New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-22
Two Men hilled-Fne Wounded.


Yesterday was a hot, suitry day. clear i,r the
most part until abos! o'clock. AZ that time
there cane up with unexsmpIed raPiiity one Ct toe
most furious storms Of ram, WED, lightning, hail
snd ttuLder that has been known here for mary
years. twas 60. more .hso twenty minutes il dG.
ration, but " ithia that time vast amount of dan.
age vas done, as viii be seen from the subj0Inet
hastily gathered Totes from our reporters.
IL The City Hal Park the trees suffered considerably
huge limbs torn from thei, trunks While SIN .!er
branches beautifully srewed s.oeg he pathways.
The scales il the hands Of the Goddess of justice on
top tie City llsli were seusib,y affected.
TIE large front window of druggists store ir West
Broadway Was blown in, doipg much damage aui
causing great alarm.
Considerable damage was done slso Of Fcerchs and
ether hotels, by tie banging Of blinds and doors and
breaking Of windows
Ire Storm in the Nre'eeLth snd Twelfth Wards
was a. to tie amount of water that fell almost with
out Precedent. The Second ami Thlrt-avenue Raj
road tracks were submerged even on heavy grades,
from four 70 selve iLches. Willow trees We're almost
er trey swept Ct their branches
Tire yane on TIE Thirc-av Railroad ID spot dag
staff. il sixty first street. was twisted of.
Tie Episcopsl Churca in Fldy-fourth street, be-
tween Second and Third avenues erected through the
exer.icns Of Ralph Hoyt, was blown to the ground,
and uo.hirg bu. the foundation walls le standing.
In Seventeenth street several SHADE trees torn
VI by the roots TO tie damage CT the houses in front
of ah;ch they
Thirteenth street Suffered severely IN the loss of
SHADE trees.
Amtrg the amusing uciiente to these not interested
WIS the total destruction Of two advertising vans,
which were in the Ieigt borhood of he Bible House.
To the utter CONSERVATION Of the drye of the vehicles
nothing was left af.r the first gust Of wind, OF the
gay parsphenals with which they psrsubulated the
streets Of the metropolis but four whsels and the
apology FOR "hcrse" that dragged the "machioe'
The courre Of the hurricane for Il can be styled by
no other usue. semed to BE- circutcus. 10 the north
psrt of the CITY the wind from the northeast in
the southern p4it il entirely the reverse aGd 10
some of the Size streets the trees fell nearly due east
and west.
In and around Union square the storm made great
havoc No ioee th.a fourteen shade treas, emhr.eirg
some Of the finest in tia public pak, were torn up by
the roots and about many more had large branches
stripped of. Many fine shade trees in Washington
squsre Fifth avorue and the streets shared the
same fate. Some of the trees appeared to have been
struck by lightning, 60 completely were their trunks
and larger branches shattered to pieces.
Considerable damage done to the trees and
shrubbery in Stuyvesaa. Square. One Of le majestic
willows il 81, Marks church, ard which has long stood
firm sgsinst TIE blasts o. winter, gsve way. Some
stately tree. in Fifteenth, Seventeenth and Nineteenth
srcets rear Irving Place were Likewise toro up by the
wbbwind. Awnings and awning posts in Tnird ave-
nue. few about in 81 directions Some windows of the
Historical sccety's new building, corner of Second
avenue aid Eleventh street were blown ia.
A chimney WAS blown from the Methodist Book
Concern, No 900 Mulbery street snd smashed in the
loof Of al adjoining house fsacturrg the eg of en- oil
lady named ObeIty, Belgian.
TIE roof was blown entirely from the building Nos.
1872 and 1911 Avenue Az this awning frames were
twisted into strange forms, and tie rear windows
were all stove in.
AItue widows Of No. g Avenue A smashed
by hail. ard cell,rs flooded.
The chimney of Joseph Taylors dyeing establish
ment, No ll9 West Seventeenth stree. struck by
Lightning and thrown upon sEeds, where il broke
through the root buying three men beneath the ruins
The men were coon got out by the Sixteenth Ward p0'
lice, and two e them, Wm. Taylor and John Bogadn,
were sent to the uospi al considerably injured.
horse which wes in Of the eheds was killed.
Tire roof OF a malt-house corner OF l5ethune and
West street was blown the street, landing upon
The roots Of Nos. SO aud 81 Bethure street.
A man named Mulholand was seriously injured in
West street While endeayoring TO stop psr Of runs
way horse frightened By TIE storm. He was conveyed
10 Lie residence West street, near Troy.
Tie ro,f ii the Stage stables Of the Seventh avenue
lie was bownOf and portion Of the stone c9piog.
John Lsw and Thomas Ryan, hoetlerr, were somewhat
Injured aid tsken u the Hospital.
IL Fifteenth street, between ayeruss and Is, the
walls of the bowling alley we're thrown down aud rev.
era trees were destroyed.