Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-13
RETURN OF REFUGEES
Ocean City Property Owners
Making Repairs.
TOWN COUNCIL BUSY
SAVING WRECKAGE FROM THE
BOARDWALK.
Damage 10 the Fisheries in the Vicinity
Not as Great as Ex-
pected
TOWN COUNCIL BUSY
special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
OCEAN CITY, Md, October 13.-All the
flood refugees from this city have return
ed, and many of the nonresident proper
ty owners have come down to start re-
pairs on their personal property and claim
their own from the masses Of debris wash
ed to the rear of the town. The town coun-
Gil is busy trying to save all valuable
wreckage of the boardwalk and repairing
the sewerage system. 1t has decided
to postpone the boardwalk work until
toward spring. when it expects to build
an entirely new walk facing the ocean and
to do away with the elevated walk along
Baltimore avenue, substituting in it's place
a clay pavement.
The members of the life-saving force are
all out working on the telephone line try
ing to regain communication south.
All communications north Of Fenwick Is
land has been cut off, so that all places
beyond that point are as yet unheard from,
with the exception that more or less vague
rumors have reported Chincoteague quite
safe. No news whatever has been heard
from Indian River, Ocean View Or Reno
both.
Damage on Fenwick Island.
Fenwick Island, which is located some
fifteen miles north of Ocean City, is very
for the habitations of the station families
have been wrecked and washed away, and
the station itself, while still standing, has
been deprived of it's kitchen, It's walls are
cracked and it's main chimney burst.
The lighthouse stands uninjured, but one
of the lifeboats was totally wrecked.
No new damage has been reported In
Ocean City. The trains have not yet
crossed the bridge. for 1t is feared that the
pilings are unsound. The farms across the
bay received very slight injuries. The fish
ponds have suffered much worse than was
at first anticipated-to such an extent in
deed, that they will need to be almost en-
tirely replaced. The boats are out today
trying to repair the pounds. the nets are to
be replaced and the fishermen expect to
continue until later in the fall this most
important industry of Ocean City. The
Ocean City fishery is reported to be the
greatest school for surfmen on the Atlantic
coast.
Capt. Hagan and Crew Safe.
Captain Hagan and crew, who left Ocean
City for Chincoteague last week for the
purpose OF laying new fish pound there.
and whose safety has been so seriously
feared since the storm, were heard from
today by telegram.
A very satisfactory item of news to prop
erty owners here is that, although the tide
was higher than in the last twenty-five
years. ana tnS SAND widely shifted, the
beach has retaken It's original position, so
that the low water mark is exactly where it
was before the storm. showing that Balti-
more avenue will retain its former width.
and that the ocean will keep its former bed
The inlet which was formed by rush of
ocean water into the Sinepuxent bay, about
two and one-half miles south of Ocean City,
and which has been causing such wide
spread excitement to residents of Worcester
county interested in oyster farming. has
unfortunately almost totally closed I'D. 1t
will undoubtedly be totally closed by the
high tide of tonight.
The key post of the Ocean City life-saving
station was completely demolished.