Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-12-11
The Result Of The storm


for several days, got into action on
Friday night. By Saturday night the
island found itself in the midst of a
storm, the like of which has not
heen seen here for about eleven years.
The rising tides, backed by a wind
blowing sixty miles an hour, spent
their fury on the docks, piers and bulk
heads lying on the beach front. 1t
will take thousands Of dollars to re-
build aud repair the damage and will
require q fair number Of mechanics to
do the work. The worst Of the storm
was felt at Anglesea and the Crest,
while Wild wood proper escaped seri-
Gus damage, except at Oak avenue and
the beach where the ocean swept away
the living apartment of Phillip Gould,
tore the street out and left the sewer,
water pipes and gas pipes standing K
posed to full view. AT Anglesea the
waves were covering Mace's Pier to
the depth of two feet and the fisher
men and members Of the life saving
station worked to save life and proper
ty. After forty-eight hours of c%ontin-
ual blow, part of the pier broke and
was chopped away by fishermen.
Several boats were damaged including
the Eta K, Cherokee and Colby Budd
while nearly all the smaller craft were
sunk. The "Happy-go-Lucky," q
dredge owned by Chas. Mace, was sub
merged In water and the pile driver at
Pennsylvania and First avenue, was
sunk. The heavy sea which was rum
ming washed the earth from under the
Kerrigan and Mace cottages on Fret
avenue and they threatened to topple
into the ocean. A gang of workmen
were kept busy all day sunday putting
stone, sand and brush in the hole, but
to no avail and then a contractor was
engaged to move the houses. The
water at high tide covered the nearby
streets to a depth Of two feet. Passen-
gers to and from the Anglesea railroad
station were ferried In rowboats. The
trolly line was abandoned at Hotel
Hilton. The H. H. Ottens information
bureau at Eighteenth street and the
board walk, was swept TO sea, and near
ly every approch to North Wildwood
boardwalk was partially carried away,
while the Wildwood Manor walk was
entirely destroyed and disconnected
from the main walk. The end Of the
fishing pier at the Wildwood Ocean
Pier was dropped into the sea on Sat-
urday night aud swept down the beach
front to Garfield avenue where it went
to pieces and was washed ashore. The
boardwalk from Cedar avenue south to
Taylor avenue was not damaged. The
beach Instead of washing away made
land to the depth of about eighteen
inches. The paper hanging establish
ment Of Grapevine at Burk avenue
and the boardwalk was washed out
and the boardwalk was twisted and
strained from Taylor emu south.
Each approach was badly damaged,
the approach at Leaning avenue being
completely washed away. One of the
new lights crashed through the walk
at Bennett avenue, taking a portion of
the walk with it. At almost every
street end the gravel was washed away
and the sewer clogged up which caused
Pacific avenue to fill with water which
rendered the trolley service useless OF
Monday south OF the city hall. The
bulkhead on the crest front was badly
damaged while there is hardly a good
spot left 10 the board walk to Rambler
road. A small portion of the Crest
Pier weakened aud dropped into the
sea, taking several pool tables and bowl
Ing alley equipment with 1t.
On the lake side, the damage was
not felt, as the water just reached the
top of the bulkhskd. Theo. Mexican
was kept busy with a force Of men
moving the lumber to be used In the
new bulkhead. The whole island felt
the storm and now and then telephone
aud telegraph communication was
scant. Train service was not interfered
with, both roads running on schedule
time. There were two places on the
inside which suffered damage, being
the Pennsylvania and Sheldon hotels,
where the Stag roofs were partly blown
off. Several trees were blown yer In
the city park at Wildwood n
or the two life saving crews on the
beach only n call was answered and
that was at Anglesea, where Captain
Ludlam and his crew launched their
boat and went out In the channel to
assist Jack Apologize.
-s-%~s
When going away use the Reading
the home built railroad.-Adv.
Yellow jack 15c 10, Garfinkles.