Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-11-29
SEVERE STORM IN NEW YORK
VAST DAMAGE WAS DONE
The Wind Blew a Gale and::Rsin Pored
Down-Heavy Sea Ragged in the Upper
Bay-Boats Were Driven Asbore-Tide
Rose to Highest Known Point I'll Iron
Pier Broke-Trains We're Delayed.

| Hlor hroke-ifalns We're Delayed.
New York, Nov. 25.--A heavy north
east gale has been raging along the
coast for the past "a hours, blowing
with great severity all night, accom-
panied by heavy rains In the upper
and lower bay the storm blew with
great fury and an unusually high tide
washed upon the Staten Island shores
doing considerable damage to docks,
small boats and other craft. The Stat.
en- Island Rapid Transit Railroad
track between Tompkinsville and Sta.
pleton was obstructed by wreckage
from piledrivers and small schooner
was driven ashore. A heavy sea
'aged in the upper bay. Two steam
ers that arrived during the night re-
NAMED at anchor off the quarantine
station until noon, when the health
officers succeeded in boarding them.
These steamers were the French liner
Panama, from Bordeaux, and the fruit
steamer Donald, from Jamaica. The
only other arrival up to noon was the
| Mallory line steamer San Marcos, from
Galveston.
The storm did considerable damage
n the city. Windows in the upper
part of the city were blown in and a
lew roofs taken off. The greatest
damage was done along West street,
{: onting the North river, where cellars
we're flooded. The Rapid Transit tun-
mel also was flooded in many places.
| The Western Union Telegraph com
2any lines have suffered in the POGO.
no mountain district near Strouds-
burg, Pa. Sleet broke down poles and
| wires for nearly mile. Some of the
ong Island wires were broken. The
Postal company reports heavy dam
| oges across the river between Suffern
md Gutenberg. Both companies ex-
pect to have all repairs made by morn
ing.
| In the East river the tide rose to g
height not remembered by the "oldest
phabitant." Great damage was done
IN all the islands lying in the river
| lft the Harlem shore, piers being car
lied away, boating pavilions washed off
heir foundations, outhouses swept in
- the flood and washed to pieces in
he waters of Hellgate.
One of the strangest sights was that
IF the lighthouse standing off the
| north end of Blackwells island. Ordi
oarily standing away out of the tide
water, the lighthouse this morning
vas in the midst of a raging flood
| The waves, covered with whitecaps
dashed about the structure, the plat
'orm of the house being but short
Instance from the waters surface.
The entire north end of the island
vas submerged.
An unusual number of trees and
wire poles were uprooted and leveled
~ the storm in Brooklyn.
The tug Robert Haddon was blown
against the iron pier at Long Branch,
The crashing was heard by a fisher
nan, who aroused some citizens. With
rope they went to the pier to aid
he seven men on the tug. Each wave,
rs it receded, carried the Haddon
away from the pier, and then as the
next came rolling shoreward the heavy
rug would be carried on it's crest and
dashed against the piling under the
pier or against the steel work. After
many efforts a man on the tug caught
the rope which was thrown from the
pier. He hung on and the tug was
carried away from the pier, the man
clinging to the rope, swung clear of
her and then was hauled up on the
pier. Thus all were saved.
About 3 o'clock in the morning the
iron pier broke in two. The tug had
continued beating against it and the
piling and superstructure were gradu
Ill weakened by the blows. The tug,
too, was battered to pieces.
When the pier was carried, one
man, whose name is not known, was
carried out to sea and drowned.
The gale started a corner of the |
roof of a large hotel and the wind
setting under it, ripped almost the |
whole covering off. Rain was falling
in torrents and the men worked har6 |
to get the furnishings to points where
they would be in the least danger.
On Ocean avenue several store |
fronts were blown in. Many of the
avenues are impossible on account of |
fallen trees and fences being blown |
across them. Tonight there is but one
telegraph wire working in the city.
The New York & Long Branch Rail-
way is blocked by washout at Nor
cams. No trains have come in or
zone out by that route since morning.
The effects of the storm are very
manifest at Brighton Beach and Coney
sland. Breakwaters and bathing pa
'ilions, board walks and other acces-
cries suffered much damage.
Off Manhattan beach can be seen a
apsized schooner. Whether her crew
,ot to shore safely or not can not be
No trains reached Seabright today
nd none may for several days. The
outh track is washed away for a
uarter of a mile and south of Sea-
right $50 feet of the roadbed is either |
'ashed away or buried under the
and. A new inlet from the ocean has
ormed near Navesink and an exami-
alton of it this afternoon indicates n
is deep enough for the river steam a