The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-02-07
GREAT DAMAGE BY STORM
It Swept the Entire Coast From Florida
to Maine.
A FATAL CRASH IN BROOKLYN
The Effect of the Heavy wind on a Con-
demned Building Caused the Structure
to Collapse, Killing Two Men and
Fatally wounding Another.


NEW YORK, Feb THE storm Of rain
and wind which began Wednesday night
is the most severe that has visited this vi
cinity for many months and although the
velocity of the wind has moderated some,
the rain continues at this hour, and the
sky shows no sign of clearing At times
during the day the wind blew ut the rate
of seventy-tw two miles an hour, and nothing
like its wild sweep up Broadway and
through the long avenues has been seen
in this city for years. Women and chill
dren We're blown off their feet and into the
streets in many cases At least n dozen
people were taken to their homes or a hos
pital in patrol wagons during the day,
suffering from cuts and bruises inflicted
by flying timbers and umbrellas Sign
boards and brick from chimneys are scat
tered promiscuously about the streets. So
far as reported, however, there has been
no loss of life as result of the storm in
this city.
Brooklyn did not fare so we'll. Two men
are dead and another dying as q result
of the collapse of the three and half
story cooperage in Thirty ninth street.
Trees were uprooted, fences and the tops
Of sheds and outhouses were blown down
and window glass broken. The wind at
It's height blew down part of the grand
stand of the Queens County Jockey club
grounds at Aqueduct. This partly went
across the tracks of the Rockaway Beach
railroad, and it was several hours before
it could be removed from the track.
The clamming sloop Favorite, contain
ing three men from Coney Island, was
Capsized in the upper bay off Robins Reef.
The men clung to the overturned boat,
and gig containing five of the crew of
the an-of-war Columbia, which was
anchored near by, put out to the rescue.
The force of the wind tore the sloop into
pieces, and one of the men, clinging to n
part of the wreck, iloated ashore at st.
George. One of the men was drowned.
The third man was picked up by the man
of-war crew and taken ashore at st. George.
Down the bay boats were flung around
like chips in the storm. The American
ship j. b. Walker, Captain Wallace
started from her pier in tow of the tugs
Municipal and f. w. Deyoe for the Erie
basin, to be drydocked. As soon as she
was clear of the pier the wind took charge
of her, and she was blown through Butter
milk channel, dragging the tugs along
with hor, and touched on a shoal off Coy
ernor's Island She Nyos then blown across
the bov. being entirely bevoud control of
tbe tugs She struck brond,idc on AGAINST
the pier of the Liberty Island Steamboat
companv. on Liberty Island. where she
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