The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-13
HURRICANE HIT.
COney Island Swept By an Ex-
traOrdinarily Heavy Sea.
PaViliOns, Bathing Houses Are
Carried Out to Sea.
TOWER WAS SHAKEN.
The Tower at Sandy Hook Tot
tered and Shook.
At Egg HarbOr City People
We're Forced Into Streets.

New York. Oct. IA veritable hurri-
cane has swept over this section of the
country Sunday and yesterday the
wind blowing with terrific force, reach
AnB at SANDY Hook velocity of 75miles
per hour The tides rose to height Of
many feet greater than has been seen
Tor years and the waves all along the
coast swept in with force that
carried everything before them. The
Jersey coast felt the force OF the storm
most OF ALL but Coney Island expert
enced SO far as has yet been learned,
the most direful results
The beaches were swept clean. pavil-
ions were overturned and carried sea-
ward. bathing houss and board walks.
everything not far inland on the fam
GUS island was torn up and piled high
beyond the coast line or carried out to
sea AT Brighton beach the famous
Seidel concert hall was inundated and
partially carried away. The well kept
1aWn i'm front OF the Oriental hotel and
Manhattan Beach hotel were laid waste
and the lower portions Of the hotels
Hooded Innumerable smaU buildings
were picked up bodily and carried away
by wind or waves. AT Far Rockaway
the fury of the gale was indeseriba BILE.
Those houses which were built on piles
in the 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
damage was TO piers and breakWateTs.
Preparations had been made. as fore
warnings of the storm had been given
some days before. AS yet very little
damage to shipping has been reported.
Tor, on account of warnings, many craft
remained in port or returned for safe
anchorage. 1T is expected that when
reports are in that the damage Will
foot up many hundreds Of thousands
of dollars.
At sandy Hook. where even the
breath of a breeze can be twisted into
a storm. the old tower which incoming
and outgoing ships signal, shook and
tottered as though it would be blown
over
The storm was the most devastating
that has visited Sea Island City since
the great storm of 1889. The streets
were flooded and many hotels and cot
tages along the narrow stretch OF sand
were wrecked or badly damaged sun
day night the sea attacked the beach
in front Of the Brunswick hotel, the
finest structure on that portion OF the
coast. Yesterday it completed its
work Early in the afternoon the front
of the building began to sag The
waves beat upon it, and in the middle
Of the afternoon the building fell i'm, a
mass of ruins
North Of Sea Island City, the fronts
of many of the cottages have been un-
dermined and some of the cottages have
already fallen and others are ready 10
fall. Many catastrophes must come
when the sea Gains down in low tide
AT Long Branch the new iron pier
which during the day, was shaken to
ats very foundation, stood the test
All day the wind blew q gale ana
reached so miles an hour. Thousands |
of people lined the shore and watched /
the fury of the waves and the destruc- |
ton that came with every breaker The |
great board walk was pounded TO pieces /
in many places. From Deal Lake to I
the boundary line lit is complete I
wreck The marble monument which (
marks the spot where the New Era I
went down in the early days OF Asbury I
Park was undermined by the waves /
and toppled over into the sea The avis /
study on the beach was cut up ana /
carried outward by waves and then /
shattered by the breakers The beach /
As strewn with wreckage.
The scenes in Egg City harb0r, M. IT, I
Were distressing. The wind blew a hur- /
ricane all day and all night and all day /
again. Many houses were unroofed /
and many people were forced into the /
streets Last night a mail train man /
aged to get through after a blockade of I
about SO hours The schooner Novel, /
which was driven ashore, is beating, /
and Will probably so to pieces.
AT 2-3o o'clock q monster wave struck /
the concert pavilion at Brighton Beach I
and tore away tW0-th1rds OF the struc- !
ture. The Brighton Beach race track /
stables are flooded and the horses have !
been removed to stables along the boul- /
evard A rough estimate of the financial /
loss along the Coney island beach places /
1t at $500 600.
Atlantic city. N. j.. Oct. 13-The |
storm which burst upon this part OF /
the coast yesterday morning continued /
last night with no signs of abating. Re /
ports coming in from outlying districts /
show that much damage has been done /
along the coast by the high tides This /
city is cut of from the outside world /
The Pennsylvania railroad is posting /
notices that trains could not be run in /
to nor out of the city About p. m. /
Brigantine steamboat wharf, 300 feet /
I'm length was washed away and \
frame building adjoining the Inflated /
casing where the Elk disaster hap 4
Dened two years ago, was torn down by /
the waves.
The wreck of the schooner AIetcalf. /
which did 50 much damage to the iron !
pier. came ashore today
Philadelphia. Oct. 13-Reports re- /
ceived from the Delta breakwater and /
points along the Atlantic coast indi- (
cate that the severe nOrtheasterly /
storm abated somewhat during the /
night The wind at noon is blowing IS I
miles and the tides are running high /
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