The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-23
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, trees. The island resort, Brigan-
tine, just north Of Atlantic City,
was cut off from the mainland
and its 1000 residents isolated
when 400 feet of bridge collapsed
into the ocean. The Raritan river
was at its highest level in Is
years.
Upstate New York today await
ed l9-foot food stage in the
Hudson river. River front sections
of Troy, Waterford, Albany and
Rensselaer, were abandoned as
the water climbed.
In the Province Of Quebec,
where the storm left civilization
behind in its northward course,
telegraph and telephone commun-
ications were down, and there
was no railroad train service be-
tween Montreal and Boston. crops
were destroyed and many high
WAYS were impossible, two
deaths occurred.
EXCLUSIVE RESORT
HOMES LAID WASTE
Homes Of the wealthy in cX-
elusive New York and New Eng
land resorts were laid waste.
Bailey's Beach in fashionable
Newport, K. l., was a shamblcS:
Fire Island, the long silver of
land which fronts the ocean side
of Long Island serving as a buff
fer to hurricane and tidal waves
lost two-thirds Of the homes
which dot its sandy shores. Great
waves rolled up into the town of
Wasthampton, well inland from
MoricheS Bay, pulling down hon.
es. In rich Southampton great
estates were Uttered with the
storms debris as the wind tore
down the towns famous l5O-year-
old elms to splinter houses and
business establishments beneath
their crushing weight.
Two were known dead on Fire
Island, through which the great
walls of water cut three channels
from ocean to great South Bay.
Coast Guards and volunteers
searched for q missing woman,
listed only as Miss Davis, the
school teacher at Kismet Park
More than 100 refugees were
brought ashore from the island.
The Coast Guard ice breaker Alb
% took Is persons from the ruin
ed summer resort and the Saltaire
ferry brought 40 more to the
mainland. About l25 cottages
had been swept away at Saltaire.
The foundation of Fire Island
lighthouse, which had borne the
brunt, of many seasons storms,
was cracked.
An 80-ton schooner, enroute
from New York to Halifax, Nova
Scotia, with q cargo of coal, was
wrecked in Gardeners Bay, near
Easthampton. Captain Louis Vat
cher and his crew of six escaped
TO shore in an l8-foot dory.
RED STAR LINER is
FORCED OFF COURSE
The Red Star liner Konigstean
locked nine hours late at Hobok-
en-, n. j., after being forced we'll
off its course by the storm on
Wednesday. Capt. Alfred Leidig
said the boat was unchanged by
wind which reached a velocity Of
100 miles per hour between and
6 p. m. Wednesday. There We're
294 passengers aboard.
All along the New York and
New England shore, small boats
and larger yachts were wrecked,
piled onto beaches in normally
snug harbors. Damage to water
craft alone was estimated by Ma
rine police at Nassau, l.. l., at
$2,000,000.
The rescue work of Coast
Guards was hampered by lost
equipment. Surf boats were lost
in the storm. Stations at Jones
Beach, Mecox, Fire Island, Pot
unk, Shinnecock and Oak Island
were lost to the sea. There was no
report from stations at Bellport,
Tiana and Forge river, but Coast
Guard officials believed their men
at those points were too busy
with rescue work to bother with
the formality of reports. Coast
Guard planes were flying cease
lessly over the devasted area, re-
porting the location of isolated
groups and guiding rescue work
ers to those most desperately in
need.
Portions of Cape Cod were re-
duced to ruins. The Cape Cod
Canal was Uttered with houses
which toppled from its banks. The
main street at Onset, Mass, near
the canal, had four pleasure boats
stranded on it. Two thousand res
idents He'd to Onset's only hill.
Resort hotels and shore homes
were flooded by the waters Of
Buzzards Bay.
Rising rivers threatened contin-
ued devastation.