New-York tribune., 1901-11-25
WRECK AND RUIN ON SOUND
BUILDINGS TORN FROM FOUNDATIONS
-PAVILIONS AND YACHTS BLOWN
TO SEA-COLUMBIA INJURED

\ northeast gale. blowing at the rate Of sew
enty-fve miles an hour. ragged over Long Island
Sound on Saturday and yesterday morning. and
did damage to the extent of S3J0O0O along the
northern shore. At City Island, NewRochelle.
Larchnont Orfenta Point, Davenport's Neck
and Premium Point the shore was strewn with
wreckage and old residents say it was the worst
storm seen in forty years. 1t is feared when all
reports are in that they will show that num-
Der of lives have been lost, as several yachts
have not been accounted for The big country
estates of wealthy men on Davenports Neck
Premium Point and Orienta Point were badly
damaged by the great conbers. which ruined
high retaining walls and flooded Italian gardens.
while the cellars of many houses near the Sound
were flooded AT City Island the storm was so
severe that yawls and catboats were torn lroHi
their moorings and dashed on the City ISiand
and Westchester meadows far inland The dam
age to yachts and hotels at City Island alone Isl
estimated at 100000
WATER FLOODS CLUBHOUSES.
The New-Rochelle Rowing Club was damaged
to the extent of 81 800 by the wind, which tore
off new addition and tossed 1T in pieces htty
feet away The tid> so high that the moor
of the clubhouse was flooded 10 the depth OF
three feet while great rollers knocked OUT al
the windows the lower floor ana sreatlE
damaged
on the floor.
The New-R Rochelle Yacht Club house. on Har-
rison Island. was also affected by the wind
which moved the eastern side of the building
half a foot out of place. while the floors were
heaved up in the centre
The Peggy a 40-foot yawl, which cost more
than $1,000. owned by F. S. Hastings, son-ln-
law of E. C. Benedict the banker. at Green
xjch. lies a wreck the rocks of Hudson
Park at New Rochelle. She had been brought
from, Greenwich 70 Echo Bay last week. where
che had baen anchored preparatory 10 being
nIaced on the ways in Larry huntington
sbinvard The Peggy had never been beaten IN
tho iO-foot class and was considered the fastest
Yacht of her class the Sound Her hoIio"
boon1 was snapped in two as thought IL was Dc
CLAW pfpestem. while her cabin and null "ere
crushed in and damaged almost beyond repair
The cabin catboat Tom Cod. owned oy l. H.
Davis of New Rochelle. was carried half mll9
down the Sound and then blown on FoO'eF
Hill thirty feet above the Sound level
The retaining wall surrounding the estate OF
r,rd y Potter on Davenport's Neck. was
,.,ad IN the extent of 5000. while the cell
, of NJ Turner's house, on the Neck, was
filled with water
G. OLIVER ISELIN CUT OFF
,rt, bannerv and duck house owned by c..
oI,,ar Isefin. on Echo Island, opposite his Pre-
.,;,,,,, point bouse was washed into the SOUND.
ard aU of Mr.. IseIin's imported stock of poultry
WAS drowned Mr.. Iselins Italian gardens
1,ara badIv damaged. while the bridge connect
ing the island on which his house IS was hoooe"'
and for hours he was cut OFF from reachlnS 'heT
mainland His private dock and float were car-'
red out to sea
Tho Potter house occupied by H p "lches,'
facing Keho Bay was caught in the thick OF 'hs'
u-aSh
flooding the dining room and nlllnS tne celIal'
CITY ISLAND A MASS OF WRECkAGE'
Tho storm, centre seems TO have been at City
leland the shore front OF which is a mass OF
1vreckaee The wind blew there eighty miles an
hour Yesterday morning, when the RESIDENTS
woke they found the highways leading 10 the
pIace covered with from two to four 1eeC OK
water. What was left of the old City Island
br;asa which vas being removed owing TO ths
construction of a new steel structure. was COM
n1eteIv carried away The water also filled th3
horsecar stables and washed away the tracks So
that the novel scene was witnessed OF peo-
nJe going 10 church in rowboats. In some paces
the water on the highways was so deep thdt inc
mounted police from the West Chester statioN
found II ND to the bodies of their horses THIS
heaviest damage was done to the shipyards andi
hotels At the Jacobs. Hawkins. woods ana
Robinson shipvards boats and pleasure craft
w,re blown from their ways and moor1ngs anu
stranded on the beach
COLUMBIA BLOWN FROM HER WAYS
The cup winner Columbia. II is reported was
,,o,-- from, her WAYS at the Hawkins yard ana
had hole stove in her. AT RoblnSons Sdru d
steamboat owned by Thomas Burns OF the De
nartment of Highways was torn from the "dSS
ond Isft on the beach where she was hopelesSIy
Ivracked a large bark. the name OF wnicn cdI'-
NOT he learned is reported to have Deen oloWu
aSbore at Hart's Island CommunicatAh Win
the island has been cut off. and IT cannot %
learned whether or not any lives were lost
Other smaller boats are strewn along tne osdcl
nd on the salt meadows all the way Irous
I,archmont to City Island
HOTELS AND HOMES WRECKED
While the gale was at it's height at City Island
,he home of Mrs. Klause on the point was torn
from its foundation and carried away MIS-
KIause and her three were in the oullcins'
and when they heard the beams cracking tney
took warning and got out just in time 10 save
Themselves woolley's Hotel. near Dy' was also
washed from its foundations. and the paviifons
around il we're wrecked. Other hotels that sur-
fered damage at City Island were the MACE