Show CYCLONE A IN I NEV YORK The North Atlantic Coast is Swept by a Storm A TREMENDOUS RAINFALL Terrible Stories of SljipwrecTc and Loss of Life at Sea Many Fishing Schooners Go Down With All Hands lu New York City the Damage to Property is Immense Im-mense In Other Places I Ii i I NEW YORK Aug 24A West Indian cyclone which swept over this part of the I Atlantic coast last night and this morning morn-ing on its way to the New England coast left its mark overtbewholeregion around New York with a sweep of fully 1000 miles The rainfall measured 382 Inches during the last twelve hours the heaviest that has ever been recorded by the local signal service Many ships from the harbor as well as steamships which were due today are now cruising outside waiting for the wind to subside Through the dragging of the anchors of the escaping ships in the bay and the North river more than fifty cables of the Western Union Telegraph company were torn and are now lying helpless on the bottom of the river The ravages of the storm are no less severe on land Trees are overtnrned in Central park and many plants ruined Many plate glass windows in the vicinity of Madison Square and along Broadway were shattered by the violence of the wind while the shutters were torn from the houses throughout the city Wire connection with Boston and New Haven is entirely broken betwsen Stamford Conn and New York there were still a few wires left this morning Of the seventyfive wires to Washington only twelve are standing but the connections with Philadelphia are in comparatively good order All the wires on Long Island are badly affected and the trains have ceased running on schedule time Rail road travel to and from New England is by a circnitour route In a washout fifteen miles from New York on the main line of the New York New Haven Hartford road a freight train was wrecked about 150 this morning morn-ing and not a train has passed today Summer resorts suffered severely from high seas The storm which passed over Brooklyn at an early tour this morning caused great damage and Inconvenience Nearly every street in the city is covered with debris from trees The police report that at least ten houses were unroofed during the height of the storm A policeman found the body of a dead man lying in a peddlers wagon on Whipple street The peddlers wagon was filled with water and the man was floating around In New Jersey the storm was most severely felt and reports of damage more or less serious were coming in throughout through-out the day but here as elsewhere they are meagre on account of the prostration of the wires of telegraph and telephone The streets at Elizabethport near the sound are under water to the depth of two to three feet and people floated about on rafts to get to work From the coast the news is particularly vague The surf waS high during the fury of the gale and the stories from those out at sea are yet to be told As the day wore on arriving craft brought the story of the storms work at sea and it proved a terrible supplement to the record of its ravages on land The fishing schooner Empire State with a crew of ten men and the Ella 11 Johnson with a crew of eight went down last night off Manasaquen on the Jersey coast ami all on board were lost These two vessels were in company with the Chorus last night when the storm struck them and after beating around all night in some of the wor3t weather ever known off the coast and with the loss of her captain and first mate the Chorus reached port today the only survivor of the three The crew of the Chocrus say no smal boat could possibly live in the sea that was running at the time and that dories onboard on-board could have been of uo possible use to the crews of the two vessels The three boats had been out only seven days all hailing from New London The steamer Eggleston Abbey from Cardiff put in for repairs this afternoon She labored through the storm for six hours last night during which time her steel decks were badly damaged the plates being stove in several places by the tremendous seas thrown down upon them The captain reports picking up Gearge Ryston at Portland Maine the I I day before yesterdayhe being the sole I survivor of a crew of six of the fishing schooner Mary Lizzie which foundered August 21st I The fishing schooner John Feeney came in tonight with two of the crew badly injured from the terific pounding they received The captain reports seeing see-ing a man clinging to wreckage some distance off but the storm was so furious that they were unable to render assist ance From Long Branch tonight it is learned that it will be some time before that resort re-sort recovers from the effects of the storm Fortunately there was no loss of life but there are few houses in Long Branch which dm not suffer some slight damage From the West End hotel to the Normandy not a single bathing house was left intact and most of them were swept out on the sea while others were washed right upon the beach The famous old Iron pier is a thing of the pant the storm carrying away fourfifths of it Galilee a pretty little resort north of Monmouth beach was completely inundated inun-dated and at one time it vms feared the Protestant Episcopal church would be swept into the ocean Other resorts along the coast suffered severely Reports reaching Long Branch in a roundabout wav from inland towns tell of much damage to buildings farms and stock Telegraphic d telephone communication however i cut off for the first time since the great blizzard Reports from Ocean Grove and other points on the Jersey shore tell a similar story of great damage It is impossible yet to give anything like an idea of the amount of damage done along the coast in general This morning a coal barge and towing vessel were wrecked off Southampton L 1 Up to tonight six men from the wrecked vessels were washed ashore out of a crew of twentyone men on both vessels ves-sels Of the six that came ashore three were beyond resuscitation and as the other fifteen are undoubtedly drowned it makes the loss of life on these two vessels eighteen The steamer was the Panther and the barge in tow the Lyckens Valley of Philadelphia |