The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-25
Reaching a Velocity of 20 Miles
at Some Points.
HEAVY FALL OF RAIN.
Docks and Shipping Sustain
Much Damage.
Storm Did Considerable Injury
in New York City.

coast for the past ~ hours Inc STORM
set in at sunset last evening, blowing
with great severity all night, accom-
panied by heavy rain. In the upper and
lower bay the storm blew with great
fury and an unusually high tide washed
upon the Staten Island shores, doing
considerable damage to docks, small
boats and other craft. The Staten ISL
and rapid transit railroad track be-
tween Tompkinsville and Stapleton was
INSTRUCTED by wreckage from pile driv-
ers and a small schooner which was
driven ashore and the wreckage piled
up the railroad track. A heavy sea
ragged in the upper bay Two steamers
which arrived during the night re-
manned at anchor off the quarantine
station until noon, when the health OIL
GERS tug succeeded in boarding them.
These steamers were the French liner
Panama, from Bordeaux, and the fruit
steamer Donald, from Jamaica. The
only other arrival up to noon was the
Mallory line steamer San Marcos, from
Galveston.
The storm did considerable damage in
the city. Windows in the upper part of
the city were blown in and few roofs
taken off. The greatest damage was
along West street, fronting the North
river, where cellars were flooded the
rapid transit tunnel also was flooded in
many places.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany reports having suffered most in
the PocOno mountain district near
Stroudsburg. Pa. Sleet broke down
poles and wires for nearly a mile Some
of the Long Island wires were broken.
The Postal company reports heavy
damage across the river between Suf-
fern and Gutenberg.
The wind here blew from SO to 40
miles an hour. The gale sent shipping
scurrying to shelter and safety. In
IL ~ n
the putting out of additional hawsers
many small boats and other craft were
damaged or driven ashore
During the early morning hours the
ferryboatS had some trouble, owing to
the high wind in crossing the rivers
In the East liver the tide rose to
height not remembered by the oldest
inhabitant." Great damage was done
on all the islands lying in the river off
the Harlem shore, piers being carried
away, bathing pavilions washed off
their foundations, outhouses swept into
the flood and washed to pieces in the
waters of He'll Gate.
One of the strangest sights was that
of the lighthouse standing off the north
end of BlackwelIs island. Ordinarily
standing away out of tide water, the
lighthouse was in the midst of a raging
flood. The waves, covered with white
caps. dashed about the structure, the
platform of the house being but a short
distance from the water surface. The
merged
An unusual number of trees and wire
poles were uprooted and leveled by the
storm in Brooklyn. Several street
waShOutS were reported from different
sections of the borough.
The storm struck Asbury Park, N. J.,
with more force than any in recent
years. The wind during the night at
tanned a velocity of 70 miles an hour
and did much damage to cottages. The
great waves rolled across Ocean avenue
and the surf rolled across the beach
and into Wesley lake, overlooking it,
something that never occurred since
Asbury Park was located. The water
of the lake flooded cellars and made
the streets in the vicinity almost inn
paSSable.
The Metropolitan hotel one of the
largest at Asbury Park, was swept of
it's roof and the rain soaked down into
the rooms, causing much damage. The
piazzas of the Hotel Strand were torn
off and the building considerably dam
aged. Trees have been stripped and
the streets are Uttered with branches
wires, parts of roofs or verandas and
shutters.
No trains reached Seabright and none
may for several days The south track
and south of Seabright, 1,500 feet of the
roadbed is either washed away or bur-
led under sand. A new inlet from the
ocean to Shrewsbury river has formed
it this afternoon indicates it is deep
enough for the river steamers.
The piers of number of wealthy New
York cottages were swept away and
the wind carried off a corner of the
roof of the Normandie hotel Fifteen
fiShermenS boats were wrecked. Sea-
bright was in darkness, as the high tide
flooded the electric light plant.
Driven by the terrific northeast gale
the highest tide ever known along the
north shore of Long Island swept in
land leaving ribbon of wreckage that
girts the shore front from Astoria, in
Long Island city, out to Greenport, on
the extreme end of the island.
Thousands of dollars damage was
done. Docks boat and bathing houses
were wrecked and fleets of yachts which
had been drawn up in supposedly safe
winter quarters, were f1oated off by the
high tide and left stranded, in many
instances more than half a mile in
land.
Washouts occurred on two branches
of the railroad and trolley roads. Traf-
fic was suspended on two branches of
the Long Island railroad, while for more
than half a day the cars of the New
York and Queen County Electric rail-
way were unable to get beyond Stein
way 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 $40. 0C0
worth of docks, paved walks, pavilions.
places of amusement and other proper
ty was destroyed
In the cove off North Beach, where
the williamsburg Yacht club has its
headquarters, the fleet of small boats
was swamDed or carried inshore.
New Haven, Conn, Nov. 25-The dam
age done by the severe storm of the
last "a hours has been the greatest, in
some instances, in the history of the
STATE and the damage will reach $780, 900
or more.
AT Shippan Point, in Stamford, sew
eral docks connected with summer res