The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-07
HAV0C'S HARVEST.
Terrible Work of Yester-
days Hurricane on the
Coast and island.
BOUND BROOKS FIRE AND FLOOD
Vessels Wrecked and Sailors
Drowned = Railroad
Trains Stalled.
JERSEY CITY's MINOR DAMAGE
On the Whole This Section Got Off
Easily-Fences and Shut
ters Wrecked.

The aftermath of the storm in Jersey
City is a very sad harvest. 4 thor
oughly representative percentage of the
houses would be found deficient n shut
tiers, skylignts and the like if an in
ventory were taken. The chief force of
the storm seems to have been directed
toward these movable articles. Fences,
too, went down all over town. The rain
which accompanied the high wind rem
dered the loss of a skylight very dis
tressing to the inmates sf tie house
which lost it. In some of them the
water soon brought the ceiling down; in
others it left it IN very shaky con-
dition.
The telephone compans encountered a
great amount CT local trouble yesterday
and last night. a number of wires were
blown down. out they were scattered
about the different sections of the city.
however, and SOON had things shI,3hapa
The Western Union Telegraph Company Y
was slightly affected by failing wires
out, and they mended wires and strength
ened poles throughout the city. The
wires of the Pennsylvania Railroad which
AID the train dispatcher in his work We're
unharmed. There was no trouble with
the train service. New Jersey Central
trains were run over this road because
of trouble with its tracks along the
coast Philadelphia and Reading trains
also came by way of the Pennsylvania
system.
The trolley roads throughout the city
ran with surorising regularity. A little
delay was encountered on the Bayonne
line consequent On pool Of water six
blocks long, extending from. Tenth to
Sixteenth streets, Rayonne. The tree in
Glendale Park, which carried down poles
and wires and blocked the road ON Com
mun1paw avenue, near the Hackensack
draw bridge, was removed in an hour,
ana wires strung from utner trees so
fhat traffic was resumed. The poles will
BE replaced with others before tomor-
row.
Many trees felt the destructive force
of the storm. Several were blown down
ana any number of them lost branches.
Pearsall avenue this morning was strewn
its entire LENGTH from the Boulevard to
Avenue e, with branches broken off by
the storm There was apparently enough
kindling wood spread on the driveway
of this avenue alone to supply half
dozen poor families for the balance Of
condition, though. and would have to be
thoroughly dried before it could be in
duced to burn.
Two or three houses on Avenue E,
Greenville, had the tin roofs blown off.
The brick house at No. SO Avenue E los.
not only tin but board roofing as well.
anornin unls was be before daylight yesterdsy
all day, and Mr.. and Mrs. johnson had
considerable difficulty bailing out of the
htchen en- what @ water would not run into
lne cellar. The damage done by this
flood was equal to that of fire.
a two-story brick building, scarcely
Completed, situated at West side and
F,ulton avenues, was blown down by the
storm. 1t was owned by Finance Com
missioner Detwiller and was to be used
for the manufacture of fireworks it
was not very large building, but it
made a great racket when it fell, about
Two o'clock yesterday afternoon. 1t is
thought that the rain had considerable
the sandy soil beneath the falInIafions.
II VIII be reconstructed shortly
waa16sy lne p9na dco US used for ska.i4g in cold
die book-bindery. on New avenue. is
swollen past all former expansion today
roughening wind It's Size IS doubled. #
now measures 400 feet by 200, and is almost
!, oblong esl in form m Beside the bindery on
" as large as the other. but still of
respectable height: This water would not
stop in these ponds only that the young
sters OF, Greenville stop up the drain with
dirt and stone early every winter.
An last night from an upper branch of
tree on the southeast corner of Linden
and Ocean avenues. an electric spark
flashed and sputtered as the wind swung
back from a spot on the trolley feed-wire
at this point which had lost some of its
insulated covering. The tree was so soaked
ana covered with wet from the storm that
II. kept up its little electrical display long
after the rain had ceased. The play Of
tn, the flame. which was fairly large one,
66slghsh @ of The illuminatioh re Fraction
informed ,olaa beth its OFFICIALS and the FIFTH
cred s fom eak osa nad of : i rarely aseov
Many cellars were flooded in the Green
yile ad sestion asr had In fact any horse that
IN them during the height of the storm
Many Of the sidewalks along Linden ave
sidewalks of which the lots rise in terraced
fronts, the walks presented the appearance
Of naturs o Tys5s sgsn On the inclined
rushed down /, in series of rapids Of sew
oSs one @ face Of Of the cioek i in the steeple of
St Paul's Church in Greenville was blown
in yesterday. About three hundred feet
that around. Louis Mang,s garden Went
Mr.. James E. Sulivan's residence at No.
A Linden avenue was also destroyed.
Several wires We're blown down by the
wind last night on Palisade avenue. An
electric wire was blown down at the cor
ner, Of Jefferson and Palisade avenues,
lineman repaired the break
we're blown down last night, but did no
street fell across the street and smashed
two panes OF glass Of front. window
No. No "a Ferris Ferris Street Str et This Tt2 morning M othe the
people in the nelehborhood carried the
tree away IN sections.
and Oakland avenues were flooded. IN
many cases the water. was four or five
@ reservoir suffered seyefely from from. both wind md
SWOLLEN to twice its size.
ley and West Side avenues a large hole