The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-29
SUNDAY MORNING GALE ALONG THE
NORTH ATLANTIC COAST.
GREAT AMOUNT OF DAMAGE DONE
To shipping and Property ut New York
and New Jersey Coast Poiuts-A ship
stranded and n TUG Pounded to
Pieces Twenty-Four Men Rescued
by Life saving Crews-uiGhest Tide
Ever Known-Seashore Hotels Partly
Wrecked

New York. November "A heavy
northeast gale has been raging along
the coast for the past twenty hours.
The storm set in at unset last even
ing. blowing with great severity all
night, accompanied by heavy rain. In
the upper and lower bay the storm
ragged with great fury. M an unusually
high tide ash Upon the Staten Is
land shores, doing considerable damage
To docks, small boats. and other craft
The staten Island Rapid Transit rail-
road track between Tompkinsville and
Stapleton was obstructed by wreckage
from pile-drivers and a small schooner
which was driven ashore and piled upon
the rails. A heavy sea ragged in the
upper bay.
At Clifton, S. l., the Richmond Ice
Company dock was undermined and 600
tons OF GAL and part OF the Rapid
Transin Company's tracks were swept
away.
The storm did considerable damage in
the city. Windows in the upper part
of the city were blown in AMI a 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
| S~troudsburg, Pa. Sleet broke down
poles and wires for nearly a mile. Some
of the Long Island wires were broken.
The Postal Company reports its heaviest
damage across the river, Suf-
c--e -- Doth onrn no niao
expect to V all repairs made by
morning.
GALE BLOWING FORTY MILES AN
HOUR
The wind here blew from thirty-six
to forty miles an hour this
The gale sent shipping scurrying to
shelter and safety. In spite OF the
dropping of anchors and the putting
out of additional hawsers, many small
drive nashore.
In the East river the tide rose to a
| height not remembered by the oldest
inhabitant." Great damage was done
on all the stands lying in the river on
the Harlan shore, piers being carried
away, bathing %pavilions washed on
their foundations. uthouse swept n II
the flood n 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 Blackwell's island. Ordinarily
standing far beyond tidewater, the
lighthouse his morning 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 entire north END OF
the island was submerged.
The usual number of trees and wire
poles were uprooted and leveled by the
storm in Brooklyn. Several small street
washouts were reported from Inherent
sections of the borough.
FULL-RIGGED SHIP ASHORE.
he full-rigged ship Flottbek. which
went ashore at Beacn our
| ing last nights gale, is tonight resting
| on the sands, apparently little the worse
for her experience. and her crew are
being cared for by the li~fe-saVers OF
Station No. 4.
The tug Robert Haddon picked up the
Flottbek yesterday afternoon about
dark. The ship. under OF
CAPTAIN Singer was bound for New
York. from Plymouth, England, with a
cargo of white clay and minerals. The
tug had a crew of seven men, and the
ship a twenty-four men all told. Al
went we'll until late in the evening
when the wind attained a velocity OF
| 1OrlY kQOIS. 1ue Tug wac oAAoSAS ~
make Roadway; and the two vessels
began to drift inshore.
Their danger was seen from the
beach. and the life-savers prepared II
aid them. Seeing that the strugglt
was hopeless. and that the only cnanc'
Of saving the tug was to let the shiI
go the hawser was cut. The ship drift
ed rapidly on shore and struck well VI
and close in at a point favorable TO
work upon her. The tug lost her rud
der about the time she was freed iron
the ship, and, driven by the gale anC
perfectly helpless. h drifter down tn
coast and brought up against he iroI
pier at Long Branch and began U
pound against it The crashing wa
heard by a fisherman. who reused som'
citizens.
With a rope they went to the pier t
aid the sever men on the tug. Eacl
wave as il receded carried the HaddoI
away from the pier, and then as tn
next came rolling shoreward the heaV.
tug would be carried on its crest an'
dashed against the piling under the pie
or against the steel work. The work o
rescue was dangerous, not only to tn
men being rescued. but to those aidini
them. After a efforts a nan Oh
the tug caught the rope which wa
thrown rom the pier. He hung on
and as the tug was carried away iron
the pier. he clinging TO the ope swuni
clear Of her and then was huriedl,
hauled up on the pier before the mex
wave could dash him against the piine
Thu all were saved.
CREW TAKEN OFF BY BREECHE'
BUOY.
Meanwhile the ship had been locke
after by the l~ife-savers. After seveTa
Intellectual attempts a regulation life
line proiectile was thrown over her an
the rope caught The whip and cabl
l were hauled out by the crew and mad
fast aloft. The ~life-savers had the
. shore anchor down. and the breeche
buoy was rugged within a very shel
time. The ship had struck broadsid
on. so that the work Of removing tn
men was comparatively easy. The re:
cued sailors were taken to Long Branc
e About 3 o'clock in the morning th
iron pier broke in two. The tug ha
e continued to pound against IL and III
: piling and the superstructure wel
e gradually weakened by the blow. TIL
tug. too. was battered to pieces
When the pier was carried away on
man. whose name Is not nown. wa
uached into the sea and drOwuQd