New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-30
HORSES KILLED BY A WIhE
DOZENS OF MISHAPS DUE TO THE STORM.
4 TENEMENT HOUSE UNSAFE-THE roIhCE ktfr
BUSY RECORIING FALLEN TREES AND

pEOKEN WINDOWS
Before the storm in this city had fuiiE reao"eu
its height the inmates of the teneHe"'-"o"
No Sc Catharine-st. were alarmed by 'he Sou,l.
Of bricks falling from the upper part OF 'ne nm
wall The cornice Of the house had been oio"h
off and the roof had been lifted a htte py '"e
force Of the wind. 1t few minutes oelo'e
a. m when Mrs. Margaret Foley ana her So''
living on the top floor. were awakened ny ''e
noise of the falling bricks, and gave the ana! III,
No person was hurt. but all Of the tenants lei'
their rooms and Thomas Furlong. the )ahl'or'
called a policeman the house. The upper Pai'
of the front wall was bulgng outward III
threatening manner and the police sent ior an
inspector of the Department of Buildings 10 idNe
an investigation. The wall continued 10 s'dhu
until 1t was braced up. Furlong said that the
house was old and that repairs had been needed
there for q long time.
The chimneys of two houses III iiuuHo''-'''
Nos IS and ISL. were blown down when the storm
was at it's worst. about a. m
A team of brewery horses died quickly at
q M when an electric light wire was oio"h
down in First-ave, and the driver had mario"
escape. George Bot, driver IN the e'l'o'
of the Elias Brewing Company at f1rst-aVe anu
Fifty-fourth-st had left the brewery WIN d
wagon heavily loaded with beer, drawn u! WV
powerful Norman horses. He had in'ehueu !"
make his first stop at the beershop OF faui noe''.
at No 975 First-ave, and he was nearly IN lro''
was strung across the avenue to a grocery near
bv broke under the force of the wind ana ie'i
directly across the backs OF the team ihe Nv"
fell to the pavement as suddenly IA II '"e' ~
heen hit in the heads with sledge hahi'ie''' "o',
horses began to struggle. The wire got tahsieu
under the foreleg of ana was Drawn "s""'
ocross the hack OF the other horse bott JuihPeu
off the wagon not knowing what had hapPeheu'
and took hold of the harness OF one iS"e" "o''e
He received a shock which sent him sprawhhS VI,
tho navement Policeman Maoney' VINO "ai
witnessed the accident. TO the place ana
dragged Bott away from the horses lie a''o
b., other persons from going near the WIRE
pott went to the office Of the brewing company
TO tell what had happened. ana the ooohn''p'
sent word to the office Of the Manhattan hiee"'
Light Company. at Avenue Il ana hish''e"s'
rh deadly current was turned off after the
horses had ceased to struggle Inc i've wiz
had burned deeply into their flesh. A new team
having been procured. the harness was stripped
from the dead animals. and the driver went OH
his way with the load of beer Inc pou'eS V.
the dead horses lay in the avenue TOT Se'e'a'
hours and small boys of the neighborhood played
about them. - -,
,no,ber electric LIGHT wire was blown down at
rrirstave and Fifty-sixtst. but it did not 90 any
damage because the police warned persons away
from it, The wires of the Police Department "e.e
IN trouble after the storm had begun to aoate III
| the CITY but they in good working oruer De-
general order to the precincts dHecths i''0 "
| N he made OF damage by the storm The reports
showed that comparatively small damage 10 prop
erty had been caused by the high wind In the lower
mart of the city, while uptown a NUMBER OF "ee'
and fences had been blown down and windows had
heen broken The police in Leonard-st reported
that the front door Of the building NO Fl broad
vav had been broken open by the force OF the
wind, and thai plate glass Windo" AT 10 f''
Greenwich-st. had been broken. From inc Prince
St station came the sole report That tree hau
been felled by the wind in front OF No. Grand-st
The Charles-st police made mention OF trees beihg
| blown down at Nos q Greenwich-ave. ia west
! Twelfth-st and II Grove-st. The wind in the
| Sixteenth Precinct knocked down eleven trees IN
West Twenty second. Twenty-third. Twenty-fourth
and Twenty-sixth SITS. plate glass in the door OF
the building No. 1,2G3 Broadway was broken ana a
| show case in front of No 1903 West Fourteenth-st.
was smashed while trees were blown down at NO ~
East Twenty-frst-st, 50 East Thirty-hrst-st ana
| 81 West Sxteenth-st. In the Eighteenth Precinct
trees blown down at Nos. % Irving Piace'
| ll9 East Twenty third-st and 139 East twenty
hfth-st.. while fences were felled at NO 5lf East
] Twenty third-st., and at Thrd-ave. and Twenty
hrst-st
| A sign valued at 800 was blown off the front
of the liquor store at No. 3O7 East Fftyfourth-s ct
and broken. A plate glass window in the bulldihe
No Ssj First-ave. smashed by the storm
Farther uptown the police heard OF many signs
| fences and trees which had been hurled 10 inc
| ground by the force Of the wind. one large tree
which fell at One-hundred- and y-fourth-st ana
| Morrs-ave. broke a street lamp.
Near Mount st. Vincent a biz tree fell across the
track of the New-York Central and HudsOn River
Railroad, and the first local train from Mount ST
Vincent had to stop when II neared the fallen tree
and a number Of business men who were In d hurry
to get downtown took axes from the cars ana
helped the trainmen cut the tree In pieces and
clear the tracks.
The sinking Of two vessels at their piers on ac-
count Of the storm reported by the police
The lighter Anna, owned by 5. l.. Lavelle, Of No
10i John-st.. and loaded with iron beams for the
the East River. The schooner Belle. of Red Bank
owned by F. f. Beeley and loaded with apples
sank at Gansevoort-st and the North River. The
entire cargo of apples. valued at 800 lost.
The police did not hear Of any person being In
jured In the city while the storm was at its height
but in the afternoon the wind caused injury e
four persons. A heavy sign fell from Nogels cloth
noon and knocked down two men. John Halligan
of No. 1875 Sackett-st. Brooklyn received "A scalp
wound. and John Napier. of No. 100 Bleecker- st.
had his shoulder disocated. Both men were at
! tended by ambulance surgeon and later wen
home Two hours later Anthony Callahan wa!
sitting in the doorway OF his home. at One-hun
dred and fifty -sixth-st. and st. Nchoas-ave ant
the wind slammed the door upon him will
so much force that glass panel OF the door wa
broken and pieces of glass penetrated his flesh
! He sent to the Manhattan Hospital. severel!
injured At p. m Rebecca Friedman. six year
| old playing in the yard OF her home at No
! Is Chrystie-st., and struck the head by
house. She received a severe scalp wound which
20 | was at 40 HOspital.