The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-07-15
IN THE STORMS WAKE.
Great Damage Caused by a Cyclone
in New Jersey,
THREE KILLED AT CHERRY HILL

GreaI Destruction of Property in the Mar
row Belt visited by the Mighty Wind.
One Life and Much Property Wiped
out on Long Island.
H-AcKENsAoK, n. j., July IA terrific
storm swept over this section saturday
afternoon, doing great damage. Vt Cherry
Hill, a small village a few miles from
this place, it developed great fury, at
tended by the demolition of the village
and a number of deaths. Cherry Hill re-
ceived the full sweep of the winds tury,
and within a minute after the storm
broke twenty-seven houses, nearly the en-
tire number in the village, were wrecked.
The tornado made a clean path through
the center of the place, carrying every
thing before it. Houses were unroofed
and thrown down; trees were uprooted,
and the crops in the fields leveled to the
ground.
The storm center was about 800 feet in
width, and the strip over which it passed
Is q mass of ruins. Not u building in its
path was spared; those that were not de-
molished were unroofed and moved from
their foundations. Great masses of wreck
age were carried through the air by the
gale, adding to the destruction.
Among the buildings wrecked was the
Dutch Reformed Church, a brick struc-
lure recently erected. The walls are still
standing, but they will have to be pulled
down. Three large beams, picked from
the wreck of other buildings by the wind,
were borne end on against the side of the
church, and they went through the walls
like cannon balls. Tit depot, standing
between the tracks of the New York and
New Jersey railroad, was demolished.
The wind first tore the roof from the
building and landed it one hundred feet
away. Then the walls fell. The station
agent was taken from the ruins later
badly injured. The freight depot was
also wrecked and the big platform carried
several hundred feet from its place.
Twenty or more families were rendered
homeless, and there were but few houses
that escaped a touch of the terrific wind.
Conrad Friedman, a Cherry Hill hotel
keeper, was in the act of shutting a win
dow upstairs in his hotel, when he was
drawn out by the current and hurled head
long to the ground below. His skull was
fractured and death was instantaneous.
, Anton Fischer, employed by August
Mund as a hostler, was crushed TO death
I when the barn in which he worked fell on
3 top of him.
The infant child of William Ahreni
was carried up in the air with the house
and was dead when picked up.
Mrs. Ahrens' right ear was torn of. Sh'
and her injured son are at the Hackensacl
g hospital.
Z Percy Cole, of Paterson, while on hi
way through Cherry Hill, was blow
+ from his rig and seriously injured. Edga
Chinook was so severely injured by fly
ing timbers that his recovery is doubtful
Six persons are in the Hackensack hos
0 pital suffering from injuries received.
In addition to the wreck in Cherry Hill
, almost every house along the river from
- that place to River Edge was damaged t
y some extent. Many merely had the chin
neys blown down, while the roofs of other
were badly started. Sections of man.
houses were in danger Of topping owe
q and firemen were busy yesterday tearin
down the doubtful portions. The builc
ings blown down in the village of Cherr
h Hill were valued at about $4,000.
Relief committees have been organize
in several of the towns. Prompt measure
were taken, and between the amount sui
soribed and that gathered in boxes at tn
ruins of the village there is now enoug
y money to keep the unfortunates in foo
he for "a few days.