Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27


today declining outside help.
Much damage has been done the
pound-fishing industry along the
| coast for some distance south from
Sandy Hook. The estimated loss to
the various plants is 100000. They
isupply a considerable proportion OF
the fish consumed in Newark. New
/ York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
other Eastern cities and surrounding
territory.
There was a general wrecking of
bathing pavilions, boardwalks were
undermined and small bungalows
| close to the waters edge lifted from
their foundations and swept away. In
some places cottages occupied all the
! year round have been flooded to the
depth Of three feet or more.
Ten Lost on Barges.
| About o'clock yesterday morning the
barges A. G. Ropes and Undaunted.
loaded with coal, bound from Phila-
delphia to Providence, in tow of the
loceangoing tug Edgar f. Luckenbaeh,
owned by the Luckenbach estate,
transportation and towing. Bridge
street, New York city, were adrift In
the storm about five miles north of
Barnegat inlet, opposite the Forked
River life-saving station.
An official of the company said last
night they broke loose, but story
came from Barnegat that Captain
| C. T. Right. the skipper of the Luck
enbach was compelled to cut the
hawser to save the fifteen men
making up the tugs crew.
There were four men on the A, u.
Ropes, in charge of o. Olsen, the
master, and four on the Undaunted,
under William d. Pickett, the master.
Rosters Lost with Barges.
The masters, who undoubtedly went
down with their men, alone have the
rosters.
The A. G. Ropes was formerly
clipper ship. She was built at Bath,
Me Sin 1884, and made many SWIFT
passages between New York and san
Francisco. She measured 2,32s tons
and was 258 feet long.
The Undaunted was an old Bath
ship of that name. She was built in
1869 and was converted into a barge
in 1900, after thirty-one years of ser.
vice. The Undaunted measured l,72s
tons and was 207 feet long,
At a. IN, yesterday George
Sprague. of the Forked River life
saving station, while patrolling the
beach found the wreckage. He re-
ported to Amos Ridgeway. the keeper,
and detail was sent out. At $50
o'clock they discovered the barges
lettering on a bar half mile from
shore. They were able to discern
man clinging to the rigging of the
mizzenmast of one of the barges,
which was a converted schooner. The
sea was so high they couldn't launch
q boat nor shoot line. They worked
like Trojans for hours to rescue the
helpless man. At 10 o'clock the mast
was battered from its socket and fell
into the sea. carrying its victim with 1t.
Barge Pounded TO Pieces.
The Luckenbach, with the barges
trailing one behind the other, was
sighted on Christmas afternoon by the
Toms River life-saving station at Sea
Side She was then heading north
Later the Luckenbach was observed
going In a southerly direction, and
it was figured that she had decided
the heavy seas were too much for her
tow and proposed to turn back to the
Delaware Breakwater. On the way
the barges met their fate on the Bar
negat Shoals, known as the grave
yard of the Atlantic"
At 8 o'clock the Luckenbach came in
from the storm and signaled the
wrecked barges. Then she steamed
out to sea again.
The life-savers arc positive none of
the ten men on the barges saved him.
self. No man, they said, could pos
sibly come through alive iii such a
heavy sea and terrific gale.
cutters Search for Bodies.
The revenue cutters Itasca anl
Onondaga are standing off the
oceans graveyard" today. They
failed to find any bodies up to noon.
Tf ~ n cor nYs
UPSIDE down on the beach The great
est loss was suffered by the fisher
men in the destruction of their nets,
many of which were torn to pieces In
the debris that swished back and
forth on the beach or went out to sea
on the crest of the waves.
Among the buildings that disap-
peared first was the fishing quarters
of James Lee, wholesaler. The
and two owned by Mrs. Mary Ravens
were blown down and washed away.
Houses belonging to Jack Brehm and
Abraham Embley We're destroyed.
Two Hotels Damaged.
At least $4,000 damage was done
to the Octagon Hotel and grounds at
Seabright, owned by George Sandt, of
Red Bank. The hanmerlng sea pound
ed the 500-foot bulkhead in front of
the hotel until seventy-five foot sec
ton gave way and the water rushed
in. Mr.. Sandt said today that 1t would
be necessary, owing to the tanning
and straining, to rebuild his entire
bulkhead.
One-half of the Octagon's casino
was sliced off by the waves. An L of
the dining room of the hotel, standing
twenty-five feet from the bulkhead,
was washed away. The storeroom
and butcher shop are gone. A large
section of the lawn disappeared with
the receding flood.
The Hotel Peninsula, north of the
Octaeon, was hard hit The bulkhead
was undermined and will have to be
rebuilt.
The giant waves rolled up on the
beach and over the sand pit on which
the village stands until they met the
waters of the Shrewsbury river on the
west. The waves were so high that
they did not break until they almost
reached the bulkheads Water ran
through the streets, flooded cellars.
and in some places boats were used
to get about.
bank. between the railroad tracks and
the ocean, was picked up and scudded
across the tracks onto the lawn.
There were eighteen inches of water
in Main street and Ocean avenue for
a time, and East Church street was
gouged out for distance of forty
feet. impossible excavations were
dug in East New street and In Centre
street. i
Among those whose summer homes
were ploughed up by the waves and
whose cellars were filled with water
were General A. II. Gales, of the Mis-
souri, Pacific; Washington Il. Connor.
broker for George J. Gould: w. Nell
son Cromwell. the lawyer; ]. Har-