Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-03
SEA ONCE MORE i
VENTS ITS FURY
UPON SEABR|CHT
Huge Waves Undermine
0ctagon Hotel and Din
ing Room CoIIapses.
TWICE IN ELEVEN DAYS
TOWN SUFFERS DISASTER
Residents Work to Keep Water
From Covering PeninsuIa's
Scant Width.
Especial 10 the newark sfar.I


SEABRIGHT. Jan 3.-High tide
and an on-shore gale today drove the
Atlantic far up the northern New Jer-
sey beaches, augmenting the damages
done By the storm Christmas Eve.
This afternoon the seas were pilinx
up higher than ever before. The wind
blew from the east, and there wna
nothing to check its force
f1shermen worked all day trying to
save their shacks on the beach, and
some of them managed 10 get slxlds
under their homes and drag them out
or reach of the waves. In many
places the beach was swept clean.
Green Inn, at Galilee, nearby. was
endangered by water that dashed
through two breaches in the bulkhead.
The PeHinsular Hotel here, where the
storm did great damage a week ago.
was further battered today
Near the Octagon Hotel the waves
washed across Ocean avenue at flood
tlde and reached the farthest inland
they have touched in many years.
The tide reached its highest point
about p. M, and waves were rolling
over the tracks of the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey.
octsgcn Hotel Undermined.
The worst damage was at the Octo-
gon Hotel, where the seas tore away
the spiing driven into place after
the storm of week ago and wrecked
the dining-room wing of the structure.
In the fishing section of the village
where the Christmas storm did the
most damage, wind and water were
playing havoc today. BUILDINGS
which had been strengfhened we-a
| again undermined and toppled over
Emergency squads Of workers did
everything in their power to erect bar
rlers TO meet the sea at high tide
early this afternoon Persons with
summer cottages here were notified
by telephone and men were dispatched
with instructions to meet the emer-
gency as best they could Many cot
tages were flooded and lawns were
piled high with sand and debris
The efforts were of little avail
however. When the tide reached its
height it carried away the long porch
of the Octagon- It also undermined
the two-story. sigf1t-room summer
cottage of Charles Kefl, of New gorik~
and the building collapsed. Caleb
Haley's fish warehouse also funibled
down.
Fourteen or fifteen moving vans
backed up against the houses along
the shore front about noon and tho
| houses were stripped Of their furni-
tufe- Much of it is piled up in the
Town Hall. while the rest is still in
the vans ready to be taken back II the
storm abates and leaves the building
still standing
/ 1t is believed that today's storm
will exceed the other in ferocify bW
not in point of damage because
the waste laid by the first one.
/ There was little sleep in Seabj
/ last night, and with the comi
/ daylight there was no cessat ton
| gale. Once during the mornirt
| the sun came out it was hoped~
this meant a breaking up of fuol
storm, but this hope was ort-hved.
| As the wind did not go down at sun
rise the weather sharps could see few
signs of relief. and this prediction was
verified later.
Their efforts to keep out the sea by
means of the buIkheads having failed
the people of Sea alright, driven back
from the sea proper. worked TO pro-
| tect streets particularly exposed to
1 the sea, which were awash last week,
! again felt the force Of the blow today
/ It was feared that the extraordinary
| conditions looked for this afternoon
might send the ocean clear across the
narrow strip, literally engulfing parts
of the town. This is the condition
which the Seabright people fear tie
4 most