The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-30
DAMAGE IN THE CITY.
wires, ~ =ns, aud Trees Blown Down-A
silver OF Glass Penetrstes II Mans BODY.

wires, ~ -ps, aud Trees blown Down-A
Silver OF Glass Penetrate- n Mans BODY.
The police record Of damage and accidents
due to Yesterday storm was longer than the
record made by it's predecessor OF last week.
A blast OF wind struck the four-story brick
tsnement In the rear Of 81 Catharine street ut
2:3O O'Clock in the morning and tore half n
hundred bricks from the western corner The
noiae Of tho falling bricks and tho roaring OF
che wind awoke the tenants who rushed into
the courtyard and were alarmed to find that
the front wall had been shaken three inches
out OF plumb. Taller houses on either side or
the building did not suffer- at alt.
At q o'clock George Dott was driving brew
ers wagon down First avenue. When In front
Of OFT an electric light wire was parted by the
wind and one end came whizzing through the
air. One OF tho horses stepped on the wire
and dropped dead in its tracks. dragging its
mate down. The other horse fell across the
live wro and was killed. Driver Bot sprang
to tho ground. and. not knowing what had
caused tho horses to fall. attempt to break
the traces. He got shock which threw him
on the sidewalk unconscious When he re-
covered he called up the electric light COM
pany but 1t was twenty minutes before the
current was shut of
Anthony Callahan. n Waterman. Go years
old. was seated In the doorway OF the new
buildings he has charge Of mt l5tth street and
81 Nicholas avenue. when tho door was blown
shut. The heavy plate glass in the upper half
OF the door was smashed. A pointed and
slightly curved bit Of glass six inches long.
one inch wide. and nearly quarter OF an inch
thick struck him under the right shoulder.
aud, piercing downward. buried itself in the
,flash to depth OF two inches below the point
OF entering. making q wound eight inches
ali If nla law nat ha ri ha
leompletely hidden. and the surgeons knife
had to be used. 1t was removed ut Manhattan
Hospital by DR.. Covert.
time In two OF the upper west side precincts.
There was more small wrecSnEn in the city,s
ings had to be discontinued.
Shortly after moor, gust caught the end OF
sSm On she to OF
broadway. and sent thirty feet OF 1t to the
sidewalk Tho street was crowded and several
Saokstt street. brooklyn. received a scalp
wound. and John Napier Of 40 Bleeeker
were attended by an AMBULANCE surgeon, and
went home Five windows in the upper stories
OF the broadway Gnble Reads power house.
Nearly q sccre OF trees in Central Park were
and branches. 1t will take several months for
the gardeners to get the park into TO, order again
trunk Was 81 s 'f a tss wn Wiley s st s hs
one OF clumr Of seven. A loss that Supern:
tendent larsons deems irrcparnbic is that OF
m i'm posing group OF seven silver poplars and
an elm that stood BY the wall opposite tho Ma
varro flats; They fell across the northern
sidewalk OF Fifty ninth street.
Four or five OF the large poplars at the dairy
were also uprootcd. as were some chestnuts
and elms in Mount Morris Park.
Many trees were uprootcd on the west side
between Twenty-third and Thirty-fourth
streets. Trees were uproOted in front Of 800.
1854. and 553 West Twcnty-seconh street: l27
Tenth avenue: - 80. and % West Twenty
third street: :}2I West Twenty fourth street,
and 317. 1923. and 3d. nest Twenty sixth
street.
4 Private gardens all over upper Now York
suffered badly. Trees were uprooted. shrub
berry broken and flowers destroyed. Part OF
the fence Mt Fleetwood Park was blown down.
and some Of the sheds and outhouses were in
jnred. The trees in the parks of the annexed
district were badly damaged. Along tho river
front many small boats were set adriit by tho
gale.
A plate glass door at 1.2G3 broadway was
smashed. and other glass doors and windows
suffered
Tho river police found flftcen-foot rowboat,
painted brown with copper bottom. at Pier 81.
East River The oars were branded Z ID.
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