Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-06-24
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THURSDAY. JUNE "a, 1858.

TRRRrF1c TORNADO IN NEW YoRK.-Ihe tor
nsdo and thunder shower which visited New
York on Monday afternoon lasted only thirty
minutes, and yet in this short space Of time i'm
mense damage was done, The Herald says;
at began about ten minutes before four o'clock
in the afternoon. More houses injured,
more trees uprooted aud more awnings blown to
strings than ever before by any one storm IN ms
city Ten or fifteen large size trees were torn up
by the roots and Frustrated in Union Square
alone, three or four of the largest IN IompAlus
Square blown down, church in Fifty-iou''H
street was nearly demolished carts and carriages
with their contents, we're actually capslzeu III tne
streets by the force Of the wind, chlmneys were
blown down, blinds torn from their hinges eisuS
and awnings scattered in wild confusion III e'Siy
direction brick and wooden houses IN huinoeL
Of streets, were more or less damageo-solie VIZ
seriously vessels forced from their ihooithss anu
blown into the river; the American tnnt Oiass
walls partially demolished at hunter LVint,
killing two men and wounding seven shtuooery
in hundreds Of gardens utterly proslrate3u, suS
the streets flooded with water so that tnsY .ooA1o
like running rivers. New YORK was III iao'' SUI
merged for shout half an hour'
At Hunters Point. L. l., portion of the
Glass Works of P. F. Sane 4 Go, Boston glass
ware manufacturers, was entirely destroyed. Inc
storm of wind struck the rear portion OF the
building, and almost instantly demolished about
two hundred feet in length and thirty feet IN
width of the rear extension. There were about
fifteen persons in that porton-iour OF them te
males-all of whom escaped serious injury, ex'
cept Mary Welsh and Mary Ann Mcclure; the
former of whom sustained severe injuries about
the head and body, and the latter wounds on the
arms and legs, and in the back. Two males EN-
ploved in this department Of the factory were Ia
ken out dead These were Bernard Slane, aged
sixty nine years. the father of one Of the propne-
toru, and Thomas Gill, the engineer. james
Harvey had his shoulder dislocated. One of his
toes was so severely crushed as to require ampu-
tation. Edmund Slatterly was tEken cut of the
ruins with his head cut and foot crushed, but not
dangerously injured. Thos. C. Mechan, Textbook
keeper of the establishment was also severely in
jured by being bruised about the back by falling
timbers.
Fortunately, there was no FIRE, or more persons
might have met with their death. As soon as
the fatal effects of the storm were known, hun
dreds flocked to the spotl to render what assist
ance could be rendered in the emergency.
The Commercial ArUertIser says
!" In half an hour the Jury OF the STORM was
over and the pioneer cloud waslseen to cross East
River to Williamsburgh Here it was more de-
structive both to life and property. Passing to
BROOKLYN Western District, it was, for time,
really frightful in the ruin it occasioned -Four
persons lost their lives in its progress-one from
lightning and three from injuries received in a
ruined building. 1t soon passed further to the
Southeast leaving the land to expend its further
violence on the ocean,"
In Brooklyn new house belonging to Thorn
as Pitbladdo was blown off its foundation and
carried several feet and now stands nearly turned
over, with one side resting in the foundations.
Mrs. Duhaine. residing in Greenport, died on
Tuesday from fright occassoned by the storm
She had been in i'll health for some time. Her
husband is now on his way from France, expect
ing to meet his family in good health. The
lightning struck in several places, doing consid-
ergble injury. Several houses were unroofed,
trees torn up By the roots, vehicles upset, &c.