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Show DISASTROUS STORM SWEEPS EAST SEABOARD Twenty-five Killed and Dam-1 age of $5,000,000 Caused By ! Gales; Floods Drive Thousands Thou-sands From Their Homes. NEW YOHK, tcb. 21 (I'P) A -Jtui-m tli.tt cost HpproxiinaU'ly 27 .ives and caused damage etiuintfd it .s., (lint. IMtO, passed frnin tlio Oilst-em Oilst-em seahnard mday, IctiviiiK cIovms-lati-d )rnpeity and wrecked slni-.iiiu' slni-.iiiu' in its wiikc. i 'J'lie he.iviest loss of life was in ;he wreck nf coast guard patrol iiiiil; '2:s, which w;is hrnuen up on . ape Cod and its crew nf eight men drowned. Other deaths were duo io exposure, traffic accidents and drownings in the al'fo' ted district. The wind, reaching a velocity ot niot-e tuati 70 miles tin hour, piled up mountainous wives along tin1 cnast from tlio, Ifehiwaro hreakwa-ter hreakwa-ter to Novia Scotia. At high tide flu; waves wore 30 foot high and swept, inland, carrying houses o'tt to sea, flooding streets, railroad i racks and homos. - No large ships were reported in distress, all hough liners wore delayed de-layed in making port. Smaller vessels, ves-sels, however, such ns schooners and hnrges, were driven ashore at several points along the coast. Properly Damage The heaviest property damage was in Now Jersey, Long Island and Sraten Island, where the water swept far inland at high tide Sunday Sun-day morning, wrecking houses, piers, concrete jetties, tearing launches and other small craft from their moorings and wrecking them. Twenty "blocks were flooded in ! Atlantic City and heavy property j damage done. t Long Beach, on Long Island, n dozen bungalows were ripped loose ! and carried out into the surface. Muse nf the town was- flooded and w.ts cut. off from shore xints. On Stitten Island more than 1,000 persons were driven from their , homes when the water reached half j a mile inland. Police, firemen and (ither rescue workers' removed many from their marooned homes in row-boats. row-boats. Heavy damage to small boats. -houses, piers and summer rosso ro-sso rep htces was done on Staton Islam: Is-lam: also. |