Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
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IN STORM DAMAGE
ALONG THE COAST
Seventy-MiIe-an-Hour Gale Is
Pounding the Northern
Seaboard.
JERSEY RESORTS SUFFER
FROM HIGHL ANDS DOWN
C. r. r. Tracks Undermined
and Vicinity of Seabright
Is Under Water.


The entire Atlantic seaboard,
from Norfolk to Maine, is being
lashed today by q gale that at
some points has attained the velocity
of seventy miles an hour. The
storm has been blowing from the
northeast for more than forty-eight
hours. Shipping at many points
has been completely paralyZed
Many vessels which put out before
sthe blow began are unreported, and
much anxiety is felt for their safety.
At many points along the Jersey
coast and on both shores of Long
Island sound cottages near the sea
front have been undermined or are
being pounded to pieces. Scores of
lighthouses at several New Jersey
and Long Island summer resorts
have been swept to sea. It is esti-
mated the damage will amount to a
million dollars or more.
The smashing seas off Nayesink
Beach and the Highlands ripped a
; gaping hole IN the retaining walls
and let in a flood of water that un-
derinined the Central railroad tracks
and damaged buildings, with great
loss. The roads at Normandie We're
washed away, preventing fire ap-
rear Of the Normandie Hotel. The
summer home of Secretary Of War
Garrison and other handsome sum-
mer residences at the same place are
surrounded by water. The cellars
are flooded and the foundations
washed out.
Workmen labored all night and to-
day to save the cottage of c. Hall
Packer, which. is in danger of being
IL.
walk at Atlantic City early today
was carried away. The $4,000 ball
room on the end of the steel pier is
:, threa tened, the foundations having
been damaged. Two hundred men
have been working since midnight
TO save further damage, which al
ready amounts to $4,000.
The new retaining wall at Sea-
bright, which was badly damaged a
year ago, has broken in several
places and lighthouses and cottages
demolished or carried seaward.
Seafarlng men declared today that
the storm is the worst that has ~rs y
aged the coast in many years.
The narrow strip of land running
south from Highland Beach, between
the Shrewsbury river and the sea, is
being washed by the waves. At 10 a.
m today the tide was at food and
with a stiff on-shore wind washed
over the bullxheads, carrying trees
away in many places.
At Highland Beach the tide was SO
high that it washed over the short
pavilion that serves for a boardwalk
and went back fifty feet to Sandlass's S
dancing pavilion. known as the BAN
boo Garden" The water capped the
dancing floor. The Normandie Hotel
is just below this, and it was here
that the fire apparatus was prevented
from reaching the flames in the rear
extension of the Normandie Hotel.
While the waves held back the fire
apparatus, they accomplished one
good purpose, for they put out the
fire by sweeping over the extension.
One reason why the damage is so
great is because property owners on
this narrow spit had little warning
Of the impending storm. As a result,
the only available fighters along the
coast were the people who live there
all the year round. The damage ar
Seabright is not so great as it was
last year, when the Octagon Hotel
and other buildings were destroyed.
This is probably because Seabright,
taking a lesson from last years storm
built a strong sea wall The sea
topped the wall, however, flooding
cellars and causing quite some DAM
age The Central railroad tracks
were undermined in two places. No
trains have run since Saturday night.
Boatrnen at Morgan Station were
obliged to enter the water to save
their boats from being washed away.
Cheeseqdake Creek was vast pond
and. Captains Wood Applegate and
Eddie Wells by superhuman efforts
saved a building from being washed
away.
The $4,000 summer cottage. owned
by N. II. Rind, of Philadelphia, To-
Gated at Barnegat, was practically
destroyed by the storm, parts of the
building being washed out to sea.
Professor Charles Remington. who
owned a cottage at Longport, which
was valued at about $4,000, was also
notified that his cottage would prob
ably be almost totally destroyed.
There were number of other smaller
cottages In that same vicinity which
were badly damaged by the storm
1t is believed that fully half hum
dred launches were sunk by the
storm. Many bullxheads on the lower
end of the island were either washed
away entirely or badly battered oy
fhe seas On the west side of the
island several of the summer boat
houses We're flooded and otherwise
badly damaged.