The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-25
NORTHWEST GALE
MICH DAMAGE DONE ALONG
NORTHERN COAST.
THE FLoTTBEK'S CLOSE CALL.
TNITED STATES HOTEL AT LONG
BRANCH WRECKED.

rowing the Flottbek, Pounded to
Pieces, and Iron Pier Wrecked at
Long Branch-Much Damage Done
in New York City-Tfde in East
River the highest Ever Recorded.
Much Injury to Small Craft and
Great Damage Done on the Islands
Along the Harlem Shore.
New York, Nov. 24.-The full-rigged
ship FIottbek, which went ashore at
Monmouth Beach last night in the
gale, is tonight resting on the sands
apparently little the worse for her ex-
perience, and her crew are being cared
for by the life-savers of Station No. 4.
The tug Robert Haddon picked up the
Flottbek yesterday afternoon about
dark The ship, under command of
Capt. Singler, was bound for New York
from Plymouth, Eng, with a cargo of
white clay and minerals. The tug had
a crew of seven men, and the ship had
"a men all told. All went well un-
til late in the evening, when the
wind attained a velocity of 40 to As
knots, and the tug was unable to make
10 work inshore. Their danger was
seen from the beach and the life saw
ers prepared to assist them. Seeing
the struggle was hopeless and that the
only chance of saving the tug was to
let the ship go, the hawser was cut
The ship drifted rapidly on shore and
struck we'll up and close in at a point
hi Ia %,,or
lost her rudder about the time she was
freed from the ship and driven by the
gale and perfectly helpless, she drifted
down the coast and brought up against
the iron pier at Long Branch |
and began to pound against it. The |
crashing was heard by a fisherman who |
reused some citizens With rope they |
went to the pier and aided the seven |
men on the tug to reach the pier in |
safety. After several Intellectual at |
tempts regulation projectile was |
thrown over her and the rope caught. |
The whip and cable were hauled out |
by the crew and made fast aloft. The |
life savers had their shore anchor down
and the breeches buoy was rigged
within a short time. The ship had
struck broadside on so that the work
Of removing the men was compare.
lively easy. The rescued sailors were
taken to Long Branch.
About O'Clock the iron pier broke in
two. The tug had continued to pound
against it and the piling and the super
structure was gradually weakened by
the blows. The tug, too, was battered
to pieces.
When the pier was carried away. one
man. name unknown, was washed into
the sea and drowned.
The United States Hotel at Long
Branch was wrecked early in the
night The gale started a corner Of
the roof and the wind getting under IT
ripped almost the whole covering off
Very little could be done to save the
interior. The rain was falling in tor
rents, and men worked hard to get the
furnishings to points where they
would. be in the least danger.
Damage at Staten Island.
At Clifton. Staten Island, the Rich
mond Ice Company dock was under
mined and 500 tons of coal lost, and
part of the Rapid Transit Company's
tracks were swept away. The schoon-
er Jacob A. Stamler, used last sum-
mer as floating hotel. her companion,
the yacht Gatina, and a canal boat
broke away from their moorings and
were soon in mix-up. The canal boat
and the Gitana suffered most Docks
and piers on all sides of the island
We're damaged.
Asbury Park Suffered.
The storm struck Asbury Park. N
d. with more force than any in recent
years. The wind during the night
attained 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, over
flowing it, something that never oc-
Cured since Asbury Park was located.
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.
No trains reached Seabright to-day
and none may for several days. The
south track is washed for a quarter of
mile and south of Seabright 1,500 feet
OF the roadbed Is either washed away
or buried under sand. A new inlet
from the ocean to the Shrewsbury riv-
er has formed near Navesink and an
examination of it this afternoon indi-
cates that it is deep enough for the
river steamers. All along the coast
many small boats were wrecked.
Wreckage on Long Island.
Driven by the terrific northeast gale.
tne highest tide ever known along the
north shore of Long Island swept in
Iand, leaving a ribbon of wreckage
mat girts the shore front from Asto-
nd IN Long Island city, out to Green
port, on the extreme end OF the island.
Thousands of dollars damage was
done. Docks. boat and bathing houses
We're wrecked and fleets of yachts
which had been drawn up in supposed
safe winter quarters were fioated
on by the high tide and left stranded
ln many instances more than half a
mile inland.
Frobably the greatest damage was
lone at North Beach. on Flushing and
boWery bays, where more than 500, 900
worth OF paved walks, docks, pavilions,
places OF amusement and other prop
cry was destroyed
ne Tribune estimates the damage
NoHh by the storm on the northern
lore Of Long Island from and in
II1qlng City Island 10 the Connecticut
Hne' at sS5O.OOO.