Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-25
STORM ON The COAST
New York and Vicinity Swept by
a Terrific Gale..Great
Damage Done.
Many Vessels and Yachts Blown
Ashore. Some Half a Mile
Inland.
p;ore Arc nomo1ished and Sum.
Piers Are Demolished and Sum-
mer Residences Of the
Wealthy Wrecked.


east gale Sunday caused the highes
tide ever known along the shores OF
/ Long Island and New Jersey, and swep
/ inland from quarter to mile above
all previous highwater marks. Thou
sands Of dollars damages was done
i docks, boat and bathing houses beint
wrecked and carried off by the high wa
tiers. while fleets of yachts which hac
1 been drawn up high inland for the win
ter were floated off by the high tide ane
left stranded in many instances more
than half mile inland.
The twenty four men of the crew o.
| the full-rigged ship Flottbek, which was
dashed ashore at Monmouth Beach
were rescued after a hard fight. The tul
| Robert Haddon, which was towing the
Flottbek, was dashed against the lrof
pier at Long Branch and its crew o.
seven men saved by desperate efforts
The tug, pounding against the pier
/ broke 1t in two, and one man wa:
drowned.
The gale wrecked the United States
hotel at Long Branch and tore up many
cottages along the beach.
/ Traffic was suspended on two branch.
es of the Long Island railroad for more
4 than half day. the cars of the New
] York and Queens county electric rail-
way were unable to continue owing t.
! the tracks across the meadows being
flooded by the tide.
A score of passengers who tried t.
make the trip between Jersey City anc
West Twenty third street on the Erie
ferry boat Chautauqua when the storm
was at its height had an experience the,
will not soon forget
1t seemed to them as If the boat must
sink, and besides that. before 1T got hall
way to the New York eide they were
confronted with the possibility of being
scalded by steam from the boiler, which
became dislodged by the boats rolling
| 1t drifted helplessly for few minutes
| The passengers We're huddled together
as far away as they could get from the
clouds of escaping steam.
Finally the fireboat Zophar Mills
came along and took them off. The
steam drove the passengers from the
cabins. all donned life preservers, and
] waited forward while they waited fol
| the rescuers.
| Several sharp blasts from the Chau-
| tauqua's whistle used UP the last OF the
steam From below could be heard the
rumbling of the big boiler as the ferry
boat dipped and careened In the heavy
sea running. The pilot Gained the pas
sengers by assurances that they W0uld
| soon be taken off. a
Captain Ray of the flreboat found out
| from the captain of the Chautauqua
| that there was no danger OF an explo-
| sion, so, altfo 1t was hard work, the
| fireboat took the ferryboat In tow and
finally, in the teeth of the blow, put II
alongside the Twelfth street pier. There
| the passengers were landed, and all OF
| them thanked the firemen for helping
! them out Of an uncomfortable plight. In
| the afternoon the ferryboat was toWeo
over to Jersey City, where repairs VIII
be made.
The Chautauqua's engineer stood at
his post somewhat longer than the 9TH
er men. and he was scalded by the es-
Gaping steam. His injuries were dressed
by an ambulance surgeon.
The storm did considerable damage In
Jersey City, principally the result of the
high wind. Frustrated signs and scut-
| Ties that had been blown from roofs at
tested the severity of the gale, but no
person was injured.
Telegraph and electric light wires were
also blown down, and as result the
| Postal Telegraph Company was COM
pelled to suspend business entirely DUR
| ing the afternoon, not having wire.
rhe damage was partly repaired In the
evening. The Western Union was more
fortunate. as only portion of its local
/ line was put out of service. A large part
of the city was without electric lights
and had to depend upon the gas lamps.
At Atlantic City, N. j., the storm was
the severest in years, and damage to the
emount of 10000 or more was done. The
rain was was accompanied by a high
wind that drove the waves over the
board walk, and in places the streets
were flooded for considerable distance
from the beach.
The recently built ocean promenade
was wrecked, sections were literally
lifted from the pilings and dashed forty
feet landward. For distance Of a full
half mile or more the waves swept all
before them.
The heavy northeast winds of the last
! two days at Coney Island caused high
tide. which made the creek on the north
overflow its banks, washing away much
OF the beach and the lightly constructed
buildings along the shore front.
| The promenade was uprooted, large
| blocks of concrete and tar pavement be-
| ing flung up along the Ocean Parkway
| and the immense waves overlooking the
banks and break-waters and flooding the
parkway to the depnt of several feet.
| A building containing an engine and
pile driving pump used by the Brighton
Beach Racing Association for building
| its new bulk-head was demolished anc
4 the engine wrecked. 1t is feared that the
heavy seas will upset the engine from
| ITS fastenings and deposit it In the
/ ocean.
AT the Brighton Beach Hotel the dam
age was confined to the ocean prone
made, which was uprooted. At Manhat
tan Beach the board walk was denol
iahad. The hotel itself, as we'll as tn,
oriental, escaped without serious dam
age.
Between Manhattan Beach and Rock
away Point a large schooner was driver
on the shoals. capsiZed and sunk SOM
time during the early morning. Moth
ing could be learned as TO the fate of 1T
| crew or the name of the vessel.
Turnout the state and in q greater de
| gree along the Jersey coast the tele
i graph companies had their troubles OIL
account of the storm. large force o
| men was sent out on Saturday nigh
1 from all of the central stations to repai