The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-13
OLD OCEANS RAMPAGE
Miles of the Jersey Coast Submerged Breakers
 Mountain High.
PROPERTY LOSS IS S2OO,OOO,
SEA KICKED UP BY THE WEST
 INDIAN HURRICANE.

wreokage strewn from Cape May to Coney
 Island-Long Branch and Asbury Park
 Suffer-Number of Boats Broken to Pieces
 Monster Wave Demolishes Big Con-
 cert Hall-Bathing Pavilions Galore
 Afoat-Iron Pier Cut in Two-At Rock
 away Twenty Hotels and Other Struct-
 New York, Oct. 12-The West Indian
 hurricane which arrived yesterday was
 the water boil and driving the breakers
 mountains high upon the coast.
 Little damage has been done in New
 York harbor. The effects of the storm
 were felt all along the New Jersey
 coast. At Cape May and Atlantic City
 the cyclone swept over the sea with
 such force that water was forced into
 the meadows about the city and cov-
 ering the railroad tracks while the
 waves were making great inroads into
 the beach all along the coast At Long
 Branch and Asbury Park the storm
 was the fiercest ever experienced. At
 Red Bank, N. J., a number of boats
 were blown on the river shore last night
 and broken to pieces and there is more
 or less damage to small summer docks
 and bull1heads.
 It is reported that the steamboat
 wharf at Fairhaven was badly dam < aged. The reports from the Long Isl and coast received this afternoon say
 the storm has increased in fury and
 that much damage is being done. At
 2:30 p. m. monster wave struck Seidls
 concert hall at Brighton Beach and tore
 away two-thirds of the structure There is little hope that the remainder can be saved. The Brighton Beach railroad stables are flooded and the horses have been removed. Rough es- inmates place the financial loss along the Coney Island beach at $200,000 A large number of temporary struct- ures along the water front were de- stroyed. The Boulevard was flooded as far as Neptune avenue. The shelter houses at the intersection of the Con- course and the Boulevard were washed away. The Ocean hotel, west of the Brighton Beach hotel, was surrounded 1 by water and the portico inundated. The foundation was injured and for a time it seemed that the building would be destroyed. Wolberg's hotel Van Warts fish restaurant, a pavilion in front of Balmer's bathing house, John son's photograph gallery, the front of Louis Stauch's bathing pavilion, Welch's bathing house, Tilyou's bicycle track and Coffey's Brighton Plaza were ! all damaged or destroyed.
 Rankin's ice slide is a complete wreck The Seaside Athletic club was surrounded by water, and the swinging bicycle carousel next to it was all but ruined. The old iron pier was cut in two by the force of the waves. Man a haitian Beach shared in the disaster. Much of the ornamentation on the grounds in front of the Manhattan Beach hotel was swept away, and the magnificent lawn in front of the Orien- tai hotel was made dismal waste At Rockaway Beach at least twenty ho- ! tels and pavilions were carried away. H Seaside avenue Is flooded and the res idents are in panic Connections with Far Rockaway are all cut off, as the ocean and bay meet in several places. Life savers have been called to Edge mere as the hotel is expected to be wrecked. The hotel at Hog Island was seen going to sea at 10 o'clock this morning. Hog Island is all covered with water. On the bay side docks and yachts, large and small, are being wrecked and the entire coast from Edgemere to Seaside is under water. The railroad track to Hollands is cov- cred with water. Ocean and bay meet at Hollands. If the wind continues to- night half the beach will be swept away Hammels, Seaside and Arverne are half under water. A dispatch from Freeport, L. l., says:
 ''The gale which has been blowing here since yesterday blew the yacht Moslem ashore at Point Lookout Beach \ to-day. She is the property of the Prospect Cunning club. Great damage has been done to the beaches in this vicinity"
 OFF MASSAGE USETTS COAST.
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