Edward Long. Tony Salit
nd Cornelius and Philip Martin. Th'
I'd not know why they went sailing {
lch day
storm en New England Coast.
BOSTON. Oct l3 3-The West india hu
cane. which has swept the New Englai
past for the past Ss hours with almo
unparalleled severity. completely tyii
p shipping. has subsided, aud the wor
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