The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 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 I'm the Mar
row Belt Visited by the Mighty Wind.
Ono Life and Much Property Wiped
Out ON Long Island.
HAcKENsACK, N. j., July IA terrific
storm swept over this section Saturday
afternoon, doing great damage. At Cherry
Hill, small village a few miles from
this place, 1t developed great fury, at
tended by the demolition of the village
and number Of deaths. Cherry Hill re-
ceived the full sweep Of the winds fury,
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 10. Houses were unroofed
and thrown down; trees were uprooted,
and tho crops In the fields ieveled to the
ground.
The storm centsY was about 300 feet in
width, and the strip over which it passed
is mass Of ruins. Not 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-
ture 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 The depot, standing
between the tracks Of the New York and
New Jersey railroad, was demolished.
Thu xUind frat tina rOOf from the
building and landed 1t one hundred feet
away. Then the walls fell. The station
agent was taken from the ruins later
badly injured. Tho 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 u touch of the terrific wind.
Conrad Friedman, a Cherry Hill hotel
keeper, was in the act of shutting 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 hdstler, was crushed to death
when the barn in which he worked fell on
top Of him.
The infant child Of William Ahrens
was carried up in the air with the house
and was dead when picked up.
Mrs Ahrens' right ear was torn off, She
and her injured son are at the Hackensack
hospital.
Percy Cole, of Paterson, while on his
way through Cherry Hill, was blown
from his rig and seriously injured. Edgar
Chinook was so severely injured by fly
ing timbers that his recovery is doubtful.
Six persons are In the Hackensack hos
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 to
some extent. Many merely had the CHM
neys blown down, while the roofs of Others
were badly started. Sections of many
houses were in danger of topping over
and flremen were busy yesterday tearing
down the doubtful portions. The build
ings blown down in the village Of Cherry
Hill were valued at about S60, 900.
Relief committees have been organized
in several Of the towns. Prompt measures
were taken, and between the amount sub
scribed and that gathered in boxes at the
ruins Of the village there is now enough
money to keep the unfortunates in food
for a few days.