Sudden Sea (28 page)

The road to nowhere at Island Park, Portsmouth, a beach community on the north end of Aquidneck Island. Nineteen died in Island Park.
NOAA Photo Library

All of Newport’s exclusive Bailey’s Beach washed away, except this central section.
R.I. Collection at Providence Public Library

A chimney stands like a lone sentinel, the only vestige of a Newport beach house.
NOAA Photo Library

The beach pavilion at Mackerel Cove, Jamestown, had 100cabanas on the first floor and a ballroom upstairs.
Collection of Jamestown, R.I., Historical Society

All that remained of the beach pavilion were the stone steps.
Collection of Jamestown, R.I., Historical Society

In the western Massachusetts town of Ware, the river rampaged down Main Street, rushing by a bridge that had spanned it hours before.
NOAA Photo Library

The hurricane sea breaking over Woods Hole, Massachusetts
NOAA Photo Library

New Bedford: A no trespassing sign did not deter the hurricane. Desolate owners sit in the remnants of their home.
NOAA Photo Library

Buzzards Bay: Wind and water flattened a beach community at the mouth of the Cape Cod Canal.
NOAA Photo Library

Winds uprooted ancient trees — like this one that crushed a car in Hartford, Connecticut.
National Archives

Like New London, Peterborough, New Hampshire, was ravaged by wind, floods, and fire.
Peterborough, N.H., Historical Society

At Manchester, the Merrimack River stood at full flood after the hurricane.
NOAA Photo Library

The Jamestown school bus, abandoned and half submerged in the muck of Sheffield Cove
Collection of Jamestown, R.I., Historical Society