The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-25
DAMAGE BY THE HIGH TIDE
ALONG THE OONSEOIICUT SHORE
 OF THE SOUND YEsTERDAY.

Shore Thought to he Men in Distress-
 Docks Washed Away-Bonts Smashed
 and Bath Houses wnte,
 Over Kimberly Avenue Bridge -Rond.
 way Washed Out nt savin Rock.
 Test erday forenoon persons at Col
 they thought was three men adrift in
 boat off shore. An unusually high
 sea was running at the time and the
 water was very rough. Those on shore
 telephoned to the New Haven police
 that party of three men was in dis
 tress off the Woodmont shore and the
 police notified tugboat men at the docks
 here. In a short ime the tug Battles
 belonging to McWilliams Brothers and
 commanded by Captain Charles Smith
 put out to the rescue
 The tug steamed down the west shore
 and off the Colonial Inn found a piece
 of dock wreckage, evidently part of
 a wharf torn away somewhere along
 shore. Sticking up from the wreckage
 
 tance looked like three men in a boat
 The tug crew looked about but could find nothing else afloat resembling the supposed party in distress.
 Returning to the city telephone in
 quiry was sent to Colonial Inn and the people there said that the tugboat had gone to the men ;.l distress. When asked If the men in the boat had given any signal a man at the Inn said that there had been a puff of smoke from the boat as though a revolver had been fired,
 The floating wreckage was evidently what had been seen from the shore but the revolver smoke was evidently inn aginative.
 The tide came up over the Kimber- 1y avenue bridge and the water was about Ave inches deep in the road way between the two bridges over the arms of the river there. At Cox's Surf house, just below Savin Rock, the tide came up onto the roadway az far as the porch in front of the hotel. A consid- erable portion of the roadway in front of the hotel was washed away for space of twelve feet into the roadway.
 A high wind blowing in towards shore increased the volume of the tide. At City Point considerable portion of the wharf was torn away.
 The high tide also did considerable damage on the east shore, especially at Cosy Beach, where about sixty feet of board walk at the Momauguin was ripped up and washed away, while at Mansfield's Grove Charles E. Bartlett sustained loss mounting to about $50 by damage to his boats. The board walks at the cottages of Edward Phelan of this city and E. J. Haugh of Yalesville at Silver Sands, just above the Momauguin, were carried away and the tide water poured over the little raise of ground on which the cottages stand and flowed into the meadows back Some time ago the sand at Cosy Beach in front of the Momauguin was washed off the stone and gravel bot tom, leaving the beach rough and stony and not so satisfactory for bath ing as it formerly was. Yesterdays | big tide, however, filled in tons of sand | upon the beach in front of the Momau- | guin covering the beach and benefitting | it greatly if the sand remains there.
 The tide yesterday was the highest | known in this vicinity for years and l some old fishermen and men acquainted | with the coast said that it was the | highest in fifty years. The wind blew in towards the shore strongly and this added greatly to the vol lme Of the tide From all the shore i towns last night came reports of dam age done.
 The damage done by the high tides yesterday was the greatest in some in stances in the history of the state. At Shippan Point in Stamford several docks connected with summer resi- dences were carried away by the un- usually high tide, and the cellars of number of buildings near the water front were completely submerged Along the canal the water rose over the banks and a considerable part of the lower end of the city was inundated The freight offices of the North and East River Steamboat company were flooded, as were many of the shops along the canal.
 John S. Hassenau, boatman, while making his way to the water front stumbled into the boiler room of the WdC6TSlue IuiliS. l He WdlGI, WHICH flooded the boiler room, had become heated, and Hessenau was so badly 'calded that he was removed to the hospital in a serious condition. The Iorwalk Tramway company was com- ,elled to suspend business this after loon owing to the fact that the roadbed vas washed from under the rails. The Iamage to property in this vicinity of Stamford will easily reach $7,000. Milford probably suffered more than ny other town on the Connecticut hore and the damage is estimated at 10 O0O. The seawan at Burwells beach ecently built was completely carried l way. At Fort Trumbull beach every athing house on the beach was wash ( d away, and the banks and lawns of he summer residences were destroyed. he trolley car tracks between Mead Z WIS End and Fort Trumbull are com f letely covered with sand ill some , faces and in others the tracks were Z fit high and dry, their foundations r aving been washed away. Laurel , teach, considered one of the finest faces in this city, suffered greatly, the ! fer and bulkhead being totally wreck