A TREMENDOUS STORM

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2253, 15 October 1889, Page 2

A TREMENDOUS STORM

A terrible ga c commenced on Tueiday, September 10, and, lasting till September 13, has wrought great doatruotlon along the eastern seaboard of the United States, j The oentre of the dlaturbanoe was near o_pe Henry. Thirty vessels went down off, Wilmington, Delaware, aad reports of wrecked vessels with many lost Uvea oome from ali parts of the coast. Ooean Oity, Sifsry.aid, was reduced to wreokage, and the damage to Lewis, Delaware, and the vicinity, will not fall short of tao million dollars. At Lonalrsneh the Watering plaoe on the New Jrs3y ooa.t, the topographic.! features of the coast line were completely altered by tbe violence of the surf. The bluff from the Branoh to Eiberon will soon fall Into tho 868^ Oon«y IsUud, N«.w York. * popul«t summer retreat, was a scene of deaolatlo. ■■, boing atrewn with wreokago from ono end to the other, and thoae who built bouses on the anode mourn their losses which run Into millions. Here also the old topo<<raphlo«l lines have been completely obliterated. At tbe height of tbe atorm the waves at the Battery, Kew York, wh< rs the Oaetlo Garden immigrants' dep4 is located, swept over the sea wall into the streat. Never m 'ho memory of tbe oldest Inhabitant had the tide run so high, lt rref ton the night of September 10 up to the street lev J. In some cellars a.'ong the oily front nlno feet of water was reported. The pier, A'hntio Oity, New York, was swept away. The eea also destroyed one of the largest hotels, and several houses have disappeared. A number of pil jfe from New York were compelled to make involuntary trips to Europe on the ocean steamships, not being able to disemba* k It is conceded that this was the greatest . torm known on the Atlantic seaboard m 25 years. At Lowes the lobb is estimated at 3 000,000 dollars, nt Uoney Island 260 000 dollars, Rookaway 700,000 dollars, Longbranoh 195,000 dolar.i, Atluutlo Oity 50,000 dollara, A'bury P„rk,N. J., 30,000 dollars and other places m the an mo proportion. T.o Bea roae In New Y-rk Bay on September 10, and did considerable damige The Manhattan Ueaoh Hotel, Oooey Island, wm flooded to the doon, and the occupants h*d to leave. ,The Orle tai hotel woa In muoh the same oontfl.ioo. The Weat H'nd Hotel waa submerge' 7, and the water flawed ovor to Sharp's Hoad Bj.].. Manhatan Beaoh h tel was washed away. There waa great damage at R.ckaway, where tho sea ran v-'ry high. The cellars In West ■treet, Now York, were floodpd.