Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-07-19
A Cyclone in The East.
New York and New Jersey Have
a Rare Experience.

New YORK, known as cypress LilI' >
at hhf.past four, continued OH Its
way 10 the lower plains district,
and from there travelled to Wood
haven, One life was lost and the
damage to property was great. A
number IF people were badly hurt.
The cloud was first seen going
over Cypress Hill Cemetery. 1t
was funnel-shaped and hung very
low to the 'OunJ. Az the upper
end was a red spot that appeared
more like an iUcaudescent light
than anything e'se. The cyclone
swept over the cemetery, wrecklng
handsome and costly monuments.
It tore down trees for about two
hundred feet and then turned
into Jamaica avenue az Crescent
street and up Jamaica avenue tor
about half mile. Trees were
down and telephone, telegra ph
and trOIly wires demolished.
Right in the middle of the wreck
aye six cars were caught. Tley
belonged to tho Brooklyn and
Suburban Railroad, and were struck
when in trontot the Stewart Home.
The cars were filled with passen-
gers, and there was great excite
ment. Halt "a dozen persons were
slightly iuj red.
The cyclone wrecked thirty
houses at WoOdhaven, Long Island
and very large schooIhOuse there.
There we're twenty residents OF
WOOdhayen hit by the various OBJ
jects which were carried through
the air. Trees and chimneys sailed
through the air as though they
were no heavier than feathers.
At WoOdhaven a woman was in
an icehouSe. The house was picked
ND aud carried by the storm for
more than "A block. Finally the
woman was landed on one side of
the street and the hobue on the
O her. The woman escaped serious
Injury receiving onlya slight cut
on the forehead.
The cable and trOlly cars IN
Harlem and north Of the Harlem
river were effectively blocked for
hours by fallen trees and telegraph
poles. Several of the big thorong l.
fares were made impossible for
traffic owing to the network OF
fallen wires and other distractions
that had been made the toys OF
the wind aud hail.
The florists on the west side OF
the city aud in the annexed dis
trio: we're the greatest sufferers.
The Conservatives OF Charles Am.
manan. at st. Nicholas avenue al d
One Hundred and Nineteenth
street, WIRE practically wrecked
Inv the storm OF wind and hail.
-Four hundred glasses were blown
in and growing plants were beaten
down by the pellets which were
as large as waInnts.
IN NEW JERSEY.
Hackensack, n. j., July IA
terrific storm swept over this sec
ton yesterday afternoon, dong
great damage. AT Cherry Hill, a
small village a few miles from this
place, it developed cJc'on'c fury
attended 10y the demolition OF the
Village and number of dealh'
Cherry Hill received the full SWEEP
of the winds fury, aud within
minute after the storm broke,
twenty seven houses, nearly thu
entire number in the village, were
wrecked. The cyclone made
clean path through the GENRE o
the place, arrNing everything
before 1t. Five persons were killet
and the injured are numbered 10y
scores, many Of them, it is believed
fataIls.
The storm came from the north
est, heraldcd by great banks o
clouds and a stirring breeze. Th'
atmosphere was warm for a tim'
and then cold, and after secon'
rush of warmth came the cyclone
The storm centre was about 3O'
feet in width and the strip owe
which it passed is a mass OF ruins
Not a building In its path wa
spared; those that we're not com
pletely demolished were unrooie'
or moved from their foundations
Great masses of wreckage wer
carried through the air by the gale
adding to the destruction.
Hardly a person Lying in the
track of the storm escaped injuT!
| All are cut and bruised, and many
it is thought, are fatally injured
At the hamlet OF Fairmont,
few miles from Cherry Hill, SIX