The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-17
SWEPT
OVER NEW YORK.
Gale Swept Along Jersey Coast and Dam
aged Shipping and Unroofed Buildings
in the Metropolis.

/ slightly damaged by a pile driver which
] smashed into her. The damage 10 yachts
AT City Island is estimated at 100000
/ The Reliance, which II being hauled
out at Jacobs shpyard. was saved only
by hard work on the part Of the Island
ers. she was struck by a pile driver
which was building the ways on which
! she will spend the winter. and several
OF the plates In her stern were badly
dented and loosened. gang OF men Sc
cured tug. pulled the pile driver away,
and then directed their efforts 70 snoring
up the cup winner.
About so old salts OF Coney Island, who
feared that the three big single stickers
would be permanently ruined by the
storm. volunteered their services. They
were put 10 work proppng up Column
bia, which II was feared would be jam
med TO pieces by the big schooner yacht
Hildegarde.
SCUTTLED THE BIG SCHOONER
In order 20 save the Columbia the
schooner was dragged out In the basin
and scuttled. She lies In 20 feet OF water,
within a few feet of the Columbia's stern.
The Constitution was 40 high and dry
she escaped the force of the waves and
safely weathered the storm Seven sailors
who were on Hildegarde when she was
scuttled were forcd TO jump overheard.
and after hard struggle with the waves
swan safely 10 shore.
Seventeen yachts driven on rock reefs
and $4,000 damage to yacht clubs and
country estates is the story Of the havoc
wrought by the storm at New Rochelle.
The new steam yacht Fulconis owned
by Charles w. Holtz, a New York res
taurant man. slipped her anchor chain
of the Larchmont Yacht club and was
driven on Umbrella Point. where she
was pounded 10 pieces.
The nA MAJ
made their escape by jumping into the
Sound. They were rescued by members OF
the yacht club. The yacht was 30 feet
over all
One large steamer the s. r. Spring.
plies between New Rochelle. Rye Beach
and Stanford, was caught of Greenwich
and was driven on the rocks of the big
country mansion OF r. c. Benedict at
Belle Haven. The captain. his crew OF sew
en- men and ii passengers were saved, but
the steamer, which was a sidewheeler 300
feet over all. was pounded to pieces on
the rocks The passengers and crew had
a thrilling experience and their escape
from drowning was miraculous.
LIFE RATS SMASHED.
The crew launched the largest life raft
and the passengers, with the preservers
on. got ready to get on II. when the raft
suddenly struck the hull OF the boat and
was pounded TO pieces. A second life raft
put over by the crew was also destroyed.
This left only one small boat OF any de-
scrlpuon on the steamer and Il was so
small that Capt. Mcdonald was afraid to
put IL over. He tried TO put up distress
signals, but the wind snapped of the flag
staff
The steamer drifted along shore an hour
until she hit the rocks of the point at f..
C. Benedicts and stove In her bow.
As soon as she touched a colored cook
named Cornelius
TO the rocks The water was over his
head and he was tossed until he was
bruised and bleeding but he kept on
swimming and was finally safely tossed
on the beach The pilot. George Monk,
followed the cook and also reached shall
low water considerably bruised Cant.
Mcdonald then wrapped the two babies I'm
blankets. tied them with ropes and
brought them to the pilot end cook who
waded ashore with them and laid them on
the beach The mothers were next taken
on, ana when they were cent ashore the
men and crew made their escape
A few minutes after everyone was safe
ly of the Spring she went 10 pieces
Old-timers AT Coney Island sheepshead
Bay and Gravesend Bay say that yester-
DAYS storm was the worst that ever
struck those places
Both piers at Coney Island were wreck
ed
catboats. four sloops and a schooner were
wrecked Most all OF these were stove IN
against the bridge crossing TO Manhattan
Beach
on Point Breeze. at the mouth n,
Sheepshesd Bay Inlet. two schooners
iouneered. Men could be seen clinging to
the rigging Of one OF them and many at
tempts were made 10 launch surf heats "a
get them. bit the sea flung the boats on
the beach like chips. At this point the
waves ran ~ feet high The schooners
dIifted ON the sand bar or Plum Island.
iheir crews remained on board.
ABOUT 100 WRECKS.
In Gravesend lay at least n hundred
boats, including every type from a &c.
too' roNooat 10 2b0-ton schooner were
wrecked at the mouth of Coney Island
creek
In the b about half mile from shora
an Erie railroad sand schooner was sunk.
iu collision with anothsr schooner the
Silver Ray. The crews were saved
The sloop Mascot. owned by Norman
/. Munro. drsesed her anchor OF ,hc
Marine and Field club and drifted out
toward qrarnntine. On her were Mate
Charles Jonsen ard FIVE men. Hair way
out the mate saw a man In n rowboa,
struggling against the waves and wen,
10 the rescue with the .loop's tender
The mist and rain hid 10th tender and
rowboat and tonight nothing had been
heard Of the mate. Jonsen. or the men
he went TO rescue.
naptha launch owned by J J ocor.
nell of 1903 Pacific street BROOKLYN. wes
out IN the hay when the storm broke
In IL were r. T. strinRer and william
Blossom. They tried 10 run ashore. hut
I'm frocinR the boat along an explosion
occurred. knocking both men unconscious
In the bottom of the aunch. She drif,ed
against the captains pier AZ Bath beach.
where the mon were hauled ashore A
doctor revived theni
\ lumber schooner went on the rocks !
OF Fort Hamilton. where she pounded
10 pieces and fank