The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-17
"A H0NLING HURRICANE
LONG ISLAND AND NEW JERSEY
COASTS SUFFER-.
Famous Summer Resorts mt Coney
Island Washed Away by the
wild Waves.

New York, Oct IA veritable hurri-
cane has swept over this section yester-
day and today, the wind blowing with
terrific force, reaching at Sandy Hook
velocity of 10 miles per hour last night.
The tides rose to a height OF many feet
greater than has been known for years,
and the waves all along the Atlantic
coast swept in with a force that carried
everything before them and did damage
20 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
Hsaand experienced, so far has been
lsarned, the most direful result. The
beaches were swept clean; pavihons
were overturned and carried seward,
bathing houses and board walks, every
thing not far inland on the famous ISL
and was torn up and piled high beyond
the coast line carried out to sea.
At Brighton Beach the stone walks
in front of the big hotel were under
water and toward the end of the after
noon the famous Seidl concert hall was
inundated and partially carried away.
The we'll kept lawns in front OF the ORR
entail hotel and Manhattan Beach hotel
were laid waste, and the lower portions
of the hotels flooded. 1nnumerable small
buildings were simply picked up bodily
and carried away by wind or waves.
At Far Rockaway the fury of the gale
WAS indescribable. Those houses which
were built on piles in the sand were
washed away, and those higher up,
which for years have been out of the
reach Of the highest tides, were today
flooded. Along the Jersey coast most OF
the damage done was TO piers and
to breakwaters. Prepal ations had been
made, as forewarnings Of the storm had
been given some days ago. Some little
damage to shipping has been reported.
The ferry house, dock and pavilion
OF the Far Rockaway improvement co.
were totally wrecked. The Casino, the
United States hotel and Tackapausha
house and the Dolphin hotel were among
thkse buildings which had at least two
feet of water on their ground floors.
At Averne several summer cottages
we're lifted from their foundations and
completely wrecked. In New Jersey all
the lowlands were under water and the
usual washouts of railroads lying along
the coast are reported.
At Sandy Hook, where the breath OF a
breeze can be twisted into gale, last
nights blow was a bowling hurricane.
The waves broke higher than ever be-
fore, and at one time the old tower,
which incoming and outgoing ships sig
nal shook and tOttered as though 1t
would be blown over. The storm was
the most devastating that has visited
Sea Isle City since the great storm Oh
1889, which was accompanied by uual
wave.
Last night the sea attacked the beach
in front of the Brunswick hotel, the finest
structure on that portion OF the coast
Today it completed its work Early IN
the afternoon the front of the building
began to sag. 1t dropped lower and low
er, as the waves beat against It, and III
the middle of the afternoon the struc-
ture fell in, a mass of ruins.
North of Sea Isle City the fronts
OF many cottages have been UNDERMINED
and some of the cottages have already
fallen and others are ready to fall. Many
catastrophes must come when the sea
resumes It's pounding at high tide.
At Long Branch the new iron pier
(which many times during the day was
shaken to it's very foundation SO Ial
has stood the test. 1t is thought 1t may
20 before morning. If the force or the
waves is not leSsened.
All day long the wind blew a gale o
80 miles an hour at Asbury Park. HlSl
tide at noon seemed to be at the max
imum. Hundreds of people lined tn
shores watching the destruction tina
came with every wave. Everything
within reach of the waves was used as
battering ram to break down the stEuc
lures on the beach. The great boar'
walk was pounded to pieces III man!
places
From Deal Beach to the boundary lin
Il is a complete wreck. The marble mon
Ument which marks the SpOL MACAC ~
New Era went down in the early Jay
OF Asbury Park, was undermined by tn
waves and toppled over into the sea
The Davis studio, on the beach, wa
caught up 10y the waves and carried out
ward, and then shattered on the break
ers. The beach Is strewn with wreck
age. ~ o.,
The scenes at Egl5 Harbor City, n j
we're distressing. The wind DleW hul
ricane all day and all night, and all IA
again. Many houses were unrooted an
many people were forced into the streets
Tonight a mail train managed to &c
through, after a blockade Of about
hours. In that section Of the state &c
night. instead of abating, the gale seem
to be increasing
Along the New England Coast.
Boston, Oct. 12.-The West 1ndla hurr
cane which has swept the New Englan
coast the past So hours with almost III
naraueled severity is subsiding tonigh
Not a vessel of any description has lei
mort since late Saturday afternoon. E'
erv point along the coast, from Newpol
10 PASSPORT, reports practically the SAN
condition and there is an entire aDsenC
of any kind Of shipping outside the ha
bors The highest wind velocity in N
city was felt shortly before noon toda,
when so miles an hour was recorded. 4
BLOCK island the wind reached max
mum of so miles an hour this mornin
Along the Maine coast the storm was N