Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-10-13
STORM AT THE NORTH
BUILDINGS AND PIERS AT SEASIDE
RESORTS DESTROYED.
TRAIN STALLED HEAR ATLANTIC CITY.
IL Is Submerged In Several Feet OF
Water-Grcat Dnmnge All Along
New Jersey and Long isish"
Coasts. a ......

ATLANTIC CITY. n. j., October II
Passengers on the Newneld local raih
over the West Jersey railroad, bound LOT
this city. had an exciting experience TO-
day. The train was trying TO cross the
meadows over tracks submerged IN OF
feet Of water by the storm, ana was
halted near the tower where the lA'"'
railroad wreck occurred last July' oe-
cause the fires In the engine were ex-
tine,lished by the water. Here the tram
was stalled in the midst OF a sea rum
1890 o'clock A. NJ. until 7. NJ.
Werner's wonderland" building COL
Iansed this afternoon. and the exhioi's
and building are total loss. Richard
lighthouses on Ventnor beach, have peen
DESTROYED. and the steamboat pier on
pr,oantine beach. 800 feet in length, Is
gone. sections of 1t having been earrleu
out TO sea. " -,
The storm has further injured the iIVn
nier and taken another section OF tne
r,r,,o,,,re away. together with the big
,,,,,s,c naviIion. A part of the old board
valk I'm Chelsea has been washed uoWn'
and the Yachtsmen's wharf, at the met
9Oo feet i'm length, has been completely
destroyed.
RUIN ON LONG ISLAND.
>-u,v vOpE October 12.-Reports from
the Long Island coast receiEeu ss 'niS -
tarnoon say the storm has increased ID
surv and that much damage Is oelng
49, Al 90 o'clock this morning mon,
ster wave struck Seiders Concert Han, d.
BRIGHTON. and tore away two thirus VI
,ha structure. The other will be ios'.
rrna brighton race-track stables are
eooded and the horses have been re-
Moved Rough estimates place the hhah'
cial loss along Coney Island at ESVv'VoV.
The Ocean Hotel west OF the Diis i'oI'
Peach Hotel. was surrounded Dy wafer
The foundation was injured, ana Ior
time II seemed that it would be Destroyer
but II was not ,,.., 90
The old iron pier, that was believed 20
be invincible. and that had buffeted the
storms of over twenty winters, was cut
In two by the force of the waves.
Manhattan Beach shared the disaster
Much Of the ornamentation on the grounds
in front of the Manhattan Beach holei
was swept away. -. ora
A. Roc<away Beach twenty hotels ana
naviIions were carried away. Seaside ave-
nue is flooded. and the residents are In
panic. ., 90
The hotel at Hog Island was eoi"s w
eea at 10 o'clock this morning. The en-
fire coast. from Edgemere to Seaside, IS
under water. II the wind keeps up to-
night half of the beach Will be swept
away.
AT SEA ISLE.
SEA ISLE CITY, y. j., october lZ.-Ihe
high tide this afternoon will long be re-
nembered. for never have breakers rusn-
cd In shore with such force as they ala
for three hours, from II o'clock until al
ter 9 Shortly after noon the sea tore
away n section of the boardwalk ana de-
mollshed fences and verandas Of many
cottages on the waterfront. Then they
undermined the Hotel Brunswick, when
is located on the beach, and IN Iew
minutes 1t collapsed. a broken, ragged
mass of timbers. In falling 1t carried
with Il the house Of Mr.. German. OF
Philadelphia, which. too, is complete
wreck.
The havoc OF the seas was greatest,
however. up in the vicinity of the Conu-
mental Hotel. where cottages owned by
Charles Class. A. G. Wagner, NJ. j. Kelly
and others. were badly damaged by the
breakers The storm shows no signs OF
abatement tonight, and high water IS
anxiously awaited. Reports come that
several houses have been ruined by the
inroads of the sea at Holly beach. NO
trains reached here to-day and none are
likely to do so for some days, as all
roads are badly hurt.