Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-13
BLEW GREAT GUNS
Old Atlantic Ocean Lashed to
Fury by the Wind.
COAST A SCENE OF WILD HAVOC,

dreds Of ThOusands-No Life Lost So Far,
but Property Is the Sport OF the Biliows
-Concy Island and other Watering
Places Badly wrecked-One Big Hotel
Completely Coliapses.
New York. Oct. ia veritable hur-
I1cane swept over this section of the
country SUNDAY and yesterday. The
wind blew With terrific force. reaching
at Sandy Hopk a velocity of seventy-five
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 force that carried ev-
erything before them and did damage
to the amount of many 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 We're swept clean,
paviiions were overturned and carried
seward, bathing houses and board
walks-everything not far inland on
the famous island was torn up and
piled high beyond the coast line, or
carried out to sea.
Brighton Beach and Far Rockaway
At Brighton Beach the stone walks in
front of the big hotel were under water,
and towards the end of yesterday aft
ernoon the famous Seidl concert hall
was inundated and partly carried
away. The well-kept lawns in front
of the Oriental hotel and Manhattan
Beach hotel were laid waste, and the
lower portions of the hotels flooded
1nnumerable smaIl buildings were sim
ply picked up bodily and carried away
by wind or waves. At Far Rockaway the
fury of the gale was indescribable
Those houses which We're built on
piles in sand were washed away. and
those higher UP, which for years have
been out of reach of the highest tides
were flooded. Along the Jersey coast
most of the damages done was to piers
and breakwaters. Preparations had
been made, as fOrewarnings of the
storm had been given some days before
AS yet very little damage to shipping
has been reported. for on account o,
warnings many crafts delayed sail.
ing and others that had cleared re.
turned for safe anchorage
Some Other Havoc Detailed.
Hog Island during the afternoon add
cd another big section to that porto,
which had previously gone to sea an,
another such storm would wipe it ant
several other adjoining districts out o.
existence altogether. The fiery
house. dock, board walk and pavilion
OF the Far Rockaway Improvement
company were totally wrecked. TIL,
Casino. the United States hotel, tn,
Tackapausha House and the Dolphin
hotel were amog those building!
which had at least two feet of water OF
their ground floors. At Wave Crest tn,
damage will amount to about s5O, 900
Nearly all the improvements made b,
the Lancaster Improvement company
near this place within two years ar,
washed away. piled up in massas o
buried in tons of sand.
great deal of damage was done a
Edgemere, and yesterday afternoon
the tide had risen so high as to threat
en- to undermine the Edgemere hotel
This huge structure was thought to oc
cupy a place of safety. but nothin.
seemed TO be safe in the rush of tn,
waves. The water swept up and mad
breach in the sand all along the 40
feef of frontage of the hotel 1t washe,
Its way underneath the building, an,
at one time threatened it's destruction
In New Jersey all the low lands wer
under water the usual washouts O
railroad lying along the coast are re
ported. In this particular the electri
roads suffered most