The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-13
SEA ISLE CITY STORM SWEPT.
COTTAGES AND HOTELS DEMOL-
ISHED BY THE WAVES.


Battered-SeveraI Houses Report
ed Ruined by the InrOads of the
Sea Mt Holly Beach-StOrm Stories
From other Points.
Sea Isle City, N. J., Oct. 12.-The high
tide of yesterday will long be remembered
for never have breakers rushed in shore
with such force as they did for three
hours. from Ii o'clock until after o'clock.
shortly after noon the sea took away a
section of the boardwalk, and demolished
the fences and verandas of many cot
tages on the water front. Then they un-
dermined the Hotel Brunswick, which is
located on the beach, and in few min
utes it collapsed broken, ragged mass
of timbers In falling, the building car
ried with it the house of Mrs. German of
Philadelphia, which, too, is a complete
wreck. The railroads are badly washed.
The havoc of the sea was greatest in
+he vicinity of the Continental hotel. The
cottages owned by Charles Glass, A. c.
wagner, M. j. Kelley Charles VOTERS,
the Becker estate, Samuel Well, Gustave
sedel and Henry Meyer, were all badly
damaged by the breakers.
The cottages of Charles Reed, Thomas
Whiting and P. p Brecker, the Surf
house, and Sea View hotel were badly
undermined and damaged by the heavy
seas.
The storm shows no signs of abating
tonight and high water is anxiously
awaited.
Reports come that several houses have
been ruined by the inroads of the sea at
Holly Beach. The Philip j. Walsh sea-
side home for Catholic orphans is also
damaged.
No trains reached here to-day and are
do
roads are badly washed out.
Atlantic City, N. j., Oct. 12.-Passengers
on the Newfield local train over the West
Jersey railroad, bound for this city, had
an exciting experience to-day. The train
was trying to cross the meadows over
tracks submerged in three or four feet
of water by the storm, and was halted
near the tower, where the fatal railroad
wreck occurred last July, because the
fires in the engine were extinguished by
the water. Here the train was stalled in
the midst of a sea from 10 O'Clock in the
morning until o'clock in the afternoon.
Werner's Wonderland building collaps-
ed this afternoon and the exhibits and
building are a total loss. Richards bath
houses on Ventnor have been destroyed
and the steamboat pier on Brigantine
beach 800 feet in length, is gone, sections
of it having been carried out to sea.
The storm has further injured the iron
pier and taken another section of the
structure away, together with the big
music pavilion A part of the old board
walk, in Chelsea, has been washed down
and the yachtsmen wharf at the inlet, 2G0
feet in length, has been completely de-
sroyed.
New York, Oct. 12.-Reports from the
Long Island coast received this after
noon say the storm has increased in
fury, and that much damage is being
done.
At 2:3O o'clock this morning, a monster
wave struck the Seidle concert hall at
Brighton, and tore away two-thirds of
the structure. There is little hope that
the remainder can be saved.
The Brighton Beach race track stables
are flooded, and the horses have been re-
moved. Rough estimates place the fnan-
elal loss along the Coney Island beach
at 10000.
large number of temporary structures
along the water front were destroyed
Inc boulevard was flooded as far as Nep-
tune avenue. The shelter houses at the
intersection of the Concourse
ana boulevard were washed away.
Inc ocean annex Of the Brighton hotel
vas surrounded by water and the portico
inundated The founda tion was injured
ana Tor time it seemed that the building
would be destroyed
Noroerg's hotel, Vanburgs fish restau-
rant, pavilion in front of Balmer's bath
ing house, Johnson's photograph gallery
the front Of Louis Stauch's bathing pa
tsnon' Welsh's bathing house Tilyous
oicycle track and Coffey's Brighton plaza
were al damaged or totally destroyed
hanKlns ice slide, which was damaged
Ny me storm of a month ago, suffered
agan and is now complete wreck.
SEagidn luk
surrounded by water and the swinging BIZ
cycle carousel next to it was all but ruin
The old iron pier, that was believed to
oe IhVincible, and which had been buffet
leQ by the storms of twenty winters was
Gu. IN two by the force of the waters.
manhattan beach shared in the disas-
.er' Much Of the ornamentation on the
SOUNDS IN front of the Manhattan Beach
iilo'el was swept away and the magnificent
avn IN front of the Oriental hotel was
"aue dismal waste.
AT Rockaway beach at least twenty ho-
tels and pavilions were carried away.
seaside avenue is flooded, and the resi-
pyeu's are in a panic. Connections with
ar Rockaway are all cut off as the ocean
aIu pay meets in several places.
iIe savers have been called to Edge
mere as the hotel is said to be wrecked.
Iue motel at Hog Island was seen GO
~ 70 sea at II o'clock this morning. Hog
-'iaud IS all covered with water, and the
pIn is running to the main shore at Far
d5,oeNaWay. The hotels are three feet un-
W. water and number of families have
"eeh Obliged to vacate.
49," lhe pay side docks, yachts large
anu anu small are being wrecked, and the en-
We coast from Edgemere to Seaside, is
ssHuer water. The railroad tracks from
ter - N'fSie" WIN wa
,ll ne ocean and bay meet at Hollands. If
~ "lnd continues tonight half tho
I1h VIII be swept away.
rllaInmels, Seaside and Arverne are half
undes water.
@soury' Park, N. j., Oct. 12.-The north
''sl storm now raging is the worst known
"ong this section OF the New Jersey
''7t in many years. Asbury Park and
~ ing Branch have suffered to the extent
ms OF thousands Of dollars, and the
vnAge continues with every incoming
nv Asbury Park the waves are pound
g heavily against the famous board