The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-29
IN THE City.
The Wind Almost Blew a
Gale-Trees Blown Down
and Windows Smashed.

The predicted cyclone arrived this
morning, and did its best to out do Its
predecessor Of last week. II it failed to
TO do as much damage its failure was
owing to the fact that the forme storm
did not leave very much in its wake
easily des:ructibIe.
About halt-past twelve this NOR ming,
the wind came strong frome the SO uth-
west opposite the point whence it came
in last W eek's storm, and it soon blew
gale. At one O'Clock the wind came as
though lake somewhere in the south
western sky had fallen and been hurled
by the wind against the city. The rain
came In heavy Sheets until nearly eight
O'Clock. The wind had then shifted
around to the east.
When the people came and looked
around they saw fallen trees, telegraph
poles, sign boards. skylights. chin
ney bricks and various thugs.
Hamilton and Van v orst Parks
again suffered the loss of some OF their
finest trees and the beauty of some yet
standing has gone with their graceful
Trees were blown down In front of No.
sos Grand street., No. 319 .Communipaw
avenue.on the corner of Maple aud Whil-
ton streets. at No. 28 Belmont avenue, on
Communipaw avenue. just east of the
Central Railroad bridge. The trees in
the little parks at the Washington and
Grand street corners lost many branches.
The glass front of John Wells paint
shop at No 131 Monticello: avenue was
blown in at $50 A. M.
A schooner was blown sideways into
the channel of the New York aud New
ark bridge aud got wedgsd fast. For
several hours the trains from
So,d both - ~ ways rs stopped &c the
the boat ant got into the opposite train,
which backed to the depot it started
from.
WINDOWS BROKEN.
The City Hospital suffered consider
ably, and the entire corps were up nearly
all night. A window In DR.. Robinson's
room was blown in aud In bot b the male
and female wards several panes of glass
W ere broken by the force of the wind.
The Salvation Army tent on Month
cello and Jewett avenues was torn to
shreds. The old bell tower on Commu-
nipaw avenue swayed to and fro
In the wind and looked
blown over at any moment. The fire.
men connected with No. truck were
kept awake all night. The wires OF out
of order and the bell was ringing con-
rinually.
At No. rs Belmont avenue large tree
was blown down. Belmont and Bergen
avenues, Brinkerhoff and Emory streets
were covered with branches.
The street was blocked at Maple
avenue and Wilton street by a large
limb of an immense tree. Jrst east of the
Central Railroad bridge on Communipaw
avenue large tree WINS felled. A dead
tree that is IN danger of falling at any
moment, is in front of No. sos Grand
street. and anothsr Is at No. 1875 Jack
son avenue.
PAvoNIA YACHT CLUB.
The Pavonia Yacht Club ar Comm uni
nav has suffered great damage. A num-
Der of boats were more or less wrecked.
A great deal of wreckage was washed
ashore from different points along shore.
The wind was blowing directly on shore
at this point. A canal boat was blown
against dock on Ellis Island. The en-
tire port side was ripped off.
An oyster boat fioated into the anchor
age of the Jersey City Yacht Club, and
Law at anchor thers. Luck was wi th this
club in last nights storm. Fe w boats
were damaged.
road trestls at this point. The Akasa's
mast was broken off shore. She was
moored TO the trestle, but subsequently
broke loose and ran on the beach, leaving
the stump of the mast behind. The stem
was badly broken in the tearing out of
Inc IuAbt.
Captain wrIght's Naomi dragged
anchor and ran foul of another boat aud
lost her bowsprit MIR. Kearn's steam
launch was sunk. Her stern rests on the
bottom, while her bow projects from the
water.
The GgeenviIle Yacht Club lost no
boats. Larry Kelly's oyster boat went
ashore on the beach in front of the Faith
Cnre grounds and had her port side badly
broken. The yawl was entirely damaged.
Several sk1fTs were smashed TO pieces.
TELEGRAPH WIRES DOWN.
The United Press notified THE JERSEY
CITY NEWS and It's other patrons as fol-
lows:-"The heavy storm has completely
prostrated the telegr aph wires in ali d.
rections aud 1t is impossible TO say when
they will be in working order. The
Eastern Union and Postal Telegraph
Com panies report no wires running out
side OF the city and say the prospects are
poor for getting them today
HO BoKEN SUFFERS.
The wind storm of last night and this
morning and did considerable damage in
Hoboken. Trees and fences were blown
down aud everywhere the effects of the
storm are visible. The freight train shed
OF the Delaware. Lackawanna and West
crn Railroad was badly damaged and the
fence on the Hudson place side os Ross
Theatre was blown down. Several trees
in the upper portion of the city were
blown down down, nd signs and shut
ters innumerable were blown away. The
tin roof on Stevens Institute WAS torn
of by the wind shortly after eleven
o'clock this morning. In Church .Square
PARK fully dozen trees were blown
down.