New-York tribune., 1901-11-26
REPORTS OF DAMAGE PILE Up
ONLY TWENTY FEET OF LONG BRANCH
PIER RE0IAIN-MANY HOUSES
SUFFER.

Reports Of additional damage besides that al
ready known came from every section Of the
North Jersey coast yesterday. The storm was
the worst that has visited the Jersey coast in
many years The German full rigged ship
Flottbek lies high and dry al Monmouth Beach
opposite the cottags of Brent Good. She will
be unloaded before any attempt is made 20 float
her. Captain Zingler came 10 this city yester-
day to make arrangements for having her
foated The crew, with the exception of the
crippled boy. is aboard the vessel The boy is at
the Monmouth Memorial Hospital! where he is
being cared for by the New Era Association,
German organization Thousands Of persons
visited the stranded ship yesterday.
Nothing is left of the tug Robert Haddon but
her hull. That lies south of the Long Branch
Pier The damage to the pier will amount TO
$50, 900. Seven hundred and forty feet went to
sea. Only twenty feet of the iron part is left.
1t is reported that the Long Branch Iron Pier
Company will not rebuild the pier in time for
next seasons use The loss to the United States
Hotel at Long Branch, is likely to reach $1,000
The interior of the hotel is damaged, in addition
to the roof, which lifted
At Galee the plant of the Seabright Lighting
Company was laid in ashes. The plant was
flooded. and gasolene explosion occurred. Be-
fore the Seabright Fire Company could set to
the place the building was beyond saving. This
makes the second time the plant has been de-
stroyed within two years. Ocean Drive is still
buried under sand between North Long Branch
and Seabright The latter place flooded
Sunday there being enough water in the
main street to float q boat The cafe of the
Octagon Hotel, the pier swept to sea,
and the bulkhead in front of the hotel was dam
aged SO badly that it Will have to be rebuilt.
a score or more of cottages between Elberon
and SeabrSht damaged, some by having
hair chi nH hIT hi1I,
We're uprooted and thrown against them At
Elberon a barn in the course of erection was
lifted from its foundation Travel is still
blocked between Long Branch and Atlantic
Highlands, owing TO big washout at Nor
ande, where fifteen hundred feet of the road
bed has gone to sea.
The great force Of the wind is shown by the
adventures Of a plank blown from the roof of
the pavilion the shore end OF the iron pier
at Long Branch This plank, about 20 feet
long I inches wide and inches thick, was
torn from the roof and whirled across Ocean
to the Ienox Hotel, which it struck end on
1t was driven into the side of the building to a
depth of about five feet between the second ana
third stories. 1t still sticks out of the wall
The Long Branch Railroad got one track in
working order yesterday and resumed traffic 10
this city At the big washout at Morgans one
track put in condition and all trains use
it. The Southern Railroad has not yet got its
tracks in order and all travel to Sea Bright is
cut off.
Two pile drivers and five scows owned bv p
Sanford Ross, and which used in building
a bulkhead for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany in NewYork Bay opposite GreenvilIe
Jersey City. were driven from their moorinps
and sunk near Robbins Reef