DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
Coney Island, of lato years the prreat pleasure resort of the middle Glasses of New York, was almost completely inundated by the sea in a terrific gale on January 0, and from 500,000d0l to 1,000,000d0l woi"lh of property was entirely destroyed, ani-1 hundreds of feet of the new iron pier demolished. The Brighton. Bo=ich hotel was demolished, and all the bathhouses went to sea. At Atlantic Cisy, Xow Jersey, the gale raged to such an extent, and the tide jjose so high, that boarding-houses, stores, dwellings, bath-house?, aud other buildings were carried ocean ward 3.
Wilkesbar, Pa., Portland, JIo , nud Poitsmouth also felt the fury of thr> stf.r.n, l<ut the core of it was in New York bay and harbour, where the greatest mischief was done. It is supposed that Coney Island will liavh <o be • abandoned as a pleasure plae<\ T!ii-> will bj a misfortune for the populaco of New Yoik.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1682, 16 February 1884, Page 11
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