Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-09-25
STORM CAUSES ENORMOUS LOSSES.
Apartment Houses Are UnrO0fed by the
Fury of the Storm.

Atlantic City, N. J. (Speclal).--A cy'
clonic gale of wind and rain beat down
over the resort for four hours, rocking
the big buildings to their foundations
and creating apprehension for the safe
ty OF some OF the hotels and apartment
houses.
Frightened visitors at the resort were
fearful of catastrophe, as the wind
reached the tremendous velocity OF over
seventy miles an hour
The crash of breaking windows along
the ocean front, which caught the full
force OF the hurricane, was constant,
while the intensity OF the gale lasted.
A itslf dozen hotels were unroofed
and 500 tenants in two OF the big apart
ment houses weSe driven panic-stricken
from their rooms az ? o'clock through
the havoc wrought to tic buildings by
the fury OF the gale.
The boardwalk is Uttered and block,
ed with the debris of wrecked pavllions,
and few hotels or stores escaped with
out the loss OF plate lass windows or
other damage.
The telegraph and telephone lines
leading out Of the city are down, and
the fact that the city was cut off from
connection with the outside world
started wild rumors that the great re
sort had been entirely swept away
The first train in from Philadelphia and
other points brought down excited rel
atives and friends who were anxiou:
after the welfare of their loved ones
and who found them we'll and happy
and telling stories about the freaks o.
the storm.
The damage is surprisingly small
considering the record the cydon'
made of being more violent than the
great storm of 1889, when hundreds o!
thousands of dollars were lost. The
aggregate loss will exceed $4,000, but
will not be over $4,000. In view of the
danger accompanying the unroohng OF
buildings. falling signs and flying tim
bers, the injuries to persons were i'm
tied to half dozen, none OF whoT
was seriously hurt.
The hurricane came from the north.
CAST and veered before it stopped to
the southwest. 1t began before day
break and woke the city with its wild
Jury. SO great was the velocity OF the
wind that the government measuring
apparatus proved inadequate. When il
had registered velocity of sixty-twc
miles an hour the cups, which form
part OF the apparatus, were carried
away.
Sailors and old residents who are
accustomed to measure the force OF the
winter gales which sometimes sweep
The coast, declare that the velocity was
not less than seventy miles an hout
when it was blowing the hardest, anc
not during the three hours that the
storm ragged did the velocity fall below
sixty miles.
Not one OF the big beach front no
tells escaped the fury OF the storm
When the storm first broke a portion
Of the cornice of the Hotel Dunlop
was torn off and fell to the Boardwalk,
breaking nearly every glass on the sea.
ward side of the hotel in its fall The
big plate glass in the exchange OF the
hotel was also demolished completely,
letting the torrents of rain sweep
through the front portion of the house,
running carpets, pictures and furniture
valued at 5000
The Hotel Windsor, which narrowly
escaped destruction during the big fire
OF last year, was badly damaged by
the falling OF several chimneys which
:rashed through the roof to sleeping
looms below. Fortunately, all who
nave been in that portion OF the house
lad gone to lower stories and no one
Vas injured Considerable damage was
lone by rain, which soaked the furni-
lure