New-York tribune., 1918-04-13
Shore From Atlantic City
to Far Rockaway
Stormswept
Summer Homes and
Resorts Are Wrecked
Coney Island, Sea Gate and
Staten Island Suffer
Heavy Damage

The easterly storm brought snow to
it's aid in the third day Of its attack
on the Atlantic shoreline yesterday
Nightfall saw the coast from Atlantic
City to Far Rockaway flooded by
phenomenal tides and piled high with
wreckage.
Munitions plants were halted by high
water; freight and passenger trains
were marooned by tide, sand and wash
outs; trolley, electric light, telegraph
and telephone poles were felled; hotels
and dwellings were flooded or washed
away; bulkheads crumbled, piers, and
even lighthouses, gave way; the slen-
der, sandy summer resort ribbon that
plays breakwater to the coast, was
inundated, and the sea swept through
every inlet to industrial centres be-
yond.
Pouring through the widest gap Of
all, between Sandy Hook and Sea Gate,
the ocean drove full tilt into Staten
Island and swept onward over the Jer-
sey meadows, while the back wash over
whelmed the Rockaway peninsula from
both sides and was potent in the
furthest reaches of Jamaica Bay.
Heavy Damage at Coney Island
Coney Island and Sea Gate, battered
by the seas of the bitterest winter
within memory, saw repairs that had
taken weeks swept away in three days,
while new damage was wrought to the
extent of $4,000. At the westerly md,
where the land is lower, the sea
went over Surf Avenue for mil. and
half, stopping trolley car service and
flooding cellars. Baby carriages, furni-
ture and debris Of all kinds hoated
through the streets.
Scores of persons were routed from
their beds at high tide early in the
morning, and in the bungalow section
they leaped straight from the warm
blankets into cold salt water. Two
bungalows at West Thirty second
Street and Cortland Court, fifty feet
from the shore line, were swept out to
sea. Dozens of others, including one
owned by Gertrude Hoffman,, were un-
dermlned or damaged. The cellars of
the more substantial tenements were
tllled to the street level. The Hotel
Shelburne, Mead's restaurant and
neighborlng buildings were accessible
Electric Light Poles Felled
breakwaters at Manhattan and
Brighton beaches were damaged. A
loo-foot section Of the boardwalk was
torn out. Photograph galleries, re-
1reshment stands and fiimsy structures
along Surf Avenue and seaward were
torn apart Seaside homes for children
suffered considerable damage Mooney's
A1i2nt1C 4
Sllver's Baths, at West Twenty-frst
Street, were damaged. Lumber for the
rebuilding of the burned Parkway
Baths was set adrift and scattered IN
and down the shore.
Electric light poles toppled and fell
wires were short -circuited and the en-
tire nelghborhood was plunged into
darkness. Sea Gate, doubly fortified
against the sea since the storms of
tree years ago, which demolished sew
cral ornate summer residences, suf-
1ered some damage. six feet of the
bulkhead being carried away
Chunks of the brickwork of the light.
house off Norton's Point were bitter
cut by the waves and for a time it was
feared that the structure itself would
crumble. The ffteen-foot bell tower
was demolished. Thirty pleasure craft
IN Sheepshead Bay were capsized OF
flung ashore and pounded to pieces.
Toll on Staten Island
The three-day storm toll on Slater
Island was estimated at 100000. South
and Midland beaches suffered particu
larly yesterday. There are about $500
bungalows there, most of them now un
occupied. Forty were carried away ant
more than 300 were flooded and danger
ously undermin. d. About 100 all-the
year-'round homes were flooded ant
their occupants driven out. Wires ant
poles were downed, trolley cars were
stopped and lights extingushed. Five
hundred feet of the walk at MIDLAND
Beach was carried away.
At C-aat Kills Beach fifteen o.
twenty MOTOR boats were driven ashore
and members of the Great Kills Yach
Club were called to rescue the rest O
the feet and do their utmost for the
of the food at high tide.
The village of Princess Bay was in
undated for three blocks from tn,
waterfront. Five hundred employees O.
the S. S. White Dental Works there
reached the factory in rowboats and OF
RATS. The tug Governor Flower was
battered against the bulkhead at tn.
Quarantine Station at Clifton ant
sunk.
Inc roar or breakers against tn,
side of their house aroused Johr
Mullane in a bungalow at Rockaway
Point. Five minutes after he. his wife
sister and five small children hat
reached higher ground the buildin,
collapsed. The boardwalk at Rockawa,
Beach lost great sections; that a
Arverne was swept away. Streets wer,
flooded at Belle Harbor, Neponsit
Edgemcre and Far Rockaway, and man,
families we're driven from Finucan'
Hotel at kockaway when it was under
mind.
Passenger Trains Stalled
On the inland side of Jamaica Ba,
the water rose above the trestle'
tracks of the Long Island Railroad
stopping train service.
The jersey Meadows became hug
lake, the Passaic River and Hacken
sack being unable to contain tn
enormous tides and tho volume q
melting snow. A train which lef
Flizabethport at 9:10 p. m. Thursda
for Newark, WAS stalled in the mida
Of the inundation with thirty passen
yers aboard until noon yestcrda,
Jerscy Central trains also we're stale,
and traffic stopped between Monmouth
Beach and Atlantic Highlands an.
Monmouth Beach and Long Branch
1000 feet Of the protecting bulkhead
in that vicinity having been gwcp
away.
The plant Of the Submarine Bon
Corporation, where twenty-siz way,
have been completed, was ovcrnowe.