Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-26
STORM STILL RAGING
High Winds and Tides Continue Along
the Atlantic Coast.
MANY VESSELS Are STRANDED
Pilot Reports Seeing an Italian
Bark Go Down.
NO LIVES REPORTED LOST

CAPE MAY, N. J.,October 26.-The north
cast storm continues here. and the tide this
morning was within three inches of being
as high that of yesterday. The wind
continued to blow all through the night AT
the rate of thirty-six miles an hour, and
shows no sign of abatement.
The tide at 8 o'clock, high water, covered
as much territory as yesterday, excepting
that it did not reach the front of the Stock
ton Hotel, while covering the land ON the
other three sides of the structure. The tide
about $50 o'clock broke over Madison ave-
nue. in three places, and q half hour later
covered that thoroughfare at every point.
The tide has eaten away a portion of the
drive In front of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Excursion House, and washes over the
beach, north of Madison avenue, for a
stretch of three-quarters of a mile The
waves are washing across the meadow for
mile and breaking within two hundred
yards of Washington street, on the north
part Of the town.
Damage ut Other Points.
At Cape May Point waves are still eating
away the bluff, and at South Cape May, the
only places left are the main parts of the
houses themselves.
The amount of damage done cannot be
told until the tide lowers.
at Holly Beach or Anglesea. but the tide can
be seen through strong glasses washing
across that beach.
High Winds Again.
DELAWARE BREAKWATER, Del, Oc-
tober 26.-The storm on the coast here
abouts continues with but little abatement
this morning. The wind is blowing at the
rate Of thirty-five miles an hour and the
sea is very high. Even higher tides than
yesterday are expected today
The schooner Elizabeth S. Lee which
was driven ashore yesterday on the point
of Cape Henlopen, went to pieces this morn
ing, and her cargo OF coal Is total loss
An unknown steamer grounded early tkis
morning on Hen and Chicken shoals but
fioated about half an hour later unassisted
The schooner Sarah J. Vaughn, bound
from Philadelphia for Norfolk with 800
tons of coals which ran ashore on the beach
at the breakwater, broke amidship this
morning.
The schooner Lille Falkenberg. bound
from Suffolk TO New York, with lumber, is
high on the beach, apparently in good con-
dition.
The schooner H. w. Laws, coal laden
ashore at Lewes, Is in a bad condition. The
condition OF the other vessels reported
aground last evening remains unchanged
No Lives Lost as Yet.
number of schooners and other smaller
SAd1l iA e AAd1AS Tic Scd dlu Will pTODdDly
safely weather the storm. No lives have
thus far been lost. The two life-saving
crews have done noble work, dozens of be-
numbed sailors having been rescued from
stranded vessels by means Of the breeches
buOyS.
No Trains to Atlantic City.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, October 26-The
Pennsylvania railroad officials report this
morning that there Is no further delay on
their West jersey branch to Cape May
No trains have yet been able to get across
the meadows to or from Atlantic City, on
account Of the high tides
Traffic with the latter place will be re-
sumed today by the Pennsylvania railroad,
passengers being transferred from the
train to steamer at Absecon, thence by
boat to Atlantic City. There are several
WashoutS on the Sea Isle branch of the
West Jersey road, but it is not thought
that traffic will be interrupted to any great
extent.
Italian Bark Founders.
REEDY ISLAND, Del, October 26-The
pilot of the British steamer Ethelred, Port
Antonio, fer Philadelphia, reports that he
saw an Italian bark go down, west of Four
teen-Foot Bank, in the Delaware bay.
early this morning. He states that he
could not see the name of the bark