Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1903-09-17
CYCLONE AT
ATLANTIC CITY

The storm which broke this morning
promised to be one OF the severest
along the coast that has prevailed in
years. Every wire to the Jersey re-
sorts is down, but such moagre reports
as have come through Indicate that
much damage has already been done
at Cape May and Atlantic.
a. q. McCausland, superintendent
of tho Atlantic City Railroad, on
reaching Camden from Cape May aboUs
9 O'Clock, reported that the fury Of
the storm which struck the coast at
) 30 was unprecedented. He said a
bank had been unrOofed, and the
Queen Ann pier partially torn away.
He said that "a number of cottages had
been unroofed, but was unable to give
details on account of his early depart
ure from the-resort. He had not heard
Of any loss of life.
Crews and passengers of tho train
arriving about 9 O'Clock at Kaighn' s
Point, reported that q veritahle cyclone
had struck Atlantic City, unroOfing
from fifty TO sixty hotels and cot
tages.
In Philadelphia the wind and down
pour were terrific. A section of the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Broad street
station roof was carried away, wind
ow glasses were broken in all sec
tions, trees uprooted and great dam
age done.
Blinded by the rain Prof. Stratton,
principal of the Pitman 5 Grove. N.
J., schools, and j. NJ Glendening, of
Ridgewood, n. j., drove in front OF a
Cape May passenger train at 9o'clock,
Prof. Stratton was killed instantly
and Mr.. Glendening is i'll the hospital
suffering from bruises and shock. He
will probably recover
NEW YORK, Sept. IA terrific
hurricane, driving sheets of rain be
fore it, began to sweep over this city
at / 1 O'Clock today. Up to 1880 o clock
no serious accident from the storm had
been reported. Houses in the suburbs
suffered some damage; trees wore up
rooted, signs blown down and other
damage OF "A minor character reported.
Telegraph aud telephone wires were
blown down in all directions and com
,ntyil. Nr4rlt
was practically suspended Business
in Wall street and commercial dis.
triCts came to standstili. The streets
were deserted, as walking and riding
was dangerous because OF falling signs,
loose bricks, etc.
1t is the worst storm New York has
ever experienced a feature of Tia,
storm was the intense darkness, whlci
set in, making lights u necessity.
The government yacht Sylph Will
the President on Board was expected
to arrive at Ellis Island at noon, bu
up to IL 10 it had not put IN an ap
pearance 1t is probable that tn,
Yacht sought some haven in the souno
and will remain there until the storm
Is over. The weather bureau reports
! that the storm came from the OCeaI
last night and struck the South Jerse,
coast carly this morning. 1t blew viii
tremendous force and quickly lovo!lot
! all wires, so that no communication
| has been Lad with that section sine
the storm started The wind aroun,
| New York is blowing at the rate O
about 60 miles Rn hour
CAMDEN, n j., Sept lG.-Al
trains reaching this city brings the IN
formation that the hurricane whicl
struck Atlantic City early this morn
ing has damaged property to the eX
tent Of noarly $1,000, 600. The pier
along the beach front have been dam
aged, payilions have been washe'
away, and the debris is piled high ul
against the beach front hotels, man,
| of which have been unroOfcd. Up II
! the city, McClay's apartment house a
Pacific and South Carolina avenues
was uurOofed and houses in all part
of the city, but particularly aroun'
the inlet, have suffered.
N The Meadows are flooded to the rail
road tracks and If the rain does no
cease it may be impossible to get an.
more trains through.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. lG-A sever,
storm from the Gulf region reached
this city this morning. The rain tel
in torrents and was driven by 3
mile gale. The temperature was Z
degrees, rendering the atmosphere op
pressive. The telegraph and tede
phone service is badly crippled. ant
there is no communication with At
lantic City The superintendent o
the Delaware q Atlantic Telephon
| 90. states that eight hundred tele
phones are out of service III Atalnti
City.
Passengers arriving from Atlanti
City say the storm there was Yer,
severe and the wind unroofed in tn
neighborhood of fifty hotels and cot
| tages.
Supt. Oausland of the Atlantic Cit.
Railroad, arrived from Cape May a
. 80 O'Clock and reported that the fur.
OF the storm was unprecedented. !
bank building was unroofed, th
| Queen Ann pier destroyed and a mum