Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-10-30
RUIN BY THE STORM,
Furious Gales and High Tides on
the New Jersey Coast.
The Worst Known for Many Years
Many Vessels Driven Ashorc-A
Great Deal of Damage liz
Done Mt Many Points.

Cape May, n. j., Oct. 26.-One of the
tiercest northeast gales of years has
swept the lower Jersey coast aud up
Delaware bay. Many vessels have been
stranded and there is an unconfirmed
report that a ship went down off shore
Monday morning. A fleet is riding at
anchor within the harbor, unable to
proceed either way, and the meadows
are so inundated that railroad travel to
the coast resorts is practically sus-
pended. The tide here is abating some
what, but the wind at midnight was
maintaining a velocity of 80 miles.
Portions of the board walk have been
swept away, as we'll as cottage porches
and fences, and the damage is estimated
at thousands of dollars.
From Milleville comes the report that
the big tides in the Maurice river have
flooded all the oyster houses and several
have been blown down. The Ocean City,
Sea Isle and Maurice river branches of
the West Jersey railroad are sub
| merged. Nearly a mile of the Reading
tracks have been washed away near Egg
Harbor City and the mail coach betw cen
that place and Tuckerton was held up
Monday by flooded roads.
Owing to the heavy wind and sea the
fishing village of Seaside, formerly
Parkertown, is under water. The vii
| layers are rowing through the streets
in boats. The government trestle was
| badly damaged. The trestle connects
the mainland with Sandy Hook and all
freight for that place, including the big
guns used there, pass over it. About 200
feet was lifted off the piling and
washed to one side and it will be some
time before it can be repaired A large
| piece of Kay's new bulkhead was
washed away and the property there is
in danger. The bulkhead was built last
winter at a large expense. The sea
rolls through the inlet across the river
and breaks over the land on the west
shore continually. The sand bar is
closing the west channel and if the
storm continues the Shrewsbury river
will be closed to navigation.
| Much damage has been done in the
vicinity of Lewes, Del. The schooners
Little Falkenburg, Sarah |. Vaughn, II
w. Laws and Annie |. Ponder went
ashore on the beach there Sunday night
The crews were safely landed. The
schooner Emma l.. Cottingham, from
Fall River for Philadelphia, is ashore
near Delaware City. She lies on stone
pile well up the beach. The schooner
Elizabeth Lee, Philadelphia for Glou'
cester, Mass, broke from the tugs
which held her and drifted on the point
Of Cape Henlopen. She is in bad posi-
ton and may go to pieces at any mo-
ment because of her cargo of coal. The
crew was taken aboard the tugs.
number of dredges and barges are atst
ashore.
Atlantic City, N. j., Oct. 26.-Th,
northeast storm still prevailing is prob
ably the most severe in many years
In point of high tides, it has not beer
equaled, it is stated, since 1914. Tht
damage done thus far does not equa
that of the storm of 1880, but if it doe
not abate soon it promises to exceed it
The principal damage accomplished ha!
been by the wind. 1t blew over at leas
three houses in course of construction
and n row of two more is threatened
The three railroad beds have beer
washed out for considerable distance
, thus shutting the city out of train serv
J ice either way. At Chelsea, about 81!
squares of board walk was washe,
away and several valuable bulkhead
: were wrecked.
Baltimore, Md, Oct. ga special t
the American from Ocean City, Md
says: The storm of the last two day
was the worst ever experienced in thi
, section. The wind attained the proper
) tons of hurricane, and the surf ra
/ four feet deep across the beach int
SynepuXent bay. The large porches o
= Congress hall, Trimpers, the Easter
} Shore hotel, Cropper's pavilion, Allan
: tic hotel and Meyer cottage are CON
q q pletely wrecked. The immense fis
o pond of the Ocean Fishing compan
a was carried out to sea. The Cambridg
hotel was nearly wrecked. A larg
two-masted schooner was sunk in tn
bay after being driven against the draw
bridge. The damage will reach thou
sands of dollars.
Norfolk, Va, Oct. 26.-The heav
= northeaster developed early Sunda
: : night full-hedged hurricane, whic
has, however, done less damage to shil
ping than was threatened. In this cit
= the damage was not great, notwitl
standing the high tides that interrupte
. street car travel and injured goot
stored on low wharves. Two men m,
? death from live wires during the storm
: GIVEN UP.
y Hope of Finding Lost $4,000 Regii
tered Package Abandoned.