Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-08
COAST BATTERED
BY MIGHTY SEAS
IN HOW[|NG GALE.
Summer Resorts Destroyed,
Boats Wrecked and Many
Villages Flooded.
RECORD BREAKING TIDE
Is DRIVEN IN BY WIND
Shores Are Covered With Debris
Of Scores of Small
Craft.
STEAMERS CAN'T MAKE PORT
Coney Island Suffers Damages rs
timated at $2O0,OOO-Storm's
Fury Continues.
RECORD BREAKING TIDE
Is DRIVEN IN BY WIND
STEAMERS CAN'T MAKE PORT
Coney Island Suffers Damages Is
umated at S2OO,O00-Storn,'s
Fury Continues.

seas, backed by mighty tide and u
bowling northeast gale, battered the
New York coasts to-day, smashing
houses, wrecking boats. flooding vii
lagos. devastating summer resorts and
forcing steamers to remain outside
Sandy Hook and night the storm.
At Sandy Hook, the wind attained q
velocity of sixty-eight miles an hour.
driving In a record d-breaking tide and
making it impossible for pilots to board
incoming vessels. In New Yorls iar-
Dor the tide was the highest in thir
teen years. and the waves drove New.
Jersey ferryboats TO cover. and strcwcd
the Staten Island shores with the
wrecks OF scores of small craft.
CONE,Y ISLAND SUFFERS
DAMAGE OF 100000
The worst damage In this vicinity
was suffered at Coney- Island, whcro
the loss within the past twenty four
hours is estimated at 100000.
Two or three fine houses at Sea Cato
were wrecked. despite the fight of
small army OF workmen to build de-
fenses with hundreds of sand bags.
Fifteen buildings along Coney Island
had been damaged tonight, including
big bathing pavillons and summer cot
tages.
Al Brighton Beach the boardwalk
was demolished, md much OF the stone
breakwater was torn away. The waves
surged around the Brighton Beach Ho-
tel and wrecked several small build
ings, although the hotel itself escaped
serious damage.
feet over the high tide line at Rock
away Beach, causing heavy damages to
bungalows. baths and boardwalks. At
Seaside. eight bungalows and twenty
feet OF boardwalk were carried away.
Two hotels at eArvernes We're damaged,
Ri frnsr f.<,r,
Point sEoosoht1 al; Long iBeacfi' ws,s
partly washed away, and tile wind was
blowing fifty miles an hour tonight.
At Rivcrhead families had been driven
to the upper floors, and n number OF
email buildings had been washed away.
On the Jersey side, heavy rains and
high winds continued tonight. At
Sandy Hook, enormous seas were
breaking, and part of the government
bridge between Highland Beach and
the Hook had been torn away. Out
side tho Hook, tho Russian liner
Dwinsk lay anchored. The steamer st.
Louis. from Savannah, was fifteen miles
OF Scotland lightship, and had suf-
fcred deck damage and smashed win
dows. The steamer Texas was off
Clayton, Del, fifty miles southeast OF
the lightshlp. The Francisco. OF the
Wilson Line, and other vessels also lay
out on the rollers of the Atlantic, not
daring to try to reach port
HUDSON RIVER FERRIES
UNABLE TO MAKE TRIPS
For hours ship commuters between
New York and Now Jersey had to
travel through Hudson River tubes as
the ferries could not make their trips
All traffic arriving in Jersey City was
shifted to the tubes, and even to reach
the tube. entrances, 1t was necessary TO
walk through an inch of water. AT
Harrison and at East Newark, scores
of houses and factories were flooded.
New York bay and harbor were 'prac-
tically cleared OF all craft by the gale
One fircboat was sunk at her pier. On
the New Jersey shore the big waiting
room of the Lackawanna terminal was
flooded, and nearly all ferries discon-
tinued.
Along the coast OF New England. the
gale was especially violent. At Point
Judith, II. l.. small schooner was
torn from her anchorage. and thrown
on the breakwatcr.
ife-sayers, seeking to rescue tho
crew or g siX-masted schooner which
struck Tuckernuck Shoal OH Saturday.
have been unable to launch their boats
At the Eric Railroad terminal In
Jersey City, tho waters OF the Hudson
swept through ferry house and out to
tho railrcad tracks.
NORTHEASTERN CONTINUES
WITH FURY UNApATED
PHILADELPHIA, December 7.-Thc
northeast storm, sweeping the Atlantic
Coast since Saturday. continued to-
night with unabated fury. Nearly
three and n half inches of rain had
fallen In Philadelphia ut midnight Re
ports from Atlantic City, Ocean City,
wildwood. Cape May. Rehoboth and
other seaside points told of heavy dam
age by wind and tide.
Several fashionable suburban sec
lions were dark tonight. Ocean City.
N. j.. has been cut on from train ana
trolley communication alth ough an au-
tomobile bridge is still open. Rail-
roads leading TO seashore points werc
busy repairing washed out roadbeds
Telegraph and telephone. service to all
points was crippled.
Shipping from this port waa virtually
at standstill. 4l,nons the few YES
scls which cleared ,was tho italian
OF the 1900 stceragc passengers. near
ly 1,t00 were men between eighteen
and forty-nre years cF ago. reported
to be reserTists returning to italy.
Scores Of yessals OF every descrlp-
tior were lying tonight in the shelter
OF the Delaware breakwater waiting.
for tho weather to moderate.
sEAsHoRE RESORT
PRACTICALLY DESTROYED
RBHOBOTIf, DEL, December -
The northeast storm has almost de-
stroyed this seashors resort. The
boardwalk was carried away with all
pavilions. Every trace OF Surf AVE
nue., q thoroughfare that paralleled the
ocean, is gone. 1t wns cut away by
mountainous waves that swept over
pillng built to protect 1t. The electric
light and water, plants fwere wrecked,
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