Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-08
DEATH AND DAMAGE
TOLL NEARING END

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and the fall was equally heavy through
/ out this and adjoining States.
The rain will permit the reppening OF
| colleries and mills forced to close be-
cause OF lack OF water. II will mean
millions Of dollars saved on crops that
| would have suffered severely without
moisture Many Of these crops the
planters were prepared to abandon.
STORY OF RUIN UNFINISHED.
Reports from the storm-battered At
lantic coast today indicate that the ful
story Of ruin and death is not yet COM
plete. Hundreds OF workmen, many Of
whom have not slept since the first fury
OF the storm began to smash concrete
bulkheads and carry Off lighthouses and
cottages. are at work today throwing
UP emergency levees to keep out the
tides.
The big music hall on the Steel Pier
at Atlantic City not only survived the
storm. but appears to have suffered less
damage than was supposed. Engineers
have started a thorough inspection of
the battered structure. and there Is a
probability that the big hall may be
saved.
Practically all of ventnor's boardwalk
will have to be rebuilt.
No accurate estimate Of the loss is yet
possible, but there Is no doubt 1t will ex-
oeed a million dollars. Coney Island
alone, according to reports, has lost
100000 In damage to It's big piers and
amusement enterprises and cottages.
Scores Of expensive cottages along the
coast have been undermined by water that
broke through retaining walls. Many
have been smashed into kindling wood
and the wreckage litters the coast. Troll
ley and railroad lines are out of service
because of tracks six inches to three feet
under water. Wires are down not only In
the coast towns, but in the interior, and
hundreds of towns are in darkness.
PHILADELPHIA ESCAPES FURY
Philadelphia escaped with little damage
save in the suburbs. The Main Line
towns suffered heaviest. Many of the
main automobile roads are blocked by
fallen trees and wires. At some points all
current has been cut off by the electric
light and power companies to prevent in
jury to pedestrians. Miles, of territory
west of the city were without light ex-
cept that provided by oil lamps last night
The woman drowned at Atlantic City
was Miss Ruth Mullica, 56 years old.
She was in her boathouse along the
avenue. It stuck in the mud and the
rising tide swept over it. The man was
Joseph Brenner, formerly of Frankford,
who was duck hunting in a boat near
Pelican Island, off Seaside Park Heights,
wnen the craft was capsized.
NEAR TRAGEDY AT BREAKwATER.
Two ship-wrecked oystermen were
taken off the Point Judith breakwater,
at Point Judith, r. l., and their rescuers
were saved by the United States tor
pedoboat destroyer Morris. crew from
the Point Judith lifesaving station went
to help the oystermen, whose craft
was smashed against the breakwater
and who were in momentary danger of
being swept from their perch.
By the time the lifesavers pulled the
oystermen into their boat they were so
exhausted they could not get into the
harbor of refuge. A call for help was
sent to the Newport naval station. The
speedy Morris responded, risiklng de-
on the rocks to run alongside |
the lifeboat and effect the rescue.
Wireless calls for help were flashed |
from the steamer Momus, off Sandy |
Hook, today according to dispatches and |
Two tugs were sent to the assistance of |
the vessel. The Momus was on her way |
from New Orleans to New York when |
she anchored. She is understood to have |
been seriously damaged by the storm.
Tales OF herolsm In the three-day storm |
come today from all along the coast |
All the ships known to have been en- |
iangered yesterday are now reported |
safe, but there are many others still at |
sea in the worst of the subsiding gale |
which may be in distress. The wireless |
s still reaching out over the sea today |
% protect shipping.
SCHOONER STILL ASHORE.
The six-masted schooner Alice NJ Law
'ence, ashore on Tuckernuck Shoal since
has withstoOd the shocks of the
elements. according to reports from Vine
'ard Haven. Mass. A wrecking tug from
New London Is standing by to aid IL need
De. The revenue cutter Acushnet also
vent to aid the ship, but the captain and /
rev of 26 men decided to remain aboard
Dispatches from Newport, r. l. also
let forth that the Nantucket lightship,
orn from its moorings by the storm, has
,een hove TO 30 miles from her position
md is safe The Cape Charles lightship.
IlsO torn loose by the storm, has been
owed TO the Norfolk Navyyard. Norfolk
eports the safe arrival OF several coast
iners for which fears had been held.
At Lewes, Delaware, the waning storm
8 finishing the destruction today of
cores of small craft first torn loose and
hen battered against the beach The
etties at the foot OF Cape Henlopen
lighthouse are nearly al gone. and work
Il the Marine Hospital also has been
damaged.