Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1920 — GALE BATTERS ATLANTIC COAST [ARTICLE]

GALE BATTERS ATLANTIC COAST

Shore Hotels and Homes Swept Into Ocean by Tide. SEA INVADES HUDSON TUBES Shipping Beniains at Standstill, Ice Floe* Cause—Rockaway Beach Is Hard Hit—Fuel Famine Likely, New York, Feb. 6.—Huge waves rolled up by u 50-mile gnle are sweeping the North Atlantic coast, while cities and towns along the shore aret Vying to dig themselves out of the deepest snow drifts for years. Damnga done by the sen to resorts and l syimner homes along the New Jersey; and Long Island counts is estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hotels Washed Away. At Rpcknwuy Beach two modern] summer hotels, 30 bungalows, a 40sulte apartment house, bathhouses ana {kaons of small structures werrt washed Into the sen. The Pasadena, hotel In Brooklyn was washed into the bay. Several bathing pavilions were swept away at Coney Island and the first floor of the big Shelburne hotel at Brighton Beach was flooded. • Bea bright, long a target for the waves, suffered more than any of the other northern New Jersey const resorts. It was estimated that the high tide and heavy sens hail done $250,000 damage to bulkheads, streets and residences there. A recently completed bulkhead saved the mhln residence 1 part of the town. The entire coast from north of ton to south of the Virginia cnpes wart affected. Shipping remained at anchor op moved with the utmost caution. Ini the land-locked waterways around! New York huge Ice floes menaced navigation. The steamer Mnlne of the| New England Steamship company was driven ashore on the north end of Long Island and four other sound linens were reported creeping along through! fields of Ice. . Fuel Famine Imminent. Cold, snow, ice and high seas made It almost impossible to transport coal from the tidewater reservoir at Perth Amboy to New York and the city a fuel famine which will force all its transportation lines to suspend operations unless the Weather moderates sufficiently. While mountainous seas were battering the coast, the highest tide ever recorded in New York harbor caused floods along the Hudson and Harlem rivers. Ferry houses on the New York nnd New Jersey sides of the Hudson were flooded and water from the Erie terminal dripped Into the Hudson tubes at Jersey City.