Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-07
72-1fTLE GALE
BATTERS COAST


dispatch from seabrisht, N. j., says
the gale there is blowing 80 miles an
hour, and Is hurting great waves over the
sea wall The neck OF land between
the ocean front and the Shrewsbury
River IL under two feet Of water. Cell
lars are flooded and many houses are
being undermined Train service is
psrslyzed, the railroads tracks being
under water.
A two-masted schooner was torn from
her anchor chains In the Point Judith
Harbor of refuge by the gale today and
| tossed on the breakwater, on top OF
which Ave members OF her crew sought
| retuge, according to a dispatch from
| Point Judith, r. I. Blfesavers imms-
diately started for the breakwater.
INUNDATIoN IsoLATBs SEA ISLE.
Sea Isle, N. j., is isolated as the result
Of inundation Of the section surrounding
the railroad station. Few trains are leav-
Ing the city. Passengers arriving this
morning are marooned in the station and
rowboats are being used to transport
Approaches to the Civic Club the Surf
House and the Stevens Hotel we're swept
away this morning by the water. Bath
houses are being battered into kindllng
wood. Nearly every cellar in the main
part of the resort is flooded. The rail-
road tracks between here and Ocean City
are under two feet of water and traffic
Is at a standstil1
The Pennsylvania Railroad today
stopped selling tickets over the Beach |
Haven branch, owing to lnundatlon OF
the tracks.
onloials of the Weather Bureau al
Washington say that the gale will not /
abste Its fury along the middle portion |
OF the coast until tomorrow as the storm |
passes northward
SIX LIVES LOST IN STORM
Damage that will cost many thousands
Of dollars to repair was done by the
storm in this city and vicinity. Wires are
down in many sections of Philadelphia.
Atlantic City suffered most Of the coast
resorts, but all report destruction. Wires
are down all along the Atlantic Coast
six persons have lost their lives as
result OF the storms. At least four men |
are missing and scores are endangered
on stranded ships
Three Of the dead were killed In or near
this city, two went down with the bay
schooner William Donnelly Saturday near
Thimble shoals lightship, and the other
was blinded by the storm at Atlantic City
and walked directly In the path of a
switch engine. under which he was ground
to death.
/
c., who pulled away from the ship when
she caught FIRE and burned to the waters
edge on New Castle. Dell have not yet
been reported and are believed either to
be adrift in their small boat or drowned.
The other missing man is a Pleasant
Vile. n. j., business man. He left Allan
tic City Saturday in an open nlotorboat
Revenue cutters sent out to aid the ves-
1els in distress are racing with the storm
today. A ship believed to be the Cape ,
Charles lightship is adrift and in danger
" strandng off Virginia Beach. accord
ng to dispatches from Norfolk. Life
Iavers first sighted her about 800 yards |
NJ shore, but could not go to her assist
lnce.
The radio station at Newport reported 6
hat the Nantucket Shoals Lightship No d
) was located at $40 o'clock this morn ,
ng S6 miles west-northwest OF Nantucket
shoals station, The vessel had been torn :
rom its anchorage.
SCHOONER GOES ASHORE.
six-masted schooner. the Alice NJ. G
lawrence. bound light from Portland for /
Iorfolk. went ashore on Tuckernuck II
hoAl. in Nantucket Sound. A wrecklng v
lg is rislSing destruction by remaining [
longside the schooner.
Fears are being expressed in maritime
ircles for many coastwise vessels and :,
ramps: Many ships are known to be II
What remains OF the Henrietta c. is r,
till at anchor, upside down, off New =
astle. The schooner turned turtle after -
urning to the waterlne and the anchor ic
hains did not break. The vessel was h
ound to this city from Smyrna with l,
cargo OF salt hay, and owing to wealth =
r conditions anchored off New Castle e'
While the gale was blowing so miles
n hour a lamp in the cabin was over =,
irned and the interior filled with burn
tg oil. Before the men could do any 81
aing the flames shot up into the deck "
iad and I'm a few minutes the ship was u,
n inferno The crew got of in small
oats. two of them. Bert Klssr and John
Tawldns, reaching New Castle. bC
yGREs DOWN IN MANY SECTIONS II
The greater part OF the damage in this III
ty was confined to the outlying sections. m
Though the storm left its mark In the b'
ore crowded sections Trolley. electric "
ght and telegraph wires are down, 81
ranches have been torn from trees in eN
any places signs have been blown away re
I'D numerous accidents were caused by
le slippery condition OF the streets and ~
10 high wind nc
Property damage and injury to citizens VI
re reported from Frankford. Tacony, vi
Kenslngton and Germantown. ~
j Germantown the police telephone sys-
m was tied up, wires giving way under 70
ie load OF sleet 20
branches and building signs W
ere torn down and Uttered the streets. OF
edestrians were constantly endangered W
= live wires. en-
The new storm Is expected to complete ca
q work OF destruction at the music hall iti
the end OF the Steel Pier. Atlantic ie'
ty. dc
STEEL PIER HALL DOOMED.
All nope OF saving the wrecked music 5
N at the extreme end OF the Steel Pier
Is been abandoned Rolling like a ship
the grip OF the turbulent ocean the d
eater part Of the dance floor gone and
e steel frame twisted out OF shape
e big structure may drop into the
eakers at any moment
Fear prevails along the whole lower -
.ach front that wreckage will play IN
lvoc with the Boardwalk and the big Je
llIion Dollar Pier II the music hail goes ia
'erboard. Already many approaches 70 az
e Boardwalk have been carried away
gether with the foundations OF the 4s
iaeh hospital tents at South Carolina
ID Kentucky avenues. tn
Indiana. Ohio and other hotel avenues wi
e similarly flooded, and great waves ~
e breaking over the bulkheads In front ~