SEVERE STORM IN AMERICA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 411, 16 October 1889, Page 5

SEVERE STORM IN AMERICA.

By the San Francisco mail which arrived on Saturday we have news of a violent storm wh^ch raged for several days at sea and along the Atlantic coast, doing considerable damage to shipping railroads and houses. The tide was one of the highest seen for I years, and, acccompanied as it was by a violent storm of wind, its force was enormous. In New York cellars and first floors of buildings were all flooded on September 10th. Piers that are usually 12ft above high water were licked by the ereat waves. The marine railways at Coney Island and several Mammoth bathing pavilions were carried away with an awful crash. Atlantic City was completely cut off from the mainland ; pavilions, bathing-hoases and verandahs were crushed into kindling wood. Property to the value of .$250,000 was destroyed on Coney Island. The houses on one of the smaller islands were swept clean away. On the Delaware coast at least two score vessels were beached, and the loss in life is estimated at 50. The loss in property and vessels at the Lewis breakwater is reckoned at $500,000. On the Jersey coast also the damage was very great. The sea cut a new inlet through into the Shrewsbury river north ot Seabright, near were there was an inlet 100 years ago, tearing away the Sandy Hook tracks of the Central Railroad, and again making Sandy Hook an island. Various summer resorts on_ t|»e coast were submerged and the inhabitants j forced to fly. The reports from all the towns along the coast speak of the floods and tide as the greatest seen for years. At first it was feared that some of the ocean steamers had been caught in the storm and injured, but later reports give no account of any harm being done them. The greatest injury was done to coasting vessels and small steamers ; and to property on land by the floods, the result of several days' heavy downpour. A telegram from the Yellowstone'Park states "that the subterranean natural agencies must havo been in sympathy with the storm, for tremendous explosions of gas and steam took place in the geyeer basins. Scientists state this extraordinary activity to be connected with i the atmospheric and submarine demonstra- • tions of the great storm.