Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-25
WILD NORTHEASTER
Wide Stretch of Coast Swept
 by November Gale.
SHIPS AND SUMNER RESORTS SUFFER
Heavy Damage Done by High Seas Along New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
 Shores.

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-The heavy northeast gale which ragged along the coast for twenty hours did a vast amount of damage in and about this city. In the upper and lower bays the storm blew with great fury. An unusu- ally high tide washed up on the Staten Island shores, doing considerable dam age to docks, small boats and other craft. The Staten Island Rapid Tran sit railroad track between Tompkins- vile and Suspicion was obstructed by wreckage from pile drivers and small schooner which was driven ashore and the wreckage piled up on the railroad track. Trains could not be run on the South Shore division of the Rapid Transit company's lines, and all pas sengers from the city landed by ferry boats at St. George were compelled to travel by the electric roads. A heavy sea ragged in the upper bay, and steam CTS which arrived during the night re- mained at anchor off the quarantine station. At Clifton, Staten Island, the Richmond Ice company's dock was un- dermined, and 600 tons of coal were lost and part of the Rapid Transit com pany's tracks swept away. At South Beach booths were swept into the low CT bay, and vessel moored at Staple 1 ton drifted on to the beach. She was finally saved.
 Driven by the terrific northeast gale, the highest tide ever known along the north shore of Long Island swept in i land, leaving a ribbon of wreckage that 1 girts the shore from Astoria, in Long Island City, out to Greenport, on the extreme end of the island.
 Thousands Of dollars Of damage was l done. Docks, boat and bathing houses were wrecked, and fleets of yachts which had been drawn up in supposed ly safe winter quarters were foated off 1 by the high tide and left stranded in many instances more than half mile | inland
 Washouts occurred on two branches of the railroad and trolley roads. Traf- ! dc was suspended on two branches of the Long Island railroad, while for more than half day the cars or the New York and Queens County Electric railway were unable to get beyond Steinway owing to the tracks across ! the meadows being submerged by the | tide.
 Probably the greatest damage was | done at North Beach, on Flushing and Bowery bays, where more than $20,oO0 worth of docks, paved walks, pavilions, places of amusement and other prop i erty was destroyed.
 | The entire fleet of the Williamsburg Yacht club was hoated off by the tide and wrecked. In Flushing bay docks were damaged boats battered 10 pieces and the Flushing meadows entirely submerged.
 The same state of affairs obta ined at Jamaica bay, Roslyn and other points. | An unusual number of trees and wire poles were uprooted and leveled by the storm in Brooklyn. Several small street washouts were reported from different sections of the borough.
 The Tribune estimates the damage 1 done by the storm on the northern shore of Long Island sound from and including City Island to the Connecti- cut line at $350,000
 Broadway suffered more from the force of the gale than any other thor oughfare in this city. The wind tore down signs and smashed plate glass from the Battery to Harlem. One ad- vertising firm estimates it's loss at | S10,00O.