The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-13
H VERITABLE HURRICANE !
The Storm That for TWO Days Swept the
Atlantic Coast.
FIERCE VELOCITY OF The WIND I
At Sandy Hook it Swept by at the Rate of
seventy-fve Miles an Hour Great
Damage at Several Watering
Places Along the Coast.

cane has swept over this section of the
country. Sunday and yesterday the wind
blew with terrific force, reaching at Sandy
Hook, velocity of seventy-hve miles an
hour Sunday 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 a force that
carried everything before them and did
damage to the amount of 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 yet been learned,
the most direful results. The beaches
were swept clean, pavillions overturned
and carried seward bathing houses and
boardwalks, everything not far inland on
the famous island was 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 the famous Seidl concert hall was in
undated and partially carried away. The
well kept lawns in front of the Oriental ho-
tel and Manhattan Beach hotel We're laid
waste and the lower portions Of the hotels
flooded. Innumerable smaller buildings
were simply picked up bodily and carried
away by wind or waves
Along the Jersey coast most of the dam
age done was to piers and to breakwaters.
Preparations had been made, rs forewarn-
ings of the storm had been given some
days before As yet very little damage to
shipping has been reported, for on account
of warning many crafts delayed sailing,
and others that had cleared returned for a
safe anchorage
Far Rockaway experienced yesterday
the worst wind and wave storm in it's ex-
istence The water, pounded up with ter
rife force by the great waves, poured
through the streets, flooded cellars, washed
over lawns and carried away small build
ings. The hotels and summer houses were
| surrounded and threatened with destruc-
ton. Hog Island added another big sec
| tion to that portion that had previously
! gone to sea, and another such storm would
wipe it and several other adjoining dis
| tricts out of existence altogether.
The ferryhouse dock, boardwalk and
| pavilion of the Far Rockaway Improve
ment company were totally wrecked The
| Casino, the United States hotel the Tack
apausha House and the Dolphin hotel
were among those buildings with at least
two feet of water on their ground floors.
At Wave Crest the damage will amount
to about $4,000. Nearly all the improve
ments made by the Lancaster Improve
ment company near this place within the
last two years are washed away, piled up
! in broken masses or buried under tons of
sand.
A great deal of damage was done at
EdgeInere, and the tide has risen so high
as TO threaten to undermine the Edge
mere hotel. This huge structure was
thought to occupy a place of safety, but
nothing seemed to be safe in yesterdays
rush of the waves. At Averne several
summer cottages We're lifted from their
foundations and completely wrecked.
In New Jersey all the lowlands were
under water, and the usual washouts of
railroads lying along the coast are re-
ported. In this particular the electric
roads suffered most. At Sandy Hook it
was a fearful night for the observer, and
for all who had reason to venture within
| sight of the seas The waves broke higher
than ever before, and at one time the old
tower, which incoming and outgoing ships
signal, shook and tottered as though it
would be blown over.
The storm was the devastating that
has visited Sea Isle City since the great
storm of 1889 which was accompanied by
a tidal wave. The streets were flooded and
many hotels and cottages along the mar
row strip of sand between Townsend's and
Corson's inlets were wrecked or badly
damaged. The Brunswick hotel, the finest
structure on that portion of the coast, fell
in mass of ruins,
North of Sea Isle City the fronts ofmany
of the cottages have been undermined.
Some of the cottages have already fallen,
and others are ready to fall Sea Isle City
has been entirely cut off from train con
nection since Saturday. The branch of
the South Jersey railroad, which was in
the course Of construction to Ocean City,
is washed away for fully half mile.
Long Branch was treated TO one of the
grandest sights ever witnessed there
Great rollers came in from the sea and
dashed themselves with terrific force
against the bulkheading, with a sound
| like bombardment of heavy guns. Some
of the rollers crested the piers and poured
| into ocean avenue.
EAt Asbury Park thousands Of people
| lined the shore and watched the fury of
the waves and the destruction that came
with every breaker Hour after hour the
/ pounding continued and every movable
thing within tho reach Of the waves was
used as a battering ram to break down
! the structures on the beach. The great
boardwalk was pounded to pieces in many
places. The marble monument, which
marks the spot whore the New Era went
down in the early days of Asbury Park,
was undermined by the waves and top
pied over into the sea. In Egg Harbor
City many houses were unroofed, and
many people were forced into the streets.
Atlantic City Isolated.
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct, l3,-Ihe city is cut
off from the outside world, both the Read
ing and Pennsylvania Railroad companies
posting notices that trains could not be
run in or out Of the city because Of the
damage done to the roadbeds, There is no
sign OF the storm abating Yesterday af-
ternoon Charles Mason and his family
were driven out of their home on the
meadows hv the water inundatinR the