St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-14
FIVE LIVES DASHED OUT.
UPPER SECTION OF NEW YORK
CITY COVERED WITH
WRECXAGE.
ONE woMAN,s SKULL CRUSHED.
Harlem and Suburban Towns Vis-
tied, and Scores of buildings
Damaged.

ton this afternoon, doing great
damage. AT Cherry Hill, small vii
lage few miles from this place,
it developed cyclonic fury, attend
ed by the demolition of the village
and a number of Deaths Cherry Hill
received the full sweep of the winds
fury, and within a minute after the
storm broke twenty-seven houses,
nearly the entire number in the
village, were wrecked. The cyclone
made clean path through the CEN
ter of the place, carrying every
thing before it. Houses were un-
rooted and thrown down. Trees were
uprooted, and the crops in the fields
leveled to the ground. AT the pres
ent time it is known that five were
killed, and the injured are num-
bered by the score, many of them. it
is believed, being fatally hurt. The
dead are:
CONRAD FRIEDERMAN, hotel
keeper
THREE UNKNOWN, laborers.
A CHILD OF VIM. AHRENS,
THE STORM CENTER.
The storm came from the Northwest,
heralded by great banks of clouds and
a stirring breeze. The atmosphere was
warm for time, and then cold. and
then, after a second rush of warmth.
came the cyclone, carrying death and
destruction in its course. The storm
center was about 800 feet in width. and
the strip over which it passed is a
mass of ruins. Not a building in it's
path was spared; those that were not
completely demolished were unroofed
or moved from their foundation Great
amounts of wreckage We're carried
through the air by the gale, adding to
the destruction. The depot standing
between the tracks of the New York
q New Jersey railroad was demolished.
The wind first took the roof and landed
it hundred feet away. Then the wall
fell. The station agent was taken
from the ruins badly injured. The
freight depot was also wrecked, and the
big platform carried away Opposite
the depot was the hotel of the village,
kept by Conrad Darman. In the hotel
at the time, besides the proprietor, were
his wife and three children Just as
the storm broke he hurried them into
the street, fearing the building was
unsafe. Then he returned to secure
some money, and had reached the
door to the street when the wind struck
him. He was caught up and hurled
fifteen or twenty feet to the ground.
As he lay there the building toppled
over upon him, crushing out his life.
One of his boys was injured by the
falling tinbers.
KILLED IN ITS COT.
The infant of the Ahrens family was
lying in a crib when the crash came
The house was unroofed and a flying
stick struck the child in the head,
tearing off one of the ears as cleanly as
though severed by surgeons knife
and causing death. When the hus-
band, who is a New York business
man, returned the sun was shining
brightly and his wife was sitting amid
the ruins with the body of her dead
child in her arms. Two of the Polish
laborers who were killed took shelter
in barn, which was carried away by
the storm. Half an hour later the
mangled bodies were dragged from the
ruins. The third Pole killed met his
fate in a similar way. Hardly a per-
son living in the track of the storm
escaped injury. All are cut and
bruised, and many, it is thought, are
fatally injured. The latest reports in
dicate that Willie Friederman, whose
father was killed, will also die Alex
ander Jones, the village blacksmith,
was buried beneath the timbers of his
shop. He was taken out badly bruised
and sent to the hospital. 1t is not
thought he will recover. His house,
which was located a short distance
from his shop, was carried along the
ground until it struck a tree, when it
went to pieces. Edward c. Chinook
was seriously if not fatally Injured by
the fall of his barn.
WIPED OUT IN TEN MINUTES.
The cyclone went through the village
rapidly and ten minutes after the first
gusts of wind gave indication of the
coming storm the sun was shining
over a desolate waste. Those who had
a chance to escape from it's fury fled
to the fields and huddled together
there under the terrific storm of hail
AT the hamlet of Fairmount, few
miles from Cherry Hill, six houses
were blown down and a dozen people
injured. AS yet no fatalities have been
reported here. The storm did no
great uaInage IN HackenSack. The
news, however, of the disaster at Cher
ry Hill was brought here and all the
available physicians in town were
started at once for the scene. Gov.
WertS has been asked to send tents
to the homeless. The storm swept
from Cherry Hill to Andercliffe. There
It's effects We're not so disastrous. for
1t merely graZed the village. MANY
houses We're unroofed and trees torn
up. Middle, n. j., caught an end of
the Western visitor Somerville felt a
corner of it and the storm swept
through the Rockaway valley, strip
ping the fruit trees. No one can We,
estimate the damage done in that sec
ton. In Somerset county the grain
crop is fiattened and will probably
prove a total loss. Plainf1eld caught a
portion of the storm at 3:15. Syklights,
conservatories and greenhouses were
battered in by the hailstones, and the
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