Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-12-16
Much Damage by
Wind and Water
Along Shore.
BIG BARK IS WRECKED
Vessel Bound for This City With
Lumber Goes Down Near Sandy
observation-disclosures are
Blown Down.
Chimneys
Fall.

The fifty-mile-an-hour gale which
passed over this city Saturday after
noon and night did great deal of
damage throughout the entire city,
especially along the water front,
where number of boats were
moored
EARLY In the afternoon stiff gale
commenced to blow and the rain be-
gan to come down in torrents. Soon
the wind reached velocity of at
least hfty miles an hour and then
things began to happen.
A number of chimneys were blown
down, and passersby had narrow es-
capes. A large bill board. put up
only few weeks ago by the Newark
Bill Posting Company, on vacant
lot near the Chesebrough Vaseline
Works, for a Newark concern, was
blown down as if it were a piece of
paper. The wind also caught the bill
boards of the Majestic theatre on
Smith street near the Central rail-
road and down they went, and the
billboard at Smith street and Madison
avenue was also blown down. Man
ager Shannon and corps of assist
ants got out in the storm and, with
oPdueS anu SuONtlS, ITleu 10 put uOWH
posts to save the boards.
The wind caught an end of the new
roof being put on the wire mill de-
partment of the Standard Under
ground Cable Works, and ripped off
a portion
WashOut ut Red Bank.
The gale caused an unusually high
tide and at one time the water was so
high that portion of the Central
railroad tracks at Red Bank were
under water and the earth was wash
ed away to such an extent that
trains which pass through this city
were delayed for considerable time.
AT the Raritan Copper Works, c..
Pardee Works, and other plants along
the shoresthe tide washed clean over
the docks, and at times it was feared
that they would be wrecked.
A number of small boats anchored
along shore were blown high and dry
on the beach but in most cases they
were caught by men who were watch
ing them. Tugboats and the ferry
boat Warren found it almost impos-
sible to make much headway against
the tide and number of the tugs tied
up early in the afternoon. The usual
tows of coal boats did not leave the
Lchigh Valley and Port Reading
docks Saturday night for New York
and down east.
The strong tide caused consider
able of the-enbankment at the foot Of
Madison avenue and South Second
street to be washed away, and, at one
time when the storm was at its height
it was feared that the bulllhead at
the foot of Gordon street might be
damaged.
Because of the storm Saturday no
effort was made to raise the brick
scow of Sayre e. Fisher, which, as
told in the NEWS, went down near
the county bridge An effort to raise
the boat will most likely be made
today.
Wreck of Bark Edmund Phinney.
The most disastrous wreck along
the coast was that of the bark Ed
mund Phinney, bound from Savan-
nah, Ga, for this port with railroad
ties. The vessel was to have un-
loaded at the Lehigh Valley docks
today. She is now a mere hulk on the
the sands at Sandy Hook.
The life saving crews of the Sandy
Hook and Spermaceti Cove stations
battled with the elements for eight
hours before they managed to get a
line over the vessel and took the half
dead captain and nine sailors ashore.
The life savers tried to get life line
over the Phinney, but the resistance
of the gale made the line fall short at
every shot In desperation Captain
Patterson of the Sandy Hook station
signaled the Merritt Chapman wreck
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