New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-25
Long Island, Staten Island
and Jersey Suffer
From Storm
Tremendous Seas
Batter Bungalow
Many Small Vessels Sunk
at Anchorage; Board.
walks Torn Away

A pro-German east wind, apparent.
~ blowing direct from Berlin, drov.
heavy rainstorm in upon New Y5rs
yesterday, broke up the Liberty Los,
pageant and caused widespread Do.
struction all along the Long Island
Staten Island and Jersey coasts.
SO far as could be learned las.
night, no lives were lost, but from
ell neighboring towns fronting on n,
Atlantic came reports Of boats driven
ashore, bungalows shattered By brea..
ers and sea walls and boardwalk,
broken to pieces by the pounding o.
the enormous seas.
Pushed from behind by the gale, IL,
waters Of the Atlantic banked IN On
the shores, and at high tide rose 10
tremendous levels. At least sl25G00
damage was done on Staten Island and
/, the loss at Coney was even heavier
Rain and wind were directly ae.
countable for enormous damage. Much
was wreaked by the high tide.
Manhattan suffered comparatively
little. A few telegraph wires wer,
blown down, but otherwise, except for
n thorough soaking, the island emerged
scatheless.
Snow Possible To-day
Other ordeals are ahead for Il. IL
the Weather Bureau is 20 be believed
IL is possible that snow may fall To-
day. II il doesn't, il will come within
the next few days, anyway, the Bureau
prophets say.
Brooklyn also suffered little more
than temporary discomfort, but a.
Coney Island the wind, rain and sea
expended their most energetic Schrech.
lichkeit. At times the gale came In
from the ocean at the rate Of sixty.hu
miles an hour, unrooting bungalows and
Blowing down trees and telephone
wires.
As the tide rose tremendous break.
ers swept further ana further up the
beach. One hundred feet Of the Dream
land Pier was torn away. The seas
also battered Siiver's bath pavilion, q.
West Twenty-third Street, amos. to
pieces.
From Manhattan Beach TO Sea Gan
almost everything within fifty yards ..
the beach was smashed or swept away
The tide, however, swept in so gradually
that dwellers in bungalows and col,
tages had plenty OF time TO escape.
At Brighton Beach the boardmi
was flooded and badly damaged.
high was the tide that the seas lesyA
over the sea wall at the foot Of the Coz,
course and buried large area unde
several feet of water.
Damage in Staten Island
All along the SNten Island shore
peated. At Great Kills twelve oyster
boats and four yachts were driyer
ashore. Inhabitants of forty cottages
at Crescent Beach were driven out BY
the ocean, which came in through yln-
dows and doors and flooded the tri
floors of their dwellings.
One thousand feet of boardwalk was
ripped away at Midland Beach and
1000 feet of concrete sea wall suffered
the same fate at South Beach. A.
Criston the two-masted schooner Ser
ton was beached, all its crew escaping
Four yachts of the Ocean Yacht Club
went ashore at Stapleton.
So strong was the push OF the seas
that ships lying off Tompkinsyille pa
out extra anchors and kept up stear
all day for fear they might be drives
aground.
At Hampstead. L. l., the Rainbow D..
vision at Camp Mills suffered It's frs
aerial bombardment. When the attaeI
OF the wind and rain ended II was
found that 300 tents had been KNOCKED
fiat. Ten of these belonged to the hos
pital corps. Patients were carried /"
the barracks OF the aviation corps. ID:
large military garage at the north
the camp also collapsed.
Flushing Bay Suffers
The shores OF Flushing Bay and tae
breakwater were strewed last night V
the debris of small boats and launessa
Many other craft sank at Their On
chorages. At North Beach more 'hsh
100000. worth Of boats were driven
ashore.
Seabright, n. j., as usual SUFFERS
heavily from the storm. The tracks ..
he Southern Railroad from there
Normandy were washed out. The ws~'
backed up in the Shrewsbury kNsb
flooding streets and inundating CELLAR
Three large life preseryers' sN~
cilleG George Washington" Te's
picked up by coast guards at Asoui!
Park. As far as could be Learned =.
such vessel had been reported
trouble along the coast